School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332 This paper describes a new technique for deriving dynamic equations of motion for serial chain and tree topology mechanisms with common nonholonomic constraints. For each type of nonholonomic constraint, the Boltzmann-Hamel equations produce a concise set of dynamic equations. These equations are similar to ...

The influence of particle shape (aspect ratio) on the intrinsic viscosity is investigated, taking three Czech kaolin products (floated kaolins) as paradigmatic examples. An average aspect ratio is obtained for each kaolin from a comparison of particle size measurements using sedimentation and laser diffraction. The intrinsic viscosity is obtained by a multistep procedure: firstly, flow curves a...

Perceptual aftereffects for simple visual attributes processed early in the cortical hierarchy increase logarithmically with adapting duration and decay exponentially with test duration. This classic timecourse has been reported recently for a face identity aftereffect [Leopold, D. A., Rhodes, G., Müller, K.-M., & Jeffery, L. (2005). The dynamics of visual adaptation to faces. Proceedings of th...

Introduction of a CRIS: Insights and Experiences from a CRIS Project at the University of Münster. In: Jeffery, Keith G; Dvořák, Jan (eds.): E-Infrastructures for Research and Innovation: Linking Information Systems to Improve Scientific Knowledge Production: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (June 69, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic). Pp. 93-...