The structural system is initially idealized as an equivalent single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) model for rapid preliminary estimation of the fundamental period based on global mass and stiffness: $$ M ...

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For the team at North Thin Ply Technology (NTPT), a Lausanne-based manufacturer of high-tech composites for America’s Cup yachts, satellites, F1 cars, and aerospace, abstruse topics like interlaminar ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Irregular coal pillars inevitably appear in the layout of the current long-wall mining ...

In this paper, we present research on a novel low-profile piezoelectric rotary motor with a triangle-shaped stator. The stator of the motor comprises three interconnected piezoelectric bimorph plates ...

The surprising behavior of shear-thickening suspensions, such as the familiar cornstarch–water mixture studied here, is of both fundamental and practical importance, but many aspects are not well ...

From the shear mechanical parameters following dry-wet cycling treatment, we can observe: Influence of the Number of Dry-Wet Cycles on the Shear Mechanical Parameters To study the influence of the ...

Soil-facing mechanical interactions play an important role in the behavior of earth-retaining walls. Generally, numerical analysis of earth-retaining structures requires the use of interface elements ...

This work presents a hybrid experimental technique for stress analysis in pipes due to soil-pipe interaction. It was used a variation of Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry (DSPI) combined with a ...

As a solid approaches a rigidity transition, its failure behavior changes dramatically: cracks become wider and wider until their width reaches the system size. In this regime, bonds initially break ...