An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred in Yangbi County, Yunnan Province on 21 May 2021, with a focal depth of 8 km, and strong ground motion with vertical components was monitored by Yangbi station (53YBX). A total of 14,122 houses were damaged in...
The most common self-assembly structure for A2B copolymer is the micellar structure with B/A segments being the core/corona, which greatly limits its application range. Following the principle of structure deciding the properties, a reformation in th...
Oral streptococci depend on two-component signal transduction systems (TCSs), the most widespread regulatory systems in bacteria, to detect and respond to diverse stresses in oral environment. Among the larger panel of TCSs equipped by oral streptoco...
In order to optimize the convective drying process parameters of peanuts and to provide a theoretical basis for the scientific use of energy in the drying process, this study took single-particle peanuts as the research object and analyzed the heat a...
Multilayer insulation (MLI) components are important parts of spacecraft, in which thin films are the core elements. The film thicknesses are generally small, between 10 and 30 μm, to reduce the weight of the spacecraft. During the launch of a spa...
In this work a seismic analysis of structure associated with the complete description of ground motion components is performed. All earthquake excitation components corresponding to the six degrees of freedom, translational and rotational ones need t...
The paper provides a comprehensive overview of stray losses in conductive structural parts of power transformers, addressing the effects of stray magnetic fields on simple conductive plates, the distribution of additional losses across structural com...
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...
Under the action of the same wind azimuth, the extreme values of the wind load effect components of building structures are generated in the along-wind, cross-wind, vertical, and torsional directions. In designing the wind-resistant structure, the ex...
This paper aims at highlighting the main mechanical parameters controlling the behavior of the so-called ‘acceleration-sensitive’ non-structural components (NSCs). The first reports a short review of the current state of knowledge and the critical is...
Multi-story, reinforced-concrete (RC) building structures with soft stories are highly vulnerable to damage due to earthquake loads. The soft story causes a significant stiffness irregularity, which has led to numerous buildings collapsing in previou...
Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is currently the most studied immunoglobin class and is frequently used in antibody therapeutics in which its beneficial effector functions are exploited. IgG is composed of two heavy chains and two light chains, forming the ba...
In sectors that require large components with tight tolerances, the control of machine thermal deformations as a result of ambient temperature variations, motor consumption, and heating of moving components is essential. There are many alternatives f...
Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been proposed to estimate generalizability theory (GT) variance components, primarily focusing on estimating relative error to calculate generalizability coefficients. Proposals for estimating absolute-error com...
Soft stories in buildings are well-known to present structural vulnerabilities during seismic events, and the failure of non-structural components (NSCs) has been evident in past earthquakes, along with structural damage. This study seeks to investig...
Nonstructural components (NSCs) are the systems that are attached to the floors of a building structure. NSCs have become critical in sustaining post-earthquake functionality while constructing seismic-resilient structures. The seismic behavior of th...
In embedded software for critical domains such as medical devices and defense, requirement traceability is essential for ensuring quality attributes. Standards and regulations mandate traceability between requirements and artifacts such as design ele...
In this paper, we studied the operability of various components of vacuum electronic devices manufactured using the novel chemical metallization of photopolymer 3D-printed structures technology (CMPS), which is being applied at the Institute of Appli...
Time-series data are widespread and have inspired numerous research works in machine learning and data analysis fields for the classification and clustering of temporal data. While there are several clustering methods for univariate time series and a...
Additively manufactured mechanical components show great lightweight characteristics and can often be enhanced by integrating biomimetic geometrical features. This study focuses on one specific subcase, namely the substitution of solid cylindrical be...
Predatory cone snails (Conus) developed a sophisticated neuropharmacological mechanism to capture prey, escape against other predators, and deter competitors. Their venom’s remarkable specificity for various ion channels and receptors is an evo...
Fuzzy clustering has been broadly applied to classify data into K clusters by assigning membership probabilities of each data point close to K centroids. Such a function has been applied into characterizing the clusters associated with a statistical...
Component identification and depth estimation are important for detecting the integrity of post-disaster structures. However, traditional manual methods might be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and influenced by subjective judgments of inspectors. D...
The process of lipid crystallization influences the characteristics of lipid. By changing the chemical composition of the lipid system, the crystallization behavior could be controlled. This review elucidates the internal factors affecting lipid crys...
This industrial research focuses on the implementation and development of a productive process for an automotive structural component (Shock tower) manufactured by a high-pressure die casting (HPDC) process made of aluminum alloy AuralTM-5. This alum...
In the early 2010s, with rising oil prices and increasing purchase orders for offshore structures for deep-sea resource development, the shipyards that took these orders suffered unexpected losses. Unlike the construction of commercial carrier vessel...
Genetic structure and biodiversity of the medicinal plant Ficus deltoidea have rarely been scrutinized. To fill these lacunae, five varieties, consisting of 30 F. deltoidea accessions were collected across the country and studied on the basis of mole...
By using the classical Lie algebra, the stationary zero curvature equation, and the Lenard recursion equations, we obtain the non-isospectral TD hierarchy. Two kinds of expanding higher-dimensional Lie algebras are presented by extending the classica...
Metal replacements for automotive and aerospace components are already a consolidated reality, in light of the advantages offered by fibre-reinforced polymers, consisting of reduced costs, weight, and environmental impact. As a result, engineering ha...
The shock structure problem is studied for a multi-component mixture of Euler fluids described by the hyperbolic system of balance laws. The model is developed in the framework of extended thermodynamics. Thanks to the equivalence with the kinetic th...
The quality of the fiber orientation of injection molding simulations and the transferred fiber orientation content, due to the process–structure coupling, influence the material modeling and thus the prediction of subsequently performed struct...
Neutron diffraction is an effective and nondestructive method to investigate inner structure and stress distribution inside bulk materials and components. Compared with X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction allows a relatively high penetration depth...
Porous hierarchical structures are extensively utilized in engineering for their high specific strength, enhanced corrosion resistance, and multifunctionality. Over the past two decades, multiscale topology optimization for these structures has garne...
The brazing of structural high-temperature-resistant nickel alloys is a predominant method in manufacturing jet engines in the aircraft industry. Ni-Cr-base brazing filler metals (BFMs) containing B and Si as the melting point depressants are used fo...
This study aims to address quality issues in the production of prefabricated steel structural components for buildings by investigating challenges in quality risk assessment. It identifies key factors contributing to quality problems and establishes...
With the deterioration of bridge performance and ever-increasing amounts of traffic, bridge safety is becoming a concern for the engineering community. A method that can assess a bridge’s condition in real time is urgently needed. The main fact...
Although there have been several analyses for identifying cancer-associated pathways, based on gene expression data, most of these are based on single pathway analyses, and thus do not consider correlations between pathways. In this paper, we propose...
Ten ferrocenyl bis-amide derivatives were successfully synthesized via the Ugi four-component reaction by treating ferrocenecarboxylic acid with diverse aldehydes, amines, and isocyanides in methanol solution. Their chemical structures were fully cha...
Latent class analysis (LCA) has been applied in many research areas to disentangle the heterogeneity of a population. Despite its popularity, its estimation method is limited to maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), which requires large samples to sat...
Damage classification is an important topic in the development of structural health monitoring systems. When applied to wind-turbine foundations, it provides information about the state of the structure, helps in maintenance, and prevents catastrophi...
The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily is a large group of membrane proteins which, because of their vast involvement in cell signalling pathways, are implicated in a plethora of disease states and are therefore considered to be key drug t...
The FeNiCrAlCoCuTi alloy system has great advantages in mechanical properties such as high hardness and toughness. It has high performance potential and research value and the key in research is designing alloy compositions with target properties. Th...
Gene–environment interaction (G×E) studies are one of the most important solutions for understanding the “missing heritability” problem in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Although many statistical methods have been pro...
Although earlier studies had connected material scarcity and price fluctuation to cost overruns and delays in Qatar’s building projects, the root causes of this volatility had not been investigated. To close this crucial gap, this study looked...
The carbonation of reinforced concrete is one of the intrinsic factors that cause a significant decrease in service performance in concrete structures. To decrease the effect of carbonation-induced corrosion during the lifetime of the concrete struct...
In the construction process of beam string structures, the environmental effect and corresponding mechanical properties of the structure are complex. The problem of the misjudgment of structural safety performance caused by the uncertainty of a struc...
The bottleneck in plant breeding programs is to have cost-effective high-throughput phenotyping methodologies to efficiently describe the new lines and hybrids developed. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic approach to overcome not only the i...
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between the melting point and the supramolecular structure of three multi-component crystals of aliphatic dicarboxylic acids with 2,2′-bipyridine and to investigate the conformations of 2,2′-bi...
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...
In this work, we focus on a detailed study of the role of each component layer in the multilayer structure of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) as well as the analysis of the effects that the deposition parameters of the thin films have on the perform...
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