A dual structural fused system consists of replaceable ductile elements (fuses) that sustain major seismic damage and leave the primary structure (PS) virtually undamaged. The seismic performance of a fused structural system is determined by the combined behavior of the individual PS and fuse components. In order to design a feasible and economic structural fuse concept, we need a procedure to ...

This study aims to employ a nature inspired algorithm Particle Swarm (PS) to seek minimum center distance for desired life of a compact spur gear set to tranulsmit a given power satisfying a number of constraints imposed. The PS, which is relatively recent heuristic search technique, imitates social behavior of birds flocking by sharing information among their members in multiple dimensions in ...

High-speed and tunable integrated optical delay lines are demonstrated based on silicon grating waveguides apodized by the super-Gaussian function. The submicron channel waveguides with inward-apodized gratings are fabricated by deep-ultraviolet optical lithography. Characterization of the compact delay lines shows that they offer true-time delays as long as 132 ps, tuning range of ~86 ps, and ...

Paper spray (PS) ionization, an ambient ionization method, has previously been explored as a direct and fast method for mass spectrometric analysis of complex mixtures. It has been applied to the analysis of a wide variety of compounds, mostly small molecules. The work reported here extends the application of PS ionization to noncovalent protein complexes on an ion mobility tandem mass spectrom...

The analytical potential of polystyrene (PS) spin-coated modified compact discs (CDs) surface as platforms for the development of microarray immunoassays is presented. The surface maintained the optical characteristics of compact discs, obtaining a transparent and smooth film polymer of 70 nm thickness, the track being read (lambda 780 nm) without errors in a commercial CD reader/writer. The an...