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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Cen-Ying Liao, Lin Zhang, Si-Yu Hu, Shuai-Jie Xia and D. M. Li
Empowering materials with self-healing capabilities is an attractive approach for sustainable development. This strategy involves using different methods to automatically heal microcracks and damages that occur during the service life of materials or str...
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Daniil Sergeev, Irina V?yushkina, Vladimir Eremeev, Andrei Stulenkov and Kirill Pyalov
This paper presents the results of a study of self-sustained processes excited in a Helmholtz resonator after a flow over its orifice. A comparative analysis of various approaches to the numerical modeling of this problem was carried out, taking into acc...
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Xinlei Duan, Jianlong Chang, Guangsong Chen, Taisu Liu and He Ma
The use of film cooling technology is one of the most effective ways to minimize the damage to wall materials caused by the high-temperature environment in a ramjet. Optimization of the design to achieve the highest film cooling efficiency on the hot wal...
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Nikolaos Bakas
Function approximation is a fundamental process in a variety of problems in computational mechanics, structural engineering, as well as other domains that require the precise approximation of a phenomenon with an analytic function. This work demonstrates...
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Sipho G. Thango, Georgios A. Drosopoulos, Siphesihle M. Motsa and Georgios E. Stavroulakis
A methodology to predict key aspects of the structural response of masonry walls under blast loading using artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented in this paper. The failure patterns of masonry walls due to in and out-of-plane loading are complex d...
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Yilin Qu, Xiao Xie, Shucheng Zhang, Cheng Xing, Yong Cao, Yonghui Cao, Guang Pan and Baowei Song
The manta ray, exemplifying an agile swimming mode identified as the median and paired fin (MPF) mode, inspired the development of underwater robots. Robotic manta typically comprises a central rigid body and flexible pectoral fins. Flexible fins provide...
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Siddharth Gupta, Atul Sharma, Amit Agrawal, Mark C. Thompson and Kerry Hourigan
In the present two-dimensional numerical study, we investigate the roles of geometrical parameters of a hydrofoil (shape/curvature of the leading and trailing edges and thickness) and kinematic parameters (phase difference between heave and pitch (&#...
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Peng Du, Abdellatif Ouahsine, Haibao Hu and Xiaopeng Chen
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Sebastiano Fichera, Gregorio Mariggiò, Mauro Corrado and Giulio Ventura
The numerical integration of discontinuous functions is an abiding problem addressed by various authors. This subject gained even more attention in the context of the extended finite element method (XFEM), in which the exact integration of discontinuous ...
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