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Christoforos S. Rekatsinas, Dimitris K. Dimitriou and Nikolaos A. Chrysochoidis
The present paper investigates the design process and the dimensioning of a tailless type-C composite sandwich unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The objective is to investigate an innovative aircraft configuration which exceeds the standard approach of ribs...
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Sebastian Pech, Maximilian Autengruber, Markus Lukacevic, Roman Lackner and Josef Füssl
In recent years, the use of timber as a building material in larger construction applications such as multi-story buildings and bridges has increased. This requires a better understanding of the material to realize such constructions and design them more...
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Shouju Miao, Xiaojian Zhan, Yangbing Yuan and Lijun Jia
This study investigates the mechanical performance of a polyester fiber concrete continuous rigid frame bridge during construction and the spatial stress distribution of the 0# block box girder, with a focus on the backdrop of the bridge in Pipa Zhou, Ji...
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Dario De Domenico, Emanuele Gandelli and Alberto Gioitta
The inelastic response of reinforced concrete (RC) frames under seismic loading is influenced by mechanical and geometrical properties and by the reinforcement arrangement of the beam?column members. In this paper, the seismic response and recentering be...
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Aidar G. Sharifullin, Artyom V. Gusarov, Olga A. Lavrova and Achim A. Beylich
A very noticeable increase in the beaver population (mainly the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber L.)) in the East European Plain since the end of the 20th century through reintroduction contributed to the emergence of a large number of beaver dams and ponds...
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Esubalew Dessie, Tamrat Tesfaye, Rotich Kipchirchir Gideon, Melkie Getnet Tadesse and Yiping Qiu
Enset bundle fibers were divided lengthwise into four sections from bottom to top and the sections? physio-mechanical parameters were studied and compared. The four equal fiber sections from the bottom were 0?375 mm (EV-I), 375?750 mm (EV-II), 750 mm?112...
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Peter L. Bishay, James S. Kok, Luis J. Ferrusquilla, Brian M. Espinoza, Andrew Heness, Antonio Buendia, Sevada Zadoorian, Paul Lacson, Jonathan D. Ortiz, Ruiki Basilio and Daniel Olvera
Conventional aircraft use discrete flight control surfaces to maneuver during flight. The gaps and discontinuities of these control surfaces generate drag, which degrades aerodynamic and power efficiencies. Morphing technology aims to replace conventiona...
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Suniti Suparp, Nazam Ali, Ahmed W. Al Zand, Krisada Chaiyasarn, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Ekkachai Yooprasertchai, Qudeer Hussain and Panuwat Joyklad
Salient features of lightweight aggregate concrete (LAC) include noticeable fire resistance, high strength-to-weight ratio, and low magnitude of dead loads. Further, LAC has a low cost, eases construction practices, and possesses an environment-friendly ...
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Peter L. Bishay and Christian Aguilar
Although the benefits of morphing wings have been proven in many studies in the last few decades, the wing skin design remains one of the challenges to advancing and implementing the morphing technology. This is due to the conflicting design requirements...
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Wu Zhao, Yuanfeng Mao, Dan Lu, Yongguang Huang, Lingjuan Zhao, Qiang Kan and Wei Wang
Modulation bandwidth enhancement of directly modulated semiconductor lasers (DMLs) has attracted broad interest to accommodate the tremendously growing demand for network traffic. In this paper, a monolithically integrated mutually coupled (IMC) laser fo...
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