Organizing Joint Forces for Information Operations: The Viability of a Joint Force Information Operations Component Commander

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Seinwill
1975 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cemil Bagci

Analysis of response of determinate plane mechanisms to known driving input force, or input torque, via the joint force analysis is presented. Coulomb damping and viscous damping forces in the pair bearings are included. Equations of dynamic equilibrium are solved for the components of the normal joint forces and for the motion of the mechanism as initial-value problems. The rotation of the resultant joint force, due to the fact that the pair member on a link is the inner member or the outer member of the pair, is considered by defining a generalized Coulomb damping force. Links of the mechanisms are considered rigid. The plane 4R and slider-crank switch mechanisms are investigated. Explicit solutions and numerical examples are given.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Wu ◽  
Binbin Zhang ◽  
Liping Wang

The paper deals with the evaluation of acceleration of redundant and nonredundant parallel manipulators. The dynamic model of three degrees-of-freedom (3DOF) parallel manipulator is derived by using the virtual work principle. Based on the dynamic model, a measure is proposed for the acceleration evaluation of the redundant parallel manipulator and its nonredundant counterpart. The measure is designed on the basis of the maximum acceleration of the mobile platform when one actuated joint force is unit and other actuated joint forces are less than or equal to a unit force. The measure for evaluation of acceleration can be used to evaluate the acceleration of both redundant parallel manipulators and nonredundant parallel manipulators. Furthermore, the acceleration of the 4-PSS-PU parallel manipulator and its nonredundant counterpart are compared.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua T. Weinhandl ◽  
Bobbie S. Irmischer ◽  
Zachary A. Sievert

Alterations in hip joint loading have been associated with diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis. Understanding the relationship between gait speed and hip joint loading in healthy hips may illuminate changes in gait mechanics as walking speed deviates from preferred. The purpose of this study was to quantify hip joint loading during the gait cycle and identify differences with varying speed using musculoskeletal modeling. Ten, healthy, physically active individuals performed walking trials at their preferred speed, 10% faster, and 10% slower. Kinematic, kinetic, and electromyographic data were collected and used to estimate hip joint force via a musculoskeletal model. Vertical ground reaction forces, hip joint force planar components, and the resultant hip joint force were compared between speeds. There were significant increases in vertical ground reaction forces and hip joint forces as walking speed increased. Furthermore, the musculoskeletal modeling approach employed yielded hip joint forces that were comparable to previous simulation studies and in vivo measurements and was able to detect changes in hip loading due to small deviations in gait speed. Applying this approach to pathological and aging populations could identify specific areas within the gait cycle where force discrepancies may occur which could help focus management of care.


1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
J C Barbenel

An analysis is presented of the force actions at the temporomandibular joint and in the muscles of mastication during biting. The resulting equations cannot be solved in order to determine the muscle and joint forces because the number of unknown quantities exceeds the number of equations. Solutions are obtained which minimize either the total force produced by the muscles of mastication or the force at the temporo-mandibular joint. It is shown that the predictions of muscle action obtained from these solutions are at variance with the muscles shown to be active experimentally. The limitations of the application of optimization procedures to redundant problems associated with muscle and joint force analyses are discussed.


Author(s):  
Saad Mukras ◽  
Nate Mauntler ◽  
Nam Ho Kim ◽  
Tony Schmitz ◽  
W. Gregory Sawyer

A study of how joint wear affects the kinematics of a simple slider-crank mechanism and in turn how change in kinematics of the mechanism affects the joint wear is presented. The coupling between joint wear and system kinematics is modeled by integrating a wear prediction process, built upon a widely used finite-element-based iterative scheme, with the dynamic model that has an imperfect joint whose kinematics changes progressively according to joint wear. Three different modeling techniques are presented based on different assumptions, and their performances are compared in terms of joint forces and wear depths. It turns out that the joint wear increases the joint force and accelerates the wear progress. The accuracy of integrated dynamic model is validated by measuring joint force and wear depth of the slider-crank mechanism. Details of instrumentation are also presented.


2004 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Ouyang ◽  
W. J. Zhang

Force balancing is a very important issue in mechanism design and has only recently been introduced to the design of robotic mechanisms. In this paper, a force balancing method called adjusting kinematic parameters (AKP) for robotic mechanisms or real-time controllable (RTC) mechanisms is proposed, as opposed to force balancing methods, e.g., the counterweights (CW) method. Both the working principle of the AKP method and the design equation with which to construct a force balanced mechanism are described in detail. A particular implementation of the AKP method for the RTC mechanisms where two pivots on a link are adjustable is presented. A comparison of the two methods, namely the AKP method and the CW method, is made for two RTC mechanisms with different mass distribution. The joint forces and torques are calculated for the trajectory tracking of the RTC mechanisms. The result shows that the AKP method is consistently better than the CW method in terms of the reduction of the joint forces and the torques in the servomotors, and the smoothing of the fluctuation of the joint force.


The human lower limb is a major part of the human body that is exposed to high joint load during daily activities. Different lifestyles and cultural activities can affect the loading condition generated at the joint during motion. For instance, deep squatting is more frequently performed by Asians compared to Europeans e.g. kneeing on tatami among Japanese and sitting position during prayer among Muslims. The aim of this research is to determine the joint load of the human lower limb during the squat lifting movement by using inverse dynamics of 2-dimensional (2D) human lower limb model. The 2D inverse dynamics modelling was used to describe and compute all the joint force reactions from the known ground reaction and lower limb kinematics. In this study, 2D human lower limb model was analysed during the squat lifting movement. Inverse dynamics computation was performed using MATLAB programming based on Newton-Euler equations to determine the joint forces and moments. The joint loads at ankle, knee and hip joints for every knee flexion angle were obtained and the maximum forces at the ankle, knee and hip were 613.9, 614.1 and 596.1 N, respectively.


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