Low-velocity edge impact and compression after edge impact (CAEI) behavior of stitched carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminates were experimentally investigated in the paper. Five groups, including three stacking sequences (P1, P2, P3) and tw...
Composite laminates are susceptible to impact events during use and maintenance, affecting their safety performance. Edge-on impact is a more significant threat to laminates than central impact. In this work, the edge-on impact damage mechanism and r...
Composites are widely used in aircraft structures that have free edges and are vulnerable to impact events during manufacturing and maintenance. On-edge impact may have a great contribution in terms of the compression strength loss of composites, but...
The impact–echo method is a superior method for detecting the health of concrete structures, but it has the disadvantage of significant errors when identifying structural boundaries. In order to overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a c...
In this current research, a commercial aircraft metallic leading edge structurally reinforced with a Y-shaped and V-shaped plate system is numerically examined to investigate the effectiveness of such reinforcements against soft impacts, more commonl...
As a vital power propulsion device, gas turbines have been widely applied in aircraft. However, fly ash is easily ingested by turbine engines, causing blade abrasion or even film hole blockage. In this study, a three-dimensional turbine cascade model...
Of the 100,000 railroad bridges in the United States, 50% are over 100 years old. Many of these bridges do not meet the minimum vertical clearance standards, making them susceptible to impact from over-height vehicles. The impact can cause structural...
Gas-insulated transmission lines (GILs) are increasingly deployed in dense urban power networks, where complex construction activities may introduce external mechanical impacts and pose risks to pipeline structural integrity. However, existing GIL mo...
Despite its contributions to the development of the country, the mining sector in Sierra Leone, has been attributed to a multitude of impacts on the environment. This article focuses on assessing the environmental impacts of mining in mining edge com...
Even though research has shown that the spectral parameters of yellow-edge, red-edge and NIR (near-infrared) shoulder wavelength regions are able to estimate green cover and leaf area index (LAI), a large amount of dead materials in grasslands challe...
The integration of 5G technology with cloud and edge computing is redefining the digital landscape by enabling ultra-fast connectivity, low-latency communication, and scalable solutions across diverse application domains. This paper investigates the...
In recent years, leading-edge tubercles have gained significant attention as an innovative biomimetic flow control technique. This paper explores their impact on the aerodynamic performance and flow patterns of an airfoil through wind tunnel experime...
Although The Edge is widely recognized as one of the most sustainable office buildings in the world, the specific contribution of key material choices, such as concrete used in the structural system, remains unclear. This article examines the environ...
Standard Compression-After-Impact test devices show a weakening effect on thin-walled specimens due to a free panel edge that is required for compression. As a result, thin-walled undamaged samples do not break in the free measuring area but near the...
Despite extensive research on what draws people to urban streets, most existing insights originate from Western contexts, offering limited perspectives from wider urban contexts. This study addresses this gap by examining everyday street activities i...
The simulation of fully turbulent, three-dimensional, cavitating flow over Delft twisted foil is conducted by an implicit large eddy simulation (LES) approach in both smooth and tripped conditions, the latter by including leading-edge roughness. The...
Background and Objectives: Mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) is a widely adopted therapeutic approach for managing significant mitral regurgitation (MR) in high-risk surgical candidates. While procedural safety and efficacy have b...
State-of-the-art gas turbines (GT) operate at high temperatures that exceed the endurance limit of the material, and therefore the turbine components are cooled by the air taken from the compressor. The cooling provides a positive impact on the lifet...
This paper presents TCReC, an innovative model designed for reconstructing network traffic characteristics in the presence of packet loss. With the rapid expansion of wireless networks driven by edge computing, IoT, and 5G technologies, challenges su...
Many application scenarios of edge visual inference, e.g., robotics or environmental monitoring, eventually require long periods of continuous operation. In such periods, the processor temperature plays a critical role to keep a prescribed frame rate...
Containers enable high performance and easy deployment due to their lightweight architecture, thus facilitating resource utilization in edge computing nodes. Secure container runtimes have attracted significant attention because of the necessity for...
The leading edges of wind turbine blades are adhesively bonded composite sections that are susceptible to impact loads during offshore installation. The impact loads can cause localized damages at the leading edges that necessitate damage tolerance a...
Habitat fragmentation affects lichen communities by inducing edge effects, although the dispersal of pollutants by pesticide drift from commercial crops may also provoke alterations in community structure, due to the varying sensitivity of lichen mor...
The desert-steppe transition zone at the southern edge of the Hobq Desert features complex topography and frequent wind/sand activities. To explore the impact of different underlying surfaces and topography on the wind-sand environment in this area,...
Semiochemical-baited intercept traps are important tools used to collect information about the presence/absence and population dynamics of forest insects. The performance of these tools is influenced by trap location along both horizontal edge–interi...
This review examines the impact of data analytics powered by the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) on improving energy efficiency in smart environments, with a focus on smart factories, smart cities, and smart...
Populations at the warm edge of distribution are more genetically diverse, and at the same time are more susceptible to climate change. Between 1987–1996, we studied Tawny Owls in Israel, the species’ global southern edge of distribution...
The article concerns the possibility of the automation and robotization of the process of deburring jet engine components. The paper presents the construction of a laboratory stand enabling the automation of selected production operations of typical...
This research examined the performance of functionally graded two-stage fibrous concrete (FTSFC) against modified repeated falling-mass impacts. This study led to the concept of creating improved multiphysics model of fibre composites with better imp...
To address the low monitoring accuracy of traditional methods caused by the complex composition and severe signal overlapping of threshed materials during soybean threshing, this study proposes a high-precision impact signal classification system bas...
Predicting the future impact of technical economic documents at release time is challenging due to delayed supervision signals, long-tailed label distributions, and time- and domain-dependent shifts in language and topics. Moreover, similarity graphs...
Background: In recent years, multiple transcatheter devices have been developed for tricuspid valve intervention. The aim of this study was to evaluate acute tricuspid annular remodeling following percutaneous leaflet repair using a leaflet approxima...
We describe Earth2Class, a professional development model that connects classroom teachers with research investigators so that they and their students can learn about cutting-edge discoveries, long before mention is included in textbooks. Teachers an...
Background and Objectives: Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) has emerged as an effective treatment option for patients with severe mitral regurgitation who are at high surgical risk. However, clinical outcomes after TEER remain heterogeneous a...
The growing penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)—such as photovoltaic generation, battery energy storage, electric vehicles, hydrogen technologies and flexible loads—requires advanced Energy Management Systems (EMS) capable...
In our pursuit of high-power terahertz (THz) wave generation, we propose innovative edge-terminated single-drift region (SDR) multi-quantum well (MQW) impact avalanche transit time (IMPATT) structures based on the AlxGa1−xN/GaN/AlxGa1−xN...
Background: The mismatch between tricuspid valve (TV) leaflet length and annulus dilation, assessed with the septal–lateral leaflet-to-annulus index (SL-LAI), predicts residual tricuspid regurgitation (TR) following tricuspid transcatheter edge...
We investigate the effects of Line Edge Roughness (LER) of electrode lines on the uniformity of Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) device areas in cross-point architectures. To this end, a modeling approach is implemented based on the generation...
Cavity flows occur in a wide range of low-speed applications (Mach number
A simple model is presented to describe how the radio frequency electromagnetic field modifies the plasma density the antenna faces in tokamaks. Aside from “off-the-shelf” equations standardly used to describe wave-plasma interaction rely...
For brittle fracture behaviour of carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) under compression, several approaches exist, which describe different mechanisms during failure, especially at stress intensifications. The failure process is not only initiate...
Objectives: To investigate how the changes of left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) between admission and discharge affected the long-term outcome in patients who underwent percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair for secondary mitral regurgit...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a highly prevalent comorbidity in patients with severe mitral valve regurgitation (MR) undergoing transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) and has been shown to significantly worsen their outcome. However, data on the impa...
Edge computing has emerged as a critical technology for meeting the needs of latency-sensitive applications and reducing network congestion. This goal is achieved mainly by distributing computational resources closer to end users and away from tradit...
Wind turbines operate in harsh environments where leading-edge blade erosion from particulates like sand, rain, and insects is prevalent, significantly degrading aerodynamic performance and reducing power output. To counteract this, this study propos...
At last year's edition of EVS, we presented an improved model for iron losses prediction in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines (PMSM) [1]. The benefit of this model holds in that it fits more closely the real material behavior than the standard St...
GaN vertical PiN diodes with different anode thicknesses were fabricated on three native GaN wafers with the same p-layer doping concentrations, and planar hybrid edge termination. The breakdown behavior in terms of the breakdown voltage and the elec...
To investigate the effect of the different wrap angles from the hub to the shroud surface in the space diffuser (i.e., the trailing edge stacking style) on the principle of corner separation vortex flow, a numerical simulation method has been conduct...
Lattice-reinforced thin-walled structures offer a promising means of improving impact resistance while maintaining structural efficiency; however, their detailed numerical simulation can become computationally expensive under high-rate loading condit...
The European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) is an endangered semifossorial small mammal of grassland/agricultural ecosystems. In the last few decades, the species’ population has declined throughout its range in Europe. The Greek popul...
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