Optimal design of gears contact interface modification for an objective as minimum impact resistance of initial meshing-in time domain

Meccanica - In gear pair actual alternating meshing process, the comprehensive errors of the transmission system and the thermal elastic deformation of the teeth body cause the gears in the meshing...     

Preface: Mechanics of soft materials and flexible structures

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Quantized-states-based adaptive control against unknown slippage effects of uncertain mobile robots with input and state quantization

An adaptive tracking design strategy based on quantized state feedback is developed for uncertain nonholonomic mobile robots with unknown wheel slippage effects. All state variables and control torques are assumed to be quantized by the state and input quantizers, respectively, in a network control environment. Thus, the quantized state feedback information is only available for the tracking control design. An approximation-based adaptive controller using quantized states is recursively designed to ensure the robust adaptive tracking against unknown wheel slippage effects where the quantized-states-based adaptive mechanism is derived to compensate for unknown wheel slippage effects, system nonlinearities, and quantization errors. The boundedness of the quantization errors and estimated parameters in the closed-loop system is analyzed by presenting some theoretical lemmas. Based on these lemmas, we prove the uniform ultimate boundedness of closed-loop signals and the convergence of the trajectory tracking error in the presence of wheel slippage effects. Simulations verify the effectiveness of the resulting tracking scheme.     

Enhanced Power Density of Alcohol Biofuel Cell by Polymer-assisted Crosslinks of 3D Graphene on Carbon Paper as the Bioanode

Herein, we successfully construct the 3D biocompatible graphene through crosslinking 2D graphene nanosheet onto carbon fiber paper with poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDDA) as anode of the alcohol biofuel cell. Compared with the bioanode without 3D graphene, the current density and output power of PDDA-graphene-ADH bioanode is increased by 23 % and 41 % at a high concentration of ethanol at pH 8.9, suggesting the stabilization role of graphene in enzyme loading. The study provides us a deep analysis on structures and performances of the bioanode incl. electrochemistry, X-ray photoelectron spectra, and atomic force microscopy images, which is significant to develop the new methods to construct 3D porous electrodes in energy conversion device.     

Vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder with nonlinear stiffness: prediction using forced vibration data

Nonlinear Dynamics - Vortex-induced vibration (VIV) systems with stiffness nonlinearity have received increasing attention because the stiffness nonlinearity can broaden the effective flow velocity...     

Dynamic effect of constant inertial acceleration on vibration isolation system with high-order stiffness and Bouc–Wen hysteresis

Nonlinear Dynamics - Nonlinear vibration isolation provides with an effective way for vibration reduction with broad band and high efficiency. This investigation focuses on the dynamic effects of a...     

Effect of Oil Viscosity on Hydraulic Cavitation Luminescence

Fluid Dynamics - The collapse of cavitation bubbles in a hydraulic system generates localized zones of high temperature and pressure and, under certain conditions, luminescence. In this study, we...     

New ANCF solid-beam element: relationship with Bézier volume and application on leaf spring modeling

Acta Mechanica Sinica - An eight-node solid-beam element based on absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) which uses cubic interpolation at the longitudinal direction and linear at the...     

Differential Entropy of Induced Random State Ensemble

International Journal of Theoretical Physics - In this paper, we will consider the exact calculation of differential entropy of induced random state ensemble by partial tracing a subsystem over...