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Designs, Volume 9, Issue 3

2025 June - 25 articles

Cover Story: Ti6Al4V lattices are used in porous scaffolds surgically implanted for the treatment of large bone defects to support the healing process. Functionally graded lattices mimic the features of the human bone, reducing stress shielding. The flexural properties of lattices remain underexplored. The aim of this study is to assess the flexural rigidity of a novel lattice material, namely Triply Arranged Octagonal Rings (TAOR). The effect of different cross-sectional geometries and relative density distributions was assessed, and the results were compared to those of a bone surrogate (BS) for long bones. The TAOR scaffold with its hollow cross-section and low relative density showed promising results by achieving a flexural rigidity close to that of the BS. The results of this study offer valuable insights into the design of porous bone implants. View this paper
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Articles (25)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,045 Views
19 Pages

The Role of Building Geometry in Urban Heat Islands: Case of Doha, Qatar

  • Mohammad Najjar,
  • Madhavi Indraganti and
  • Raffaello Furlan

19 June 2025

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction: Innovations in Design, Engineering, and the Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,950 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,410 Views
21 Pages

1D Finite Element Modeling of Bond-Slip Behavior and Deflection in Reinforced Concrete Flexural Members

  • Rahaf Mohamad,
  • George Wardeh,
  • Mayada Al Ahmad Al Kousa and
  • Ali Jahami

18 June 2025

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction: Innovations in Design, Engineering, and the Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,259 Views
16 Pages

Durability Analysis of a Magneto-Rheological Fluid for Automotive Braking System

  • Giovanni Imberti,
  • Henrique de Carvalho Pinheiro,
  • Matteo De Carlo,
  • Guglielmo Peruzzi and
  • Massimiliana Carello

17 June 2025

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 belongs to the Collection Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Designs of New Generation Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,623 Views
22 Pages

Design and Development of a Low-Power IoT System for Continuous Temperature Monitoring

  • Luis Miguel Pires,
  • João Figueiredo,
  • Ricardo Martins,
  • João Nascimento and
  • José Martins

12 June 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,298 Views
17 Pages

Crash Performance of Additively Manufactured Tapered Tube Crash Boxes: Influence of Material and Geometric Parameters

  • Ahmed Saber,
  • Mehmet Ali Güler,
  • Erdem Acar,
  • Omar Soliman ElSayed and ,
  • Hussain Aldallal,
  • Abdulrahman Alsadi and
  • Yousef Aldousari
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 June 2025

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Studies in Advanced and Selective Manufacturing Technologies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,768 Views
30 Pages

11 June 2025

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 article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction: Innovations in Design, Engineering, and the Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,677 Views
16 Pages

EMM Project—LD GRIDS: Design of a Charged Dust Analyser for Moon Exploration

  • Diego Scaccabarozzi,
  • Abdelrahman Mohamed Ragab M. Ahmed,
  • Andrea Appiani,
  • Bortolino Saggin and ,
  • Carmen Porto and
  • Francesca Esposito
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 June 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,110 Views
24 Pages

Bayesian Optimized of CNN-M-LSTM for Thermal Comfort Prediction and Load Forecasting in Commercial Buildings

  • Chi Nghiep Le,
  • Stefan Stojcevski,
  • Tan Ngoc Dinh,
  • Arangarajan Vinayagam and ,
  • Alex Stojcevski and
  • Jaideep Chandran
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,371 Views
24 Pages

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,598 Views
18 Pages

Image Matching Algorithm for Transmission Towers Based on CLAHE and Improved RANSAC

  • Ruihua Chen,
  • Pan Yao,
  • Shuo Wang,
  • Chuanlong Lyu and
  • Yuge Xu

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...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,164 Views
19 Pages

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Studies in Advanced and Selective Manufacturing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,382 Views
22 Pages

Designing Sustainable Asphalt Pavement Structures with a Cement-Treated Base (CTB) and Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA): A Case Study from a Developing Country

  • Oswaldo Guerrero-Bustamante,
  • Rafael Camargo,
  • Jose Duque,
  • Gilberto Martinez-Arguelles and ,
  • Rodrigo Polo-Mendoza,
  • Carlos Acosta and
  • Michel Murillo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

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 article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction: Innovations in Design, Engineering, and the Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,195 Views
21 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,668 Views
25 Pages

Hybrid Adaptive Sheep Flock Optimization and Gradient Descent Optimization for Energy Management in a Grid-Connected Microgrid

  • Sri Harish Nandigam,
  • Krishna Mohan Reddy Pothireddy,
  • K. Nageswara Rao and
  • Surender Reddy Salkuti

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...

(This article belongs to the Collection Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Smart Energy Systems Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,146 Views
17 Pages

Mechanical Design of a Novel Functionally Graded Lattice Structure for Long Bone Scaffolds

  • Fabio Distefano,
  • Gabriella Epasto,
  • Mahsa Zojaji and
  • Heidi-Lynn Ploeg

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....

(This article belongs to the Section Bioengineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,103 Views
25 Pages

An Efficient Framework for Secure Communication in Internet of Drone Networks Using Deep Computing

  • Vivek Kumar Pandey,
  • Shiv Prakash,
  • Aditya Ranjan,
  • Sudhanshu Kumar Jha and ,
  • Xin Liu and
  • Rajkumar Singh Rathore
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

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...

(This article belongs to the Collection Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Drone Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,771 Views
25 Pages

Blending Nature with Technology: Integrating NBSs with RESs to Foster Carbon-Neutral Cities

  • Anastasia Panori,
  • Nicos Komninos,
  • Dionysis Latinopoulos,
  • Ilektra Papadaki and ,
  • Elisavet Gkitsa and
  • Paraskevi Tarani
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Applications of Positive Energy Districts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,773 Views
20 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,551 Views
29 Pages

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mixture of Human and Machine Intelligence in Digital Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,722 Views
13 Pages

Design of a Knife Mill with a Drying Adaptation for Lignocellulose Biomass Milling: Peapods and Coffee Cherry

  • Paula Andrea Ramírez Cabrera,
  • Alejandra Sophia Lozano Pérez and
  • Carlos Alberto Guerrero Fajardo

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,818 Views
28 Pages

Dual-Level Fault-Tolerant FPGA-Based Flexible Manufacturing System

  • Gehad I. Alkady,
  • Ramez M. Daoud,
  • Hassanein H. Amer,
  • Yves Sallez and
  • Hani F. Ragai

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...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Manufacturing Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,777 Views
24 Pages

A Review of the Performance of Smart Lawnmower Development: Theoretical and Practical Implications

  • Elwin Nesan Selvanesan,
  • Kia Wai Liew,
  • Chai Hua Tay,
  • Jian Ai Yeow and ,
  • Yu Jin Ng,
  • Peng Lean Chong and
  • Chun Quan Kang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,740 Views
23 Pages

29 April 2025

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Approaches in Infrastructure Design, Resilience, and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,665 Views
21 Pages

Modeling and Research of the Process of Bench Tests of Plunger Hydraulic Cylinders with Energy Recovery

  • Alexander Rybak,
  • Besarion Meskhi,
  • Dmitry Rudoy,
  • Anastasiya Olshevskaya and ,
  • Svetlana Teplyakova,
  • Yuliya Serdyukova and
  • Alexey Pelipenko
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 April 2025

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...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Manufacturing Technology)
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