{"id":79,"date":"2015-12-03T18:16:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-12-03T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T18:16:48","slug":"dr-brian-trease-boards-the-g-force-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/2015\/12\/03\/dr-brian-trease-boards-the-g-force-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Brian Trease boards the G-Force One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-85 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/11232015-7362a-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"11232015-7362a-2\" width=\"142\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/11232015-7362a-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/11232015-7362a-2-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/>Dr. Brian Trease of the Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering Department traveled to Melbourne, FL to conduct micro-gravity experiments on\u00a0the G-Force One aircraft in November.<\/p>\n<p>You can view his video from the\u00a0G-Force One <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5Sfl6_xwmac\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5Sfl6_xwmac\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.48.30-AM-300x167.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-03 at 11.48.30 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.48.30-AM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.48.30-AM-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.48.30-AM.png 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working with partners at MIT and Caltech, the crew flew a soil-mechanics experiment to gain kowledge of\u00a0how soil and sand interactions occur in partial and near-zero gravity in the area of study\u00a0known as xTerramechanics. Aboard\u00a0the G-Force One, Dr. Trease and crew experienced five rounds of lunar and Martian gravity, followed by twenty rounds of complete weightlessness in zero-gravity, with each round lasting about twenty-five seconds.\u00a0This research will help build better simulation tools that NASA can use in the design and planning of missions to comets, asteroids, and small moons.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trease is a new professor at UT; these experiments are <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.44.42-AM-300x146.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-03 at 11.44.42 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.44.42-AM-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.44.42-AM-1024x497.png 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.44.42-AM.png 1268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>part of the research he started while working at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab.<\/p>\n<p>The field of xTerramechanics explores the interaction of hardware and the natural surfaces of extraterrestrial bodies.\u00a0 These interactions include landing, anchoring, mobility, digging, drilling, sampling, and more.\u00a0Dr. Trease&#8217;s\u00a0particular experiment studied the development of shear bands under varying levels of gravity.\u00a0The research was made possible by\u00a0support from the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS), and the flight was provided\u00a0by Zero Gravity Corporation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.59.54-AM-300x150.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-03 at 11.59.54 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.59.54-AM-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.59.54-AM-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-03-at-11.59.54-AM.png 1268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Brian Trease of the Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering Department traveled to Melbourne, FL to conduct micro-gravity experiments on\u00a0the G-Force One aircraft in November. You can view his video from the\u00a0G-Force One here. Working with partners at MIT and Caltech, the crew flew a soil-mechanics experiment to gain kowledge of\u00a0how soil and sand interactions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}