Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The loss of either a penultimate-internal (PI) or a penultimate-external (PE) column is the most critical scenario since it leaves the associated beam-slab floor structures with lack of external lateral support. …”
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Control system design for EPTB by Tan, Sing Guan

“…Previous research was mainly on the Indoor air quality (IAQ) and the negative ion air performance on passive thermosiphon beam (PTB). This is because thermal comfort is only one of the many factors that contribute to good IAQ. …”
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TORCH — an innovative high-precision time-of-flight PID detector for the LHCb upgrade by Föhl, K, Brook, N, García, LC, Cowie, EN, Cussans, D, Forty, R, Frei, C, Gao, R, Gys, T, Harnew, N, Piedigrossi, D, van Dijk, M

“…Preparations for the upcoming test beam are discussed. Optical design studies have been performed for using one of the available bar boxes of the BaBar DIRC detector containing assembled quartz radiator bars in a future test beam experiment.…”

Mobile app for battery prognostic by Li, Zhengfan

“…However, safety risks and aging challenge their reliability and durability, often leaving end-users lacking expertise to bear these risks. This study introduces an intelligent battery management system (BMS) integrated into a mobile application to provide intuitive decision-making support. …”
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Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…After further classifying the stock market data into bull and bear periods, then by looking at the days of extreme negative returns in each situation, we realize that the safe haven effect in these assets tends to be stronger in bearish stock markets. …”
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Scenes of misrecognition (Koltès, Duras) by Killeen, M-C

“…What is most fascinating about these works is the curious way in which they appear to bear all the markings of confessions yet pointedly refuse to behave like them, thwarting the desire for revelation, catharsis, and closure at every turn. …”

Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…Multiple reflections of the laser beam have been developed by employing the ray-tracing model to simulate the keyhole-mode melting phenomenon. …”
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Numerical analysis in rock engineering by Zhu, Cheng.

“…Three modes of crack coalescence, shear, tensile and mixed types, are observed. The measured stresses and displacements depend on both external and internal factors. …”
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Heat transfer enhancement in drag-reducing channel flow by Yeo, Keng Hoo

“…In contrast to the polymer additives, mechanical degradation of surfactant additives when exposed to regions of high shear stress or repeated heating and cooling is only temporary. …”
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Stability of unsaturated soil slopes under rainfall and seismic loading by Huang, Wengui

“…The effect of cyclic loading on the shear strength of unsaturated soils was investigated by conducting cyclic and monotonic simple shear tests. …”
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Mixed convection of ferrohydrodynamics magnetized hybrid ferrofluid on a slip-permeable stretching sheet by Kamis, Nur Ilyana, Lim, Yeou Jiann, Rawi, Noraihan Afiqah, Shafie, Sharidan

“…Forced convection reduces velocity profile and shear stress more rapidly than mixed and natural convection, exhibiting distinct thermal field and Nusselt number patterns. …”
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Design, modeling and performance optimization of active air terminal system by Ke, Ji

“…Among various ACMV schemes, the active air terminals (active chilled beam and active thermosiphon beam) have outstanding performance on energy saving, indoor environment quality improvement and space saving. …”
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Integrated photonic devices for realizing photonic quantum computing: part 1: FDTD (quantum devices) by Muhammad Faris Zikri Bin Zainal

“…To advance photonic quantum computing, this report focuses on the usage of integrated photonic devices, namely beam splitters functioning as directional couplers. …”
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Laser scanning imaging system for underwater robotics vehicle by Xu, Lin

“…Various illumination volume settings of a laser beam are tested and their output images are evaluated by the MTF (modulation transfer function) assessment. …”
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Selective Laser Melting of Metal Powders Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulation by Tang, C., Li, B., Wong, C. H.

“…Cu atoms were heated up by a mobile laser beam and subsequently cooled down by a Ni-base plate underneath them. …”
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Ultra-thin bulk silicon thinning of advanced microprocessors & graphics processors fabricated in Sub-20 nm technology by Teo, Wee Siang

“…In particular, initial fault isolation techniques exploit infrared laser beams to probe the circuitry through silicon thinned mechanically to 50 um. …”
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Caustic object construction based on multiple caustic patterns by Tandianus, Budianto, Johan, Henry, Seah, Hock Soon

“…Working backward, from the computed refracted light beam paths we compute the geometry of the caustic object that can produce such light beam paths. …”
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Multifidelity Methods for Design of Transition MetalComplexes by Janet, Jon Paul

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Spatiotemporal signatures of elastoinertial turbulence in viscoelastic planar jets by Yamani, Sami, Raj, Yashasvi, Zaki, Tamer A., McKinley, Gareth H., Bischofberger, Irmgard

“…Increasing the fluid elasticity merges the shear-layer instability into a bulk instability of the jet column. …”
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Structural and metamorphic architecture of the Zanskar Himalaya, Suru Valley region, NW India: Implications for the evolution of the Himalayan metamorphic core by Cawood, IP, St-Onge, MR, Weller, OM, Searle, MP, Waters, DJ, Ahmad, T

“…Thrust-sense D2 fabrics were reactivated during D3 as the Greater Himalayan Sequence was exhumed along the normal-sense Zanskar Shear Zone, which is part of the South Tibetan Detachment System. …”