Abstract: Response of geothermal energy piles in sand under combined thermal and mechanical loading was investigated in the present work using a nonlinear axisymmetric finite-element (FE) analysis procedure. In this study, the piles ...

Abstract: The thermomechanical response of geothermal energy pile groups in sand was studied in the present work by using a three-dimensional nonlinear finite-element analysis procedure. A raft was considered on the piles. The ...

Abstract: The thermomechanical response of geothermal energy pile groups in sand was studied in the present work by using a three-dimensional nonlinear finite-element analysis procedure. A raft was considered on the piles. The ...

Abstract: This study investigated the thermomechanical behavior of thermal pile groups in sand. To analyze the influence of cyclic thermal loading on the stress–strain behavior of piles in a group, pile groups containing four thermal ...

Abstract: In this study, the thermomechanical response of the pile group and associated impacts on surrounding soil are explored numerically for different (1) layouts of energy and conventional piles, (2) soil types, and ...

Abstract: An actuated robot arm is designed for use as a gross positioning macro-manipulator that can carry, appropriately orient, precisely position, and firmly “lock” in place different types of ...

Abstract: Both external and implantable devices are becoming more sophisticated and are requiring more on-chip memory to store data from biological sensors. To deal with this complexity, chip designs are ...

Abstract: Automating image-guided therapy and registering a medical image to a patient require knowledge of the locations of both the medical image source (e.g., ultrasound) and the surgical tool with ...

Abstract: This paper describes a dualarm teleoperation (masterslave) system which has been developed to explore the effect of haptics in roboticsassisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS). This setup is capable of measuring forces ...