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Theoretical and Experimental Study of a Rectangular Grooved Pocketed Air Pad

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Advances in Italian Mechanism Science

Part of the book series: Mechanisms and Machine Science ((Mechan. Machine Science,volume 47))

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In this work, a numerical lumped model is developed to simulate static characteristics of an externally pressurized grooved air pad. In addition, an experimental study is performed with one sample pad to evaluate the accuracy of the model.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Federico Colombo, Danial Ghodsiyeh, Terenziano Raparelli, Andrea Trivella & Vladimir Viktorov

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Correspondence to Andrea Trivella .

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    Giovanni Boschetti

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Colombo, F., Ghodsiyeh, D., Raparelli, T., Trivella, A., Viktorov, V. (2017). Theoretical and Experimental Study of a Rectangular Grooved Pocketed Air Pad. In: Boschetti, G., Gasparetto, A. (eds) Advances in Italian Mechanism Science. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48375-7_46

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