Rechargeable batteries are usually charged by applied voltage. Here we demonstrate that mechanical bending can charge a thin-film lithium ion battery and removing the bending discharges the battery. Bending and relaxation (or bending in the opposite direction) thus realizes mechanically rechargeable battery, or more generally, mechanical energy harvester.
What should be expected when an elastic rod is forced to slip inside a sliding sleeve and against an obstacle?
After buckling, configurational forces play a strong role, so that a force reversal is observed!
Enjoy the injection of an elastic rod at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/injection.html
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION at Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington.
On behalf of the International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M, we would like to announce the 5th Summer School on Computational Materials Science Across Scales. The 2016 IIMEC Summer School will be held from July 18 to July 29, 2016 on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas.
TURBOdesign Suite has been used by many companies to increase the efficiency, pressure rise, and flow characteristics of their axial fans. In this free 1 hour webinar we will demonstrate the simple design processes which allow very high fan performance to be obtained with TURBOdesign Suite reliably, quickly and easily.
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Phase-transforming and switchable metamaterials
Dian Yang, Lihua Jin, Ramses V Martinez, Katia Bertoldi, George M Whitesides, Zhigang Suo
