Finite element method in pavement analysis is a type of mechanistic analysis that has widely been used by road and transportation engineers these days. This method is used with related programs such as ABAQUS/CAE which is one of the powerful software on this task. Modeling in this software has been developed from 2D static models to 3D dynamic models which are closer to reality due to the more ...

An outer-1-planar graph is a admitting drawing in the plane so that all vertices appear outer region of and every edge crosses at most one other edge. This paper establishes local structure graphs by proving each contains seventeen fixed configurations, list those configurations minimal sense for configuration there exist containing this do not contain any another sixteen configurations. There ...

The Chimpanzee Facial Action Coding System (ChimpFACS) is an objective, standardized observational tool for measuring facial movement in chimpanzees based on the well-known human Facial Action Coding System (FACS; P. Ekman & W. V. Friesen, 1978). This tool enables direct structural comparisons of facial expressions between humans and chimpanzees in terms of their common underlying musculature. ...

Influenza hemagglutinin (HA), a homotrimeric glycoprotein crucial for membrane fusion, undergoes a large-scale structural rearrangement during viral invasion. X-ray crystallography has shown that the pre- and postfusion configurations of HA2, the membrane-fusion subunit of HA, have disparate secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures, where some regions are displaced by more than 100 Å. To ...

For the future design of smart aerospace structures, the development and application of a reliable, real-time and automatic monitoring and diagnostic technique is essential. Thus, with distributed sensor networks, a real-time automatic structural health monitoring (SHM) technique is designed and investigated to monitor and predict the locations and force magnitudes of unforeseen foreign impacts...

3.1 Structural Tailoring Technique As revealed in Chaper 2, the boundary-value problem consists of six differential equations of motion (expressed in terms of the displacements wo ,θy,θx ,uo ,vo and φ ), together with the corresponding BCs. Such a set exhibits a complete coupling between the various modes, i.e., primary and secondary warping, vertical and lateral bending, twist and transverse s...

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Partnerships for Advanced Component Technologies (WindPACT) program, Global Energy Concepts LLC (GEC) is performing a study concerning innovations in materials, processes and structural configurations for application to wind turbine blades in the multimegawatt range. The project team for this work includes experts in all areas of wind turbine blad...

The Control theory provides a useful theoretical foundation for examining the coordination between the client and the vendor in information systems development outsourcing (ISD-outsourcing). Recent research has identified two control mechanisms: structural (structure of the control mode) and process (the process through which the control mode is enacted). Yet, control theory research to-date do...

-We have investigated the influence of charge on the ground state structures for small Sin (n=5-10) clusters by using the full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital molecular-dynamics (FP-LMTO-MD) method. Addition or removal of one or two electrons does not change the geometrical configurations of the small Sin (n=5-10) clusters even though they undergo some structural distortion. But the structu...

We study the influence of structural obstacles in a disordered environment on the size and shape characteristics of long flexible polymer macromolecules. We use the model of self-avoiding random walks on diluted regular lattices at the percolation threshold in space dimensions d = 2, 3. Applying the Pruned-Enriched Rosenbluth Method (PERM), we numerically estimate rotationally invariant univers...