The cyclic stress response behavior of Ti-3Al-8V-6Cr-4Mo-4Zr alloy with three different microstructures has been systematically studied. The cyclic stress response was highly related to the applied strain amplitude and precipitated phase. At low stra...
Reinforced concrete (RC) beams under cyclic loading usually suffer from reduced aggregate interlock and eventually weakened concrete compression zone due to severe cracking and the brittle nature of compressive failure. On the other hand, the additio...
Oxygen plays important roles in regulating various biological activities under physiological and pathological conditions. However, the response of cells facing temporal variation in oxygen microenvironments has seldom been studied due to technical li...
Adjacent cyclic explosions significantly impact the stability of underground anchored caverns. Based on the similar model test of the vault explosion of the anchored cavern, the dynamic analysis finite element software ANSYS/LSDYNA(18.0) was used to...
Dynamic fatigue of rocks under repeated cyclic impact is a nonconservative property, as surrounding rocks in real environments subjects them to variable impact disturbances, and the degree of damage varies under different energy level loads. To evalu...
The shear behavior and dynamic response of a steel–silt interface are significant for the safety and stability of offshore structures in the Yellow River Delta. A series of steel–silt interface cyclic shear tests under constant normal loa...
Bacillus cyclic lipopeptides (CLP), part of the three main families—surfactins, iturins, and fengycins—are secondary metabolites with a unique chemical structure that includes both peptide and lipid components. Being amphiphilic compounds...
The shape and internal dynamic response characteristics of the plastic zone near the fatigue crack tip region, especially the cyclic plastic zone (CPZ), are the main factors affecting the fatigue crack initiation and propagation behaviors of ductile...
Cyclic polymers have many interesting properties compared to their linear analogs, but there are very few examples of their synthesis. This is because most cyclic polymers have been synthesized by stepwise processes, including synthesizing homo- or h...
Smart hollow polymeric microspheres have been widely applied in various fields such as controlled release, drug delivery, catalysis, and so on. Herein, a facile, green and one-step template-free method is introduced for preparing pH-responsive hollow...
In order to better understand the damage phenomenon and failure mechanism of planar lightwave circuit (PLC) optical splitters under force cycling, this paper established an online test experimental platform to study their optical and mechanical perfo...
Efforts to isolate a broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptide (AMP) from microbial sources have been on the rise recently. Here, we report the identification, the optimization of the culture conditions, and the characterization of an efficient AMP from t...
Endothelial cells in vivo are subjected to a wide array of mechanical stimuli, such as cyclic stretch. Notably, a 10% stretch is associated with an atheroprotective endothelial phenotype, while a 20% stretch is associated with an atheroprone endothel...
The mechanical behavior of the adhesive interface between the fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) strip and the concrete substrate often controls the response of FRP-strengthened reinforced concrete (RC) members. Plenty of studies devoted to understanding...
This paper presents cyclic behaviour of bolted and hybrid–combined bolted and bonded fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) beam-to-column joints between I-shaped members using steel and FRP cleats. Five full-scale cyclic tests are carried out to study momen...
Foundations for offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are mainly open-ended piles that are subjected to cyclic loadings caused by winds, waves and currents. This study aims to investigate the dynamic responses of open-ended pipe pile under lateral cyclic loa...
Coal mining often causes periodic disruption in the rock mass around the stope. The study of the deformation and failure characteristics of cyclic loading and unloading sandstone is very critical for gaining a thorough understanding of the mechanisms...
Low-permeability sandstone reservoirs have been widely used as a gas storage medium worldwide. Compared with the high porosity and high permeability of sandstone, low-permeability sandstone may present different mechanical (deformation, damage or fai...
Extreme marine environmental cyclic loading significantly affects the serviceability of monopiles applied for the foundation of offshore wind turbines (OWTs). Existing research has primarily used p-y methods or total stress-based models to investigat...
This paper proposed a simplified calculation method to analyze the cyclic response of large-diameter single piles based on the modified strain wedge model. Firstly, the pile–soft clay interaction above the pile-rotating point is represented by...
Natural granular materials widely used in building and infrastructure development consume a considerable number of natural resources. To avoid depleting natural granular materials, recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) from construction and demolition w...
This study investigates the cyclic behaviour of demountable steel–concrete composite extended end-plate reduced web section (RWS) connections for the first time, aiming to facilitate post-seismic beam replacement. A validated high-fidelity fini...
The 2008 Wenchuan-China earthquake showed the importance of considering the bidirectional seismic action as a cause of failure in column hinge mechanisms. Subsequently, the large 2011 Tohoku-Japan earthquake revealed that Special Moment Frames buildi...
A cyclic plasticity constitutive model was developed for materials with asymmetric cyclic behavior to explain the stabilized stress–strain response under variable amplitude loading. The proposed constitutive model incorporated the von Mises yie...
Based on the twin bridge shear specimen, the cyclic shear experiments were performed on 1.2 mm thin plates of 316L metastable austenitic stainless steel with different strain amplitudes from 1 to 5% at ambient temperature. The fatigue behavior of 316...
Past earthquakes demonstrate that non-structural elements could be vulnerable to a relatively low intensity ground shaking which induces negligible structural damage. The study aims to improve previously developed macro-models of cold-formed steel (C...
This study presents finite element analysis of double split tee (DST) connections with high-strength steel bolts and coupled split tee sections, to evaluate various cyclic response parameters and elements. The investigation included quantifying conne...
This paper primarily investigates the response and failure behavior of 6063-T5 aluminum alloy square tubes with varying outer side lengths under symmetric curvature-controlled cyclic bending in different bending directions. The response is characteri...
Cyclic response and fatigue behavior are sensitive to the microstructure of material induced by heat treatment. In this paper, three sets of high-temperature superalloy Inconel 718 with different heat treatment, namely annealed, aged, and directly ag...
In the process of geotechnical engineering excavation, wet and water-filled rock masses are inevitable. To obtain the mechanical properties of these rocks, indoor tests are required, and most of the rock tests rock tests are dry or nearly dry. They c...
The response ranges of three principal mechanical parameters were measured following cyclic compressive loading of three types of concrete specimen to a pre-defined number of cycles. Thus, compressive strength, compressive modulus of elasticity, and...
In this paper, the synergistic effects of stress rupture and cyclic loading on the strain response of fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) at elevated temperature in air have been investigated. The stress-strain relationships considering...
Mouse Leydig Tumor cells (mLTC), transiently expressing cAMP-dependent luciferase, were used to study the influence of sexual steroids and of adiponectin (ADPN) on the cAMP response to luteinizing hormones (LH). While testosterone and progesterone ha...
The inelastic response of reinforced concrete (RC) frames under seismic loading is influenced by mechanical and geometrical properties and by the reinforcement arrangement of the beam–column members. In this paper, the seismic response and rece...
Soil cyclic degradation is a serious issue that should be considered in engineering design and maintenance. The hysteretic response causes strength degradation and excessive settlement of soil structure in engineered and natural geosystems. Hysteresi...
This paper investigates the fatigue cyclic deformation behavior of mid-carbon steel. Uniaxial tensile loading tests and fatigue tests under constant and multi-step amplitude loading steps are performed to characterize the influence of loading history...
This paper aims to investigate the response and fracture of EMT carbon steel round-hole tubes (EMT carbon steel RHTs) under cyclic bending loads. The study considers four different hole orientations (0°, 30°, 60°, and 90°) and five di...
Csa3 family transcription factors are ancillary CRISPR-associated proteins composed of N-terminal CARF domains and C-terminal winged helix-turn-helix domains. The activity of Csa3 transcription factors is thought to be controlled by cyclic oligoadeny...
NW-G01, produced by Streptomyces alboflavus 313, is a novel cyclic hexapeptide antibiotic with many potential applications, including antimicrobial activity and antitumor agents. This study developed a system for optimizing medium components in order...
The use of fibers as mass reinforcement to delay cracking and to improve the strength and the post-cracking performance of reinforced concrete (RC) beams has been well documented. However, issues of common engineering practice about the beneficial ef...
Simulation of a large number of deformable bodies is often difficult because complex high-level modeling is required to address both multi-body contact and viscoelastic deformation. This necessitates the combined use of a discrete element method (DEM...
The storage and utilization of waste heat in low and medium temperature ranges using phase change materials (PCMs) is an effective technology to improve energy utilization efficiency in combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) systems. In this pap...
The paper describes a numerical method based on a modal work approach to evaluate the forced response of bladed disks and its validation against numerical results obtained by a commercial FEM code. Forcing functions caused by rotor–stator interaction...
The corrosion of steel reinforcement negatively influences the mechanical performance of reinforced concrete (RC) elements reducing both their strength capacity and ductility. Especially in seismic prone areas, the degradation of the cyclic behavior...
Acute brain injury includes different pathologies: stroke, traumatic injury, subarachnoidale haemorhhage. In the pathophysiology of acute brain injury, secondary injury with hyperactivation of glia plays a crucial role. Activated glial cells induce p...
A limited number of studies are devoted to regulating TRIP6 expression in cancer. Hence, we aimed to unveil the regulation of TRIP6 expression in MCF-7 breast cancer cells (with high TRIP6 expression) and taxane-resistant MCF-7 sublines (manifesting...
Reinforced soil retaining walls (RSWs) for railways are key subgrade structures that bear cyclic loads from trains, and their long-term durability directly affects railway operation safety. The mechanical behavior of RSWs under cyclic loading has bee...
The ratcheting behavior of a steel pipe with assembly parts was examined under internal pressure and a cyclic bending load, which has not been seen in previous research. An experimentally validated and three dimensional (3D) elastic-plastic finite el...
Ceramic-reinforced slabs were widely used in Spain during the second half of the 20th century, especially for industrial buildings. This solution was popular due to the lack of materials at that time, as it requires almost no concrete and low ratios...
In this paper, the superelastic shape memory alloy (SMA) slit damper system as an alternative design approach for steel structures is intended to be evaluated with respect to inelastic behavior simulated by refined finite element (FE) analyses. Altho...
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