When sustainable emerging technologies (SETs) enter mainstream markets, a battle unfolds between pioneers and incumbents to establish the new dominant design. The purpose of this article is to explore the key factors that determine the outcome of suc...
This paper focuses on the design of the wings used in airborne wind energy systems. At the moment, two different designs are being developed: soft wings and rigid wings. This paper aimed to establish which of the two alternative design choices has th...
Mechanical metamaterials subjected to dynamic loads within their bandgaps can still experience significant undesired structural responses, which are referred to as bandgap resonances. This paper proposes a design method for stretch-dominated metamate...
The process of intelligent multi-objective parametric optimization design for mirrors is discussed in detail in this paper, with the error of the mirror surface shape and the total mass being examined as the optimization objectives. The establishment...
Significant discrepancies persist between the predicted and measured bearing capacities of Strength Composite (SC) piles in engineering practice, largely due to incomplete consideration of dominant failure modes and the absence of scientifically cali...
Companies in all businesses need efficient and user-friendly tools for experience design in a fast-paced digitalized world searching for sustainability. Although there are hundreds of methods and models in the interdisciplinary area of experience des...
A multi-objective optimization method for the structural design of horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) blades is presented. The main goal is to minimize the weight and cost of the blade which uses glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) coupled with c...
This paper explores the transition to electric cars in Brazil. The country has been successful to reduce its carbon footprint using biofuels, but it is facing a dilemma in vehicle electrification. It cannot shift abruptly to battery electric vehicles...
The community shuttle system plays an important role in serving communities with a heavy travel demand for the metro service. Stop location and route design are the two main decisions of planning a community shuttle service. Those two decisions are i...
In this study, we explore the paired disjunctive domination number—a recently introduced parameter by Henning et al.—within the broader framework of graph and network sensitivity and vulnerability analysis. Building on this concept, we in...
The optimization of the supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of cannabinoids, using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2), was investigated in a fractional factorial design study. It is hypothesized that four main parameters (temperature, pressure, dr...
This present study describes a novel manta ray foraging optimization approach based non-dominated sorting strategy, namely (NSMRFO), for solving the multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). The proposed powerful optimizer can efficiently achieve...
The optimisation of electric vehicle battery boxes while preserving their structural performance presents a formidable challenge. Many studies typically involve fewer than 10 design variables in their optimisation processes, a deviation from the real...
The emergence of surgical robots has revolutionized complex operations, improving precision, lowering operating risks, and shortening recovery periods. Given the merits, an eight degrees of freedom (DOF) hybrid surgical robot (HSR) has been proposed,...
Relief well designs mainly focus on conventional parameters such as well diameter and well spacing by engineering experience, lacking rigorous analysis. The impact of wellhead elevation remains unclear. This paper proposes a multi-objective optimizat...
30 July 2019
In order to comprehend the prospect of a future automobile industry, the development path of the automobile industry is reviewed. It is found that the industry has experienced an incessant conceptual transformation, dominant design, emission control,...
Fully coupled integrated load analyses (ILAs) to evaluate not only the load response but also the structural integrity are required to design a floating offshore wind turbine, since there has been no firmly established approach for obtaining the stru...
The challenge of mixing high-viscosity materials is a common issue encountered in the manufacturing process of food materials. The advantages of the internal meshing screw mixer have led to its adoption in various manufacturing processes, but it has...
The increasing concern on global warming is prompting transportation sector to take into account more sustainable operation strategies. Among them, intermodal transportation (IT) has already been regarded as one of the most effective measures on carb...
This paper uses Pareto-optimized frames and injection molding process parameters to optimize the quality of UAV housing parts with multi-objective optimization. Process parameters, such as melt temperature, filling time, pressure, and pressure time,...
An efficient routing using a virtual backbone (VB) network is one of the most significant improvements in the wireless sensor network (WSN). One promising method for selecting this subset of network nodes is by finding the minimum connected dominatin...
The problem of quantifying the vulnerability of graphs has received much attention nowadays, especially in the field of computer or communication networks. In a communication network, the vulnerability measures the resistance of the network to disrup...
Precise bone resection is mandatory for kinematically aligned total knee arthroplasty (KA-TKA). This study is to investigate whether surgeon-dominated design can alter the accuracy of patient-specific instrumentation (PSI) in KA-TKA compared with the...
This research paper is aimed at a specific group of emergency medical service location problems, which are solved to save people’s lives and reduce the rate of mortality and morbidity. Since searching for the optimal service center deployment i...
In the requirement-driven forward design process of civil aircraft, the large number of design tasks of complex systems with varying difficulty and the complex relationships between design tasks lead to unnecessary repetitive design iterations. In or...
Taking into consideration the overlapped influences of multiple rail transit stations upon land use characteristics, this study newly develops a multi-objective land use allocation optimization model to decide the land use type and intensity of every...
The design optimization of a direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous generator (DDPMSG) is of great significance for wind turbines because of its unique advantages. This paper proposes a two-stage model to realize multi-objective design optimizatio...
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the predominant hereditary factor leading to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) worldwide, affecting individuals across all races with a prevalence of 1 in 400 to 1 in 1000. The disease presents sig...
Lipinski’s Rule of Five and Ghose filter are empirical guidelines for evaluating the drug-likeness of a compound, suggesting that orally active drugs typically fall within specific ranges for molecular descriptors such as hydrogen bond donors a...
7 October 2020
The climate characteristics of the islands in the Nansha Islands of China are a typical marine climate including high temperature, high relative humidity, high salt content, strong solar radiation, and long sunshine. These can provide suitable condit...
In Pakistan, reinforced concrete frame houses are the most widely used and common construction technology. In a country that experiences extreme hot and cold seasons throughout the year, buildings need to be adaptable to the climate to improve the th...
To address the current limitation of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) in tackling urban–rural sustainability issues, this study proposes a Cooperative Human-Agent Service System (CHASS) by leveraging the decentralized communication and coordina...
In the nano-scale era, enhancing speed while minimizing power consumption and area is a key objective in integrated circuits. This demand has motivated the development of approximate computing, particularly useful in error-tolerant applications such...
In this paper, an adaptive cost function FCSMPC is derived from newly obtained results concerning the distribution of figures of merits used for the assessment of stator current model-based control of multi-phase induction machines. A parameter analy...
Sensory analysis examines the properties (texture, flavor, taste, appearance, smell, etc [...]
Innovation ecosystems evolve and adapt to crises, but what are the factors that stimulate ecosystem growth in spite of dire circumstances? We study the arduous path forward of the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem and analyse in depth those factors tha...
When the wireless power transfer (WPT) system is installed on the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), there is a non-negligible eddy current loss around the coupler. The existence of the ferrite core causes the nonlinear distortion of the magnetic f...
We developed a hybrid algorithm for multi-objective design of water distribution networks (WDNs) in the present study. The proposed algorithm combines the global search schemes of differential evolution (DE) with the local search capabilities of harm...
In Kalman filter design, the filter algorithm and prediction model design are the most discussed topics in research. Another fundamental but less investigated issue is the careful selection of measurands and their contribution to the estimation probl...
Variations in species composition, diameter and height distributions, and quality make the management of hardwood-dominated stands difficult, particularly when considering mechanized forest operations. This study aimed to develop and field test a too...
In order to achieve low-carbon optimization in the intelligent mix ratio design of concrete materials, this work first constructs a concrete mix ratio database and performs a statistical characteristics analysis. Secondly, it employs a standard back...
In the modern era of superplasticizer-based concrete technology, water demand (or specific surface) of aggregate is a significantly underestimated factor influencing cement paste demand in the self-compacting concrete (SCC) design process. The presen...
Deep blue luminescent materials play a crucial role in the organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In this work, a novel deep blue molecule based on hybridized local and charge-transfer (HLCT) excited state was reported with the emission wavelength of...
In this work, we propose novel layer-structured polymer composites (PCs) for manipulating the electromagnetic (EM) wave transport, which holds unique electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding features. The as-prepared PCs with a multilayered struc...
In order to control the stability of tunnel surrounding rock, reduce the construction cost, and improve the construction schedule, the deformation behavior and instability mechanisms of tunnel surrounding rock are studied by numerical simulation and...
User-centered design questions in gaze interfaces have been explored in multitude empirical investigations. Interestingly, the question of what eye should be the input device has never been studied. We compared tracking accuracy between the “cyclopea...
Let G = (V, E) be a graph, where D is a subset of V, such that the set of vertices in the set (V-D) is adjacent to at least one vertex in set D. Then, set D is known as the domination set. In other words, a dominating set in graph G is a set of verti...
A new piezoelectric sensor with a triangular shear structure was designed to conduct the deformation monitoring of geotechnical bodies in mining airspace. Firstly, a three-dimensional sensor model was developed to analyze the impact of structural par...
Green design by manufacturers is essential for achieving supply chain sustainability, and large retailers may exhibit altruistic preferences to incentivize such efforts. Accordingly, this study develops three game-theoretic models of a two-echelon su...
Low-carbon fly ash concrete is one of the hottest research topics in the concrete industry. This study proposes a design method for low-carbon fly ash concrete that systematically considers strength, form removal time, and carbonation durability life...
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