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Eric Brown
Researcher at Yale University
Publications - 76
Citations - 7003
Eric Brown is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dilatant & Rayleigh–Bénard convection. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 76 publications receiving 5885 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric Brown include University of Chicago & University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material
Eric Brown,Nicholas Rodenberg,John R. Amend,Annan Michael Mozeika,E. Steltz,Mitchell R. Zakin,Hod Lipson,Heinrich M. Jaeger +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that volume changes of less than 0.5% suffice to grip objects reliably and hold them with forces exceeding many times their weight, and opens up new possibilities for the design of simple, yet highly adaptive systems that excel at fast gripping of complex objects.
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A Positive Pressure Universal Gripper Based on the Jamming of Granular Material
TL;DR: A simple passive universal gripper, consisting of a mass of granular material encased in an elastic membrane, that can rapidly grip and release a wide range of objects that are typically challenging for universal grippers, such as flat objects, soft objects, or objects with complex geometries is described.
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Shear thickening in concentrated suspensions: phenomenology, mechanisms and relations to jamming
Eric Brown,Heinrich M. Jaeger +1 more
TL;DR: This review discusses the common physical properties of systems exhibiting shear thickening, and different mechanisms and models proposed to describe it, and suggests how these mechanisms may be related and generalized, and proposes a general phase diagram for shear Thickening systems.
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Generality of shear thickening in dense suspensions
Eric Brown,Nicole A. Forman,Nicole A. Forman,Carlos Orellana,Hanjun Zhang,Benjamin W. Maynor,Douglas E. Betts,Joseph M. DeSimone,Joseph M. DeSimone,Heinrich M. Jaeger +9 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that shear thickening can be masked by a yield stress and can be recovered when the yield stress is decreased below a threshold, which opens up possibilities for the design of smart suspensions that combine shear Thickening with electro- or magnetorheological response.
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The role of dilation and confining stresses in shear thickening of dense suspensions
Eric Brown,Heinrich M. Jaeger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors distinguish Discontinuous Shear Thickening from inertial effects by showing that the latter are characterized by a Reynolds number but are only found for lower packing fractions and higher shear rates than the former.