This paper summarizes the modeling, simulation, and testing work related to the development of technology to investigate the potential that shape memory actuation has to provide mechanically simple and affordable solutions ...

The proposed Small Solar Probe mission features a close approach to the sun with a perihelion of 4 radii. Carbon molecules emitted from the spacecraft's heat shield will become ionized by electron impact and photoionization. ...

The primary mirror segment aberrations after shape corrections with warping harness have been identified as the single largest error term in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) image quality error budget. In order to better ...

The seasonal freezing and thawing of Earth’s cryosphere (the portion of Earth’s surface permanently or seasonally frozen) has an immense impact on Earth’s climate as well as on its water, carbon and energy cycles. During ...

The Ru-Sb phase diagram is not available and very little informations is known about this system

We report on the Harada hand, a 5 degree of freedom (DOF) robotic hand designed and constructed by Harada Electric Industry Inc. of Japan.

A computational method was devised to explore the relationship between charge separation, geometry, molecular dipole moment, polarizability, and hyperpolarizabilities in comjugated organic molecules. It is shown that bond ...