Responsive architecture comprises the creation of buildings or structural elements of buildings that adapt in response to external stimuli or internal conditions. The responsiveness of such structures rests on addressing constraints from multiple dom...
This research investigated a mathematical model of earphone design with principal component analysis. Along with simplifying the design problem, a predictive model for the sound quality indicators, namely, total harmonic distortion, power of output,...
This study proposes a component-based model for assessing risks in the design of high-tech products. The model took into account the novelty of components, which affected the risk level in the development process. The risk assessment was based on fuz...
In this study, component design of x-EVs was performed using virtual integrated development environment (VIDE). First, component library was developed for various components such as the engine, motor, battery and transmission. Vehicle performance sim...
As battery electric vehicles (BEVs) gain significance in the automotive industry, manufacturers must diversify their vehicle portfolios with a wide range of electric vehicle models. Electric powertrains must be designed to meet the unique requirement...
This paper takes a local drum-type corn thresher as an example. In order to make the threshing principle transform to the plate-tooth type, the width of the spike-tooth threshing component is increased gradually, and three threshing components of dif...
In the athermal and apochromatic design of optical systems, the distribution of lens’ optical powers and the selection of optical glass and structural materials are crucial. In this paper, an athermal and apochromatic design method is proposed...
Carbon emissions from buildings account for a large proportion of total social carbon emissions. Prefabricated buildings can effectively reduce carbon emissions in the construction materialization phase. The existing building carbon emission calculat...
This study investigates the influence of various factors on the performance of ternary binders, utilizing statistical approaches. The research focuses on the influence of varying compositions of Portland Cement-Calcium Aluminate Cement-Calcium Sulpha...
Viral and synthetic vectors to deliver nucleic acids were key to the rapid development of extraordinarily efficient COVID-19 vaccines. The four-component lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), containing phospholipids, PEG-conjugated lipids, cholesterol, and io...
Software reliability is prioritised as the most critical quality attribute. Reliability prediction models participate in the prevention of software failures which can cause vital events and disastrous consequences in safety-critical applications or e...
Developing low-carbon cement-based materials is a critical strategy for reducing the carbon footprint of the construction sector. This study optimized multi-component cement mortars incorporating natural zeolite (NZ), fly ash (FA), blast furnace slag...
The design and production of prefabricated buildings pose challenges in achieving standardization, limiting their extensive adoption. In order to address issues of prefabricated components, such as the low reusability of design knowledge, limited sta...
Additive manufacturing (AM) is being used increasingly for repair and remanufacturing of aeroengine components. This enables the consideration of a design margin approach to satisfy changing requirements, in which component lifespan can be optimized...
The design of a manipulator arm, which is built from a construction kit, is presented in this article. The procedure is based on the results of the discrete optimization of a truss structure and its application to a simple component system (assuming...
Recently, the global automobile market is rapidly changing in the paradigm to next-generation automobiles with high-efficiency and eco-friendliness due to rising oil prices and strengthened environment regulations. Accordingly, the automobile vendors...
In modern vehicle development, suspension components have to meet many boundary conditions. In noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) development these are for example eigenfrequencies and frequency response function (FRF) amplitudes. Component geomet...
This paper concerns the design of the technology for the production of the part by bending and also the design of the forming tool for a small number of pieces of the produced part. The part in question was the oscillating tool blade to cut soft mate...
In this paper, the optimization of the extraction/purification process of multiple components was performed by the entropy weight method (EWM) combined with Plackett–Burman design (PBD) and central composite design (CCD). We took the macroporous resi...
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Efficient aero engine operation requires not only optimized components like compressor, combustor, and turbine, but also an optimal balance between these components. Therefore, a holistic coupled optimization of the whole engine involving all relevan...
The optimisation of complex engineering design problems is highly challenging due to the consideration of various design variables. To obtain acceptable near-optimal solutions within reasonable computation time, metaheuristics can be employed for suc...
Fabrication tolerances, as well as uncertainties of other kinds, e.g., concerning material parameters or operating conditions, are detrimental to the performance of microwave circuits. Mitigating their impact requires accounting for possible paramete...
In this paper, we present an approach to automate the evaluation and improvement of geometric requirements during preliminary aircraft design, specifically focusing on the complex integration of subsystems like fuel systems. Utilizing the Codex (COll...
As a key structural protein, HIV capsid (CA) protein plays multiple roles in the HIV life cycle, and is considered a promising target for anti-HIV treatment. Based on the structural information of CA modulator PF-74 bound to HIV-1 CA hexamer, 18 nove...
The objective of this work is to investigate the use of metallurgical gradients (MG) in the design of structural components made of ductile cast iron (DCI). MG have been realized in this study by locally varying the pearlite fraction of the matrix. E...
Emissions from the transportation sector due to the consumption of fossil fuels by conventional vehicles have been a major cause of climate change. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are a cleaner solution to reduce the emissions caused by transportatio...
The present article describes the methodology used to design and calibrate a 6-component balance. This balance is utilized in an instrumented bike measuring the forces applied on the handlebars. This instrumentation bike maps all riders induced loads...
Biomimetic design has been used to reduce the high operating resistance of agricultural soil-engaging components, thereby lowering energy consumption. However, most existing contour-based structural biomimetic designs rely on a single or a few biolog...
Eco-design is an innovative design methodology that focuses on minimizing the environmental footprint of industries, including aviation, right from the conceptual and development stages. However, rising industrial demand calls for a more comprehensiv...
With the demand for high-safety, high-integration, and lightweight micro- and nano-electronic components, an MEMS electromagnetic energy-releasing component was innovatively designed based on the corona discharge theory. The device subverted the trad...
Synthetic biology design challenges have driven the use of mathematical models to characterize genetic components and to explore complex design spaces. Traditional approaches to characterization have largely ignored the effect of strain and growth co...
The hydraulic energy storage component (HESC) is the core component of hydraulic energy regeneration (HER) technologies in construction equipment, directly influencing the overall energy efficiency of the system. However, under complex practical oper...
A major challenge in the optimization of thermal performance of opaque envelope components is that the calculation workload of energy consumption simulations of full factorial combinations leads to a prohibitive increase as the factors and levels mul...
The history of humeral component design has evolved from prostheses with relatively long stems and limited anatomic head options to a contemporary platform with short stems and stemless implants with shared instrumentation and the ability to provide...
With the recent and rapid development of concrete technologies and the ever-increasing use of concrete, adapting concrete to the specific needs and applications of civil engineering is necessary. Due to economic considerations and care for the natura...
The safe fatigue design of metallic components fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM) is still a largely unsolved problem. This is primarily due to (a) a significant inhomogeneity of the material properties across the component; (b) defects such a...
The crushing of crash boxes is a complex phenomenon characterized by a strong interaction of structural and material properties. Many attempts to improve their energy absorption by adopting one aspect resulted in unacceptable unprogressive bucking. T...
The rapid growth of research in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) follows on two substantial developments. First, the enormous application success of modern machine learning methods, especially deep and reinforcement learning, have created hi...
The aim of this research is to define a design approach for implementing composite materials in a component of an industrial vehicle, having weight reduction as the primary goal. Through the schematisation of the problem and analytical analysis, the...
Drive cycle pattern is different for different countries which depends on their traffic density, road condition and driver discipline. Drive cycle influences HEV`s components design, sizing and their ratings. Standard drive cycle data doesn't reveal...
This paper presents the fundamentals; criteria; and mechanical, electrical, and electronic aspects required to properly operate and control emerging mechanical ventilators. We present the basis for their design and manufacture as a contribution to im...
The complexity of quality function deployment (QFD) matrices often hinders efficient decision-making in product design, leading to missed opportunities and extended development times. This study explores the integration of principal component analysi...
There are many mechanical and/or electrical energy storage devices nowadays which can be mounted on standard bicycles. The current trend regarding bicycle energy storage devices is to develop and improve electrical and electronic systems that can eas...
Because kinematic alignment (KA) aligns femoral components in greater valgus and with less external rotation than mechanical alignment (MA), the trochlear groove of an MA design used in KA is medialized, which can lead to complications. Hence, a KA d...
In this paper, a novel high-gain DC-DC boost converter with reduced component count is proposed. The converter that is proposed in this paper provides high DC voltage gain, while keeping the overall component count significantly lower in comparison t...
The mass and position of tractor components were unknown at the beginning of the design, making it impossible to accurately obtain parameters. To solve the problem, a mass and position co-optimization method was proposed. Firstly, a counterweight des...
A strain-type three-component table dynamometer is presented in this paper, which reduces output errors produced by cutting forces imposed on the different milling positions of a workpiece. A sensor structure with eight parallel elastic beams is prop...
High-volume utilization of steel slag in cementitious materials requires a proportioning method that accounts for coupled effects among multiple components. This study investigated a four-component system comprising steel slag (SS), blast furnace sla...
Carrying out the immediate rehabilitation interventional therapy will better improve the curative effect of rehabilitation therapy, after the condition of bedridden stroke patients becomes stable. A new lower limb rehabilitation training module, as a...
This article proposes a new type of three-component optic fiber balance based on Fabry–Perot displacement measurement technology based on the structure of the pulse wind tunnel balance. This paper systematically introduces the force measurement...
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