Rail support modulus is an important factor in safety of railway track. This parameter is defined as support force imposing on rail length unit per rail unit displacement in vertical direction. Rail ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. A computational phantom Force Balance, Maximum Entropy Homogenization Procedure is ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Advancing cancer research depends significantly on developing accurate and reliable ...

This study investigates the influence of strut height on the shimmy stability of aircraft nose landing gear through both theoretical modeling and experimental validation. A nonlinear dynamic model ...

This study uses a fully coupled dynamic effective stress analysis method to evaluate the seismic response of a site containing silty sand which is a liquefiable interlayer. A generalized plasticity ...

The mechanical properties of electrochemically deposited Li whiskers critically determine the failure mechanisms of Li metal batteries, yet they remain elusive at the single-whisker level. Here, the ...

The dielectric elastomer (DE) is a new kind of functional polymer that can be used as a smart actuator due to the large deformation induced by voltage excitation. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) ...

Nanoindentation is a measurement technique which is important in measuring Young’s modulus and hardness in thin films and any other situations involving the measurement of limited amounts of material.

The rupture of aortic aneurysms causes around 10,000 deaths each year in the United States. Prosthetic tubes for aortic repair present a large mismatch of mechanical properties with the natural aorta, ...

Many exterior components on modern automobiles are fabricated from advanced polymer and composite materials. Knowledge of the strength and durability of these raw materials is becoming increasingly ...