The supporting formwork system as one of the most commonly used temporary structures in process building construction, its safety accidents frequently occur. wheel-buckled steel pipe is a new type developed under this background, and scissor brace kind component system, have played an important role improving bearing capacity system. This paper uses ABAQUS finite element analysis software to es...

Epicuticular leaf waxes of Ginkgo biloba, Magnolia grandiflora and Liriodendron tulipifera contain homologous series of hydrocarbons, wax esters, benzyl acyl esters, aldehydes, primary alcohols, and fatty acids. None of these lipid classes is found to contain any main component dominating. In addition to these usual wax lipids, in G. biloba leaf wax a secondary alcohol namely nonacosan-10-ol (1...

A continuum hypothesis-based, biomechanical model is presented for the simulation of the collagen bundle distribution-dependent contraction and subsequent retraction of healing dermal wounds that cover a large surface area. Since wound contraction mainly takes place in the dermal layer of the skin, solely a portion of this layer is included explicitly into the model. This portion of dermal laye...

Information security governance includes the governance aspect, which sets the information security direction and strategy of an organization, and, the management aspect, which addresses how the strategy is implemented and managed. In this article, we focus on the management aspect of information security governance. Different organizational arrangements (i.e., governance arrangements) are poss...

Abstract: Electromechanical coupling defines the ratio of electrical and mechanical energy exchanged during a flexure cycle of a piezoelectric actuator. This paper presents an analysis of the dynamic electromechanical coupling factor (dynamic EMCF) for cantilever based piezoelectric actuators and provides for the first time explicit expressions for calculation of dynamic EMCF based on arrangeme...

PURPOSE To study the distribution and predominant orientations of fibrillar collagen at different depths throughout the entire thickness of the human cornea. This information will form the basis of a full three-dimensional reconstruction of the preferred orientations of corneal lamellae. METHODS Femtosecond laser technology was used to delaminate the central zones of five human corneas into t...