A bar-slider framework is a bar-joint framework a part of whose joints are constrained by using line-sliders. Such joints are allowed to move only along the sliders. Streinu and Theran proposed a combinatorial characterization of the infinitesimal rigidity of generic bar-slider frameworks in two dimensional space. In this paper we propose a generalization of their result. In particular, we prov...

Abstract Conventional implementation of slider-crank mechanisms result in high loads transmitted through the mechanical structure, inhibiting design compact and oil-free machines. Therefore, this research proposes to step away from conventional, i.e. rotative, actuation investigate local linear on slider-component directly, while maintaining kinematic link configuration. In work actuating princ...

In this demo we present novel functionalities for a user interface referred to as Interpretation Switcher, which has emerged from the previously developed SyncPlayer system [1]. This interface allows a user to select several recordings of the same piece of music, which have previously been synchronized [2]. Each of the recordings is represented by a slider bar indicating the current playback po...

A system consisting of a doubly clamped beam with an attached body (slider) free to move along the has been studied recently by multiple research groups. Under harmonic base excitation, capacity passively adapt itself (by slowly changing slider position) yield either high or low vibrations. The central contributions this work are refinement developed model regard finite stiffness beam’s clampin...

A Systems Level Analysis of Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in the Red-Eared Slider Turtle Trachemys Scripta Elegans

– We present baseline data on the distribution and abundance of invasive red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) in the Sacramento River NOTES AND FIELD REPORTS 297

Accelerating displacements preceding some catastrophic landslides have been found empirically to follow a time-to-failure power law, corresponding to a finite-time singularity of the velocity v ∼ 1/(tc − t) [Voight, 1988]. Here, we provide a physical basis for this phenomenological law based on a slider-block model using a state and velocity dependent friction law established in the laboratory ...

The transition from boundary lubrication to fully hydrodynamic lubrication is investigated for air-lubricated slider bearings using the electrical resistance method. Intermittent contacts are shown to exist even under conditions for which the numerical solution of the Reynolds equation or white light interferometry predicts steady state spacings in the spacing region from 0.125 to 0.25 pm. The ...