Abstract: A manual material handling task involves the phases of reaching, lifting, unloading, and standing up (RLUS). Understanding the mechanisms of manual material handling is important for occupational health and the development ...

Abstract: Carrying heavy loads costs additional energy during walking and leads to fatigue of the user. Conventionally, the load is fixed on the body. Some recent studies showed energy cost reduction when the relative motion of the ...

Abstract: The cruciforms are widely employed as energy absorbers in ships and offshore structures, or basic components in sandwich panel and multicell structure. The kirigami approach is adopted in the design of cruciform in this ...

Abstract: The difficulty of standardizing the test conditions for the contact angle (CA) of a mineral powder (MP) leads to results with poor repeatability. To solve this issue, external factors that influence the CA test of a MP ...

Abstract: Conventional energy absorber usually employs stubby thin-walled structures. Compared with the limited number of stubby thin-walled structures, an equipment has a large number of slender thin-walled structures that has the ...

Abstract: Heat transfer characteristics of a circular cylinder in the branch of a T-junction duct are experimentally investigated in a low-speed wind tunnel with Reynolds number of Reb = 9163. Local and average heat transfer ...

Abstract: Cable-driven continuum robots exhibit excellent capabilities in the unstructured environment due to their inherent compliance and dexterity. To improve the reliability and load capacity of continuum robots, increasing the ...

Abstract: The arid half arid area highway roadbed slope vegetation restoration is a challenge. The concept, the principle, the material composition and the construction craft of the thick-lift base material and seed spraying for the ...