Accurate identification of complex crack networks with branching and intersecting topologies remains a challenge in aerospace and civil engineering. Conventional non-destructive testing techniques are constrained by limited coverage and equipment acc...
Predatory cone snails (Conus) developed a sophisticated neuropharmacological mechanism to capture prey, escape against other predators, and deter competitors. Their venom’s remarkable specificity for various ion channels and receptors is an evo...
Component identification and depth estimation are important for detecting the integrity of post-disaster structures. However, traditional manual methods might be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and influenced by subjective judgments of inspectors. D...
This industrial research focuses on the implementation and development of a productive process for an automotive structural component (Shock tower) manufactured by a high-pressure die casting (HPDC) process made of aluminum alloy AuralTM-5. This alum...
Although there have been several analyses for identifying cancer-associated pathways, based on gene expression data, most of these are based on single pathway analyses, and thus do not consider correlations between pathways. In this paper, we propose...
With the deterioration of bridge performance and ever-increasing amounts of traffic, bridge safety is becoming a concern for the engineering community. A method that can assess a bridge’s condition in real time is urgently needed. The main fact...
Gene–environment interaction (G×E) studies are one of the most important solutions for understanding the “missing heritability” problem in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Although many statistical methods have been pro...
Damage classification is an important topic in the development of structural health monitoring systems. When applied to wind-turbine foundations, it provides information about the state of the structure, helps in maintenance, and prevents catastrophi...
Multilayer insulation (MLI) components are important parts of spacecraft, in which thin films are the core elements. The film thicknesses are generally small, between 10 and 30 μm, to reduce the weight of the spacecraft. During the launch of a spa...
In this work a seismic analysis of structure associated with the complete description of ground motion components is performed. All earthquake excitation components corresponding to the six degrees of freedom, translational and rotational ones need t...
The paper provides a comprehensive overview of stray losses in conductive structural parts of power transformers, addressing the effects of stray magnetic fields on simple conductive plates, the distribution of additional losses across structural com...
Under the action of the same wind azimuth, the extreme values of the wind load effect components of building structures are generated in the along-wind, cross-wind, vertical, and torsional directions. In designing the wind-resistant structure, the ex...
The design of a manipulator arm, which is built from a construction kit, is presented in this article. The procedure is based on the results of the discrete optimization of a truss structure and its application to a simple component system (assuming...
This paper aims at highlighting the main mechanical parameters controlling the behavior of the so-called ‘acceleration-sensitive’ non-structural components (NSCs). The first reports a short review of the current state of knowledge and the critical is...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred in Yangbi County, Yunnan Province on 21 May 2021, with a focal depth of 8 km, and strong ground motion with vertical components was monitored by Yangbi station (53YBX). A total of 14,122 houses were damaged in...
Multi-story, reinforced-concrete (RC) building structures with soft stories are highly vulnerable to damage due to earthquake loads. The soft story causes a significant stiffness irregularity, which has led to numerous buildings collapsing in previou...
Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is currently the most studied immunoglobin class and is frequently used in antibody therapeutics in which its beneficial effector functions are exploited. IgG is composed of two heavy chains and two light chains, forming the ba...
In sectors that require large components with tight tolerances, the control of machine thermal deformations as a result of ambient temperature variations, motor consumption, and heating of moving components is essential. There are many alternatives f...
Thermography is a powerful tool for non-destructive testing of a wide range of materials. Thermography has a number of approaches differing in both experiment setup and the way the collected data are processed. Among such approaches is the Principal...
The most common self-assembly structure for A2B copolymer is the micellar structure with B/A segments being the core/corona, which greatly limits its application range. Following the principle of structure deciding the properties, a reformation in th...
Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been proposed to estimate generalizability theory (GT) variance components, primarily focusing on estimating relative error to calculate generalizability coefficients. Proposals for estimating absolute-error com...
Current seismic design practices primarily emphasize the structural safety of buildings, while research on the safety of non-structural components in interior design remains relatively insufficient. In this study, from the perspective of interior des...
Structural damage detection is an important issue in conservation. In this research, principal component analysis (PCA) has been applied to the temporal variation of modal frequencies obtained from a dynamic test of a scaled steel structure subjected...
Soft stories in buildings are well-known to present structural vulnerabilities during seismic events, and the failure of non-structural components (NSCs) has been evident in past earthquakes, along with structural damage. This study seeks to investig...
Accurate satellite component segmentation plays a fundamental role in numerous on-orbit perception tasks, including spacecraft pose estimation, autonomous robotic servicing, and space situational awareness. However, existing segmentation methods stil...
Nonstructural components (NSCs) are the systems that are attached to the floors of a building structure. NSCs have become critical in sustaining post-earthquake functionality while constructing seismic-resilient structures. The seismic behavior of th...
In this paper, we studied the operability of various components of vacuum electronic devices manufactured using the novel chemical metallization of photopolymer 3D-printed structures technology (CMPS), which is being applied at the Institute of Appli...
In embedded software for critical domains such as medical devices and defense, requirement traceability is essential for ensuring quality attributes. Standards and regulations mandate traceability between requirements and artifacts such as design ele...
Time-series data are widespread and have inspired numerous research works in machine learning and data analysis fields for the classification and clustering of temporal data. While there are several clustering methods for univariate time series and a...
Resilient wheels are widely employed in metro vehicles to mitigate vibration and noise, in which rubber damping components play a critical role in load transmission and fatigue resistance. However, stress concentration and cyclic loading can signific...
Additively manufactured mechanical components show great lightweight characteristics and can often be enhanced by integrating biomimetic geometrical features. This study focuses on one specific subcase, namely the substitution of solid cylindrical be...
Thin-walled structural components possess low structural stiffness and are prone to regenerative chatter in milling, while continuous material removal leads to time-varying dynamic characteristics during machining. For traditional methods concerning...
Fuzzy clustering has been broadly applied to classify data into K clusters by assigning membership probabilities of each data point close to K centroids. Such a function has been applied into characterizing the clusters associated with a statistical...
The process of lipid crystallization influences the characteristics of lipid. By changing the chemical composition of the lipid system, the crystallization behavior could be controlled. This review elucidates the internal factors affecting lipid crys...
In the early 2010s, with rising oil prices and increasing purchase orders for offshore structures for deep-sea resource development, the shipyards that took these orders suffered unexpected losses. Unlike the construction of commercial carrier vessel...
Genetic structure and biodiversity of the medicinal plant Ficus deltoidea have rarely been scrutinized. To fill these lacunae, five varieties, consisting of 30 F. deltoidea accessions were collected across the country and studied on the basis of mole...
The use of expanded polymeric materials is becoming increasingly widespread in the industrial sector, not only for energy absorption purposes but also for structural applications. The most widely used approach to model the large strain elastic respon...
By using the classical Lie algebra, the stationary zero curvature equation, and the Lenard recursion equations, we obtain the non-isospectral TD hierarchy. Two kinds of expanding higher-dimensional Lie algebras are presented by extending the classica...
Metal replacements for automotive and aerospace components are already a consolidated reality, in light of the advantages offered by fibre-reinforced polymers, consisting of reduced costs, weight, and environmental impact. As a result, engineering ha...
The quality of the fiber orientation of injection molding simulations and the transferred fiber orientation content, due to the process–structure coupling, influence the material modeling and thus the prediction of subsequently performed struct...
Neutron diffraction is an effective and nondestructive method to investigate inner structure and stress distribution inside bulk materials and components. Compared with X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction allows a relatively high penetration depth...
Porous hierarchical structures are extensively utilized in engineering for their high specific strength, enhanced corrosion resistance, and multifunctionality. Over the past two decades, multiscale topology optimization for these structures has garne...
The brazing of structural high-temperature-resistant nickel alloys is a predominant method in manufacturing jet engines in the aircraft industry. Ni-Cr-base brazing filler metals (BFMs) containing B and Si as the melting point depressants are used fo...
This study aims to address quality issues in the production of prefabricated steel structural components for buildings by investigating challenges in quality risk assessment. It identifies key factors contributing to quality problems and establishes...
Automated damage inspection of railway viaducts requires pixel-level identification of structural components and surface damage such as cracking and rebar exposure. A common assumption in bridge inspection is that damage segmentation improves when co...
The building and construction sector accounts for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with steel-framed buildings being a significant contributor due to high CO2 emissions during production. To mitigate this issue, integrating Cross-Lamina...
Latent class analysis (LCA) has been applied in many research areas to disentangle the heterogeneity of a population. Despite its popularity, its estimation method is limited to maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), which requires large samples to sat...
Ten ferrocenyl bis-amide derivatives were successfully synthesized via the Ugi four-component reaction by treating ferrocenecarboxylic acid with diverse aldehydes, amines, and isocyanides in methanol solution. Their chemical structures were fully cha...
The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily is a large group of membrane proteins which, because of their vast involvement in cell signalling pathways, are implicated in a plethora of disease states and are therefore considered to be key drug t...
Although earlier studies had connected material scarcity and price fluctuation to cost overruns and delays in Qatar’s building projects, the root causes of this volatility had not been investigated. To close this crucial gap, this study looked...
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