Bulldozing resistance increased on the inner side of the left track, therefore, the slip angles in Figs. 15 and 18, indicate that gyrodometry does not consider slippage, and the position gets longer.
Hence, considering the slippage between the GFRP and concrete may be necessary when accurate deflection estimate is required under the service condition.
Considering the slippage tendency of the fiber tow over the surface, a local stability criterion involving mathematical parameters of the mandrel surface is established, and a general fiber path equation can be formulated.
However, this approach only targets longitudinal slippage during rotation on rigid ground and does not consider other slippage, such as the lateral slippage that occurs while moving straightly.
Likewise, the conventional method only considers longitudinal slippage, and the lateral slippage causes an increase in the position estimation error, especially in Fig. 18.
The formulations are developed to consider the slippage between layers at the interfaces.
Results from the pushover nonlinear static analysis of the towers considering both joint slippage and eccentricity are found in agreement with the experimental results.
Another limitation is that we only recorded data for the UFL, because we aimed only to determine whether IHM could offer better biomechanical performance, considering that graft slippage is more correlated to the characteristics of the tendon itself, which has viscoelastic properties.
