The composite materials are extensively used in the structures of civil, aerospace, marine, and automobile engineering due to their tailorable capability. The objective of this article is to address the issue of resonance-free lightweight design of such composite structures coupled with the notion of reliability. Laminated composite spherical shell is considered in this study to optimize width ...

Despite the benefits of composite structures, it is only recently that the main load bearing structures in large aircraft such as the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 have started to be manufactured using carbon fibre composites. Even then, the unique directionality properties of composite laminates and design possibilities have yet to be exploited to improve the aircraft performance. In this study a...

Article history: Received 19 December 2015 Accepted 29 February 2016 Available online 3 March 2016 This paper presents the design, fabrication and characterization of ultra-thin inductors using a new class of multilayered ferromagnetic-polymer composite structures asmagnetic cores. Themultilayered composite structures comprise of high-permeability, high saturation magnetization (Ms N 0.5 T), lo...

The study of disease often hinges on the biological function of proteins, but determining protein function is a difficult experimental process. To minimize duplicated effort, algorithms for function prediction seek characteristics indicative of possible protein function. One approach is to identify substructural matches of geometric and chemical similarity between motifs representing known acti...

The increasing use of composite materials in many advanced structures brings with it a need to establish inspection and monitoring regimes to ensure structural integrity and safe operation throughout the service life. This results in the fast-growing composite industry searching for a technologically and economically feasible structural health-monitoring method to identify and assess defects/cr...

Substitutional heteroatom doping is a promising route to modulate the outstanding material properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene for customized applications. Recently, (nitrogen-) N-doping has been introduced to ensure tunable work-function, enhanced n-type carrier concentration, diminished surface energy, and manageable polarization. Along with the promising assessment of N-doping effect...