Ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) is an electro-active polymer (EAP) that generates electrical charges when it is mechanically deformed. In this study, a fullycoupled mechano-chemo-electrical finite element model is ...

This paper presents a study of the spinning influence on film thickness and friction in EHL circular contacts under isothermal and fully-flooded conditions. Pressure and film thickness profiles are computed with an original ...

Lubrication of machine elements such as gears and bearings appears to be essential for the good functioning of a mechanical system. In many applications, the pressure generated within tribological interfaces is high enough ...

This paper presents a thermal analysis of friction in coated elastohydrodynamic contacts. In a previous work by the author, it was found that friction may be controlled in elastohydrodynamic contacts by a suitable choice ...

The first calculations of film thickness for an oil/refrigerant system using quantitative elastohydrodynamics are reported in this work. It is demonstrated that primary measurements of the properties of the oil/refrigerant ...

The invention of the Jacquard weaving machine led to the concept of a stored "program" and "mechanized" binary information processing. This development served as the inspiration for C. Babbage's analytical engine-the ...

In this paper, we analyze multi-hop free-space optical (FSO) communications in the context of decode-and-forward serial relaying, where the relays are equipped with finite-size buffers. Based on a Markov chain analysis, ...