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Singh, Diwakar (author), Sharma, S. (author), Kumar, Rajeev (author), Chauhan, Vishal S. (author), Vaish, Rahul (author)Although conventional actuators like piezoelectric and electrostrictive are efficient, but they required hard wiring, which contaminates the control signal and adds to the weight of the structure. The current study presents a wireless control strategy using photostrictive actuators. Owing to the fortunate combination of photovoltaic effect...journal article 2023
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Khatami, Mohamad (author), Doniavi, Ali (author), Abazari, Amir Musa (author), Fotouhi, M. (author)This paper presents a new design strategy to improve the flexibility and strength-to-weight ratio of polymeric stents. The proposed design introduces a variable-thickness (VT) stent that outperforms conventional polymeric stents with constant thickness (CT). While polymeric stents offer benefits like flexibility and bioabsorption, their...journal article 2023
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Reusen, J.M. (author), Steffen, R (author), Steffen, Holger (author), Root, B.C. (author), van der Wal, W. (author)Significant land uplift and horizontal motions have been recorded with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in areas such as Alaska, Iceland and the Northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP) as a result of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) due to ice melt after the Little Ice Age. Here, analysis of horizontal displacement rates can be of...journal article 2023
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van Kootwijk, A. (author), Jonker, B. P. (author), Wolvius, E. B. (author), Cruz Saldivar, M. (author), Leeflang, M.A. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Tümer, N. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Objective: Mandibular reconstruction using patient-specific cage implants is a promising alternative to the vascularized free flap reconstruction for nonirradiated patients with adequate soft tissues, or for patients whose clinical condition is not conducive to microsurgical reconstruction. This study aimed to assess the biomechanical...journal article 2023
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Glaesener, R. N. (author), Kumar, Siddhant (author), Lestringant, C. (author), Butruille, T. (author), Portela, C. M. (author), Kochmann, D. M. (author)Although architected materials based on truss networks have been shown to possess advantageous or extreme mechanical properties, those can be highly affected by tolerances and uncertainties in the manufacturing process, which are usually neglected during the design phase. Deterministic computational tools typically design structures with the...journal article 2023
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Yang, Fan (author), Zhang, P. (author), Wang, Yuan (author), Wei, Kai (author), Dong, Liwei (author), Wang, Ping (author)The coupled vehicle-track system (CVTS) dynamics have been extensively investigated for decades. However, the calculation accuracy of prevailing vehicle-track coupling models needs to be improved in the high frequency range due to the inappropriate model simplification and neglect of material nonlinearity. In this study, we propose a refined...journal article 2023
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Lesueur, M. (author), Rattez, Hadrien (author), Colomés, Oriol (author)Flow simulations on porous media, reconstructed from Micro-Computerised Tomography (μCT) scans, is becoming a common tool to compute the permeability of rocks. Still, some conditions need to be met to obtain accurate results. Only if the sample size is equal or larger than the Representative Elementary Volume will the computed effective...journal article 2022
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Li, Z. (author), Jiang, X. (author), Hopman, J.J. (author)This paper conducts a numerical analysis on the external surface cracked steel pipes reinforced with Composite Repair System. A three-dimensional finite element (FE) model is developed to calculate the Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) of the surface crack, and the crack growth process is evaluated by the Paris’ law. The effect of FRP-to-steel...journal article 2022
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Noroozi, Reza (author), Zolfagharian, Ali (author), Fotouhi, M. (author), Bodaghi, Mahdi (author)Additive manufacturing (AM), as one of the most powerful manufacturing methods, is fabricating a three-dimensional (3D) structure using computer-aided design (CAD) data by adding material layer by layer. In contrast to traditional manufacturing processes that start from raw block material and remove waste materials, the AM process can...book chapter 2022
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Fayezioghani, A. (author), Dekker, R. (author), Sluys, Lambertus J. (author)Structural components in corrosive environments such as pipelines, bridges, aircrafts, and turbines are imposed to stress corrosion. A stress corrosion model for pit growth should a) accurately consider the electrochemistry of the corrosion process, b) properly deal with the moving interface between solid and electrolyte, and c) effectively...journal article 2022
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Fayezioghani, A. (author), Dekker, R. (author), Sluys, Lambertus J. (author)Corrosion is a phenomenon observed in structural components in corrosive environments such as pipelines, bridges, aircrafts, turbines, etc. The computational model of corrosion should enjoy two features: a) accurately considering the electrochemistry of corrosion and b) properly dealing with the moving interface between solid and electrolyte....journal article 2022
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Zheng, Li (author), Kumar, Siddhant (author), Kochmann, Dennis M. (author)We present a two-scale topology optimization framework for the design of macroscopic bodies with an optimized elastic response, which is achieved by means of a spatially-variant cellular architecture on the microscale. The chosen spinodoid topology for the cellular network on the microscale (which is inspired by natural microstructures...journal article 2021
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Hedayati, R. (author), Ghavidelnia, Naeim (author), Sadighi, Mojtaba (author), Bodaghi, Mahdi (author)Permeable porous implants must satisfy several physical and biological requirements in order to be promising materials for orthopaedic application: they should have the proper levels of stiffness, permeability, and fatigue resistance approximately matching the corresponding levels in bone tissues. This can be achieved using designer materials...journal article 2021
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Liu, J. (author), Möller, M. (author), Schuttelaars, H.M. (author)In finite element methods, the accuracy of the solution cannot increase indefinitely since the round-off error related to limited computer precision increases when the number of degrees of freedom (DoFs) is large enough. Because a priori information of the highest attainable accuracy is of great interest, we construct an innovative method to...journal article 2021
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Goudarzi, M. (author), Dal Corso, F. (author), Bigoni, D. (author), Simone, A. (author)A dispersion of stiff and thin (‘rigid line’) inclusions (RLIs) in a matrix material may result beneficial for stiffening in the elastic range, but might be detrimental to strength, as material instabilities may be triggered by inclusions when the matrix is brought to a viscoplastic-damaging state. This dual role of RLIs is investigated by...journal article 2021
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Sedighiani, K. (author), Shah, Vitesh (author), Traka, K. (author), Diehl, Martin (author), Roters, Franz (author), Sietsma, J. (author), Raabe, Dierk (author)The capability of high-resolution modeling of crystals subjected to large plastic strain is essential in predicting many important phenomena occurring in polycrystalline materials, such as microstructure, deformation localization and in-grain texture evolution. However, due to the heterogeneity of the plastic deformation in polycrystals, the...journal article 2021
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Fang, P. (author), Jiang, X. (author), Hopman, J.J. (author), Bai, Yong (author)Submarine power cables are considered lifelines in wind farm engineering, playing a key role in transporting electric current produced by wind turbines or wave converter. Cables inevitably confront combined loadings in deep-sea areas, affecting the integrity and safety during their installation and application. In this paper, the mechanical...journal article 2021
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Yoon, Juhee (author), Kwon, Min Hee (author), Shin, D. (author), Lee, Sang Wook (author)Mechanical resonance properties of porous graphene resonators were investigated by simulation studies. The finite element method was utilized to design the porous graphene membrane pattern and to calculate the mechanical resonance frequency and quality factor. The changes in the resonance frequency and quality factor were systematically...journal article 2021
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Naeimi, M. (author)Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) is an important form of damage in wheels and rails that typically has surface and subsurface cracks. Squats are one of the major RCF defects that occur in the running band of rails and can create high dynamic forces and cause rail fracture if they are not detected and treated in time. In the current research, three...doctoral thesis 2020
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Krishnan, Navaneetha (author), Viré, A.C. (author), Schmehl, R. (author), van Bussel, G.J.W. (author)A novel immersed boundary method based on a domain decomposition approach is proposed in the context of a finite element discretisation method. It is applicable to incompressible flows past rigid, deforming, or moving bodies. In this method, unlike most immersed boundary methods, strong boundary conditions are imposed in the regions of the...journal article 2020