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Azevedo Vasconcelos, A.C. (author), Valiya Valappil, S. (author), Schott, D.L. (author), Jovanova, J. (author), Aragon, A.M. (author)Underwater noise resulting from the monopile driving process can cause severe damage to marine wildlife, such as hearing injury, behavioral disturbance, or even death. Although current noise-attenuation techniques used in this process have shown a significant noise reduction at high frequency ranges, mitigating low-frequency noise is still...journal article 2024
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Gärtner, T. (author), van den Boom, S. J. (author), Weerheijm, J. (author), Sluys, Lambertus J. (author)Lightweight materials used for impact mitigation must be able to resist impact and absorb the maximum amount of energy from the impactor. Auxetic materials have the potential to achieve high resistance by drawing material into the impact zone and providing higher indentation and shear resistance. However, these materials must be artificially...journal article 2024
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de Vries, Sietse (author), Schuller, Tomás (author), Galindo-Rosales, Francisco J. (author), Fanzio, P. (author)Fused Filament Fabrication is an additive manufacturing technique in which molten thermoplastic polymers are extruded through a nozzle. Therefore, the interplay between the viscoelastic nature of the polymer melt, temperature, printing conditions and nozzle shape may lead to inconsistent extrusion. To improve the extrusion control and...journal article 2024
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Kapoor, T. (author), Wang, H. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author)This paper proposes a novel framework for simulating the dynamics of beams on elastic foundations. Specifically, partial differential equations modeling Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko beams on the Winkler foundation are simulated using a causal physics-informed neural network (PINN) coupled with transfer learning. Conventional PINNs encounter...journal article 2024
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Liang, M. (author), Xie, J. (author), He, S. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Early-age cracking risk induced by autogenous deformation is high for cementitious materials of low water-binder ratios. The autogenous deformation, viscoelastic properties, and stress evolution are three important factors for understanding and quantifying the early-age cracking risk. This paper systematically reviewed the experimental and...review 2024
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van Damme, M. (author), den Ouden-van der Horst, D. (author)Methods have been developed to predict how hydrodynamic loads acting on nearly saturated porous media are transmitted to the subsoil. In line with the effective stress principle of Terzaghi, these methods apply the boundary conditions that the effective stresses at the surface of a porous medium are zero, and that the pore water pressures...journal article 2024
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Hu, D. (author), Du, L. (author), Alfreider, Markus (author), Fan, J. (author), Kiener, Daniel (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)To fulfill the high-temperature application requirement of high-power electronics packaging, Cu nanoparticle sintering technology, with benefits in low-temperature processing and high-melting point, has attracted considerable attention as a promising candidate for the die-attach interconnect. Comprehensive mechanical characterization of the...journal article 2024
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Xu, Fuqiang (author), Shi, Yu (author), Song, Xianzhi (author), Wu, Wei (author), Song, G. (author), Li, Shuang (author)The development of hot dry rocks (HDRs) is of great significance to adjusting energy structure, alleviating energy shortage, reducing pollution, etc. Low-permeability granite is the predominant rock type in deep HDRs, making fractures the primary pathways for fluid circulation and heat extraction. The production of HDRs is significantly...journal article 2024
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ten Wolde, M.A. (author), Farhadi Machekposhti, D. (author)Bistable mechanisms are prevalent across a broad spectrum of applications due to their ability to maintain two distinct stable states. Their energy consumption is predominantly confined to the process of state transitions, thereby enhancing their efficiency. However, the transition often requires two distinct digital inputs, implicating the...journal article 2024
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van Zwieten, G.J. (author)A vital component in the management of seismic hazard is the study of past seismic events. Classically, this has been the domain of seismology, which studies the dynamic manifestations of the event to infer properties such as epicenter and moment magnitude. More recently it has become possible to perform similar analyses on the basis of the...doctoral thesis 2023
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Kaczmarek, M.B. (author), Hassan HosseinNia, S. (author)Elastic metamaterials incorporating locally resonating unit cells can create bandgap regions with lower vibration transmissibility at longer wavelengths than the lattice size and offer a promising solution for vibration isolation and attenuation. However, when resonators are applied to a finite host structure, not only the bandgap but also...journal article 2023
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SUN, Beibei (author), DING, Luchuan (author), Ye, G. (author), De SCHUTTER, Geert (author)In this paper, 871 data were collected from literature and trained by the 4 representative machine learning methods, in order to build a robust compressive strength predictive model for slag and fly ash based alkali activated concretes. The optimum models of each machine learning method were verified by 4 validation metrics and further...journal article 2023
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Cornelissen, P. (author), Jansen, J.D. (author)We consider steady-state single-phase confined flow through a subsurface porous layer containing a displaced, fully conductive fault causing a sudden jump in the flow path, and we employ (semi-)analytical techniques to compute the corresponding pressures and fault stresses. In particular, we obtain a new solution for the pressure field with...journal article 2023
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de Bakker, Marie (author), Petersen, Teun B. (author), Rueten-Budde, Anja J. (author), Akkerhuis, K. Martijn (author), Umans, Victor A. (author), Brugts, Jasper J. (author), Germans, Tjeerd (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author), Katsikis, Peter D. (author)Aims Risk assessment tools are needed for timely identification of patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) who are at high risk of adverse events. In this study, we aim to derive a small set out of 4210 repeatedly measured proteins, which, along with clinical characteristics and established biomarkers, carry...journal article 2023
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Zhang, H. (author), Jin, Zuquan (author), Jiang, Nengdong (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Ling, Yifeng (author), Šavija, B. (author), Wang, Zheng (author)The classically lattice model assumes the local elements behave elastic brittle, neglecting the ductility of the mortar matrix. This leads to the simulated load⁃displacement response more brittle than the realistic. To solve the aforementioned issue, a piece⁃wise approach was introduced to describe the elastic⁃plastic constitutive relation of...journal article 2023
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de Sousa, Alex M.D. (author), Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), Setiawan, Andri (author), El Debs, Mounir K. (author)One-way slabs under concentrated loads may fail by one-way shear, punching, flexure or a mixed-mode between them. This study examines the benefits of using Linear Elastic Finite Element Analyses (LEFEA) combined with analytical expressions to predict the shear and punching capacities of such slabs. Besides, the determination of the most...conference paper 2023
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El Rahi, Joe (author), Martínez-Estévez, Iván (author), Tagliafierro, Bonaventura (author), Domínguez, José M. (author), Crespo, Alejandro J.C. (author), Stratigaki, Vasiliki (author), Suzuki, T. (author), Troch, Peter (author)Vegetation meadows in coastal waters are a key constituent of a future green defense package due to the ecosystem services they provide and the potential to attenuate wave energy. To numerically describe the vegetation dynamics under wave action, this paper presents a novel application of a numerical coupling for solving fluid–elastic...journal article 2023
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Tripuraneni, S. R. T. (author), Novikov, A. (author), Voskov, D.V. (author)Elliptic differential operators describe a wide range of processes in mechanics relevant to geo-energy applications. Extensively used in reservoir modeling, the Finite Volume Method with TPFA can be consistently applied to discretize only a specific type of application under severe assumptions. In this paper, we introduce a positivity...journal article 2023
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Valiya Valappil, S. (author), Krushynska, Anastasiia O. (author), Aragon, A.M. (author)The band-gap frequencies of elastic metamaterials are ideally determined by a metamaterial architecture; yet, in practical situations, are often dependent on the material damping in their constituent(s). The analysis of viscoelastic metamaterials requires however substantial computational resources and, except for oversimplified cases, is...journal article 2023