Organic phototransistors exhibit considerably higher photoresponsivity than diode-like photodetectors owing to gate-field-effect amplification. However, the conventional definition of photoresponsivity (R) fails to accurately capture the photorespons...
The dynamic behavior of relaxed steel wire ropes under slowly varying pulse loads is dominated by the geometric wave impedance effect caused by the helical geometric topology. This study proposes a numerical analysis framework based on high-fidelity...
The coupled aerodynamic performance influence of multiple deviations in the blade profile is a complex phenomena. In this paper, a high-pressure compressor rotor blade mid-span profile is studied with the design of experiments (DOE), numerical simula...
The oxidative coupling of methyl chloride (CH3Cl) to vinyl chloride (C2H3Cl) (MCTV) represents a promising yet challenging direct conversion route for C2H3Cl production. In this study, a novel catalyst, cristobalite silica, supported Na2WO4 nanoclust...
The role of the geometric phase effect in chemical reaction dynamics has long been a topic of active experimental and theoretical investigations. The topic has received renewed interest in recent years in cold and ultracold chemistry where it was sho...
Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is an advanced concrete with superior mechanical strength, ductility and durability properties. However, the influence of steel fiber on its constitutive laws and the specimen geometric dimension effect on its s...
Fatigue fracture is the predominant failure mode in welded joints, where complex stress distributions and stress gradient effects at critical joint regions present major challenges for fatigue design. In civil engineering, the diversity of welded joi...
The tribological characteristics of the cylinder directly affect the operation accuracy of the pneumatic servo system. However, the geometric error has a significant effect on its tribological behavior and the related research is insufficient. Thus,...
Geometrical shock dynamics (GSD) is a model capable of efficiently predicting the position, shape, and strength of a shock wave. Compared to the traditional Euler method that solves the inviscid Euler equations, GSD is a reduced-order model derived f...
The leaching of material from concrete fracture surfaces has an impact on the structural concrete in service, but the number of studies that consider the effect of the coupling of the leaching, fracture geometry and hydraulic processes on concrete fr...
Gymnasium are typically large-span buildings with abundant solar energy resources due to their extensive roof surface. However, relevant research on this topic has not been thoroughly conducted to investigate the effect of the geometric shape of gymn...
We show Zeeman-like splitting in the energy of spinors propagating in a background gravitational field, analogous to the spinors in an electromagnetic field, otherwise termed the Gravitational Zeeman Effect. These spinors are also found to acquire a...
Collective cell migration is an essential phenomenon in many naturally occurring pathophysiological processes, as well as in tissue engineering applications. Cells in tissues and organs are known to sense chemical and mechanical signals from the micr...
The interest in graphene-based electronics is due to graphene’s great carrier mobility, atomic thickness, resistance to radiation, and tolerance to extreme temperatures. These characteristics enable the development of extremely miniaturized high-perf...
The effect of process parameters on geometric dimensions is complex during belt-heated incremental sheet forming, leading to control difficulties in the geometric dimension of parts. In this study, the geometric errors were analyzed under the action...
In this paper, the geometric effect on flow structure and mixing performance of two miscible fluids (deionized water and glycerol) in a planetary centrifugal mixer (PCM) during the spin-up is numerically evaluated, using the OpenFOAM interMixingFoam...
Over the last century, the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beam–column joints has drawn many researchers’ attention due to their complex stress state. Such joints should possess sufficient capacity and ductility to ensure int...
A parametric study that examines the ground surface settlement due to the excavation of shallow offset arrangement twin tunnels is presented. Offset arrangement tunnels are those that run parallel to each other, but at different elevations. The study...
Textiles-fibres, yarns and fabrics are omnipresent in our daily lives, with unique mechanical properties that fit the design specifications for the tasks for which they are designed. The development of yarns and fabrics with negative Poisson’s...
Geometric optics approximation sufficiently describes the effects in the near-earth environment, and Faraday rotation is purely a reference frame effect in this limit. A simple encoding procedure could mitigate the Faraday phase error. However, the f...
Permanent displacements caused by active faults can lead to the severe deformation of tunnel liners. To investigate the effect of fault fracture deformation patterns on the deformation of tunnel liners under fault dislocation, this paper categorized...
A series of studies aimed at developing methods and systems of analyzing epigenetic information in cells and in cell networks, as well as that of genetic information, was examined to expand our understanding of how living systems are determined. Beca...
Abu Dhabi’s government has taken several initiatives to improve the safety of the city’s highways, such as reducing traffic accident occurrence, red light violations, and property damage associated with traffic accidents. However, the intersections a...
The objective of the present paper is to demonstrate the effects of shear deformation and large deflections on the piezoelectric materials and structures which often serve as substrate layers of multilayer composite sensors and actuators. Based on a...
Even when made by brittle materials, awl-shaped serpentine microsprings (ASSMs) were found to have a nonlinear displacement–force relationship similar to springs made by ductile material. It is found that the nonlinear displacement–force...
This study presents a set of experimental and numerical investigations to study the sensitivity of the piezoelectric-based smart interface device to structural damage in a bolted connection. The study aims to identify the proper geometric sizes of sm...
This article investigates the size dependent on piezoelectrically layered perforated nanobeams embedded in an elastic foundation considering the material Poisson’s ratio and the flexoelectricity effects. The composite beam is composed of a regu...
This paper is a study of a generalization of the quantum Riemannian Hamiltonian evolution, previously analyzed by us, in the geometrization of quantum mechanical evolution in a Finsler geometry. We find results with dynamical equations governing the...
This study describes the processing of microneedle (MN) arrays with three different heights of arrowhead (600 µm (A1), 800 µm (A2), and 1000 µm (A3)), pyramid (600 µm (P1), 800 µm (P2), and 1000 µm (P3)), and turre...
There are many possible sources of potential geometrical inaccuracies in each layer of corrugated board during its manufacture. These include, among others, the processes of wetting the corrugated layers during profiling, the process of accelerated d...
The automated vehicle (AV) industry is a new growing industry of great interest. The environmental friendliness of AVs represents a core characteristic of their leap-forward development. The environmental effect of AVs, including its evaluation frame...
The precision of LPBF manufactured parts is quantified by characterizing the geometric tolerances based on the ISO 1101 standard. However, there are research gaps in the characterization of geometric tolerance of LPBF parts. A literature survey revea...
Polymer microstructures are widely used in optics, flexible electronics, and so forth. We demonstrate a cost-effective bottom-up manner for patterning polymer microstructures by evaporative self-assembly under a flexible geometric confinement at a hi...
This paper aims to develop a model for calculating the ball load of the thin-walled flexible bearing (FB) in a harmonic drive under various external torque conditions. The effect of the flexspline (FS) on the FB ball load is considered, and the equiv...
The marine derrick sometimes operates under extreme weather conditions, especially wind; therefore, the buckling analysis of the components in the derrick is one of the critical contents of engineering safety research. This paper aimed to study the l...
Metal additive manufacturing, particularly laser powder bed fusion, is increasingly used in the gas turbine industry for the fabrication of channels with small diameters for conformal cooling and flow passage applications. A critical challenge in thi...
Although various phenomena have confirmed that surface geometry has an impact on surface energy at micro/nano scales, determining the surface energy on micro/nano curved surfaces remains a challenge. In this paper, based on Lennard-Jones (L-J) pair p...
The size and flexibility of offshore turbine blades manufactured from composite materials have continuously increased in recent years. In this context, accurate and efficient aeroelastic analyses are important for designing and safely assessing long,...
The academician Xiaowen Li devoted much of his life to pursuing fundamental research in remote sensing. A pioneer in the geometric-optical modeling of vegetation canopies, his work is held in high regard by the international remote sensing community....
Topography affects the fraction of scene components of the canopy and background, resulting in the observed reflectance distortion. Modeling the canopy reflectance over rugged terrain needs to account for topographic effects. For this purpose, the ex...
This study analyzes several design cases to identify the optimum geometric structure of the offset fin, determined by two design factors: the number of fins in the flow direction and the number of fins in the vertical direction. Increasing the number...
To meet the growing requirements of agricultural mechanization, a newly designed 9.5 m span frame has been introduced to replace the traditional 8.0 m span frame, which is constrained by limited internal space. However, as the structural dimensions i...
This article presents a numerical study of the influence of applied nonlinearities on the response of a flat slab–column structure under progressive collapse conditions. A key aspect of the work is the extension of nonlinear static analysis by...
In the context of growing environmental consciousness, the contemporary construction industry is placing significant emphasis on prolonging the functional lifespan of existing infrastructure. In the event of a modification in the utilisation of a bui...
As expressed “God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil” by W. Pauli, the surface has remarkable properties because broken symmetry in surface alters the material properties. In biological systems, the smallest functional a...
Effective thermal management is critical for sustaining the performance, durability, and stability of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). A thorough numerical investigation of six multi-fin zigzag cooling-channel geometries operating under...
Background: A standard spinal traction (ST) device was designed to straighten the spine without considering physiological lumbar lordosis. Using lordotic curve-controlled traction (LCCT), which maintains the lordotic curve during traction, the tracti...
Understanding heritability patterns in functionally relevant traits is a cornerstone for evaluating their evolutionary potential and their role in local adaptation. In this study, we investigated patterns of heritability in the head shape of the Hung...
This study addressed the issue of insufficient lubrication in the thrust washer of the planetary gear reducer during operation. Numerical simulations were performed under fixed operating conditions, combined with sequential optimization strategy, to...
The effect of the geometric parameters on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a double-layer U-shape microchannel heat sink (DL-MCHS) for a high-power diode laser was investigated in this work. FLUENT 19.2 based on the finite volume method...
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