Exploring the Mechanical Behavior of a Traditional Japanese Joint for Flexible Structural Design by Ortea Varela, Ines

“…Through computational simulations employing Finite Element Analysis (FEA), the study examines a continuous beam and an unmodified MRO splice, revealing expected behavior in the beam and unexpected tress concentration and displacement asymmetry in the splice. …”
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Development of interactive software (statics) by Chan, Keith Shao Wen

“…As the major part of the whole software, the Beam Analyser is developed to tackle problems in determining reaction forces and plotting shear force diagram and bending moment diagram of a beam subjected to various loadings and support conditions. …”
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Multi-modal piezoelectric energy harvester by Wang, Nan

“…Recent researches of energy harvester are designed as a cantilever beam with piezoelectric material. It was proven that resonant peaks can be achieved with array of harvester beams in wider bandwidth. …”
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Fragmentation of white phosphorus by a cyclic (alkyl)(amino)alumanyl anion by Koshino, Kota, Kinjo, Rei

“…Structural and electronic features of the latter were fully characterized by standard spectroscopic means, X-ray diffraction analysis, and computational studies, which revealed that 2 bears highly polarized Al (δ+) and P (δ-) and relatively short Al-P bonds, indicative of the σ-donating and π-accepting nature of CAAAl groups.…”
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Photonic engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen

“…First, we report the design, fabrication and experimental characterization of surface-emitting THz frequency QCLs with distributed feedback concentric-circular-gratings (CCG) for beam engineering to achieve a narrow beam divergence. …”
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Modeling, validation, and performance of low-frequency piezoelectric energy harvesters by Abdelkefi, A., Barsallo, Nilma, Tang, Lihua, Yang, Yaowen, Hajj, Muhammad R

“…Analytical and finite element electromechanical models that take into account the fact that the piezoelectric sheet does not cover the whole substrate beam are developed. A linear analysis of the analytical model is performed to determine the optimal load resistance. …”
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A novel two-degrees-of-freedom piezoelectric energy harvester by Wu, Hao, Tang, Lihua, Yang, Yaowen, Soh, Chee Kiong

“…The harvester comprises one main cantilever beam and an inner secondary cantilever beam, each of which is bonded with piezoelectric transducers. …”
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Developing a novel radical source for cold, controlled reaction studies by Wu, LY

“…The magnetic focusing effect was also demonstrated on a beam of OH molecules using an imaging system.</p> <p>The control of the alignment of radicals in space was also explored in the studies of the adsorption of O2 on a Cu(111) surface using an alignment-controlled beam. …”

SPP/LSP coupled hybrid mode directed multi-functional surface-enhanced Raman system by Du, Luping

“…By scanning the nanosphere immobilized on the film over the propagation region of SPPs, We can map out the near-field SPP longitudinal field with super-resolution. …”
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Performance Characterization of High-Density Electrospray Thrusters by Corrado, Matthew N., Wangari, Charity, Finch, Michael R., Parameswaran, Lalitha, Cook, Matthew, Holihan, Eric C., Mathews, Richard, Kedzierski, Jakub, Racz, Livia M., Smith, Melissa A., Lozano, Paulo C.

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Measuring the hole-state anisotropy in MgB2 by electron energy-loss spectroscopy by Klie, Robert F., Su, Haibin, Zhu, Yimei, Davenport, James W., Idrobo, Juan-Carlos, Browning, Nigel D., Nellist, Peter D.

“…In particular, we have studied two different crystal orientations, [110] and [001], with respect to the incident electron beam direction, and found significant changes in the near-edge fine structure of the B K-edge. …”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The principle requires those responsible for environmental damage or imminent threats of damage to bear the necessary costs of remediation and prevention. …”
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Factual approach for tropical forest parameters measurement and monitoring: future option with a focus on synergetic use of airborne and terrestrial lidar technologies by Bazezew, Muluken N., Hussin, Yousif A., Kloosterman, Evert H., M. Hasmadi, Ismail

“…This approach contributes to the development of efficient techniques for forest monitoring systems and bears the potential to extend the modelling options from remote sensing data to understory layer trees.…”

Impact resistance of reinforced concrete members by Low, Kun Sheng

“…In this paper, we shall compare the impact resistance of 5 types of concrete beam. These 5 types of concrete beam are: 1) Normal concrete; 2) Normal concrete with steel fibre reinforcement; 3) Lightweight concrete; 4) Lightweight concrete with steel fibre reinforcement; 5) Normal concrete with steel fibre reinforcement and engineered cementitious composite protective layer. …”
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The Impact of Vegetation Morphology on Turbulence and Bedload Transport by Zhao, Tian

“…Results of flume experiments using a constant channel average velocity revealed that bedload transport was predominantly correlated with near-bed turbulence, but was also weakly correlated with near-bed velocity. …”
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First studies on error mitigation by interaction point fast feedback systems for FCC-ee by Salvesen, JPT, Zimmermann, F, Burrows, PN

“…To achieve physics performance, luminosity and beam lifetime must be kept to design specifications. …”

Development and simulation of underwater acoustic modem by Song, Ziming

“…The modem designed is proved to have satisfactory BER performance against UWA channel without consuming excessive computational power.…”
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Luminosity determination in pp collisions at  √𝑠 = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC by Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdelalim, A. A., Abdesselam, A., Abdinov, O., Abi, B., Abolins, M., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Acerbi, E., Acharya, B. S., Ackers, M., Adams, D. L., Addy, T. N., Adelman, J., Aderholz, M., Adomeit, S., Adragna, P., Adye, T.

“…Absolute luminosity calibrations, performed using beam separation scans, have a common systematic uncertainty of ±11%, dominated by the measurement of the LHC beam currents. …”
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Linear A libation tables : a semitic connection explored by Eu Min, Niki Cassandra, Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, Cavallaro, Francesco Paolo

“…Unlike the Linear B language (Mycenaean Greek), Minoan, the language hidden behind Linear A and still undeciphered, bears no apparent similarity to Greek, and any ‘translation’ of Linear A based provisionally on Linear B phonetic values has not produced any tangible result. …”
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A three-membered diazo-aluminum heterocycle to access an Al=C π bonding species by Yan, Chenting, Kinjo, Rei

“…An X-ray study shows that the anionic part of 5 bears a considerable short exocyclic Al-C bond, and computational studies involving molecular orbital and natural bond orbital analysis indicate the Al=C π bonding character. …”
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