The interaction of a building, its foundation and the underlying soils may have important effects on the behavior of each of these components as well as on the overall system behavior. For example, the relative stiffness of a building structure, its mat foundation and the soils that support the foundation will influence the stresses and displacements of both the structure and soil. Soil-structu...

While the different aspects of flexible workflow management are still under discussion, the ability to adapt the structure of running workflow instances to modified workflow schemas is an important property of a flexible workflow management system. In this paper we present the formal foundation and conceptual design of dynamic adaptations in an object-oriented workflow management system. We des...

This study presents a theoretical investigation of a flexible, electromagnetically controlled microchannel transport system (i.e., controllable micropump) utilizing a soft magnetorheological elastomer. A two-dimensional time-dependent model using a coupled fluid-solid-magnetic analysis is developed to conduct a parametric study on a system which consists of a flexible channel and valves. Effect...

Floating offshore wind turbine technology has seen an increasing and continuous development in recent years. When designing the floating platforms, both experimental numerical tools are applied, with latter often using time-domain solvers based on hydro-load estimation from a Morison approach or boundary element method. Commercial software packages such as OrcaFlex, open-source OpenFAST, used w...

Even though knowledge management has been around for more than a decade, so far concrete instruments that can be systematically deployed are still rare. This paper presents an optimization solution targeted at flexible management of office space considering knowledge management criteria in order to enhance knowledge work productivity. The paper presents the Flexible Office conceptual model and ...

Flexible Electronics In article number 2204804, Ali Nawaz, Carlos C. B. Bufon, and co-workers compare the performance of planar organic transistors with emerging vertical-transistor technology, outlining critical device fabrication material-design strategies, discussing their role function in a wide range flexible electronics applications. Showcasing research from Micro Nano Facility (MNF-SD), ...

STROBE is a system that provides object-oriented programming support tools for INTERLISP. It offers a primitive foundation with which more complex structured object representation schemes can be constructed. STROBE implements multiple resident knowledge bases, tangled generalization hierarchies, flexible inheritance of properties, procedural attachment, and event-sensitive procedure invocation.