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Muscle Fatigue Analysis Using OpenSim
In this research, attempts are made to conduct concrete muscle fatigue
analysis of arbitrary motions on OpenSim, a digital human modeling platform. A
plug-in is written on the base of a muscle fatigue model, which makes it
possible to calculate the decline of force-output capability of each muscle
along time. The plug-in is tested on a three-dimensional, 29 degree-of-freedom
human model. Motion data is obtained by motion capturing during an arbitrary
running at a speed of 3.96 m/s. Ten muscles are selected for concrete analysis.
As a result, the force-output capability of these muscles reduced to 60%-70%
after 10 minutes' running, on a general basis. Erector spinae, which loses
39.2% of its maximal capability, is found to be more fatigue-exposed than the
others. The influence of subject attributes (fatigability) is evaluated and
discussed
Nearly Mass-Degenerate Majorana Neutrinos: Double Beta Decay and Neutrino Oscillations
Assuming equal tree-level Majorana masses for the standard-model neutrinos,
either from the canonical seesaw mechanism or from a heavy scalar triplet, I
discuss how their radiative splitting may be relevant to neutrinoless double
beta decay and neutrino oscillations.Comment: 12 pages, including 4 figures, talk at NANP9
Human Arm simulation for interactive constrained environment design
During the conceptual and prototype design stage of an industrial product, it
is crucial to take assembly/disassembly and maintenance operations in advance.
A well-designed system should enable relatively easy access of operating
manipulators in the constrained environment and reduce musculoskeletal disorder
risks for those manual handling operations. Trajectory planning comes up as an
important issue for those assembly and maintenance operations under a
constrained environment, since it determines the accessibility and the other
ergonomics issues, such as muscle effort and its related fatigue. In this
paper, a customer-oriented interactive approach is proposed to partially solve
ergonomic related issues encountered during the design stage under a
constrained system for the operator's convenience. Based on a single objective
optimization method, trajectory planning for different operators could be
generated automatically. Meanwhile, a motion capture based method assists the
operator to guide the trajectory planning interactively when either a local
minimum is encountered within the single objective optimization or the operator
prefers guiding the virtual human manually. Besides that, a physical engine is
integrated into this approach to provide physically realistic simulation in
real time manner, so that collision free path and related dynamic information
could be computed to determine further muscle fatigue and accessibility of a
product designComment: International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing
(IJIDeM) (2012) 1-12. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1012.432
Assessing Ageing Condition of Mineral Oil-Paper Insulation by Polarization/Depolarization Current
Accurately assessing the ageing status of oil-paper insulation in transformer is essential and important. Polarization and Depolarization Current (PDC) technique is effective in assessing the condition of oil-paper insulation system. Though the PDC behaviour of mineral oil-paper insulation has been widely investigated, there is no report about how to make the quantitative analysis of mineral oil-paper insulation ageing condition by PDC. The PDC characteristics of mineral oil-paper insulation samples were investigated over the ageing period at 110°C. A new method for assessing the ageing condition of mineral oil-paper insulation by calculating the depolarization charge quantity was proposed. Results show that the depolarization charge quantity of mineral oil-paper insulation sample is very sensitive to its ageing condition. The stable depolarization charge quantity could be used to predict the ageing condition of mineral oil-paper insulation
Decay of Ultralight Axion Condensates
Axion particles can form macroscopic condensates, whose size can be galactic
in scale for models with very small axion masses eV, and which
are sometimes referred to under the name of Fuzzy Dark Matter. Many analyses of
these condensates are done in the non-interacting limit, due to the weakness of
the self-interaction coupling of axions. We investigate here how certain
results change upon inclusion of these interactions, finding a decreased
maximum mass and a modified mass-radius relationship. Further, these
condensates are, in general, unstable to decay through number-changing
interactions. We analyze the stability of galaxy-sized condensates of
axion-like particles, and sketch the parameter space of stable configurations
as a function of a binding energy parameter. We find a strong lower bound on
the size of Fuzzy Dark Matter condensates which are stable to decay, with
lifetimes longer than the age of the universe.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figures. v2: Added brief discussion of angular momentum;
extended Appendix A; typos correcte
Thermal effects on lattice strain in hcp Fe under pressure
We compute the c/a lattice strain versus temperature for nonmagnetic hcp iron
at high pressures using both first-principles linear response quasiharmonic
calculations based on the full potential linear-muffin-tin-orbital (LMTO)
method and the particle-in-cell (PIC) model for the vibrational partition
function using a tight-binding total-energy method. The tight-binding model
shows excellent agreement with the all-electron LMTO method. When hcp structure
is stable, the calculated geometric mean frequency and Helmholtz free energy of
hcp Fe from PIC and linear response lattice dynamics agree very well, as does
the axial ratio as a function of temperature and pressure. On-site
anharmonicity proves to be small up to the melting temperature, and PIC gives a
good estimate of its sign and magnitude. At low pressures, hcp Fe becomes
dynamically unstable at large c/a ratios, and the PIC model might fail where
the structure approaches lattice instability. The PIC approximation describes
well the vibrational behavior away from the instability, and thus is a
reasonable approach to compute high temperature properties of materials. Our
results show significant differences from earlier PIC studies, which gave much
larger axial ratio increases with increasing temperature, or reported large
differences between PIC and lattice dynamics results.Comment: 9 figure
Anomalous Pinning Fields in Helical Magnets: Screening of the Quasiparticle Interaction
The spin-orbit interaction strength g_so in helical magnets determines both
the pitch wave number q and the critical field H_c1 where the helix aligns with
an external magnetic field. Within a standard Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson (LGW)
theory, a determination of g_so in MnSi and FeGe from these two observables
yields values that differ by a factor of 20. This discrepancy is remedied by
considering the fermionic theory underlying the LGW theory, and in particular
the effects of screening on the effective electron-electron interaction that
results from an exchange of helical fluctuations.Comment: 4pp, 2 fig
A refined invariant subspace method and applications to evolution equations
The invariant subspace method is refined to present more unity and more
diversity of exact solutions to evolution equations. The key idea is to take
subspaces of solutions to linear ordinary differential equations as invariant
subspaces that evolution equations admit. A two-component nonlinear system of
dissipative equations was analyzed to shed light on the resulting theory, and
two concrete examples are given to find invariant subspaces associated with
2nd-order and 3rd-order linear ordinary differential equations and their
corresponding exact solutions with generalized separated variables.Comment: 16 page
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