Towards comprehensive characterisation and modelling of the forming and wrinkling mechanics of engineering fabrics

Through a combination of direct measurement and inverse modelling, a route to characterising the main mechanical forming properties of engineering fabric is demonstrated. The process involves just two experimental tests, a cantilever bending test and a modified version of the uniaxial bias extension test. The mechanical forming properties of a twill weave carbon fabric have been determined, including estimates of the in-plane bending stiffness and the torsional stiffness of a sheared fabric. As a result of measuring and incorporating all the main mechanical properties of the fabric in forming simulations (tensile, shear, out-of-plane bending, in-plane bending & torsion), the specimen size-dependent shear kinematics and wrinkling response measured in experiments, is faithfully reproduced in simulations of the uniaxial bias extension (UBE) test

Communicate Sustainability Successfully: How to Connect with Your Audience

Meteorologist Drew Anderson, Earth and Space Sciences - Communicate Sustainability Successfully: How to Connect with Your Audienc

HR Executive Perspectives on Alignment with Executive Strategy: Conclusions from Six Conversational Interviews

Human Resources (HR) scholarship often frames aligning and supporting firm strategy as a foundational goal for HR executives. Strategic alignment is heralded with enabling better decision making and increasing companies’ chances of success. Yet the literature on HR executives’ alignment with executive strategies often lacks input from the most important source: HR leaders themselves. Drawing conclusions from interviews with six HR executives, this paper illustrates how HR executives view their role within executive leadership, how they attempt to align with firm strategy, and how they cooperate with and challenge other executives as they attempt to work on behalf of employees. While cooperation with executive leadership and alignment with firm strategy is central to HR leadership, this paper reveals the importance of effectively challenging other executives’ notions of success and employee needs. Working as representatives of employees, effectively shaping firm strategy to represent the needs of employees emerges as a vital goal for HR executives, on par with strategy alignment. Often as the sole people-focused voice in the executive team, HR leaders must work not only to align with firm strategy but to challenge cutthroat executive decision making to include and prioritize employee concerns

The Role of Binge Eating Disorder in the Estimation of Food Intake of Obese Individuals.

Individuals with binge eating disorder (BED) share some characteristics with persons with bulimia nervosa (BN) and some characteristics of obese persons who do not have problems with binge eating. Previous studies have found that while nonbinging individuals underestimate caloric intake, patients with BN overestimate caloric intake when intake is large. The present study hypothesized that because persons with BED binge eat, they would also overestimate caloric intake. A total of 56 women (9 with BED, 23 obese nonbingers, and 24 normal weight nonbingers) estimated several portion sizes of ice cream and then ate a test meal of ice cream and estimated how much they ate. All women underwent the experimental procedure during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle, which is associated with increased caloric and fat intake. BED participants ate significantly more than control participants, felt that the meal was a binge to a significantly greater extent, and felt significantly more out of control than control participants. However, contrary to expectations, the BED participants significantly underestimated, not overestimated, the caloric intake of their test meal. Also, regardless of diagnosis, accuracy of pre-meal estimates of calories significantly predicted accuracy of post-meal of calories estimates, and accuracy using cups was much less than accuracy using calories

2018 ASME Student Design Competition - Group T Senior Design Project

The purpose of this project is to create a single soccer playing robot to compete in the 2018 ASME student design competition. The robot, along with spare parts and all other devices must fit inside a 50x50x50 cm box. This robot must be able to traverse the field via remote control and have the ability to control a tennis ball and shoot it with sufficient force