Aligned liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) are soft materials that exhibit reversible actuation akin to human muscles when thermally cycled above their nematic-to-isotropic transition temperature. Here, ...

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The rapidly expanding transportation hub system in China has driven a large number of track and highway engineering projects nationwide, resulting in increasing interchanges of highway and railway ...

With the development and utilization of underground space, many scholars are studying the failure mechanism of tunnel (Xiang et al., 2018; Chen et al., 2019). As a common auxiliary construction method ...

This paper focuses on the wall reinforcement design of toroidal shells with openings. Five 304 stainless steel test models were manufactured, and geometric measurements, three-dimensional scanning, ...

The liquid-cooled thermal management system based on a flat heat pipe has a good thermal management effect on a single battery pack, and this article further applies it to a power battery system to ...

Attemperation equipment is necessary to control steam temperatures at many power plants. However, when the equipment functions improperly or the design is flawed, thermal quenching/shock can damage ...

Here In this study, the composite laminates subjected to transverse impact with consideration interlaminar and intralaminar damage based on Cohesive Zone Model (CZM) and Progressive Damage Model (PDM) ...