The vast majority of proteins in our bodies contain regions that are in a constant state of wiggling, shape-shifting every ...

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Natural filaments have exceptional control over curvature and twist enabled by directional responses embedded within their internal structure. To emulate this complex behavior, we use rotational ...

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1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2 Institute of Computing, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil.

The residual life of transmission line overhead conductors under conditions of fretting fatigue is an important asset management issue for electric network operators. The current industry practice for ...

Multi-modal and controllable shape-morphing constitutes the cornerstone of the functionalization of soft actuators/robots. Involving heterogeneity through material layout is a widely used strategy to ...

Abstract: For the problem of Timoshenko beams with multiple singularities in presence of discontinuities in the stiffness or curvature, the traditional inverse finite element method (iFEM) adopts the ...

where the c i are functions of the elastic constants (which are given by their equilibrium swollen values) and m (see Supplementary Information for further details). In the limit that θ → 0°, we ...

A recent Audioholics article titled “Identifying Legitimately High Fidelity Loudspeakers: the Myths & Facts about Cabinets” posited that one measure of quality is in a well-braced cabinet. Poorly or ...