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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Automated vision-based structural health monitoring (SHM) of catenary support components is critical for ensuring railway operational safety. However, achieving reliable structural damage identification in practical engineering scenarios is hindered...
Recent studies have shown the change of microstructure during hot-bending in uniaxial specimens made of AZ31B alloy. They also investigated the influence of the changed microstructure on the quasi-static and cyclic material behavior under uniaxial st...
Phosphorus (P) and silicon (Si) could profoundly affect the net primary productivity (ANPP) of grassland ecosystems. However, how ecosystem biomass will respond to different Si addition, especially under a concurrent increase in P fertilization, rema...
Fire is generally recognized as a major threat to the protection of historic timber architecture. Thus, there is an urgent need to study the fire properties of historic timber structures so as to better protect them in the future. Two types of common...
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...
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...
The article presents a numerical analysis of the process of damage of structural steel, the scope of which encompassed the estimation of the time to failure of a structural component. The analysis was conducted using the Gurson–Tvergaard–...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Point clouds from laser scanners have been widely used in recent research on indoor modeling methods. Currently, particularly in data-driven modeling methods, data preprocessing for dividing structural components and nonstructural components is requi...
This Special Issue covers the broad topic of structural integrity of components subjected to either static or fatigue loading conditions, and it is concerned with the modelling, assessment and reliability of components of any scale. Dealing with frac...
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...
Betel leaves are widely used as herbal medicine in Asia due to their antimicrobial properties. These properties have been attributed to the phenolic compound eugenol and its derivative, hydroxychavicol. Hydroxychavicol has also been shown to inhibit...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Plasmodesmata (PD) are plant-specific channels connecting adjacent cells to mediate intercellular communication of molecules essential for plant development and defense. The typical PD are organized by the close apposition of the plasma membrane (PM)...
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...
Structural adhesives or fixing glues are typically applied to larger components on printed circuit boards (PCBs) to increase mechanical stability and minimize damage from vibration. Existing work tends to focus on component placement verification and...
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...
In today’s data-driven age, the thermal properties of computer transistors play an important role. In this research, finite element simulation is employed to construct the structural model of the primary components within a computer chassis, an...
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...
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...
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