This paper analyses a particular structural assembly that has two independent inextensional mechanisms and two independent states of self-stress. It is shown that, for certain values of a variable bar length, this assembly is a first-order infinitesimal mechanism; and yet it cannot be stiffened by the imposition of a state of prestress.

An octopus brings food grasped by a tentacle to its mouth by bending the tentacle around a joint formed by stiffened distal and proximal tentacle muscles, and thus may use motor control strategies analogous to those in animals with articulated limbs.

there area lot of mobile computer devices with a variety of applications and users tend to use them more. due to the limitations of mobile devices, running most of the procedures are impossible. to resolve this problem, mobile devices can be connected to the grid, to use the facilities of grid. on the other hand the communication mechanisms are different for each device and they cannot be conne...

Conducting surface coatings are useful for antistatic applications, whereas surface hardening of materials is useful for improving the wear and abrasion resistance. 3] For polymer materials, surface conductivity and stiffness may be improved by applying coatings or adding fillers to the polymer matrix. For example, polymers can be made scratch resistant by the addition of hard fillers. However,...

A probability-based damage detection algorithm has been implemented in order to identify barely visible impact damages in two composite stiffened panels by means of Acousto Ultrasonics (AU). A modification of RAPID (reconstruction algorithm for probabilistic inspection of defects) has been implemented to adapt the algorithm to the current structures and transducer networks. An improvement of 40...

Stiffened plates are widely used in aerospace structures as load-bearing components. In order to obtain a novel design of stiffened with excellent performance, generative method (GDMSP) based on the homogenization is proposed this paper, which optimizes stiffener layout an equivalent model. Then, detailed model can then be obtained by extracting path from discrete distribution angles. Moreover,...

Several stiffened plates arrangements subjected to bending were configured applying the Constructal Design Method (CDM) and solved by Finite Element (FEM), aiming through Exhaustive Search (ES) technique analyze influence of transverse I-Shaped or T-Shaped stiffeners in mechanical behavior. Considering a non-stiffened plate as reference maintaining total steel volume constant, portion was deduc...