Publications related to Angular displacement

3D printed large amplitude torsional microactuators powered by ultrasound

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Mehdi Ali Gadiri, Junsun Hwang, Amit Yedidia Dolev

Here, we introduce a design, fabrication, and control methodology for large amplitude torsional microactuators powered by ultrasound. The microactuators are 3D printed from two polymers with drastically different elastic moduli as a monolithic compliant me ...

2024

Buoyancy-driven convection of droplets on hot nonwetting surfaces

François Gallaire, Eunok Yim

The global linear stability of a water drop on hot nonwetting surfaces is studied. The droplet is assumed to have a static shape and the surface tension gradient is neglected. First, the nonlinear steady Boussinesq equation is solved to obtain the axisymme ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Hydrodynamic dead zone in multiphase geophysical flows impacting a rigid obstacle

Xingyue Li

When a gravity-driven solid-fluid mixture, such as those in geophysical flows, hits a wall-like rigid obstacle, a metastable jammed zone called hydrodynamic dead zone (HDZ) may emerge. The unjammed-jammed transition of HDZ, controlled by the intricate inte ...

2021

A co-rotational scroll machine

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo

A co-rotating scroll machine operable as compressor or expander, comprises a transmission and guidance mechanism (9,10) for first and second scroll plates (7,8), having three transmission and guidance units (9,10) uniformly distributed around the scroll pl ...

2018

Low-inertia vacuum-powered soft pneumatic actuator coil characterization and design methodology

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

Recently developed soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) powered by negative pressure have demonstrated great potential in the future of soft robotics for their high strength, intrinsic safety, low weight, and often simple design. The majority of these have only ...

2018

Geometric Optimization of a Reciprocal Floor-Framing System with Self-Weight and Area-Loading Considerations

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

This paper explores the geometric optimization of a planar reciprocal frame (RF) floor framing structure, focusing on the triangular topology. The structural performance of the frames is computed and plotted against the geometric parameters for various loa ...

2017

Multi-segment analysis of spinal kinematics during sit-to-stand in patients with chronic low back pain

Julien Favre, Thomas Legrand, Guillaume Christe

While alterations in spinal kinematics have been frequently reported in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP), a better characterization of the kinematics during functional activities is needed to improve our understanding and therapeutic solutions fo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Towards the measurement of photon polarisation in the decay B⁺ → K⁺ π⁻ π⁺ γ

This thesis presents a study of the flavour-changing neutral-current radiative B+ to K+pi-pi+gamma decay performed using 3 fb-1 of data collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV centre-of-mass energies. The study of radiat ...

EPFL2016

Stochastic interpretation of the advection diffusion equation and its relevance to bed load transport

Christophe Ancey, Joris Heyman

The advection diffusion equation is one of the most widespread equations in physics. It arises quite often in the context of sediment transport, e.g., for describing time and space variations in the particle activity (the solid volume of particles in motio ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Full-field drift Hamiltonian particle orbits in 3D geometry

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Jonathan Graves, Stephan Brunner

A Hamiltonian/Lagrangian theory to describe guiding centre orbit drift motion which is canonical in the Boozer coordinate frame has been extended to include full electromagnetic perturbed fields in anisotropic pressure 3D equilibria with nested magnetic fl ...

IOP2011

Analytical description for current-induced vortex core displacement

In this article, an analytical model for current-induced vortex core displacement is developed. By using this model, one can solve the equations of motion analytically to determine the effects of the adiabatic and nonadiabatic spin-torque terms. The final ...

2011

Ambulatory evaluation of 3D knee joint function in patients with ACL rupture using inertial sensors

Julien Favre

In orthopaedics, outcome evaluation is currently recognized as a major challenge to improve the knowledge both about injuries and treatments. For anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture, various evaluation tools are available for routine uses: clinical ex ...

EPFL2008

Circular Hall transducer for angular position sensing

Radivoje Popovic, Pavel Kejik

We developed a new integrated magnetic sensor based on the Hall effect, suitable for the application in magnetic contactless 360° absolute angle sensors. The device consists of a narrow n-well ring with a chain of 64 contacts equally distributed around the ...

2007

Spherical pore replicated Microcellular Aluminium

Andreas Mortensen

A method is presented that extends the replication process for the manufacture of open-celled metallic foams to include foams with spherical cells. Such foams are produced to a wide range of relative densities, tested for mechanical behaviour and resistanc ...

Japan Institute of Metals, Sendai, Japan2007

Inter-machine comparison of intrinsic toroidal rotation in tokamaks

Basil Duval, Antoine Pochelon, Andrea Scarabosio, Alessandro Bortolon

Parametric scalings of the intrinsic (spontaneous, with no external momentum input) toroidal rotation observed on a large number of tokamaks have been combined with an eye towards revealing the underlying mechanism(s) and extrapolation to future devices. T ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2007

Accuracy of the transverse emittance measurements of the CERN large hadron collider

High energy accelerators and storage rings are designed to collide charged particle beams and study their collision products. The production rate of the collision products has to be maximized in order to reduce the statistical uncertainty of the produced e ...

EPFL2006

Orion MinAngle: A flexure-based, double-tilting parallel kinematics for ultra-high precision applications requiring high angles of rotation

Reymond Clavel, Patric Pham

If you need to design ultra-high precision devices for mechanisms with multiple axes there are not a lot of ways leading around flexure-based joints. Using this type of articulations totally eliminates backlash and friction and is, by this, providing an ac ...

2005