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Impact (mechanics)

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An Inertial Uni-Axial Interferometer-Based Accelerometer for Harsh Environments

Mark Edward John Butcher, Gerard Aliana Cervera

For high-impact devices, subsequent vibrations have as much influence on the deterioration of the mechanical structure as the impact itself. To mitigate the consequences of both impacts and resulting vibrations, it is crucial to accurately understand the p ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Seismic stability of steel moment resisting frames with inelastic panel zones

Dimitrios Lignos, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

This paper summarizes preliminary findings of nonlinear simulations aiming to quantify the seismic demands of codecompliant steel MRFs with variable panel zone targeted shear distortions, 𝛾!. The probability of beam fractures is explicitly considered in th ...

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute2022

Bio-inspired Structures for Enhancing Energy Dissipation of Helmets

Mengbo Kang

The risk of concussion remains high in snow sports, even with a high helmet adoption rate. Novel helmet designs with enhanced energy dissipation are needed to solve this issue. In this study, helmet liners with bio-inspired honeycomb structures were propos ...

2022

Optimization of composition and structure of cemented carbide cutting tools

Samy Adjam

WC-Co cemented carbides are composites, which combine a hard phase consisting of WC grains and a metallic ductile phase as a binder. Their excellent mechanical properties, combining high hardness, toughness and refractory properties, make them excellent ma ...

EPFL2021

Heterogeneous Dynamic Fracture: Amplitude Scaling of Crack Front Deformations

Jean-François Molinari, Thibault Didier Roch, Mathias Alexandre David Lebihain

We study numerically the deformation of a dynamic crack propagating through a planar heterogeneous interface. We investigate the evolution of the front shape due to variations of fracture toughness, represented by weak and strong stripes parallel to the ru ...

2021

Cavitation induction by projectile impacting on a water jet

Mohamed Farhat

The present paper focuses on the simulation of the high-velocity impact of a projectile impacting on a water-jet, causing the onset, development and collapse of cavitation. The simulation of the fluid motion is carried out using an explicit, compressible, ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Influence of the stacking sequence on the low-energy impact resistance of flax/PA11 composite

Yann Albert Gérard Lebaupin

In this paper, the low-energy impact behavior of a fully biobased composite made of bio-sourced polyamide 11 resin reinforced with flax fibers was investigated. Different composite laminates were studied in order to determine the stacking sequence effects ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

Three point bending and impact tests with sub-sized Charpy specimens were performed on the JRQ reference steel for reactor pressure vessels. Quasi-static and dynamic fracture toughness data were calculated and the fracture behavior in the ductile to brittl ...

2019

Bipedal walking and push recovery with a stepping strategy based on time-projection control

Auke Ijspeert, Salman Faraji, Seyed Hamed Razavi

In this paper, we present a simple control framework for online push recovery on biped robots with dynamic stepping properties. Owing to relatively heavy legs in our humanoid robot COMAN, we use a linear model called 3LP, which is composed of three pendulu ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

Is there a relationship between footstep-impact locations and measured signal characteristics?

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai, Slah Drira

Building utilization can be enhanced by tracking occupants. Non-intrusive tracking of occupants using floor-vibration measurements is beneficial for many smart-building applications such as energy consumption, security enhancement, and care-giving. Also, u ...

ACM2019

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