Abstract Layout optimization provides a powerful means of identifying materially efficient structures. It has the potential to be particularly valuable when long-span structures are involved, since self-weight represents significant proportion overall loading. However, previously proposed numerical layout methods neglect or make non-conservative approximations in their modelling and/or multiple...

Flexible Force Sensors In article 2202142, Terry Tao Ye, Zhaoli Gao, Jian Yang, and co-workers present the layout of skin-adhesive force sensor based on piezoelectric poly(l-Lactic acid) its potential applications in human behavior recognition, such as finger, wrist, laryngeal knot movement. The is composed photocurable acrylate films, gold electrodes film with a sandwiched structure, transpare...

In this study, bending and compression strength tests were performed to investigate effect of composition layer layout Larix cross-laminated timber (CLT) on mechanical properties. The CLT consists five laminae, specimens classified into four types according grade layer. layer’s composited as follows 1) cross-laminating layers in major minor direction (Type A), 2) external internal applied B). E...

this paper presents a strategy for using harmony search algorithm in facility layout optimization problems. in this paper an adapted harmony search algorithm is developed for solving facility layout optimization problems. this method finds an optimal facility arrangement in an existing layout. two real-world case studies are employed to demonstrate the efficiency of this model. a comparison is ...

In the present paper, the different techniques used for the determination of changes of surface stress of solid electrodes, as well as the kind and quality of information that can be achieved using these methods are discussed. The most important methods are briefly reviewed and advantages/drawbacks highlighted. Special attention is paid to issues related to the use of the “bending beam” (“bendi...

According to the direct homogenization theory of inhomogeneous material, a single medium homogenization constitutive model of the confined concrete in the steel box-concrete combined member has been established, and model parameters have been determined by the measured data of the bending test. By analyzing the theoretical ultimate strength and overall process curve, the results obtained is con...

Both the quality of the results of TEX s formula layout algorithm and the complexity of its description in the TEXbook are hard to beat The algorithm is verbally described as an imperative program with very complex control ow and complicated manipulations of the data structures representing formulae In a forthcoming textbook we describe TEX s formula layout algorithm as a functional program tra...