Xu, Dingmin Li, Xueyong Wang, Yonghui
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Currently, most rehabilitation/nursing robots attach the human body to the end of the robot by ‘binding’ solution, which makes the operation complicated and greatly limits their applications. Therefore, it is necessary to study a universal gripper that can directly grasp human limbs as the end-effector of the robot. Inspired by the human hand, this...
dos Santos, Fernando Neves Quintino Colmanetti, Alex Roger Almeida Cabezas-Gómez, Luben Tibiriçá, Cristiano Bigonha
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
A concept of an integrated system for cooling, heating and electricity generation using thermoelectric effect and water is presented. The concept consists of two 2-L capacity water reservoirs: The first one has been used to store cold water and the second one to store heated water. Both reservoirs are thermally connected by two thermoelectric modul...
Dastan, Mohammadhossein Shojaee, Saeed Hamzehei-Javaran, Saleh Goodarzimehr, Vahid
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
In this work, a new and effective algorithm called hybrid teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO) and charged system search (CSS) algorithms (HTC) are proposed to solve engineering and mathematical problems. The CSS is inspired by Coulomb and Gauss’s electrostatic laws of physics as well as the Newtonian mechanic laws of motion. The TLBO is ins...
Souza, Adriel Magalhães Silva, Eraldo Jannone da Ratay, Jason Yamaguchi, Hitomi
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
The need for ultraprecision finishing has grown, and magnetic field-assisted finishing has shown potential for overcoming some challenges. This study evaluates the scientific production and identifies future directions of magnetic field-assisted finishing based on a bibliometric analysis. Using Bibliometrix, network mapping and descriptive analysis...
Shoaib, Muhammad Rafia, Tabassum Raja, Muhammad Asif Zahoor Khan, Waqar Azeem Waqas, Muhammad
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
The present article exploits a novel application of AI-based Levenberg–Marquardt scheme with backpropagated neural network (LMS–BPNN) to analyze the double-diffusive free convection nanofluid flow model (DDFC-NFM) over an inclined plate in the existence of Brownian motion and thermophoresis properties embedded in a porous medium. The governing PDEs...
Shang, Hao Chen, Yuan Li, Xiaolu Li, Yuntang Wang, Bingqing Peng, Xudong
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Due to the great vibration of the rotating shaft, the dry gas seal has a transient change in film thickness during operation, which seriously affects the performance and lifetime of the dry gas seal. The current research on dry gas seals has begun to focus on their dynamic behavior. However, detailed analysis of the transient performance of dry gas...
Ramos, E. A. Treviño, C. Méndez, F. Lizardi, J. J.
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
In this work, we predict for a laminar electroosmotic flow in a thin microchannel, the impact that has some non-isothermal electrokinetics effects when the Debye length and the fluid viscosity are both temperature-dependent functions. The motion of the electroosmotic flow is caused with the aid of an external and uniform electric field. The presenc...
Francisco, A. S. Ouverney, T. M. W. Moreira, L. P.
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
The structural integrity of steam generator tubes containing crack-like flaws can be assessed based on crack acceptance criteria. Plastic collapse is the dominant failure mode of steam generator tubes since a very high fracture toughness is usually found in the tube materials. Thus, the plastic limit load analysis is the main crack acceptance crite...
Flores-Aquino, Gabriel O. Vasquez-Gomez, J. Irving Gutierrez-Frias, Octavio
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Sampling-based motion planning algorithms are widely used in robotics because they are very effective in high-dimensional spaces. However, the success rate and quality of the solutions are determined by an adequate selection of their parameters such as the distance between states, the local planner, and the sampling distribution. For robots with la...
Diwania, Sourav Kumar, Rajeev Singh, Sudhir Kumar Dua, Gagandeep Singh Khetrapal, Pavan
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Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
A high photovoltaic (PV) panel temperature causes a reduction in the terminal voltage that results in low output power. Therefore, the extraction of heat from PV panels is a very important and crucial area to enhance the electrical power output. A PVT (Photovoltaic-Thermal) is a combined version of photovoltaics and solar thermal collector to gener...
