An overview of what structural health monitoring (SHM) is, its historic background, the approaches being applied and the benefits to be expected with regard to damage tolerant aeronautical structures is described in this article.

Naphthalene, the most common polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, causes airway epithelium injury in mice. Repeated exposure of mice to naphthalene induces airway epithelia that are resistant to further injury. Previous studies revealed that alterations in bioactivation enzymes and increased levels of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthase in the bronchioles protect tolerant mice from naphthalene and its ...

Sensitivity analysis is applied to a regularised non-local ductile damage model. A variational approach utilised derive the analytical gradients of different objectives with respect either geometrical material parameters. Due definition model, enhanced algorithmic treatments are necessary capture its history dependent nature within sensitivity computation. The gradient information parameters us...

Over the last 7 years, we have focused our experimental and computational research efforts on improving our understanding of the biochemical, molecular, and cellular processing of iododeoxyuridine (IUdR) and ionizing radiation (IR) induced DNA base damage by DNA mismatch repair (MMR). These coordinated research efforts, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute Integrative Cancer Biology Progr...

Preventive measures sometimes fail to defect malicious attacks. With cyber attacks on data-intensive applications becoming an ever more serious threat, intrusion tolerant database systems are a significant concern. Intrusion detectors are a key component of an intrusion tolerant database system. However, a relatively long detection latency is usually unavoidable for detection accuracy, especial...

Australian rain forests extend from tropical climates in the north to temperate climates in the south, providing an opportunity to investigate physiological responses to temperature of both temperate and tropical species within the same forest type. Eight, rain forest canopy tree species were selected to cover the 33 degrees latitudinal range of rain forests in eastern Australia. Temperature to...

In this paper, the problem of structural damage with partial loss vertical tail in aircraft dynamical system is investigated. A linearized aircraft model is introduced firstly, then a damage-tolerant controller based on an adaptive sliding mode control is proposed. Finally, simulations with an aircraft model are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed design te...

Collision-tolerant trajectory planning is the consideration that collisions, if they are planned appropriately, enable more effective path planning for robots capable of handling them. A mixed integer programming (MIP) optimization formulation demonstrates the computational practicality of optimizing trajectories that comprise planned collisions. A damage quantification function is proposed, an...

The psbA (encoding D1 protein) plays an important role in protecting photosystem II (PSII) from oxidative damage in higher plants. In our previous study, the role of the psbA from maize (Zea mays. L) in response to SO2 stress was characterized. To date, information about the involvement of the psbA gene in drought response is scarce. Here we found that overexpression (OE) of ZmpsbA showed incre...