Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Rail support modulus is an important factor in safety of railway track. This parameter is defined as support force imposing on rail length unit per rail unit displacement in vertical direction. Rail ...

Abstract: With the advantages of energy concentration, low attenuation, and long propagation distance, featured guided waves (FGWs) have shown great potential in the detection of weld structures.

Abstract: The result of single-ended traveling wave fault location method based on wavelet transform will be affected by false wavelet transform modulus maxima (WTMM) points. In this paper, fault ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. A computational phantom Force Balance, Maximum Entropy Homogenization Procedure is ...

The mechanical properties of electrochemically deposited Li whiskers critically determine the failure mechanisms of Li metal batteries, yet they remain elusive at the single-whisker level. Here, the ...

Several engineering practices have shown that the excavation of shallow-buried tunnels beneath major roads, as well as the selection of appropriate engineering measures and construction methods, has a ...

The seepage failure induced by high water pressure along the fault structural plane is one of the main factors for the deformation and failure of underground caverns. Based on the pipe domain seepage ...

Stiffness matching between the probe and deformed portion of the sample in piezo-drive peak force modulation atomic force microscopy (AFM) limits the modulus measurement range of single probes. Here ...

A number of essential processes in biology and materials science, such as vesicle fusion and fission as well as pore formation, change the membrane topology and require formation of saddle surfaces.

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, India. Figure 1. Schematic structure of (a) a single graphene sheet; (b) graphene oxide (GO) ...