Abstract: Bistable structures have been widely utilized in soft grippers to reduce the energy required for maintaining grip. Grippers have been investigated in terms of the energy efficiency and accuracy of gripping; however, the ...

Abstract: This paper presents a reliability assessment for tie-down cables of cable-stayed bridges subject to negative reactions. The advanced first-order second-moment reliability method (AFOSM) is used to evaluate the reliability ...

Abstract: This paper presents a damage assessment algorithm for framed structures based on a system identification scheme with a regularization technique. The regularization technique is introduced to alleviate the ill-posedness of ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new algorithm for evaluating impulse response functions for the convolution integrals of the aerodynamic forces of bridge decks. The impulse response functions formed by measured flutter derivatives ...

Abstract: A unified approach for the aeroelastic analysis of bridge decks is presented. The structural aerodynamic transfer functions are approximated using a second-order polynomial with the coefficients determined through minimization ...

Abstract: This paper presents the exact relation between the real and imaginary parts of aerodynamic transfer functions for deriving impulse response functions that satisfy the causality condition. A truncated Fourier series is used ...

Abstract: Various methods have been developed to describe the energy consumption of machine tools; however, it remains challenging to accommodate the wide variety of machine tools that exist using a single model. In this paper we ...