A Hybrid Active Contour and Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Segmenting Mixed-Meal Food Images (S/O: 13239) by Harun, Nor Hazlyna, Mahmuddin, Massudi, Harun, Hazaruddin

“…In addition, a modified active contour method is presented in this paper using the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm to optimize the weights of the external energy function in the original active contour (AC) method. …”
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Load‑bearing behaviors of sandwich plates with non‑uniformly distributed grid cores : Static compression and bending by Hao, Ning, Wang, Youlong, Song, Yiheng, Ruan, Sihan, Quanjin, Ma, Wang, Ziying

“…Under bending loading, most NUGPs experience local failure at the loading head, while the specific category surpassing GPs undergoes shear buckling in longer grid walls. (3) Deformation modes of the core layer, mechanical analysis, thin plate buckling theory, and equivalent bending stiffness calculations elucidate the load-bearing mechanisms of NUGPs. These findings enhance topology optimization research for sandwich plates, provide guidance for grid wall arrangements under different loading conditions, and offer insights for designing lightweight sandwich structures.…”
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Enhancing fouling mitigation of submerged flat-sheet membranes by vibrating 3D-spacers by Tan, Yong Zen, Mao, Ziming, Zhang, Yanjun, Tan, Wen See, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Wu, Bing, Chew, Jia Wei

“…The designed 3D-spacers were produced by 3D printing technique and their fouling control efficiencies were experimentally examined in a submerged flat-sheet membrane MF system with bentonite and sodium alginate as model foulants. …”
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Impact of bioconvection and chemical reaction on MHD nanofluid flow due to exponential stretching sheet by Asjad, Muhammad Imran, Sarwar, Noman, Ali, Bagh, Hussain, Sajjad, Sitthiwirattham, Thanin, Reunsumrit, Jiraporn

“…This communication presents the momentum and thermal transportation of nanofluid flow over a sheet that stretches exponentially. The fluid moves through a porous matrix in the presence of a magnetic field that is perpendicular to the flow direction. …”
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Effect of accelerated weathering on fire performance and general composition of photovoltaic (PV) back sheets by Mohamed Muhsin Mohamed Baseer Ahamed

“…However, the more commonly used configuration in the industry are PV systems with a polymer based back sheet layer. This PV back sheet layer is moreover exposed to outside environments under UV exposure. …”
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Practical forming die design and manufacture for sheet metal stainless steel precision parts by Cheung, Thomas Wing Lau.

“…This project deals with precision stainless steel sheet metal forming which produces parts in the regime of near net shape. …”
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Brand- and price-based usage pattern analysis on peer-to-peer car-sharing platform by Tan, Xuan Yi

“…The Sharing Economy has greatly improved people’s lives by bringing convenience of sharing daily necessities from portable chargers to vehicles such as bicycles and cars with lower cost. With the prevalence of Sharing Economy and the increasing support on car- sharing from the Chinese government, the NTU-BMW Future Mobility Research Lab wants to find out more on consumers’ usage patterns, based on car brand and price of the Chinese peer-to-peer car-sharing users. …”
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Tensile loading characteristics of free-form and water submerged single layer graphene sheet by Vijayaraghavan, V., Wong, C. H.

“…The effect of sheet size on the mechanical performance is investigated by subjecting the graphene sheet to tensile loading at various temperatures. …”
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The impact of musical fit and sound design on consumers’ perception of a luxury car ad by Sze Yeoh, JP, Han, MG, Spence, C

“…A study is reported that was designed to investigate the influence of various kinds of sonic accompaniment on consumers’ perception of a high-end luxury sports car. Using a between-participants experimental design, groups of 40 participants viewed a short car ad. …”

Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion by Bradley, AT, Hewitt, IJ

“…Marine ice sheets are highly sensitive to submarine melting in their grounding zones, where they transition between grounded and floating ice. …”

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

“…This study investigates it in a ferrohydrodynamics magnetized hybrid ferrofluid on a slip stretching sheet affected by suction and injection. Using the modified Tiwari and Das model, the behavior of the hybrid ferrofluid, magnetite ferrite (Formula presented.) and cobalt ferrite (Formula presented.) based-water and ethylene glycol are explored. …”
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Effects of high loading rate on reinforced concrete beams by Fujikake, Kazunori, Adhikary, Satadru Das, Li, Bing

“…Comparative analyses of RC beams under these varying loading rates highlighted several key aspects of their dynamic behavior.…”
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Timoshenko beam effect in flexural resonant column tests by Leong, Eng Choon, Cheng, Z. Y.

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Behaviour of continuous deep beams with unsymmetrical web openings by Tham, Win Yen

“…It is important to understand that deep beams behave differently from normal beams. Due to their dimensions, deep beams are predominantly controlled by shear strength. …”
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Sustainable structural design optimization - prestressed concrete beams by Ng, Kok Hang

“…The case study revealed that for an 18 m wide bridge, a 3-beam layout generates lesser overall EC than a 4-beam layout and a beam length (thus column spacing) of 20 to 26 m is likely to produce the lowest EC for the bridge system. …”
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Shear strength of reinforced and prestressed concrete deep beams by Lu, Hai Yun.

“…The studies in this thesis mainly focus on the general behaviour, analysis and design in the shear strength of large reinforced and post-tensioned concrete deep beams. The influence of main steel ratio p, concrete strength fc', shear span-to-overall-height ratio a/h (or shear span-to-effective-depth ratio a/d), overall height h and prestress force on deep beams are investigated.…”
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Vibration of sandwich beams with 2 non-overlapping delaminations by Yip, Kok Seng.

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Vibration of beams with delaminations and embedded piezoelectric sensors and actuators by Della, Christian Ngalatan

“…The delaminated beams are modeled as interconnected Euler-Bernoulli beams using the delaminations as their boundaries. …”
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Nonlinear self-confined plasmonic beams: experimental proof by Kuriakose, T, Renversez, G, Nazabal, V, Elsawy, MMR, Coulon, N, Němec, P, Chauvet, M

“…Controlling low power light beam self-confinement with ultrafast response time opens up opportunities for the development of signal processing in microdevices. …”

An Analytical Model for Pitch Moment Stiffness of Bolted Connections and Its Application in Ballscrew Bearing Support Block Selection by Harlalka, Akshay D., Slocum, Alexander H.

“…While analytical models for the axial stiffness of bolted joints are well developed, models for moment (angular) stiffness of bolted structures, such as ball screw bearing support blocks, are needed to help engineers rapidly design more efficient precision machines. …”
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