In many industries, it is often required to transfer objects using compliant fingers capable of accommodating a limited range of object shapes/sizes without causing damage to the products being handled. This paper presents a coupled computational and experimental method in time domain to characterize the damping coefficient of a continuum structure, particularly, its applications for analyzing ...

We propose algorithms for developing (1) a rigid (constrained) and (2) a exible planetary gearbox model. The two methods are compared against each other and advantages/disadvantages of each method are discussed. The rigid model (1) has gear tooth reaction forces expressed by Lagrange multipliers. The exible approach (2) is being compared with the gear tooth forces from the rigid approach, rst w...

In this work, ab initio parametrization of water force field is used to get insights into the functional form of empirical potentials to properly model the physics underlying dispersion interactions. We exploited the force matching algorithm to fit the interaction forces obtained with dispersion corrected density functional theory based molecular dynamics simulations. We found that the standard...

where x is a vector of displacements of structural coordinates, M is a positive definite mass matrix, C is a non-negative definite damping matrix, and K is a non-negative definite stiffness matrix. The nonlinear restoring forces are given in R(x, ẋ) and f ext(t) is a vector of external dynamic loads. At any point in time, t = ti+1 = (i+ 1)h, we may solve for the accelerations in terms of the di...

We explore the forces and conservation laws that govern motion of a hockey puck slides without friction on smooth, rotating, self-gravitating spheroid. The earth's oblate spheroidal shape (apart from small-scale surface features) is determined by balancing gravitational hold it together against centrifugal try to tear apart. earth achieves this when apparent force puck, defined as vector sum fo...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the possibilities of studying the influence of forces external variables on the stability of motion of dynamical systems modeled by systems of differential equations with periodic coefficients of stability. The method is applied to analyze the influence of external harmonic forces on the stability of motion of the pantograph couple contact wire electric ...

This paper describes a procedure for incorporating artificial gyroscopic forces in the method of controlled Lagrangians. These energy-conserving forces provide additional freedom to expand the basin of stability and tune closed-loop system performance. We also study the effect of physical dissipation on the closed-loop dynamics and discuss conditions for stability in the presence of natural dam...

The presence of a viscous boundary layer under the solid crust of a neutron star dramatically increases the viscous damping rate of the fluid r-modes. We improve previous estimates of this damping rate by including the effect of the Coriolis force on the boundary-layer eigenfunction and by using more realistic neutron-star models. If the crust is assumed to be perfectly rigid, the gravitational...