Seminar

  • Dry Wear Modeling for Spherical Contact

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  • Novel methods for measurement and data-driven analysis of nano-avalanches

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  • Estimation of relative position between objects for robotic insertion of LDOs using classification learning methods

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  • Conformally Decambered UAV Wings for Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Applications

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  • Exploring Nanofluidic Structures with Ion Selectivity: Advancing Electrically Driven Ion Transport and Molecule Manipulation

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  • Molecular basis for surface initiated non-thrombogenic clot formation following viral infection

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  • Third-order exceptional points and frozen modes in planar elastic laminates

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  • Nonholonomic dynamics of the dissipative Twistcar vehicle – towards an actuated system with passivity

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  • Heliostat accurate control methods under shading and blocking

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  • How mammals solve an unsolvable energetic problem of a planar serial-linkage leg

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  • Long-time levitation of evaporating droplets

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  • Synchronized dynamics of elastic walking robots

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  • Fiber Kinematics in the Near field of Coaxial Jets

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  • Additive Manufacturing: the Optimal Process Window

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  • Improving Grain Boundary Mobility in Phase-Field-Crystal Model Using Molecular Dynamics

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  • Towards an Environmentally Sustainable Future: Cool flames and Novel Combustion Technologies

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  • Analyzing shock attenuation characteristics of methylcellulose hydrogels using Finite element analysis (FEA)

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  • Turbulence Estimation: Model-Based to Machine Learning

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  • Mechanisms of stiffness induced contact guidance

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  • Instruments and methodologies for studying the electron wind force effect on twin boundaries

    The significant drop of flow stress in metallic materials during plastic deformation through the utilization of electric current pulses, i.e., electropulsing (EP), is referred to as the electroplastic effect.Despite EP treatment has been a research topic for more than six...

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  • Modeling of Particle Dampers Embedded in Additive-Manufacturing Based Designs

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  • Multi-contact collisions are surprisingly smooth

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  • GYROSCOPIC ACTUATION OF A WALKING ROBOT

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  • Design, Simulation, and Experiments in Push Manipulation of Aggregates and Manipulator Geometry Analysis for Autonomous Construction Site Preparation

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  • Modulation of High-Frequency Acoustic Waves to Control Low-Frequency Signals

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  • Particle Formation in Hydrogen Combustion

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  • Control and unusual dynamics of a Spherical robot with inertial actuation

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  • The Hydrostatic Buckling of SPM system of fish cages and a design method to prevent it

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  • Theory of Nutrients Recovery by Capacitive Deionization

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  • Minimizing indoor infection risks with automotive nanofiltration and with a laminar vertical flow

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  • Is the use of DTCs rather than conventional controllers justified for low order stable systems with delays?

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  • Infra-red thermography measurements of the convective heat transfer from a flat surface exposed to a turbulent co-axial impinging jet

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  • Revisiting Airflows and Aerosol Transport in the Deep Lungs

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  • A Novel Synergy between Sensing and Energy Scavenging

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  • Designing Bio-Inspired Robots: The Influence of Actuation Level on Performance

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  • Dynamic analysis for optimizing tribological performance of ringless piston-cylinder systems

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  • Ion-Ion Selectivity Mechanisms in Capacitive Deionization

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  • Biomimetic adhesive films combining the functional principle of different biological systems

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  • From Robot Uprising to Rise of the Dead – Lessons in Engineering and Biology from a New Type of Active Particles

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  • Challenges in Cooperative and Automated Vehicles

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  • Synchronization revisited: standing on the shoulders of Christiaan Huygens”

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  • A solution to amorphous elasticity and plasticity based on newly discovered topological defects

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  • Principles of wrinkle patterns in thin solids under confinement

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  • Microchip Destruction using Thermite: An Evaluation of Effectiveness through Experiments and FEA

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  • Locomotion dynamics of an underactuated wheeled three-link robot

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  • Universal alignment in turbulent pair-dispersion

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  • Modeling Glass Transition in Polymers – New Thoughts about an Old Mystery

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  • Dynamic Gravity: From a crazy idea to high precision measurements

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  • Advances in mechanics and modeling of modern soft materials

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  • Learning Two Sequential Agents for USB Assembly with Position and Orientation Uncertainties via Reinforcement Learning

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  • Sound Generated by Modern Rotating Machinery – Measurements and Modelling

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  • Plant roots and robotic arms: how to get the best out of a soft fibre?

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  • A Discrete Model of Electromomentum Coupling in One Dimensional Materials

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  • Mechanical Engineering design for harsh marine environment

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  • Nonlinear dynamics of elastic and magnetic fluid interfaces

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  • An experimental and numerical investigation of laminated composite structure’s damping capabilities

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  • Machine Learning tools to integrate Impedance Control and Blind Search for assembly tasks

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  • Mechanical, thermo-mechanical, and metallurgical comparison between WAAM and bulk SS316L

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  • Theory of monovalent ion selectivity using capacitive deionization electrodes

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  • Error-Related Potentials in Response to Haptic and Visual Disturbances to Exoskeleton Operation

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  • Learning-based object detection and 6D pose estimation from RGB-D images for industrial robotic manipulations

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  • Identifiability of soft-tissue constitutive parameters from in-vivo indentation and inverse finite element analysis

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  • A comparative biomechanical analysis of gait with several foot-ankle offloading devices

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  • 2D Intermodal targeted energy transfer in MDOF oscillator

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  • Stubborn and Dead-Zone Redesign for State Observers and Dynamic Output Feedback

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  • DBD Plasma Actuators for Performance Improvement and Noise Reduction on Rotors

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  • Towards Enhanced Social-Physical Human-Robot Interaction

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  • Recurrent Neural Networks For Peg In The Hole Insertions Task

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  • Using Insights from Human Motor Control and Robotics to Design Intuitive, Semi-Autonomous Prostheses and Exoskeletons

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  • Heterogeneous materials: Microstructure-property connections and cross-property relations

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  • A new model for gear tooth contact analysis

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  • Stability and Transition on a Steady and Impulsively-Started Coandă Cylinder

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  • Preliminary Design Tools for Hydrodynamic aspects of Submerged Impermeable Breakwaters

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  • Marangoni-based geometrical low-pass-filter

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  • Encircling exceptional points of Bloch waves: mode conversion and anomalous scattering

      The normal modes of nonconservative systems coalesce at the so-called exceptional points (EPs) of their spectrum. These degeneracy points are the source of unusual phenomena, some of which are accessed by encircling the points in a suitable space. Here,...

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  • A study of brush biopsy for malignant cell detection

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  • Global dynamics and Dynamical Integrity Assessment: A new rapid iterative method

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  • Oblique scattering from non-Hermitian optical waveguides

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  • cape of two-DOF dynamical system from the potential well

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  • Sound Source Localization, Using Acoustic Intensity Measurement Techniques

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  • Mechanical properties of nanoporous gold nanoparticles in molecular dynamics simulations

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  • Stabilization of self-excited oscillations and chimera states in multibody mechanical networks

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  • Electromomentum coupling in piezoelectric metamaterials

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  • From Bio-Compatible to Bio-Rejected: Mechano-chemical surface effects on dental implant rejection

      The most common materials for dental implants fabrication are Titanium and its alloys. These metals are considered biocompatible due to their passive oxide layer which promotes the osseointegration process. Peri-implantitis is a common disease caused by bacterial biofilm, in...

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  • Localization of non-rigid objects in a 3D scene for assembly using learning methods

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  • The mechanical behavior of a chain of bistable springs on an elastic foundation

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  • Nanofluidics: surfaces, interfaces, and boundary conditions – a devil’s masterpiece

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  • Personalized haptic systems for able-bodied and prosthetic hand users

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  • Learning robotic policies for assembly tasks with non-co-aligned force/ torque sensor and optional visual sensor

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  • A Novel Direct Gaseous Reformate Injector – Design and Experimental Study

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  • Dynamic-Stall-Driven Wind Turbine for High Water-Pressure and Urban Applications

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  • Spin-valley Rashba monolayer laser

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  • Biophysical basis of mechanical communication in cardiac cell beating

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  • Hydrodynamic quantum analogs: from foundations to applications

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  • In-vitro spermatogenesis in a microfluidic environment and sorting sperm using dielectrophoresis

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  • Powder Metallurgy based Additive Manufacturing of Shape Memory Alloys

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  • Bifurcations and chimera states in a self-excited inertia wheel double pendulum array

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  • Soft Landing using LQ Optimization for Non-Ideal Bodies

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  • Producing Green Electricity and Clean Water Simultaneously: Desalination Fuel Cells

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  • Energy absorption in additive manufactured structures: The role of geometry and materials

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  • A Biomechanical System for Automatic Patient-Specific Foot Ground Reaction Force Regulation- Based on Finite Element Analysis

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  • Stealth waves in compound piezoelectric structures

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  • Computational diagnosis of Diabetic Macular Edema using deep learning techniques on Optical Coherence Tomography data

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  • Auto-resonance driving schemes for Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes

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  • Toward reconfigurable microfluidics: non-uniform electroosmotic flow and photoactuated high-voltage control

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  • The Effect of Stacking Sequence and Ply Orientation on Damage Evolution in Statically Loaded UD Carbon Epoxy Laminates

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  • Topology optimization using length scale as a design variable

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  • Explosive Boiling of Drops Near a Solid Surface and Inside a Turbulent Flow

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  • GPU Accelerated High-Fidelity Implicit LES of Coanda Cylinder Flow Instabilities

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  • Structure and Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte Complex Network under Electric Field

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  • Computational design of ultra-strong high-entropy alloys manufactured via additive manufacturing processes

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  • Micro-Structural optimization for combined Thermal and Mechanical load-bearing materials

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  • Development of an External Phase-Shifting Tunable Mechanism in a Miniature PT Cryocooler

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  • Mechanics on the Great Ice Sheets

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  • Hydrodynamic Lubrication and Surface Texturing

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  • Novel External Heat Engine Using Two-Phase Nozzle

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  • Ultrafast Dynamics of Vibrational Polaritons: Transport against the flow and Vacuum-Field Chemistry

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  • High-rate phase transformation in shape memory alloys: from small-scale kinetics to actuator design

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  • Reorientation of cell layers under stretch as an active orthotropic material

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  • Coandă-based Reciprocating Wind Energy Generator for Water Desalination

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  • Quantitative Visualization in Mechanics: Challenges and Opportunities

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  • Mechanics of Cell-Matrix Interactions in Three-Dimensions

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  • Dynamics and minimalistic control of a flexible structure containing bi-stable elements

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  • Nonlinear mechanics of thin structures and their applications

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  • Microstructural and Tensile Properties of AlCrFe2Ni2 High Entropy Alloy

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  • Thermal Bonding Patterns Affecting Nonwoven Properties: Experiments and Modeling

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  • Dynamics and stability of Purcell’s micro swimmer model with flexible joints and/or controlled torque at the joints

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  • First true realization of Stirling open cycle for solar and waste heat conversion

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  • Applications of high-speed cineradiography to injury biomechanics and prevention research

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  • Fluidic Shaping of Optical Components on Earth and in Space

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  • Kinematics of rigid fibers in a turbulent channel flow

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  • Multiscale Analyses of Composites Subjected to Quasi-static and High Strain-rate Loading Conditions

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  • Integrated Thermocatalytic Systems for Generation of Synthetic Fuels from CO2 using Renewable Energy

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  • Micro-mechanical Tamper Protection Device based on Shape Memory Alloy

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  • Development of sulfonated porous carbon electrodes for ion selective water purification

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  • EEG Correlates of errors, disturbances and rare target stimuli, and their applications for brain-computer interfaces

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  • Dynamics and stability of a planar three-link swimmer with passive visco-elastic joint in ideal fluid

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  • Towards a solution of an ancient problem: how does the wind create waves?

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  • An improved analytical description of the response of axisymmetric conical shells exhibiting bistable behavior

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  • Voids distribution effect on the yield of porous materials

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  • Spatial dynamics of flexible nano-swimmers under a rotating magnetic field

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  • Numerical investigation of PMN-PT for twisting actuators

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  • Computational Method for Modeling of Beam-Like Flexible Systems

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  • Cavitation and bubble dynamics in aviation fuels

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  • Non Ionizing Method for Estimating Scoliotic Skeletal Alignment Learned from Anatomical Surface and Structural Data

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  • Geometry and Material Optimization of Electromagnetic Radiation Absorbers using 3D Printing

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  • Electro-orientation and Electro-rotation of Janus particles

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  • Experimental investigation of spanwise secondary flows in boundary layer flows above vegetation canopies

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  • Voids growth in liquid lead in spallation

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  • MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS MADE FROM PMN-PT

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  • Ferromagnetic Polarization for Soft Robotic Actuation: Application in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)

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  • Flow rate–pressure drop relation for non-Newtonian fluids in narrow geometries

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  • Towards micro-mechanic improved design of granular composites

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  • Stress – Moduli Monotonicity in Heterogeneous Elastic Structures for Improved Design

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  • Optimization of Motion in Systems with Redundancy

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  • Pushing boundaries in the theory of water desalination by electrodialysis: cells driven by chemical energy and pH effects

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  • NON-LINEAR VIBRATIONS OF A THIN CIRCULAR RING

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  • Hierarchy of exact low-dimensional reductions for populations of coupled oscillators

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  • Numerical Modeling of Atomization in High-Speed Multi-Phase Flows

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  • Adaptable canopy-like structure for underwater sensing

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  • INVESTIGATION OF THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF A CYLINDRICAL CATALYST IN THE PROCESS OF STEAM REFORMING

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  • Nonlinear Phenomena in Engineering Systems

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  • Fusion of CFD and Sensor Observations for Physical Fields Calibration and Reconstruction

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  • Coordinated UAV Platoons/Formations and Aerial Manipulators

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  • High-Temperature Solar Thermochemical Processes for Sustainable Fuel Production

      The production of drop-in solar fuels can eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and provide the path to sustainable aviation. One such promising pathway to solar fuels is via a thermochemical redox cycle for splitting H2O and CO2, driven by concentrated...

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  • Mechanics of 2-D Arrays of Curved-Beam Bistable Elements

    Multi-stable metamaterials have a promising potential for applications such as shock absorbers, foldable structures and soft robotics.  In this talk, I will present a study on the mechanics of a special class of multi-stable architected materials, namely 2-D lattices assembled...

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  • A feasibility study of a new concept of VLFS

      Moving out to open sea may provide considerable relief from the over exploitation of the land and natural resources of the coastal regions.  Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS) is an environmentally sensitive technology that can form artificial land at...

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  • Nonlinear Dynamics of Cantilevers

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  • Transient Combustion Control of Internal Combustion Engines Fed with Renewable Fuels

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  • Post-contact behavior of a compressed fiber inside a tube: experimental and theoretical investigation

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  • Optimization of a Hydrogen – Bromine Flow Battery

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  • Analytical analysis of Autoresonance in systems including gyroscopic effects

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  • Selectivity mechanisms in capacitive deionization

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  • Flow Visualization Using Optically Active Particles

    Optical activity inherent in crystalline structures of biopolymers and crystallized polymeric materials can serve a laserless (safe and inexpensive) method of flow illumination to be used in volumetric flow velocimetry. Seeding particles incorporating symmetric crystal colonies (e.g., starch granules, polymer...

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  • Resonance Enhancement Optimization

      In this research we designed and fabricated the first spinning and levitating optical resonator, we also present a record value of quality factor over mode volume. In 1970 that Arthur Ashkin manage to use radiation pressure to make an...

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  • Shock attenuation characteristics of aqueous methyl cellulose solutions

    Methyl cellulose hydrogel is a thermo-reversible polymer, that solidifies from its room temperature liquid state with an increase in temperature (inverse freezing). This gel has been shown to be a highly effective shock mitigating material, with potential applications to the...

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  • Deposition of particles smaller than 2.5 micron in the human lung acinus

    This research examines the deposition patterns of particles smaller than 2.5 micron in the human lung acinus, which is the deepest region in the lung that includes pulmonary alveoli. These particles move down the airway tree under the influence of...

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  • MECHANICAL COMMUNICATION IN THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM

    Mechanical communication between muscles and neurons is essential for proprioception, which is the ability to sense the motion and position of body parts. Proprioception requires the transduction of muscle-generated deformations into sensory neuronal impulses. In proprioceptive organs, the mechanical coupling...

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  • A comprehensive investigation of Electrostatic Micro Resonators

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  • Development of Desktop Sample Handling Robot Based on Caging Grasps

      Although samples testing laboratories have high level of automation, it is still not possible to completely exclude a person from samples testing cycle. Laboratory personnel perform many preparatory operations that are too complex for robots. At the same time,...

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  • Transition to 3D motion in an equivalent mechanical model of nonlinear liquid sloshing

    The thesis considers transtiton from two-dimensional to three-dimensional response (swirling) in a problem of liquid sloshing in a symmetric vessel under external periodic forcing. Such transition is well-known in the vicinity of the primary 1:1 resonance between the lowest eigenfrequency...

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  • Elastic Instability and Elastic Waves in a Weakly Perturbed Viscoelastic Channel Flow

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  • Analytic exploration of safe basins in a benchmark problem of forced escape

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  • Effect of meso-structure on plastic localization and failure in heterogeneous metallic materials

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  • System for imaging tympanic membrane vibrations- optic and optomechanical design

    In this project the purpose was to develop a medical device, a probe, to conduct an otoscopic test. The test will provide a video imaging of tympanic membrane vibrations and will be used to diagnose hearing problems. The method that...

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  • On The Mechanical Behavior of AZ31B Magnesium Alloy Reinforced by SiC Particles

    In the last decades, the car and aviation industries have shown a growing interest in magnesium (Mg) alloys, due to their high specific strength. With that said, the widespread usage of Mg alloys is hindered by their low ductility and strong...

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  • Hydrogen-Rich Reformate Jet Mixing and Combustion in an ICE Chamber

      High-Pressure Thermochemical Recuperation is a promising waste heat recovery method that enables utilization of the engine waste heat together with onboard hydrogen production. Our experimental findings showed that this method enables a significant engine efficiency improvement and gaseous emissions...

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  • Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Liquid Sloshing in Upright Circular and Square-base Cylindrical Containers

    The study of liquid sloshing in partially filled liquid storage containers has gained significant attention as the seismic vulnerability of these containers represents a potential source of severe environmental accidents: large amplitude sloshing exerts excessive hydrodynamic loads on the container...

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  • Interpreting Averages

    Averages are measured in many circumstances for diagnostic, predictive, or surveillance purposes. Examples include: average stress along a beam, average speed along a section of highway, average alcohol consumption per month, average GDP over a large region, a student’s average...

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  • Electroosmotic flow over superhydrophobic surfaces and potential application in lab-on-a-chip applications

    Electro-osmotic flow is a well-established and efficient method for driving microchannel flows that relies on the interaction of an externally applied electric field with charge arising at the interface between the liquid and the channel walls. However, its relatively low...

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  • Micro to macro scale modelling of anisotropic heterogeneous materials

    Many materials such as cellular materials, composites and alloys are heterogeneous, and their microstructure essentially determines their macro-scale mechanical behavior. A good understanding of the macro-scale behavior and the underlying micro-scale mechanism of such materials will be valuable to guide...

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  • Fabrication of diffractive optical elements by programmable thermocapillary shaping of thin liquid films

    We present a novel method for deforming thin liquid-films into desired topographies, driven by a photo actuated thermocapillary effect. Our system consists of a thin liquid film, resting on a flat substrate patterned with an array of metal pads, and...

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  • Energy Harvesting from the Human Body for Wearable and Mobile Devices

    Wearable and mobile devices, such as smartwatches, smartphones, and wearable medical devices, have become a very important part of our daily life and current trends show they will become even more critical to us in the future. However, almost all...

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  • The role of Concentrating Solar Energy in the renewable energy transition

    The important cost reduction, seen for renewable energy technologies, together with the improved conversion efficiency based on new components and materials advances and the appearance of smart-grid technologies has led to a revolution in the energy paradigm. This new energy...

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  • Effect of mechanical properties and surface roughness of soft counter-faces on adhesive behavior of mushroom-shaped biomimetic microstructures

    Recently the growing need for quick and reversible attachment in different fields of engineering and technology has led to the development of the new emerging field of adhesion science. This has been essentially inspired by those animals and insects that...

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  • Kapitza thermal resistance in linear and nonlinear chain models.

    The interfacial thermal resistance, commonly known as Kapitza resistance, is defined as the ratio of discontinuity in the temperature gradient at the two different material interfaces to the heat flux flowing through the interface.  In the present work, the Kapitza...

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  • Investigation of an Absorption Heat Transformer (AHT) for temperature boosting of low grade\waste heat

      An Absorption Heat Transformer (AHT) is a heat pump which is powered by low-grade (low temperature) heat to produce higher temperature heat. If waste heat is available, an AHT can upgrade it to useful (higher temperature) heat. An AHT...

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  • GPU Accelerated Implicit LES of NACA 0018 Airfoil with Active Flow Control

    This work applies the state of the art Computational Fluid Dynamics solver – PyFR to perform GPU accelerated Implicit LES simulations of a NACA 0018 Airfoil with steady and unsteady Active Flow Control and compares results to experiments performed by...

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  • Variation Diminishing in Control, Optimization and AI

    The concept of variation diminishing, i.e., reduction of number of zero-crossing or local extrema, is an elementary property in system and control, optimization and approximation theory. Surprisingly, while the theory behind this concept has been well-established for many decades, it...

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  • Extraction of bounding box dimensions of scanned objects using deep learning methods.

    A wide variety of fields and applications, such as industrial manufacturing, human machine interfaces and augmented reality depend on the analysis of a real-world data (object, scenes etc.). This information can be collected by 3D scanning devices and consists of...

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  • Control with Intermittent Communication

    Analysis and design of sampled-data systems with intermittent feedback is motivated by the contemporary trend to distribute information processing in many networked control applications. In this seminar I will present my research on the stabilization, optimization and implementation of discrete...

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  • Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Flow Control on a Low Aspect Ratio Wing

      The ability to maintain attached air flow over aerodynamic surfaces characterizes the performance of airborne vehicles and sets their operational limits. Stalling of lifting surfaces, characterized by boundary layer separation and typically caused by excessive angles-of-attack or wind gusts,...

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  • Tristability, simulations mode actuation, and limit point behaviour in initially curved coupled micro beams

    Curved structures have been regarded as a benchmark problem for the study of nonlinear structures, presenting a myriad of complex responses, even more so when under the influence of nonlinear, displacement-dependent, electrostatic load. Recently, the focus has gravitated to two-dimensional...

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  • Mechanics of the Microcirculation: The Role of Mechanical Forces in Reproduction

    The microcirculation refers to the blood flow through the smallest vessels (> 100 mm), where the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues takes place. It exists in all tissues and organs except for the cornea. In this seminar,...

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  • Generalized Kirchhoff law in non-equilibrium conditions

    Kirchhoff’s law for thermal radiation is one of the few most fundamental thermodynamic principles for radiation. It states that the absorptivity, , and emissivity, , of any material are equal if the material is in thermodynamic equilibrium; . However, at...

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  • Supratransport in a vibro-impact oscillatory chain

    Energy delocalization in the attenuation zones of nonlinear oscillatory dynamical systems has been a matter of interest in the engineering fields. Initiation and propagation of discrete breathers (DB) is commonly perceived as the most efficient and ubiquitous delocalization mechanism. However,...

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  • MEMS bulk resonators with optimized geometries for mode-matching and mode-ordering

    Resonators are an essential building block in sensors, oscillators and filters. Traditionally, microscale resonators have been implemented in electronic circuits, but recently MEMS resonators are becoming increasingly prevalent, due to their higher quality-factor and superior performance. In this research we...

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  • Self-Motile Synthetic Protocells

    Cell motility is central to processes such as wound healing, immune cell surveillance, and embryonic development. Motility requires the conversion of chemical to mechanical energy. An active area of research is to create motile particles, such as microswimmers, using catalytic...

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  • Alternative fuels for clean and efficient internal combustion engines

        Internal Combustion (IC) engines have been facing severe criticism for their pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions and overall low thermal efficiency. Although modern, state-of-the-art IC engines are relatively clean and efficient, they face dire competition with the rising...

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  • Photonic Rashba effect from quantum emitters mediated by a Berry-phase defective photonic crystal

    Heterostructures combining a thin layer of quantum emitters and planar nanostructures enable custom-tailored photoluminescence in an integrated fashion. Here, we demonstrate a photonic Rashba effect from valley excitons in a WSe2 monolayer, which is incorporated into a photonic crystal slab...

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  • optimization of cooling power of a miniature Pulse Tube cryocooler by using simulations and new design of all the system’s parts.

    A cryocooler is a device for producing cooling at cryogenic temperatures (typically below 120K). The main uses of cryocoolers include liquefaction of natural gas (LNG) for transportation (Transportation), applications of high-temperature superconductors (Superconductors), storage of biological cells and specimens (Biology)....

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  • New parameter identification for optimal design of materials and structures

    Integration of advanced materials in complex structures often requires parameter identification of the material constitutive models. This process, also called update of model parameters, represents a challenge in modelling and optimizing these parameters. Building the best model coefficients is based...

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  • Experimental Analysis on Liquid Sloshing in Rectangular Containers

    . Liquid sloshing in containers is important in a wide range of engineering applications. For example, it can cause a loss of structural and dynamic stability in fuel tanks, and an ecological disaster due to a structural failure in tanks...

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  • FlowMesher: an automatic unstructured mesh generation algorithm with applications from numerical simulations to designing complex topology structures

    Patient-specific surgical simulations based on medical imaging allow surgeons to plan and practice surgical interventions before conducting surgeries and many studies demonstrate that the simulations can improve surgical outcomes. Researchers have devoted great efforts in recent decades and developed various...

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  • Roughness Toughness Correlation and the effect of particle size and spacing on ductile fracture of metal matrix composite

    A material’s crack growth resistance depends on its resistance to the creation of new free surfaces, as well as its deformation characteristics, particularly those related to dissipation, which in turn are strongly influenced by the material’s microstructure and the imposed...

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  • R2Gmotion: an IMU-based Approach for Controlling Transradial Prostheses by Learning the Kinematics of Reach-to-Grasp Movement

      The human body is a very efficient system comprised of endless different components that are working together in inspiring coordination and synergy. Recruiting this principle of the natural reach-to-grasp (R2G) movement is the cornerstone of this work towards development...

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  • Pollen Entrainment and Deposition Characteristics in the Vicinity of Pine Cones

    Release and capture of wind dispersed pollen by pine trees is considered to be an ineffective mechanism. However, since pine trees are one of the most ancient trees on earth, one may ask if pine trees enhanced wind pollination and...

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  • Experimental Investigation on the Breakup and Transport of Oil Slicks by Breaking Waves

    Prediction of the disperse phase breakup and transport under turbulence with wide range of scales is a critical subject in multiphase flow studies. Although significant efforts have been dedicated to quantifying these processes, still no unified theory exists enabling prediction...

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  • A new model for radiation validating recent experiments of high temperature photoluminescence, leading to expansion of Kirchhoff law of thermal radiation

    Thermal radiation is the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a body at a non-zero temperature. The amount of emitted thermal radiation by a body depends on its temperature, T, and its ability to emit, characterized by the emissivity, ε. This fundamental...

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  • The Mechanical Interaction between Carbon-Nano Tubes and Graphene Sheets

          Engineering materials with the ability to control the structure at the atomic level is the heart of modern technology. Devices based on stacked layers of graphene are candidates to form a new family of materials with unique...

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  • A Multiple Site-Type Nucleation Model and its Application to the Probabilistic Strength of Pd Nanowires

    Pristine specimens yield plastically under high loads by nucleating dislocations. Since dislocation nucleation is a thermally activated process, the so-called nucleation-controlled plasticity is probabilistic rather than deterministic like in bulk specimens, leading to a temperature-dependent distribution of the yield strength...

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  • Electrical Propulsion and Cargo Transport of Micro-Bowl Shaped Janus Particles

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