Designs, Volume 9, Issue 3

The increase in temperature in the built environment impedes the utilization of outdoor amenities and non-motorized transportation by residents of Arabian Gulf cities throughout the prolonged hot season. The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon, denote...

Barium stannate (BaSnO₃) has emerged as a promising alternative electron transport material owing to its superior electron mobility, resistance to UV degradation, and energy bandgap tunability, yet BaSnO₃-based perovskite solar cells have not reached...

The serviceability limit state (SLS) is a crucial aspect of structural design, ensuring that reinforced concrete structures perform satisfactorily under everyday loading conditions without excessive deflections, vibrations, or cracking that could com...

The automotive market is looking for innovative braking solutions that can mitigate or eliminate secondary emissions. For this reason, new braking paradigms have been developed, and magnetorheological brakes could be considered a suitable solution du...

This article presents the development of a compact, high-precision, and energy-efficient temperature monitoring system designed for tracking applications where continuous and accurate thermal monitoring is essential. Built around the HY0020 System-on...

Crash boxes play a crucial role in mitigating force during vehicle collisions by absorbing impact energy. Additive manufacturing (AM), particularly Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), has emerged as a promising method for their fabrication due to its de...

The alkali–silica reaction (ASR) is a critical concern for concrete durability, yet its assessment remains challenging and directly impacts mixture design decisions. This review shows that the inconsistencies are more prevalent in mitigation evaluati...

This work presents a comparative design of the sensing elements for the Lunar Dust GRID System (LD GRIDS), a dust analyser conceived to measure charged particles on future lunar missions. LD GRIDS replaces traditional electrodes with continuous condu...

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems account for 60% of the energy consumption in commercial buildings. Each year, millions of dollars are spent on electricity bills by commercial building operators. To address this energy consum...

A barrier to the adoption of floating offshore wind turbines is their high cost relative to conventional fixed-bottom wind turbines. The largest contributor to this cost disparity is generally the floating substructure, due to its large size and comp...

To address the lack of robustness against illumination and blurring variations in aerial images of transmission towers, an improved image matching algorithm for aerial images is proposed. The proposed algorithm consists of two main components: an enh...

Atomic diffusion additive manufacturing (ADAM) is a specialized extrusion-based metal additive manufacturing (MAM) process where metal parts are produced through a three-stage process of printing, de-binding and sintering. Several scientific facts, s...

Pavement structures are one of the most critical civil infrastructures for the socio-economic development of communities. However, pavement construction demands an elevated financial budget and generates large amounts of environmental impacts. Accord...

This paper presents a novel algorithm, Variable Spacing and Extrusion (VaSE), designed to optimize the infill pattern of material extrusion (ME) 3D-printed parts for specified mechanical performance while ensuring manufacturability. The algorithm adj...

Distributed generation has emerged as a viable solution to supplement traditional grid problems and lessen their negative effects on the environment worldwide. Nevertheless, distributed generation issues are unpredictable and intermittent and impede...

Open-cellular Ti6Al4V lattice structures have found application in porous scaffolds that can match the properties of human bone, which consists of a dense cortical shell and a less-dense cancellous core with an apparent density ranging from 1.3 to 2....

The rapid deployment of the Internet of Drones (IoD) across different fields has brought forth enormous security threats in real-time data communication. To overcome authentication vulnerabilities, this paper introduces a secure lightweight framework...

Nature-based solutions (NBSs) offer a promising framework for addressing urban environmental challenges while also enhancing social and economic resilience. As cities seek to achieve carbon neutrality, the integration of NBSs with renewable energy so...

X5CrNi18-10 is becoming highly popular due to its excellent properties like corrosion resistance and high toughness. These properties make it difficult to machine and reach a surface finish with high precision and class accuracy, which the automotive...

This research represents a corresponding and developed specialized impact factors reverse analysis method for software complexes’ support automation; it is intended for the analysis of impact factors affecting the supported software’s (or...

Effective grinding of residual agricultural materials helps to improve yield in the production of chemical compounds through hydrothermal technology. Milling pretreatment has different types of pre-treatment where ball mills, roller mills, and finall...

This paper proposes a fault-tolerant flexible manufacturing system (FMS) that features a dual-level fault tolerance mechanism at both the workcell and system levels to enhance reliability. The workcell controller was implemented on a Field Programmab...

Smart lawnmowers are becoming increasingly integrated into daily life as their performance continues to improve. To ensure consistent advancement, it is important to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the performance of various modern smart lawnmowe...

Desiccation-induced cracking in clay soils significantly affects the structural performance and durability of geotechnical systems. This study presents a data-driven approach to predict the Crack and Shrinkage Intensity Factor (CSIF), a comprehensive...

The practice of operating hydraulic machines and equipment shows that failures can occur earlier than the specified lifespan. At the same time, at the stage of carrying out strength calculations of the designed machines and equipment, significant saf...