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Toni Utech, Tobias Neef, Viktor Mechtcherine and Christina Scheffler
Nature provides various templates for integrating organic and inorganic materials to create high-performance composites. Biological structures such as nacre and the structural elements of the glass sponge are built up in layers, leading to remarkable fra...
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Yudi Xing, Weijie Chen, Xingyu Wang, Fan Tong and Weiyang Qiao
Among the several noise-generation mechanisms of airfoil self-noise, trailing-edge bluntness noise is an important noise source, which is caused by the vortex shedding at blunt trailing edges. A numerical study on airfoil trailing-edge bluntness noise co...
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Harsha Cheemakurthy, Zuheir Barsoum, Magnus Burman and Karl Garme
The current study focuses on the impact loading phase characteristic of thin first year ice in inland waterways. We investigate metal grillages, fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) composites and nature-inspired composites using LS Dyna. The impact mode is mo...
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Xinyu Shi, Yuan Liang, Tyson Keen Phillips, Haining Zhou, Da Wan, Weijiu Cui and Weijun Gao
Although robotic spatial printing (RSP) has demonstrated a new way of fabricating building components with a good stiffness-to-weight ratio, the complexity of the applied geometries is still limited. Among them are branching geometries, which refer to th...
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Boai Sun, Weikun Li, Zhangyuan Wang, Yunpeng Zhu, Qu He, Xinyan Guan, Guangmin Dai, Dehan Yuan, Ang Li, Weicheng Cui and Dixia Fan
Compared with traditional underwater vehicles, bio-inspired fish robots have the advantages of high efficiency, high maneuverability, low noise, and minor fluid disturbance. Therefore, they have gained an increasing research interest, which has led to a ...
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Simon Gay, Kévin Le Run, Edwige Pissaloux, Katerine Romeo and Christèle Lecomte
This paper presents a novel bio-inspired predictive model of visual navigation inspired by mammalian navigation. This model takes inspiration from specific types of neurons observed in the brain, namely place cells, grid cells and head direction cells. I...
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Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Chayut Ngamkhanong and Tianyu Yang
The new findings exhibit for the first time the nonlinear dynamic phenomena of spider web systems subject to large amplitude precursors stemming from extreme winds, large deformation, material imperfections, hostile climatic conditions and so on. This st...
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Zhaohua Wang, Nan Wu, Qingguo Wang, Yongxin Li, Quanwei Yang and Fenghe Wu
Biological structures have excellent mechanical performances including lightweight, high stiffness, etc. However, these are difficult to apply directly to some given complex structures, such as automobile frame, control arm, etc. In this study, a novel b...
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Yongcheng Li, Jianxin Hu, Qiuzhuo Zhao, Ziying Pan and Zheng Ma
The propulsive performance of a bio-inspired autonomous underwater glider (AUG) with active twin undulatory wings undergoing undulatory motion was investigated by numerically solving the viscous incompressible Navier?Stokes equations, coupled with the im...
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Rania M. Ghoniem
Current research on computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of liver cancer is based on traditional feature engineering methods, which have several drawbacks including redundant features and high computational cost. Recent deep learning models overcome these prob...
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