In order to meet the ever-increasing demand for high-strength, lightweight aerospace structures, a new material is created via combination of three prior innovations: sandwich configurations, composites, and the addition of carbon nanotubes. A theoretical sandwich panel is created using facesheets of a novel woven microfibre composite reinforced by carbon nanotube forests, as created by Vinod P...

The dynamic characteristics and parametric instability of a rotating electrorheological ER sandwich beam with rotary oscillation are numerically analyzed. Assuming that the angular velocity of an ER sandwich beam varies harmonically, the dynamic equation of the rotating beam is first derived based on Hamilton’s principle. Then the coupling and nonlinear equation is discretized and solved by the...

As a consequence of misspecification of the hemodynamic response and noise variance models, tests on general linear model coe cients are not valid. Robust estimation of the variance of the general linear model (GLM) coecients in fMRI time series is therefore essential. In this paper an alternative method to estimate the variance of the GLM coe cients accurately is suggested and compared to othe...

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms have greatly facilitated the popularity of Bayesian variable selection and model averaging in problems with high-dimensional covariates where enumeration of the model space is infeasible. A variety of such algorithms have been proposed in the literature for sampling models from the posterior distribution in Bayesian variable selection. Ghosh and Clyde ...

Because of the complex nature of structural characteristics, damage detection in honeycomb sandwich structures inherently carries many challenges. In the study, effects of debonding on leaky guided wave propagation in honeycomb sandwich structures are first studied by using the finite element method. A surface-bonded piezoelectric wafer actuator/sensor network is used for elastic-guided wave pr...

In this paper a special sandwich panel with a sinusoidal core under distributed load on upper and lower plates has been studied. By drawing free body diagrams, and using energy method and Castagiliano theory the forces and moments involved in the core has been determined. Then, the stresses, normal and horizontal displacements due to above forces and moments are calculated. In order to ensure t...

Attachment of poly(ethylene glycol) to proteins can mask immune epitopes to increase serum half-life, reduce immunogenicity, and enhance in vivo biological efficacy. However, PEGylation mediated epitope-masking may also limit sensitivity and accuracy of traditional ELISA. We previously described an anti-PEG-based sandwich ELISA for universal assay of PEGylated molecules. Here, we compared the q...