scholarly journals Contact compliance effects in the frictional response of bioinspired fibrillar adhesives

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (83) ◽  
pp. 20130182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Piccardo ◽  
Antoine Chateauminois ◽  
Christian Fretigny ◽  
Nicola M. Pugno ◽  
Metin Sitti
Keyword(s):  
Shear Failure ◽  
Friction Mechanisms ◽  
Static Friction ◽  
Lateral Loading ◽  
Contact Interface ◽  
Friction Forces ◽  
Contact Compliance ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Fibrillar Adhesives

The shear failure and friction mechanisms of bioinspired adhesives consisting of elastomer arrays of microfibres terminated by mushroom-shaped tips are investigated in contact with a rigid lens. In order to reveal the interplay between the vertical and lateral loading directions, experiments are carried out using a custom friction set-up in which normal stiffness can be made either high or low when compared with the stiffness of the contact between the fibrillar adhesive and the lens. Using in situ contact imaging, the shear failure of the adhesive is found to involve two successive mechanisms: (i) cavitation and peeling at the contact interface between the mushroom-shaped fibre tip endings and the lens; and (ii) side re-adhesion of the fibre's stem to the lens. The extent of these mechanisms and their implications regarding static friction forces is found to depend on the crosstalk between the normal and lateral loading directions that can result in contact instabilities associated with fibre buckling. In addition, the effects of the viscoelastic behaviour of the polyurethane material on the rate dependence of the shear response of the adhesive are accounted for.

scholarly journals Comparison of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Consortia from Surface and Deep Waters of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Characterization and Degradation Potential

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2246
Author(s):  
Georgia Charalampous ◽  
Efsevia Fragkou ◽  
Konstantinos A. Kormas ◽  
Alexandre B. De Menezes ◽  
Paraskevi N. Polymenakou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Deep Waters ◽  
Degradation Rates ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
Set Up

The diversity and degradation capacity of hydrocarbon-degrading consortia from surface and deep waters of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea were studied in time-series experiments. Microcosms were set up in ONR7a medium at in situ temperatures of 25 °C and 14 °C for the Surface and Deep consortia, respectively, and crude oil as the sole source of carbon. The Deep consortium was additionally investigated at 25 °C to allow the direct comparison of the degradation rates to the Surface consortium. In total, ~50% of the alkanes and ~15% of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were degraded in all treatments by Day 24. Approximately ~95% of the total biodegradation by the Deep consortium took place within 6 days regardless of temperature, whereas comparable levels of degradation were reached on Day 12 by the Surface consortium. Both consortia were dominated by well-known hydrocarbon-degrading taxa. Temperature played a significant role in shaping the Deep consortia communities with Pseudomonas and Pseudoalteromonas dominating at 25 °C and Alcanivorax at 14 °C. Overall, the Deep consortium showed a higher efficiency for hydrocarbon degradation within the first week following contamination, which is critical in the case of oil spills, and thus merits further investigation for its exploitation in bioremediation technologies tailored to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

scholarly journals Slipping–rolling transitions of a body with two contact points

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mate Antali ◽  
Gabor Stepan
Keyword(s):  
Rigid Body ◽  
Contact Point ◽  
Static Friction ◽  
Rigid Body Dynamics ◽  
Contact Forces ◽  
Friction Forces ◽  
Contact Points ◽  
Body Dynamics ◽  
Coulomb Model ◽  
Rigid Surfaces

AbstractIn this paper, the general kinematics and dynamics of a rigid body is analysed, which is in contact with two rigid surfaces in the presence of dry friction. Due to the rolling or slipping state at each contact point, four kinematic scenarios occur. In the two-point rolling case, the contact forces are undetermined; consequently, the condition of the static friction forces cannot be checked from the Coulomb model to decide whether two-point rolling is possible. However, this issue can be resolved within the scope of rigid body dynamics by analysing the nonsmooth vector field of the system at the possible transitions between slipping and rolling. Based on the concept of limit directions of codimension-2 discontinuities, a method is presented to determine the conditions when the two-point rolling is realizable without slipping.

scholarly journals Anti-Galling Cold, Dry Forging of Pure Titanium by Plasma-Carburized AISI420J2 Dies

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
Tatsuhiko Aizawa ◽  
Tomoaki Yoshino ◽  
Yohei Suzuki ◽  
Tomomi Shiratori
Keyword(s):  
Pure Titanium ◽  
Solid Lubrication ◽  
Cold Forging ◽  
Contact Interface ◽  
Metallic Titanium ◽  
Low Friction ◽  
Debris Particles ◽  
Titanium Wire ◽  
Oxide Debris

A bare AISI420J2 punch often suffers from severe adhesion of metallic titanium as well as titanium oxide debris particles in dry, cold forging of biomedical titanium alloys. This punch was plasma-carburized at 673 K for 14.4 ks to harden it up to 1200 HV on average and to achieve carbon supersaturation in the carburized layer. This plasma-carburized punch was employed in the cold, dry forging of a pure titanium wire into a flat plate while reducing the thickness by 70%. The contact interface width approached the forged workpiece width with increasing the reduction ratio. This smaller bulging deformation reveals that the workpiece is upset by homogeneous plastic flow with a lower friction coefficient. This low-friction and anti-galling forging process was sustained by an in situ solid lubrication mechanism. Unbound free carbon was isolated from the carbon-supersaturated AISI420J2 matrix and deposited as a thin tribofilm to protect the contact interface from mass transfer of metallic titanium.

scholarly journals Free-Forging of Pure Titanium with High Reduction of Thickness by Plasma-Carburized SKD11 Dies

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2536
Author(s):  
Tatsuhiko Aizawa ◽  
Tomoaki Yoshino ◽  
Yohei Suzuki ◽  
Tomomi Shiratori
Keyword(s):  
Solid Lubricant ◽  
Pure Titanium ◽  
Solid Lubrication ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Contact Interface ◽  
Forging Process ◽  
Titanium Wire ◽  
High Reduction ◽  
Residual Strains

A tool steel type SKD11 punch was plasma carburized at 673 K for 14.4 ks at 70 Pa to make carbon supersaturation. This carburized SKD11 punch was employed for upsetting the pure titanium wire with the diameter of 1.00 mm up to the reduction of thickness by 70% in a single shot. Its contact interface to titanium work was analyzed to describe the anti-galling behavior in this forging. Little trace of titanium proved that the galling process was suppressed by the in situ solid lubrication. The isolated free carbon agglomerates are wrought as a solid lubricant to sustain the galling-free forging process. This anti-galling upsetting reduced the residual strains in the forged wires. A long titanium wire with a length of 45 mm was incrementally upset to yield the titanium ribbon with a thickness of 0.3 mm, the width of 2.3 mm, and the length of 50 mm. The grain size of original pure titanium was much reduced to 2 μm on average. A micro-pillared microtexture was imprinted onto this forged titanium ribbon.

Use of a crystallization robot to set up sitting-drop vapor-diffusion crystallization andin situcrystallization screens

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher F. Snook ◽  
Michael D. Purdy ◽  
Michael C. Wiener
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Proteins ◽  
Protein Crystallization ◽  
Integral Membrane Proteins ◽  
Vapor Diffusion ◽  
Liquid Handling ◽  
General Utility ◽  
Crystallization Experiments ◽  
Automated Screening ◽  
Set Up

A commercial crystallization robot has been modified for use in setting up sitting-drop vapor-diffusion crystallization experiments, and for setting up protein crystallization screensin situ. The primary aim of this effort is the automated screening of crystallization of integral membrane proteins in detergent-containing solutions. However, the results of this work are of general utility to robotic liquid-handling systems. Sources of error that can prevent the accurate dispensing and mixing of solutions have been identified, and include local environmental, machine-specific and solution conditions. Solutions to each of these problems have been developed and implemented.

Boundary and Mixed Friction in the Presence of Dynamic Normal Loads: Part I—System Model

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas A. Polycarpou ◽  
Andres Soom
Keyword(s):  
Important Variable ◽  
Friction Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
Dynamic Friction ◽  
Discrete Elements ◽  
Friction Forces ◽  
Contact Compliance ◽  
Stiffness Characteristics ◽  
Nonlinear Normal ◽  
Linearized Model

The instantaneous normal motion between bodies in a sliding contact is an important variable in determining dynamic friction under unsteady sliding conditions. In order to model friction under dynamic conditions, it is therefore necessary to combine a dynamic model of the sliding system with an accurate model of the friction process. In the present work, the nonlinear normal dynamics of a friction test apparatus are described by a linearized model at a particular steady loading and sliding condition in a mixed or boundary-lubricated regime. The geometry is a line contact. The Hertzian bulk contact compliance and film and asperity damping and stiffness characteristics are included as discrete elements. In Part I of the paper, a fifth-order model is developed for the normal dynamics of the system, using both the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm (ERA) and classical experimental modal analysis techniques. In Part II, this system model is combined with a friction model, developed independently, to describe dynamic friction forces under both harmonic and impulsive applied normal loads.

Exploring Nature's plasticity with a flexible probing tool, and finding new ways for its electronic distribution

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beier ◽  
M. Baum ◽  
H. Rebscher ◽  
R. Mauritz ◽  
A. Wixmerten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
In Situ Synthesis ◽  
Light Modulation ◽  
Genomic Assays ◽  
Electronic Distribution ◽  
Spatial Light Modulation ◽  
Microarray Fabrication ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Microarray Format

Concepts and results are described for the use of a single, but extremely flexible, probing tool to address a wide variety of genomic questions. This is achieved by transforming genomic questions into a software file that is used as the design scheme for potentially any genomic assay in a microarray format. Microarray fabrication takes place in three-dimensional microchannel reaction carriers by in situ synthesis based on spatial light modulation. This set-up allows for maximum flexibility in design and realization of genomic assays. Flexibility is achieved at the molecular, genomic and assay levels. We have applied this technology to expression profiling and genotyping experiments.

scholarly journals Monitoring compliance with sulfur content regulations of shipping fuel by in situ measurements of ship emissions

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (17) ◽  
pp. 10087-10092 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Kattner ◽  
B. Mathieu-Üffing ◽  
J. P. Burrows ◽  
A. Richter ◽  
S. Schmolke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sulfur Content ◽  
Air Pollutant ◽  
Monitoring Site ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The North ◽  
Position Data ◽  
Gas Measurements ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2

Abstract. In 1997 the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) adopted MARPOL Annex VI to prevent air pollution by shipping emissions. It regulates, among other issues, the sulfur content in shipping fuels, which is transformed into the air pollutant sulfur dioxide (SO2) during combustion. Within designated Sulfur Emission Control Areas (SECA), the sulfur content was limited to 1 %, and on 1 January 2015, this limit was further reduced to 0.1 %. Here we present the set-up and measurement results of a permanent ship emission monitoring site near Hamburg harbour in the North Sea SECA. Trace gas measurements are conducted with in situ instruments and a data set from September 2014 to January 2015 is presented. By combining measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) and SO2 with ship position data, it is possible to deduce the sulfur fuel content of individual ships passing the measurement station, thus facilitating the monitoring of compliance of ships with the IMO regulations. While compliance is almost 100 % for the 2014 data, it decreases only very little in 2015 to 95.4 % despite the much stricter limit. We analysed more than 1400 ship plumes in total and for months with favourable conditions, up to 40 % of all ships entering and leaving Hamburg harbour could be checked for their sulfur fuel content.

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