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15 September 2023

This research presents an innovative methodology for accurately predicting spring-back tendencies in V-bending of SS400 steel sheets under elevated temperatures. The study leverages extensive tensile test data to determine parameters for pure isotrop...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,073 Views
12 Pages

28 September 2019

Hybrid composites in which a CR980 metal plate was bonded on carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) were prepared. Hybrid composites were two types of CFRP/CR980 hybrid composites and CR980/CFRP hybrid composites. The properties of the hybrid composi...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,558 Views
37 Pages

A Comparative Evaluation of Third-Generation Advanced High-Strength Steels for Automotive Forming and Crash Applications

  • Jacqueline Noder,
  • Jon Edward Gutierrez,
  • Amir Zhumagulov,
  • James Dykeman,
  • Hesham Ezzat and
  • Clifford Butcher

31 August 2021

While the third generation of advanced high-strength steels (3rd Gen AHSS) have increasingly gained attention for automotive lightweighting, it remains unclear to what extent the developed methodologies for the conventional dual-phase (DP) steels are...

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  • Open Access
305 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2025

Understanding the microstructure–property relationship in aluminum extrusions is crucial to leverage their potential in automotive lightweighting. The sensitivity of the processing history to the microstructure and through-thickness variations...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,650 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Surface Roughness on the Bonding Strength and Spring-Back of a CFRP/CR980 Hybrid Composite

  • Ji Hoon Hwang,
  • Chul Kyu Jin,
  • Min Sik Lee,
  • Su Won Choi and
  • Chung Gil Kang

12 September 2018

Carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP), which is a light and composite material, has a higher specific strength and stiffness than metal materials. However, owing to its low elongation, it is vulnerable to local impacts such as collision. Therefore,...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,929 Views
33 Pages

3 June 2020

This paper presents a comparison of the impact of milling technology in the computer numerically controlled (CNC) machining centre and selective laser sintering (SLS) and on the structure and properties of solid Ti6Al4V alloy. It has been shown that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,417 Views
16 Pages

Fracture Behavior of Single-Crystal Sapphire in Different Crystal Orientations

  • Shizhan Huang,
  • Jiaming Lin,
  • Ningchang Wang,
  • Bicheng Guo,
  • Feng Jiang,
  • Qiuling Wen and
  • Xizhao Lu

11 August 2021

In order to study the anisotropy of fracture toughness and fracture mechanism of single-crystal sapphire, the three-point bending tests and the single-edge V-notch beam (SEVNB) were used to test the fracture toughness of A-plane, C-plane, and M-plane...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,793 Views
11 Pages

The Performance of 3D Printed Polymer Tools in Sheet Metal Forming

  • Fabio Tondini,
  • Alberto Basso,
  • Ulfar Arinbjarnar and
  • Chris Valentin Nielsen

9 August 2021

Additively manufactured polymer tools are evaluated for use in metal forming as prototype tools and in the attempt to make sheet metal more attractive to small production volumes. Printing materials, strategies and accuracies are presented before the...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,756 Views
11 Pages

Bending Properties of Mg Alloy Tailored Arc-Heat-Treated Blanks

  • Daxin Ren,
  • Fanyu Zeng,
  • Liming Liu and
  • Kunmin Zhao

25 March 2019

Tailored heat-treated blank is a special kind of sheet, and the plastic forming ability can be improved. In this work, the poor room-temperature plasticity of a tailored magnesium alloy blank was address through arc heat treatment. The formability of...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,865 Views
10 Pages

Unusual Spreading of Strain Neutral Layer in AZ31 Magnesium Alloy Sheet during Bending

  • Chao He,
  • Lintao Liu,
  • Shengwen Bai,
  • Bin Jiang,
  • Hang Teng,
  • Guangsheng Huang,
  • Dingfei Zhang and
  • Fusheng Pan

12 December 2022

In this work, we reported an unusual phenomenon of strain neutral layer (SNL) spreading in an as-rolled AZ31B magnesium alloy sheet during V-bending. The SNL on the middle symmetrical surface perpendicular to the transverse direction (TD) of the shee...

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  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,468 Views
14 Pages

19 September 2017

Elastic recovery of the material, called springback, is one of the problems in sheet metal forming of drawpieces, especially with a complex shape. The springback can be influenced by various technological, geometrical, and material parameters. In thi...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,896 Views
13 Pages

23 March 2022

This paper investigates the reduction of springback by an electrically single-pulsed current for an ultra-high-strength martensitic steel sheet, MART1470 1.2t. In order to evaluate the springback reduction by the electric current, V-bending tests wer...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,026 Views
21 Pages

Pressure Losses in Multiple-Elbow Paths and in V-Bends of Hydraulic Manifolds

  • Barbara Zardin,
  • Giovanni Cillo,
  • Massimo Borghi,
  • Alessandro D’Adamo and
  • Stefano Fontanesi

7 June 2017

Hydraulic manifolds are used to realize compact circuit layouts, but may introduce high pressure losses in the system because their design is usually oriented to achieving minimum size and weight more than reducing the pressure losses. The purpose of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,817 Views
16 Pages

An Infrared Local-Heat-Assisted Cold Stamping Process for Martensitic Steel and Application to an Auto Part

  • Ki-Young Kim,
  • Eun-Ho Lee,
  • Soo-Hyun Park,
  • Youn-Hee Kang,
  • Jong-Youn Park,
  • Hyoun-Young Lee,
  • Chang Ho Moon and
  • Kisoo Kim

20 November 2020

The automotive industry has tried to employ ultra-high-strength steel (UHSS), which has a higher strength with a thinner thickness. However, because of its low formability, there is a limit to the use of UHSS in industrial applications. Even though t...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,387 Views
19 Pages

A New Bending Force Formula for the V-Die Bending Process

  • Kongkiet Doungmarda and
  • Sutasn Thipprakmas

13 March 2023

The V-die bending force is an important parameter in respect of press machine capacity selection, but it has not been the focus of previous research. Furthermore, while the various modified formulas proposed in previous research were calculated using...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,340 Views
16 Pages

Flexural Behavior of Stainless Steel V-Stiffened Lipped Channel Beams

  • Shuang-E Huangfu,
  • Zhong Tao,
  • Ji Zhang,
  • Wahab Abdul Ghafar,
  • Zihao Wang,
  • Caifeng Ye and
  • Md Mehedi Hasan

20 February 2023

Six groups of austenitic 022Cr19Ni10 stainless steel bending specimens with three types of cross-sectional forms were used to study the impact of V-stiffeners on the failure mode and flexural behavior of stainless steel lipped channel beams. These cr...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,784 Views
13 Pages

18 December 2019

An advanced, high chromium, creep-resistant steel was subjected to the tensile tests and three-point bending tests of Charpy V-notch specimens at temperatures of −196 to 20 °C. The steel exhibited ductile fracture under tension tests at all...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,494 Views
11 Pages

18 October 2021

This study compares the absolute and relative stabilities of a novel hybrid dorsal double plating (HDDP) to the often-used dorsal double plating (DDP) under distal radius fracture. The “Y” shape profile with 1.6 mm HDDP thickness was obtained by comb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,470 Views
13 Pages

A Novel Model of Ultrasonic Fatigue Test in Pure Bending

  • Dongtong Yang,
  • Sen Tang,
  • Yongtao Hu,
  • Alexander Nikitin,
  • Qingyuan Wang,
  • Yongjie Liu,
  • Lang Li,
  • Chao He,
  • Yan Li and
  • Bo Xu
  • + 1 author

13 July 2022

The very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) failure of in-service components is mainly caused by the vibration of thin-wall elements at a high frequency. In this work, a novel model of ultrasonic fatigue test was developed to test thin-wall material in bendin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,511 Views
16 Pages

A Versatile Punch Stroke Correction Model for Trial V-Bending of Sheet Metals Based on Data-Driven Method

  • Yongsen Yu,
  • Zhiping Guan,
  • Mingwen Ren,
  • Jiawang Song,
  • Pinkui Ma and
  • Hongjie Jia

24 August 2021

During air bending of sheet metals, the correction of punch stroke for springback control is always implemented through repeated trial bending until achieving the forming accuracy of bending parts. In this study, a modelling method for correction of...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,897 Views
13 Pages

Dielectric Elastomer Fiber Actuators with Aqueous Electrode

  • Keita Shimizu,
  • Toshiaki Nagai and
  • Jun Shintake

9 December 2021

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are one of the promising actuation technologies for soft robotics. This study proposes a fiber-shaped DEA, namely dielectric elastomer fiber actuators (DEFAs). The actuator consisted of a silicone tube filled wit...

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1,218 Views
18 Pages

13 June 2024

In order to study the bending–shear performance of CFRP concrete-filled steel tubes, static tests were conducted on 15 circular concrete-filled CFRP steel tube bending–shear specimens. For all specimens, Ds was 120 mm, ts was 2 mm, and ml...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,233 Views
20 Pages

The Effect of the Forming Mode on Twinning and Springback in the Bending-Dominated Forming of Magnesium AZ31 Sheet

  • Matthias Weiss,
  • Shiromani Gangoda Desinghe,
  • Peter Hodgson and
  • Hossein Beladi

29 August 2024

The sheet metal forming of magnesium is challenging due to the material’s complex springback behaviour, which is due to the tension/compression yield mismatch. In this study, three different AZ31 grain sizes are produced by a special heat treat...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,415 Views
13 Pages

Annealing Study on Praseodymium-Doped Indium Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Transistors and Fabrication of Flexible Devices

  • Zhenyu Wu,
  • Honglong Ning,
  • Han Li,
  • Xiaoqin Wei,
  • Dongxiang Luo,
  • Dong Yuan,
  • Zhihao Liang,
  • Guoping Su,
  • Rihui Yao and
  • Junbiao Peng

26 December 2024

The praseodymium-doped indium zinc oxide (PrIZO) thin-film transistor (TFT) is promising for applications in flat-panel displays, due to its high carrier mobility and stability. Nevertheless, there are few studies on the mechanism of annealing on PrI...

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9 Citations
2,751 Views
19 Pages

18 September 2022

In this paper, laboratory experiments of LARMbot torso V1 are reported in the third mode, thereby providing a testing characterization. Sensors were used to measure parameters including the contact force between the shoulder and cables, linear accele...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,663 Views
12 Pages

14 October 2024

Both CuI and CuI:Zn semiconductor thin films, along with MSM-structured UV photodetectors, were prepared on flexible mica substrates at low temperature (150 °C) by a wet chemical method. The two CuI-based films exhibited a polycrystalline phase w...

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5 Citations
2,358 Views
22 Pages

1 February 2024

The purpose of this research is to compare the bending behaviour of non-glue-laminated timber beams and glulams by full-scale four-point bending tests. The focus is on the non-glue beams laminated by different materials or techniques and then to dete...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,771 Views
16 Pages

7 April 2023

This article presents the results of an analysis of the bending load characteristics and the springback phenomenon occurring during three-point bending of 1.0 and 2.0 mm thick AW-2024 aluminium alloy sheets with rolled AW-1050A cladding. A new propri...

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3 Citations
2,844 Views
17 Pages

Design of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator and Its Application in Flexible Gripper

  • Xiaoyu Meng,
  • Jiaqing Xie,
  • Haoran Pang,
  • Wenchao Wei,
  • Jiping Niu,
  • Mingqiang Zhu,
  • Fang Gu,
  • Xiaohuan Fan and
  • Haiyan Fan

19 January 2025

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are difficult to apply to flexible grippers due to their small deformation range and low output force. Hence, a DEA with a large bending deformation range and output force was designed, and a corresponding flexib...

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  • Open Access
150 Citations
9,090 Views
13 Pages

Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) shows piezoelectricity related to its β-phase content and mechanical and electrical properties influenced by its morphology and crystallinity. Electrospinning (ES) can produce ultrafine and well-aligned PVDF nanofi...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,908 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2023

The mechanical properties, structure, and morphology of milled and 3D-printed Ti-6Al-4V alloys produced by selective laser melting were investigated in this study. The mechanical properties were investigated by means of nanoindentation, a tensile tes...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,930 Views
12 Pages

Impact of Manual Addition of Vancomycin to Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) Cements

  • Clemens Kittinger,
  • Michael Eder-Halbedl and
  • Klaus Dieter Kühn

(1) Background: The addition of antibiotics to bone cements is a common practice in the treatment of periprosthetic joint infections. In revision cases, the amount and type of antibiotic is often insufficient and additional antibiotics must be added....

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,249 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Well Drill Assisted with High-Frequency Vibration Using the Bending Mode

  • Xinda Qi,
  • Weishan Chen,
  • Yingxiang Liu,
  • Xintian Tang and
  • Shengjun Shi

11 April 2018

It is important for companies to increase the efficiency of drilling as well as prolong the lifetime of the drilling tool. Since some previous investigations indicated that a superposition of well drilling with an additional vibration increases the d...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
2,463 Views
17 Pages

3 December 2021

It is now more popular to use basalt fibers in the engineering programs to reinforce the crack resistance of asphalt mixtures. However, research concerning the impact of the basalt fiber diameter on the macro performance of AC-13 mixtures is very lim...

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  • Open Access
2,062 Views
10 Pages

4 October 2023

A honeycomb column thin-walled structure (HCTS) was designed and the relative density was calculated for numerical simulation. The HCTS samples were fabricated via selective laser melting (SLM). The numerical simulation and a three-point bending test...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,722 Views
15 Pages

Cleavage Fracture of the Air Cooled Medium Carbon Microalloyed Forging Steels with Heterogeneous Microstructures

  • Gvozden Jovanović,
  • Dragomir Glišić,
  • Stefan Dikić,
  • Nenad Radović and
  • Aleksandra Patarić

25 February 2022

Cleavage fracture of the V and Ti-V microalloyed forging steels was investigated by the four-point bending testing of the notched specimens of Griffith-Owen’s type at −196 °C, in conjunction with the finite element analysis and the fr...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,067 Views
9 Pages

12 March 2020

Polymer-ceramic dielectric composites have been of great interest because they combine the processability of polymers with the desired dielectric properties of the ceramics. We fabricated a low voltage-operated flexible organic field-effect transisto...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,009 Views
17 Pages

27 June 2022

Ti-6Al-4V profiles prepared by hot extrusion are usually accompanied by bending and twisting. The hot twist-stretch straightening is an effective strategy such that the bending deflection and twisting angle can be simultaneously decreased by a single...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,161 Views
16 Pages

14 July 2020

This paper presents the results of predictions of springback of cold-rolled anisotropic steel sheets using an approach based on a multilayer perceptron-based artificial neural network (ANN) coupled with a genetic algorithm (GA). A GA was used to opti...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,147 Views
10 Pages

MEMS Underwater Directional Acoustic Sensor in Near Neutral Buoyancy Configuration

  • Fabio Alves,
  • Jaehyun Park,
  • Leland McCarty,
  • Renato Rabelo and
  • Gamani Karunasiri

10 February 2022

A MEMS directional acoustic sensor housed in an air cavity and operated underwater in a near-neutral buoyancy configuration is demonstrated. The sensor consists of two wings connected by a bridge and attached to a substrate by two centrally mounted t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,793 Views
21 Pages

Fatigue Bending of V-Notched Cold-Sprayed FeCoCrNiMn Coatings

  • Pasquale Cavaliere,
  • Angelo Perrone,
  • Alessio Silvello,
  • Aleksandra Laska,
  • Gianni Blasi and
  • Irene G. Cano

30 April 2022

Cold-spray coatings were produced by FeCoCrNiMn high-entropy alloy powders deposited on carbon steel substrate. The coatings were realized at intermediate temperature and high pressure (at 1100 °C and 7 MPa). The coating microstructure was characteri...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,213 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2023

Recent studies have shown the change of microstructure during hot-bending in uniaxial specimens made of AZ31B alloy. They also investigated the influence of the changed microstructure on the quasi-static and cyclic material behavior under uniaxial st...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,861 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2024

The physical and mechanical characteristics of seawater coral sand engineered cementitious composites (SCECC) were examined through uniaxial compression, three-point bending, and splitting tensile tests. The mechanical properties were scrutinized und...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,798 Views
19 Pages

Bending Behaviour of Polymeric Materials Used on Biomechanics Orthodontic Appliances

  • Ivo Domagała,
  • Krzysztof Przystupa,
  • Marcel Firlej,
  • Daniel Pieniak,
  • Agata Niewczas and
  • Barbara Biedziak

7 December 2020

This paper discusses the issues of strength and creep of polymeric materials used in orthodontic appliances. Orthodontic biomechanics is focused on the movement of individual teeth or dental groups as a result of the force applied by orthodontic appl...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,150 Views
25 Pages

Bio-nanocomposite films were prepared using chitosan, gelatin, and varying concentrations (0, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 5.0 wt%) of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles in acetic acid via a casting method. The incorporation of TiO2 nanoparticles into the b...

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  • Open Access
50 Citations
11,964 Views
13 Pages

Thermal and Mechanical Properties of the Recycled and Virgin PET—Part I

  • Yasemin Celik,
  • Madina Shamsuyeva and
  • Hans Josef Endres

24 March 2022

In various countries, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) represents one of the plastics with a very high recycling rate. Since currently there is no analytical method enabling direct distinction between recycled PET (rPET) and virgin PET (vPET), there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,270 Views
18 Pages

High and Low Dosage of Vancomycin in Polymethylmethacrylate Cements: Efficacy and Mechanical Properties

  • Jeffrey W. Kwong,
  • Michael Abramowicz,
  • Klaus Dieter Kühn,
  • Christian Foelsch and
  • Erik N. Hansen

Introduction: Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are difficult to treat and represent a significant burden to the healthcare system. Two-stage revision surgery with placement of an antibiotic-loaded cement spacer is currently the gold standard for tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,626 Views
13 Pages

22 October 2019

Coatings of 3 μm CrN and TiN were prepared by a magnetic filtered cathodic vacuum arc process (MFCVA) on Ti-6Al-4V substrates, respectively. Rotating bending tests and uniaxial tests were conducted for investigating the effect of the thin and unif...

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  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,118 Views
26 Pages

12 May 2020

Titanium alloy Ti6Al4V manufactured by additive manufacturing (AM) is an attractive material, but the fatigue strength of AM Ti6Al4V is remarkably weak. Thus, post-processing is very important. Shot peening can improve the fatigue strength of metalli...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,617 Views
16 Pages

Design, Calibration and Morphological Characterization of a Flexible Sensor with Adjustable Chemical Sensitivity and Possible Applications to Sports Medicine

  • Alessandro Zompanti,
  • Francesco Basoli,
  • Giovanni Saggio,
  • Francesco Mattioli,
  • Anna Sabatini,
  • Simone Grasso,
  • Martina Marino,
  • Umile Giuseppe Longo,
  • Marcella Trombetta and
  • Marco Santonico

24 September 2024

Active life monitoring via chemosensitive sensors could hold promise for enhancing athlete monitoring, training optimization, and performance in athletes. The present work investigates a resistive flex sensor (RFS) in the guise of a chemical sensor....

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