Abstract: A necessary step in understanding failure problems of tribological elements is to investigate the contact performance of rough surfaces subjected to frictional heating. It is essential that the ...

Abstract: The knowledge of contact stresses is critical to the design of a tribological element. It is necessary to keep improving contact models and develop efficient numerical methods for contact ...

Abstract: Engineering components inevitably encounter various eigenstrains, such as thermal expansion strains, residual strains, and plastic strains. In this paper, a set of formulas for the analytical ...

Abstract: Computing the thermoelastic stress field of a material subjected to frictional heating is essential for component failure prevention and life prediction. However, the analysis for three-dimensional ...

Abstract: A thermoelastic asperity contact model has been developed for two-dimensional problems. This model takes into account a steady-state heat transfer and the asperity distortion due to thermoelastic ...

Abstract: Given that traditional façade visual inspection entails laborious, dangerous, and inefficient manual work, automation-enabled façade visual inspection has become a prevailing trend in both academia and industry. However, ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a trajectory-optimization problem for spacecraft close proximity to a noncooperative target, aiming at the generation of a six-degree-of-freedom (DOF) trajectory with the fuel-optimal objective value ...

Abstract: A method of designing a family of robust compensators for a single-input/single-output linear system is presented. Each compensator’s transfer function is found by using a genetic-algorithm search ...