With the development of society, there is an increasingly urgent demand for light-weight, high-strength, and high-temperature-resistant structural materials. High-entropy alloys (HEAs) owe much of their unusual properties to the selection among three...
Recent progress in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, has offered several benefits, including high geometrical freedom and the ability to create bioinspired structures with intricate details. Mantis shrimp can scrape the shells of pre...
Lightweight structural design is greatly valued in the aviation, aerospace, and automotive industries. Three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques provide viable and popular technical pathways for the rapid design and manufacturing of lightweight latt...
Integrating innovative solutions for ship design has always been a great challenge for the maritime sector due to complex design and construction processes. With this scenario in mind, the objective of this study was to develop a procedure to evaluat...
The interest in high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPSs) has significantly increased in recent years due to the great versatility of these platforms, which allows them to be employed in a wide variety of applications in civilian and military fields. T...
The structures realized using sandwich technologies combine low weight with high energy absorbing capacity, so they are suitable for applications in the transport industry (automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding industry) where the “lightweight design”...
The ship hull structure is composed of plates and stiffened panels. Estimating the maximum load-carrying capacity, or the ultimate strength, of these structural components is fundamental. One of the main challenges nowadays is the implementation of n...
Line structured light (LSL) measurement systems can obtain high accuracy profiles, but the overall clarity relies greatly on the sampling interval of the scanning process. Photometric stereo (PS), on the other hand, is sensitive to tiny features but...
Rigid metallic fiber structures made from a variety of different metals and alloys have been investigated mainly with regard to their functional properties such as heat transfer, pressure drop, or filtration characteristics. With the recent advent of...
Lightweight pedestrian structures constructed with high strength-to-weight ratio materials, such as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP), may experience large accelerations due to their lightness, thus overcoming the serviceability limit state. Additional...
The study aims to develop an integrating risk-based formulation and cost-benefit analysis for identifying an optimal ship hull structural design solution where the steel cargo holds aluminium honeycomb sandwich panels to replace inner side shells. Th...
The article presents a recognition of the current state of the art in the field of bridge structures made using concrete on lightweight aggregate. The article aims to show the reader why aggregate with low mechanical parameters and high absorption ca...
In spite of the demonstrated efficacy of basalt stone powder as a cost-effective and readily available additive in enhancing the mechanical properties and durability of ordinary-weight concrete, its application in Structural Lightweight Concrete (SLW...
A lightweight infrared target detection model, G-YOLO, based on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is proposed to address the issues of low accuracy in target detection of UAV aerial images in complex ground scenarios and large network models that are...
Background: Men’s Olympic boxing follows a regulatory temporal structure, but previous studies have shown that this structure varies during competitions. However, these investigations have not thoroughly analyzed the differences in bout develop...
The rational design of desirable lightweight structural materials usually needs to meet the strict requirements of mechanical properties. Seeking optimal integration strategies for lightweight structures and high mechanical performance is always of g...
Plastic is a widely consumed material with a high decomposition time, occupying significant space in landfills and dumps. Thus, strategies to reuse plastic waste are imperative for environmental benefit. Plastic waste is a promising eco-friendly buil...
With the continuous improvement of the imaging quality requirement of the space optical system, the large-aperture mirror becomes the research focus. However, the increase of the aperture will increase the whole weight which results in high launch co...
The use of structural lightweight concrete in the construction industry is on the rise in the last few decades mainly because of the higher strength per unit density, as it reduces the total deal load of the structural elements as compared with norma...
Lightweight timber-based structures are an increasingly common part of envelopes of new buildings due to increasing requirements for their energy performance. In addition, due to the fact that wood is a sustainable material, it can be assumed that th...
Research into lightweight structural concrete using volcanic tuff is of great importance to the construction industry. These materials have excellent thermal insulation properties, which helps improve the energy efficiency of buildings. A three-facto...
Segmented timber shells present a novel building system that utilizes modular, planar building components to create lightweight free-form structures in architecture. Recent advancements in the research field of segmented timber shells pursue, among o...
Traditional manufacturing methods struggle to incorporate complex internal configurations within structures, thus restricting the potential for enhancing the strength of offshore structures through internal design. However, the advent of 3D printing...
Topological optimization is an innovative method to realize the lightweight design. This paper proposes a hybrid topology optimization method that combines the SIMP (solid isotropic material with penalization) method and genetic algorithm (GA), calle...
Due to the high strength-to-weight ratio of fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs), human-induced vibration problematic remains as a subject to be fully comprehended in order to extend the use of composites in Bridge Engineering. Thus, this paper studies a...
Material Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing Process (ME-AMP) via Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) offers a higher geometric flexibility than conventional technologies to fabricate thermoplastic lightweight sandwich structures. This study used pol...
The processing of high-precision aerospace parts requires not only ultra-precision machine tools, but also high-efficiency processing. However, in order to realize high-efficiency processing, besides optimizing the system and process parameters, some...
With the development of nanotechnology, nanomaterials have been introduced to improve the engineering properties of cement-based building materials. An abundant number of studies have been carried out on normal-weight concrete using multi-walled carb...
Remote sensing image super-resolution plays an important role in object recognition, urban monitoring, and fine-grained remote sensing interpretation. This paper studies lightweight single-image remote sensing image super-resolution, in which only on...
To achieve resource efficiency and an increased performance, as well as a higher safety and more features for vehicles, lightweight composites are a central sphere of activity for automotive innovations. This becomes particularly striking if the focu...
In order to explore the relationship between the hydraulic performance, pressure pulsation, and structural characteristics of lightweight axial flow pumps, this paper takes the axial flow pump as the research object and analyzes pressure pulsation an...
One of the most widely used methods for representing the shapes of ships and offshore plants is triangular mesh, which has a simple structure and is easy to visualize. In particular, lightweight models composed of triangular meshes are often used as...
It is widely accepted that the lightweight design of a grid fin is closely related to its aerodynamic performance and structural integrity, while limited work seeks their balance. This study proposes a lightweight grid fin design method by taking the...
The use of artificial porous aggregates for the production of lightweight cement concrete is widespread and used everywhere. In most cases, lightweight artificial aggregates are used to produce concrete of the standard structure using vibration techn...
The table recognition model rows and columns aggregated network (RCANet) uses a semantic segmentation approach to recognize table structure, and achieves better performance in table row and column segmentation. However, this model uses ResNet18 as th...
In aerospace engineering, structural lightweight remains one of the core design objectives. Here, a design methodology combining topology optimization (TO) with honeycomb materials is proposed to achieve lightweight for a typical aircraft double-lug...
The current structural engineering practical standards are unable to offer an universal structural design standard for long-spanning lightweight stadium roofing structures. As such, the design procedure of a particular stadium roof is not replicable...
Addressing the technical bottlenecks of excessive surface density in traditional magnetic metal powder absorbers and excessive thickness in conventional foam-based absorbers, this study proposes a novel lightweight, ultra-wideband microwave-absorbing...
In engineering design, introducing lattice structures offers a cost-effective method for reducing weight while enhancing load-bearing efficiency, compared to merely enhancing the material strength of a solid component. Among the various lattice struc...
Combination of lightweight and sustainable marine structures represents a crucial step to accomplish weight reduction and improve structural response. A key point when considering the reliability of innovative structural solutions, which should not b...
With the emergence of slimmer footbridges and the introduction of lighter materials, the challenge of vibrational comfort assessment becomes more and more relevant. Previous studies have shown that each pedestrian will act both as an inducer and a da...
Missing bolts compromise the structural integrity of bolted connections in steel bridges and industrial infrastructure. Manual visual inspection remains labour-intensive, subjective, and hazardous in hard-to-reach locations. This study presents a com...
This study focuses on a novel lightweight technology for manufacturing variable-axial fiber-reinforced polymer components. In the presented approach, channels following the load flow are implemented in an additively manufactured basic structure and i...
Flexible structures are increasingly important in biomedical applications, where they can be used to achieve adaptable designs. This paper presents a study of the design and behavior of 3D-printed lightweight flexible structures. In this work, we foc...
Prefabricated staircases are crucial components in modern architectural structures, but traditional concrete staircases are too heavy for efficient prefabrication, transportation, and construction. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel lightweight h...
Lattice structures offer high lightweight efficiency and tunable mechanical performance, making them promising for applications requiring effective load bearing and controlled deformation. In this study, two new lattice architectures, namely the Hexa...
Air-ground collaborative missions impose coupled constraints on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including restricted platform envelopes, rapid payload reconfiguration, transient interface impacts, and center of gravity (CG) shifts. Conventional seri...
To achieve carbon reduction in architecture, this study establishes a carbon emission calculation model for wooden structures based on life cycle assessment (LCA) theory, using the emission factor method. Carbon emission factors involved in the entir...
Lattice structures offer unique mechanical properties and versatility in engineering applications, yet existing designs often struggle to balance performance and material efficiency. This study introduces the brachistochrone curve as a novel framewor...
K-band radar waves have high penetration and low attenuation coefficients. However, the wavelength of this radar wave is relatively short; thus, designing and preparing both broadband and wide-angle radar wave absorbers in this band presents consider...
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