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Sichu Xing, Songhang Du, Yingyue Huang, Xingqi Qi and Minghao Sui
Nanofiltration membranes (NF) have been widely used in the field of water treatment because of their advantages of high separation precision, easy operation, and no phase change. Conventional NF membranes, ensnared by the ?trade-off? effect, grapple with...
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Andrey A. Kistanov
Defects are an integral part of the structure of various two-dimensional materials (2D), including 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides. These defects usually govern their electronic properties. In this work, simulations based on the density functional th...
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Yiyang Wei, Changyong Lan, Shuren Zhou and Chun Li
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have gained significant attention owing to their exceptional electronic and optoelectronic properties, including high carrier mobility, strong light?matter interaction, layer-dependent band structure and band gap. The passi...
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Rasoul Najafi Koopas, Natalie Rauter and Rolf Lammering
Methodologies are developed for analyzing failure initiation and crack propagation in highly heterogeneous concrete mesostructures. Efficient algorithms are proposed in Python to generate and pack geometric features into a continuous phase. The continuou...
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Dianwei Gao, Chunwei Zhang and Jianhua Zhang
The energy absorption capacity of materials with negative Poisson?s ratio (NPR) is attracting interest from both industry and academia due to the excellent impact resistance of the local shrinkage of materials. However, understanding the compressive beha...
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Alice Massimiani, Filippo Panini, Simone Luigi Marasso, Matteo Cocuzza, Marzia Quaglio, Candido Fabrizio Pirri, Francesca Verga and Dario Viberti
Underground porous media are complex multiphase systems, where the behavior at the macro-scale is affected by physical phenomena occurring at the pore(micro)-scale. The understanding of pore-scale fluid flow, transport properties, and chemical reactions ...
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Michael Tesfaye Bekele and Cemil Atakara
Residential buildings have a list of functions, and one of the top priories is the thermal comfort of its occupants. Thermal comfort can be one of the measurements of successful building performance, and it can be addressed in various ways to provide a g...
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Jaime Perez-Martinez and Rodrigo Perez Fernandez
Since the introduction of scientific disciplines into the shipbuilding process, there has been a search for optimisation of human and material resources. The current environmental crisis is putting additional pressure on global resource management and sp...
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Satwik Kundu, Rupshali Roy, M. Saifur Rahman, Suryansh Upadhyay, Rasit Onur Topaloglu, Suzanne E. Mohney, Shengxi Huang and Swaroop Ghosh
The size of transistors has drastically reduced over the years. Interconnects have likewise also been scaled down. Today, conventional copper (Cu)-based interconnects face a significant impediment to further scaling since their electrical conductivity de...
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Roberto Valentino
Modelling the presence and the effect of a thin weak layer of soil or rock in a slope stability analysis performed through the finite element method (FEM) presents several problems of purely numerical nature. This paper deals with a parametric analysis o...
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