Process development for moving mechanical assemblies by Tay, Beng Kang

“…MEMS further extend the fabrication techniques developed for the integrated circuit industry to add mechanical elements such as beams, bridges, gears, diaphragms and springs to devices. Another distinction is that typically 3-D structures required for many MEMS applications (optical, mechanical, etc) create a need for nonstandard materials and non-polygonal geometries. …”
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Implementation of dampers to reduce fatigue loading in 3D lattice structures by Chan, Zi Shan

“…An experiment is conducted on the damper materials using a 90mm by 90mm by 30mm PLA structure to determine the frequencies of damped and undamped, before using the Transmissibility equation to find the lowest ratio. It showed that Spring followed by Elastomers, had the lowest transmissibility. …”
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Robotic mirror finishing KPV (key process variable) optimization in the aerospace industry by Ortiz, Walter Frank Pintor

“…Materials such as Stainless Steel, employed for aerospace, have common applications in the fabrication of exhaust collectors, stacks and manifolds, structural and machined parts, springs, castings, tie rods, and control cables; among important factors and depending on the operating environment, light alloys and metals with mirror finish quality can be used for almost any part in aircrafts. …”
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Construction of eigenvarieties by Newton, J

“…These are notes based on four lectures given at the Heidelberg spring school on non-archimedean geometry and eigenvarieties. …”

Processes of Stratification Breakdown and Restratification in Antarctic Coastal Polynyas by Xu, Yilang

“…They are characterized by deep winter mixing due to dense water formation from sea ice production and elevated biological productivity after spring restratification. Antarctic coastal polynyas are diverse in terms of their mixing and stratification pattern, as well as the associated biological productivity. …”
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The Emergence of State Sphere in Social Media: A Political Balkanization in Malaysia by Mohamed@Bakar, Badrul Azmier, Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Efendi, Dori

“…The world political events in the recent times, particularly the Arab Spring have shown a strong correlation between social media and democratization. …”
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A study on manpower issues and productivity in warehouses and distribution centres by Wong, Yue Ying

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Time-series metagenomics reveals changing protistan ecology of a temperate dimictic lake by Krinos, Arianna I., Bowers, Robert M., Rohwer, Robin R., McMahon, Katherine D., Woyke, Tanja, Schulz, Frederik

“…We observed patterns of seasonal abundance in microeukaryotes in Lake Mendota that corroborated expectations from other systems, including high abundance of cryptophytes in winter and diatoms in fall and spring, but with much higher resolution than previous surveys. …”
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Lightweight mechanical amplifiers for rolled dielectric elastomer actuators and their integration with bio-inspired wing flappers by Lau, Gih-Keong, Lim, Hoong-Ta, Teo, Jing-Ying, Chin, Yao-Wei

“…This DEA assembly using the CFRP shell achieved 30.9% of the theoretical work density for a BJB-TC5005 membrane at 33.5 MV m−1. In comparison, spring rolls with a massive spring core were reported with overall work density merely 10–20% of the maximum value. …”
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Study of the thermal decomposition of PFPEs lubricants on a thin DLC film using finitely extensible nonlinear elastic potential based molecular dynamics simulation by Deb Nath, S. K., Wong, C. H.

“…Due to temperature rise of PFPE Zdol lubricant molecules on a DLC surface, how polar end groups are detached from lubricant molecules during coating is described considering the effect of temperatures on the bond/break density of PFPE Zdol using the coarse-grained bead spring model based on finitely extensible nonlinear elastic potential. …”
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Picophytoplankton of the Northeast U.S. Shelf: Community Composition and Dynamics by Stevens, Bethany Lynn Fowler

“…Both groups are light limited in the fall, temperature limited in the spring, and undergo earlier spring blooms in warmer offshore waters. …”
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Waterborne polyurethane as dispersant for liquid exfoliation of graphite to graphene by Loh, Pei Shan

“…Graphene’s extraordinary properties such as high charge carrier mobility, high thermal conductivity, exceptional Young modulus, large spring constant, making it an ideal nanofillers for the production of nanocomposites. …”
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Orbital stability in a classical pilot-wave system by Liu, Nicholas Z.

“…In the limit of vanishing particle inertia, infinite path memory and a linear spring force, we demonstrate the intriguing possibility of infinitely many sharply quantised orbital states, where the allowed orbital radii exist in vanishingly thin intervals, and are stabilised by the combined influence of the time-averaged wave field and spring force. …”
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Modelling and Design of a Synergy-based Actuator for a Tendon-driven Soft Robotic Glove by Xiloyannis, Michele, Cappello, Leonardo, Khanh, Dinh Binh, Yen, Shih-Cheng, Masia, Lorenzo

“…These results are used to guide design choices such as the power of the motor and the stiffness of the springs. The designed tendondriving unit comprises a DC motor which drives an array of spools dimensioned according to the first postural synergy, an electromechanical clutch to hold the hand in position during static posture and a feeder mechanism to avoid slacking of the tendons around the spool. …”
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Detection of damaged supports under railway track based on frequency shift by Wang, Longqi, Zhang, Yao, Lie, Seng Tjhen

“…In this study, the rail-sleeper-ballast system is modeled as an Euler beam evenly supported by a series of springs, the stiffness of which are reduced when the fastener is loose or missing and the ballast under the sleepers is damaged. …”
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Better late than never: sleep still supports memory consolidation after prolonged periods of wakefulness by Petzka, M, Zika, O, Staresina, BP, Cairney, SA

The idle period distribution for CSMA/CA networks for spectrum sensing applications by Lau, Chiew Tong, Jayabal, Raymond J.

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Bond and electronic relaxation dynamics of graphene, gold clusters, and water ice by Zhang, Xi

“…The hidden force opposing H2O compression behind the repulsion between nonbonding lone pair and bonding pair of hydrogen bond was revealed by theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics (MD) and ab initio MD calculations: i) the compression shortens and strengthens the intermolecular ‘‘O2- : H+/p’’ lone-pair and stretching phonons (<400 cm-1) are thus stiffened; ii) the repulsion pushes the bonding electron pair away from the H+/p and hence elongates and weakens the ‘‘H+/p–O2-” bond, making stretching phonons (>3000 cm-1) softened upon compression. Three springs model was proposed to build up the fundamental physical model of ‘‘O2- : H+/p–O2-” bond, in order to explain the complicated and anomalous behavior of water and ice. …”
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Draft genome sequence of the moderately thermophilic bacterium Schleiferia thermophila strain Yellowstone (Bacteroidetes) by Thiel, Vera, Hamilton, Trinity L., Tomsho, Lynn P., Burhans, Richard, Gay, Scott E., Ramaley, Robert F., Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Steinke, Laurey, Bryant, Donald A.

“…The draft genome sequence of the moderately thermophilic bacterium Schleiferia thermophila strain Yellowstone (Bacteroidetes), isolated from Octopus Spring (Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA) was sequenced and comprises 2,617,694 bp in 35 contigs. …”
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Elongated magma plumbing system beneath the Coso volcanic field, California, constrained by seismic reflection tomography by Wang, Dongdong, Wu, Shucheng, Li, Tianjue, Tong, Ping, Gao, Yongxin

“…Our final velocity model reveals a prominent low-velocity body sitting right beneath the CVF at 5–20 km depths, which we interpret as a rhyolite magma reservoir that supplies heat flux to the hot springs and also feeds the volcanic activities at Coso. …”
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