This paper presents a novel experimental methodology for the study of dynamic deformation of structures under underwater impulsive loading. The experimental setup simulates fluid–structure interactions (FSI) encountered in various applications of interest. To generate impulsive loading similar to blast, a specially designed flyer plate impact experiment was designed and implemented. The design ...

The SCANS is a structural health monitoring (SHM) system is being developed by Acellent Technologies to monitor steel bridges. The required voltage of the system is 14.4 V for active scanning, and the power consumption is approximately 8 W. The investigated energy harvesting from both solar and thermal sources to recharge the lithium-ion battery of the system. A solar panel and a Thermal Electr...

This study conducts numerical analyses on a newly developed double-layer steel-lightweight high ductility cement composite (LHDCC)-steel sandwich panel under concentrated punching load. Energy absorption ability serves as an important criterion in evaluating the performance of protective structures. One critical factor related to energy is stiffness or deformation capacity structure. The presen...

This paper tests whether Antidumping (AD) protection affects the market power of importcompeting domestic firms. We use panel data of about 4000 EU producers that were involved in AD cases to estimate markups before and after the filing of a case. Our findings indicate that AD protection has positive and significant effects on domestic markups, except in cases where import diversion after prote...

A hardware setup has been developed to study slewing control for flexible structures including a steel beam and a solar panel. The linear optimal terminal control law is used to design active controllers that are implemented in an analog computer. The objective of this experiment is to demonstrate and verify the dynamics and optimal terminal control laws as applied to flexible structures for la...

In this article a new structure of PEM fuel cell end plate is presented. The new structure is known as a honeycomb sandwich panel. Several properties of the presented structure, such as mechanical and thermal behavior, as well as its advantages and disadvantages are introduced. The aim of this paper is to reduce the weight of the while maintaining a better compression force on the PEM fuel cell...