著者

池森 寛 吉村 正美 真崎 精治

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会九州支部講演論文集 2012.65 (ISSN:24242780)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.343-344, 2012-03-16 (Released:2017-06-19)

著者

安田 優佑 荒井 正行

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00150-17-00150, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

20

被引用文献数

1

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Icing is one of important problems that have to be prevented in jet engine of airplane. If thin ice layer deposited on the surface of blade is detached in fight, the debris is scattered and then impacts to a rear stage blade. Such impact of the debris could lead to catastrophic fracture of the blades. Numerical simulation is a powerful tool to understand how the icing is grown and detached. Thus, the icing phenomenon has been focused on the point of view from fluid mechanics. However, fundamental knowledge for mechanical property of ice itself and the adhesion of the ice layer is still very poor. The aim of this study is to examine about the mechanical property including Young's modulus, fracture toughness and adhesive strength at a low temperature. First of all, as a result of bending test on ice, it was found that the Young's modulus and fracture toughness of ice was increased as ambient temperature being low and loading speed being increased. Then, a shear force test was performed using ice/aluminum alloy to evaluate the interfacial fracture toughness as adhesive strength. As a result, the interfacial fracture toughness was decreased as ambient temperature being low and loading speed being increased. Based on those results, it is concluded that the mechanical property and adhesive strength are strongly affected by ambient temperature and loading speed.

著者

八髙 隆雄 坂本 智 大谷 忠 印南 輝久

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00128-17-00128, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

9

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The radiation shielding effects on the gamma ray with the effective energy Ee = 661.7 keV and X-rays with that of Ee = 74 keV and 38 keV were examined by using the tungsten-mesh (W-Mesh) made of the tungsten wires of 18μm and 50μm, as candidate for radiation shielding materials having breathability and flexibility. The results showed that the radiation shield rate “η” of W-Mesh sample material represented by mass “Ma” per unit area was almost the same value as in that of the tungsten plate and the lead plate, excepted for the irradiation of gamma-ray at the range under Ma = 1 kg/m2. The value of η at the region of less than Ma = 0.3 kg/m2 also transited to the negative range on the gamma ray irradiation. Therefore, we found that use of W-mesh in the region of Ma = 0.3 kg/m2 or below should be avoided.

著者

黒崎 晏夫

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学會論文集 (ISSN:00290270)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.36, no.290, pp.1719-1726, 1970-10-25 (Released:2008-03-28)

参考文献数

9

著者

橋本 翔 小俣 弘樹 松永 久生

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.16-00584-16-00584, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

19

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It has been shown that rolling contact fatigue (RCF) test using specimen having a small drilled hole is a useful method for evaluating the effect of small defect on flaking strength of steels. In this study, RCF tests of rolling bearings having a small drilled hole were carried out. The flaking failure was considered as a problem of shear-mode fatigue crack emanating from the small defect. As a first step to quantify the crack-growth threshold on the basis of fracture mechanics, mode II stress intensity factor range, ΔKII, of a ring-shaped crack emanated around the edge of a drilled hole under the passing of a rolling element was analyzed by using finite element method. And then, the obtained values were correlated with the ΔKII values of penny-shaped cracks in an infinite body under uniform shear through the intermediary of a correlation factor, fdrill. The stress intensity factor of the ring-shaped crack was uniformly correlated with that of the penny-shaped crack by the single factor fdrill irrespective of hole diameter, d, depth of hole edge, h’, and maximum contact pressure, qmax, within the ranges: d = 0.05 ~ 0.2 mm, h’ = 0.05 ~ 0.345 mm and qmax = 2.0 ~ 3.0 GPa. The obtained results will be applied for the quantification of RCF test results shown in the subsequent paper.

著者

山本 泰三 廉 本寧 後藤 浩二

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.16-00535-16-00535, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

13

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Fatigue property in gigacycle regime is focused as an important subject in recent years. In such a long-life region, a tremendous long period is required to perform the fatigue tests. In order to overcome this difficulty, special types of fatigue testing machines in rotating bending whose loading type is cantilever bending has been developed. It is known that this type of fatigue machine can be performed much quickly comparing with the tension and compression fatigue testing machines. And these experimental results are consistent with much data obtained by using traditional testing machines like tension and compression fatigue testing machines and the rotating bending fatigue test machines whose loading type is uniform bending named as Ono type, though it is unclear that much data of an ultrasonic fatigue testing machine are consistent with them. Although it prefers to perform the fatigue tests as fast as possible, but the maximum frequency of a rotating bending fatigue test are limited because of the possibility of temperature rise in specimen caused by the cyclic plastic work and the heat transfer from fatigue testing machine. Such local temperature rise might affect the fatigue property. However, the appropriate loading frequency limit is unclear because of the difficulty of the temperature measurement in the fracture portion of a specimen precisely during the rotating bending fatigue test. An in-situ temperature measuring technique is proposed to measure the temperature at the fracture portion of the specimen in real time during the fatigue testing, and the validity to determine the loading frequency of a rotating bending fatigue testing machine is discussed in this study.

著者

小川 雅

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.16-00066-16-00066, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

47

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Statistical predictions of crack propagation are requested to evaluate remaining lifetime of operating welded structures. Today, crack growth rate for each observed crack cannot be evaluated accurately without neutron diffraction and synchrotron X-ray diffraction due to the difficulty of nondestructive measurements of welding residual stresses in the thickness direction. However, it is difficult to apply those nondestructive diffraction methods as on-site measurement techniques because the higher energy diffraction methods are available only in special irradiation facilities. To make things worse, measured results by diffraction methods cannot be directly applied to the FEM (finite element method) model for crack propagation prediction. From this view point, the methods based on the eigenstrain methodology have been proposed. In the bead flush method, for example, three-dimensional welding residual stresses are calculated by an elastic FEM analysis from eigenstrains which can be estimated by the inverse analysis from released strains during the removal of the weld reinforcement. Here, the removal of the excess metal is nondestructive treatment essentially because it is effective to eliminate stress concentration zone. In this study, numerical simulations for a welded pipe under SCC (stress corrosion cracking) were carried out to evaluate crack propagation statistically. As well, estimation accuracies of crack propagation using residual stresses estimated by the bead flush method were compared with the accuracy using residual stresses assumed to be measured by diffraction methods. Prediction accuracies of crack propagation estimated by this method were higher than that by diffraction methods. It is because estimated results base on the eigenstrain methodology satisfy the self-equilibrium condition of residual stress.

著者

山川 淳也 後藤 正人 江藤 亮輔

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00188-17-00188, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

18

被引用文献数

1

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Soil-vehicle interaction is an important factor for predicting trafficability of off-road vehicles. Tractive forces on the wheel to drive the vehicle can be estimated by soil deformation analysis around the contact area of the wheel. Sand deformation and flow under a rolling wheel with slippage were observed from the side through a transparent acrylic wall by 2-dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) method. The flow velocities of sand particles obtained on allocated grids revealed that periodic fluctuations of sand flow make ripple patterns on the sand surface behind the wheel. We discussed the effect of wheel slip ratios on the density of the ripples, sinkage, drawbar pull, torque and the depth of influence for the traveling wheel. The result showed that the slipping wheel forms a ripple with each scratch by the wheel rotation corresponding to the front half contact length with sand. The thickness of sand flow layer under the wheel showed thinner for large slip ratios. The finite element method was also conducted to simulate the traveling wheel experiment to discuss the possibility of the numerical simulation. The result of simulation qualitatively reproduced the experiment. However, there was a quantitative difference on the drawbar pull of the wheel, which shows that the method needs modification on the numerical model.

著者

久代 育生 鈴木 桂輔

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00143-17-00143, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

21

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the effect of vehicle dynamics and steering system parameter on steering feel. The objective evaluation method for on-center and off-center evaluates steering effort, steering torque gradient, torque hysteresis and other values. Steering effort characteristics such as steering torque-steering angle, steering torque-yaw velocity or steering angle-yaw velocity are important properties for steering feel. Therefore the performance design of steering feel should be based on the steering characteristics. For example, some studies focus on the stability factor for steering feel by changing tire performance. However changing stability factor also changes yaw gain (yaw velocity/steering angle) and self-alignment torque (SAT) characteristics. The steering effort and the steering damping are under influenced of vehicle dynamics. The steering system parameters i.e. stiffness of linkages, frictions and setting of power steering (PS), such as assistance curve, damping control and others, also has influences the steering characteristics. Since many parameters are necessary in the detailed model, it is difficult to clarify the effect of each parameter on the steering characteristics. This paper examines the influence of steering system parameters and vehicle dynamics on the steering characteristics analytically and formulates. The model of the investigation consists of bicycles vehicle model and steering system with three frictions, three damping element, steering linkage, PS assistance curve and damping control. These steering system stiffness components and PS assistance torque decrease the effect of the friction or the damping on torque hysteresis. This study assists to understand the effect of the steering system and vehicle dynamics on the steering effort characteristics.

著者

西崎 浩平 毛利 宏

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00137-17-00137, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

1

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Preceding vehicle following control system has been investigated widely. In many previous studies, the vehicular gap is assumed to be short, so the following vehicle can travel stably only by using heading angle toward preceding vehicle. However, the vehicle gap sometimes becomes longer at the complex surroundings such as intersection, so there is a problem that the following vehicle tends to travel along a shortcut path. Therefore, the preceding vehicle trajectory needs to be recognized correctly, but it is impossible because the system can use only current preceding vehicle position. We proposed the algorithm of the preceding vehicle trajectory generation. In the algorithm, the relative preceding vehicle position that is recognized at each period is hold. And each position is converted into the coordinate fixed to the present ego-vehicle. After that point sequence is generated by each position data. By using least squares method, the preceding vehicle point sequence is approximated by a curve line as the preceding vehicle trajectory. By using the trajectory as the target path for course following control, it becomes possible to follow the preceding vehicle regardless of the vehicular gap. Moreover, the validity of the proposed method is confirmed by the experiment conducted with an actual vehicle.

著者

齊藤 亜由子 宮脇 和人 木澤 悟

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00234-17-00234, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

16

被引用文献数

2

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This paper presents a proposed method for center of gravity (COG) velocity estimation during squatting using information obtained from lower limb motion measurements. A squat exercise uses the lower limb joints and the muscles around these joints. The squat exercise velocity changes according to the lower limb muscle activity. Some earlier reports of relevant studies have suggested that muscle weakness and neurological deterioration influence the COG velocity when standing up. Therefore, it is important to clarify the relation between the COG velocity and lower limb motion for efficient training and the prevention of falls among older people. For this study, we constructed a squat velocity model that represents the relation between the COG velocity and lower limb joint power during squatting. Although no joint power indicates each muscle activity in detail, it is possible to estimate muscle activities around the joints approximately by using the joint power. For this experiment, the squat exercise was measured using a 3D motion analysis system. The experiment was conducted for three stance widths. The COG velocity and the lower limb joint powers were calculated using information from the 3D motion analysis system. We estimated the squat velocity model parameters by application of Kalman filter using the measurement information. The analysis results for the squat velocity model indicated a quantitative relation between the COG velocity and the lower limb joint power during squatting. Furthermore, comparable results were obtained from three stance widths. This analytical method is anticipated for use in evaluation of motor function and exercise assisting device design.

著者

内田 豊一 神田 幸治 仁科 健

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00170-17-00170, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

12

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Of all occupational accidents in industries in Japan, the most frequently occurring accidents are falls. In conventional studies on falls, their characteristics have been evaluated by assessing balance on rapidly moving and steeply sloped floorboards considering that the main cause of falls is a decline in balance control. It is speculated that this decline is caused by the development of aging-related muscle weakness. However, resultant trauma to the back of the subject's head could not be replicated in the conventional studies on falls. Therefore, after deriving the physical equation of the fall model, we developed a new equipment for testing falls that simulates a fall consistent with the physical equation. Using this equipment, the test is started by opening a rope toggle, thereby causing the floorboard to suddenly move horizontally and downward at the same time. This equipment could achieve a backward rollover fall that results in hitting the back of the head of the subject, but safely without injury. It was thus possible to confirm that the fall rate was age- and work style-related and there was no relation with height. This study showed that it is possible to identify a decline in balance control as subjects get older using this equipment to execute a falling experience as part of regular safety education. By performing this test regularly, balance control in workers could be assessed and it was also understood that most falls are caused by diminishing balance control. In addition, it would be beneficial if workers exercised on a daily basis to reduce aging-related muscle-weakening effect.

著者

玉田 可南子 北山 哲士 高野 昌宏 合葉 修司

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00209-17-00209, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

1

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In plastic injection molding (PIM), the process parameters such as melt temperature, mold temperature, injection time, and so on strongly affect the energy consumption as well as the product quality. It is preferable to produce plastic products with a small clamping force for the energy consumption. Weldlines, which are formed when two or more melt fronts meet, influence not only the strength of products but also the appearance, so it is preferable to reduce the weldlines as much as possible. In order to reduce the weldlines with the small clamping force, a simultaneous optimization of the process parameters in PIM is performed and the pareto-frontier is identified. The weldline temperature is maximized for the weldlines reduction, whereas the clamping force is minimized. The numerical simulation in PIM is so intensive that a sequential approximate optimization using radial basis function network is adopted. The difference between conformal and conventional cooling channel is also discussed. The numerical result shows that the trade-off between the weldline temperature and the clamping force is clarified and the effectiveness of conformal cooling channel is clarified.

著者

野村 由司彦 樫野 芳明 大池 慧

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.16-00529-16-00529, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

29

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The objective of this study is to develop a novel finger-tactile interface employing “active wheel”: the wheel is rotated around its central axis, and the central axis is swiveled around in a vertical axis with any speeds and duration times. The swivel and the rotation, respectively, result in the direction and the speed of slippage on finger-pad skin. The peripheral surface of the wheel provides the slippage, the skin-stretch, the curvature and the edge stimulus to the finger-pad skin, where the push-in quantity of the wheel peripheral surface into skin is considered to be important for the slippage perception and to be dependent on the wheel thickness. Therefore, for improving the slippage perceptual characteristics, we examined an effect owing to a wheel thickness factor, of which levels are a disc or a drum. In addition, we introduced raised-dots on the wheel peripheral surface: the raised-dot creates a sinkage. The dotted wheel rotation provides a dislocation stimulus of the sinkage, which is expected to be effective for slippage perception. Thus, in order to determine the slippage perceptual characteristics, and to select the better wheel configurations with respect to the wheel-thickness and the raised-dots, psychophysical experiments were conducted by introducing four kinds of wheels: “Dot‣Drum”, “Dot‣Disc”, “Smooth‣Drum” and “Smooth‣Disc” wheel. As a result, we found the followings: (1) Dot‣Drum, i.e., the thick wheel with raised dots, is better than the other three wheels for the systematic errors not for the random errors in length perception, (2) Dot‣Drum and Dot‣Disc, i.e., the two dotted wheels are better than the other two smooth wheels for the random errors not for the systematic errors in direction perception.

著者

広瀬 智史 都井 裕

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00130-17-00130, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

23

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A discontinuous material behavior such as ductile fracture and fatigue failure is predicted actively in various fields by FEM. There is continuum damage mechanics as a method to evaluate the discontinuous material behavior in a framework of continuum mechanics. However, the predicted behavior based on the method depends strongly on finite element size. Then, improvement of damage evolution equation and damage limit equation in continuum damage mechanics is discussed to reduce the mesh-dependence. These equations are extended based on finite element size and evaluated strain gradient. The predicted material property such as fracture strain in tensile test based on new equations corresponds to experimental result. Additionally, the prediction accuracy is higher than conventional mesh-independence model. Especially, the higher the tensile strength of material is, the higher the prediction accuracy is.

著者

宮村 倫司

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00070-17-00070, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

24

被引用文献数

1

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The balancing domain decomposition (BDD) method is an effective preconditioner for the substructuring-based iterative solver, which is a kind of the domain decomposition method. The BDD method is a powerful tool for the large-scale implicit structural analysis using the finite element method. It is a kind of the multi-grid method whose coarse grid is defined by the null spaces in subdomain problems. Shioya et al. proposed a method to construct the null spaces for the structural analysis using the rigid body modes of each subdomain. In the present study, the Shioya's method is improved, that is, the rigid body modes are defined using a local coordinate system of each subdomain instead of using the global coordinate system. In the original method, components with very different values are contained in the prolongation and restriction matrices that are used for making the coarse grid stiffness matrix. The proposed method reduces the difference of the values and improves the property of the coarse-grid stiffness matrix. In the numerical experiments, the proposed method reduces computation time and amount of used memory when the coarse grid problem is solved by a sparse direct solver with the pivoting. In addition, the convergence property of the CG method is improved in some numerical examples.

著者

松崎 健一郎 劉 孝宏 末岡 淳男 塚本 恵三 眞方山 航平

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00155-17-00155, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

7

被引用文献数

1

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Reaming is a finishing process to be performed in order to improve the accuracy of the prepared hole drilled. In this process, a chatter vibration often occurs and the drilled hole is deformed in a polygonal shape. This polygonal deformation phenomenon becomes a problem in quality control of products, because of decrease in the precision of the borehole. Although a countermeasure by irregular tooth spacing is proposed and the prevention effect is confirmed, the mechanism has not been clarified yet. In this paper, the generating mechanism of the polygonal deformation is considered to be a self-excited vibration caused by time delay. A simple analytical model is proposed, and the stability of the self-excited vibration is analyzed numerically. The numerical result agrees well with the actual phenomenon qualitatively. Furthermore, the effect of irregular tooth spacing on the stability of the self-excited vibration is evaluated numerically.

著者

加藤 隆一 池田 隆 原田 祐志

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00109-17-00109, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

1

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This paper investigates the free vibrations of double beams, consisting of upper and lower beams, which are discretely connected by N springs. In the theoretical analysis, the modal analysis approach is employed to determine the expressions for the natural frequencies and vibrational modes of the system. In the numerical calculation, two cases, Cases A and B, are examined. In Case A, the two beams are connected by a single spring, while in Case B they are connected by two springs. In Case A, when the two beams have identical materials and dimensions, as the spring constant K1 increases, the natural frequencies of the odd-order vibrational modes are constant because the two beams vibrate in phase in their vibrational modes and the connecting spring is not stretched. The natural frequencies of the even-order vibrational modes are increased with the increase of K1 because the two beams vibrate out of phase. When the spring is attached at the middle of the beams, the natural frequencies p4n-1 (n=1, 2, …) equal p4n. In addition, when K1 reaches the specific values K1,n in this case, a set of three natural frequencies satisfies p4n-2=p4n-1=p4n, and a magnitude relationship of the natural frequencies is switched when K1 crosses the value K1,n. In Case B, when two springs are attached in symmetry with respect to the midpoints of the beams, a set of two natural frequencies satisfies p2n=p2n+1 for the specific values of the spring constants even if the springs are not attached to the positions of the nodes of the independent beams. The validity of the theoretical analysis was confirmed by comparing the theoretical results with the results obtained by the FEM analysis for Case A.

著者

津坂 優子 ダーラリベラ ファビオ 岡崎 安直 山本 正樹 横小路 泰義

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00058-17-00058, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

18

被引用文献数

4

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This paper proposes a method for assisting standing-up by a robot that utilizes patients' own power to their extent while allowing them to stand up easily. Analyzing the skills of physiotherapists, we extracted two skills that assist patients in standing up by themselves, (1) promoting a forward-bending posture by making their upper body close to a single rigid body, through stretching their back and anteverting their pelvis, and (2) providing minimal balance so the patient does not fall down. In order to implement these skills, we propose (1) a body holder to hold the patient's upper body which reinforces a natural forward-bending posture, and (2) a horizontal position and vertical force assist control system which guides position control in the horizontal direction and assists with exerting force through force control in the vertical direction. We also propose a velocity-switching method as a simplified implementation of the physiotherapist skill. We built a prototype assist robot, which is compact and movable, aiming at the commercialization of standing-up motion assist robots. We implemented the skills of physiotherapists to this prototype robot and confirmed the validity of these skills. We detail the relationship among robot's speed, forces acting on the robot's user and muscular activation. From the results of this analysis we derive indications on the speed appropriate for assisting the sit-to-stand movement.

著者

深沢 剛司 岡村 茂樹 山本 智彦 川崎 信史 稲葉 学 杣木 孝裕 鮫島 祐介 正木 信男

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.852, pp.17-00050-17-00050, 2017 (Released:2017-08-25)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

2

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This paper describes design formulas and creep characteristics for thick rubber bearing applied to the Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor, which are based on the static loading test and creep test using scale models. The thick rubber bearing, which has a rubber layer roughly two times thicker in comparison with conventional rubber bearings, has been developed by the authors to ensure seismic safety margins for components by reducing the seismic response for the reactor building in the horizontal direction and vertical direction. The static loading tests using a scale model with parameter of first shape factor were conducted to investigate the applicability of proposed design formulas. Moreover, an estimation of creep characteristics due to aging is important issue because the rubber layer of thick rubber bearing which satisfies the design requirement for SFR is larger than conventional rubber layer. The creep test was preformed to estimate the creep characteristics using a scale model. From the above results, the thick rubber bearing is sufficiently rational for use as isolation system for SFR.