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Zhiyuan Hu, Peng Yu, Guohua Xu, Yongjie Shi, Feng Gu and Aijun Zou
Tiltrotors permit aircrafts to operate vertically with lift, yet convert to ordinary forward flight with thrust. The challenge is to design a tiltrotor blade yielding maximum lift and thrust that converts smoothly without losing integrity or efficiency. ...
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Ruishan Xing, Gang Li, Fan Wang and Yang Yang
To ensure the overall continuity of displacement and out-of-plane stress in composite laminate structures and to quantitatively analyze the mechanical properties of composite materials after damage or repair, a finite element solution method is applied b...
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Huamei Chen, Zhigang Zhu, Hao Tang, Erik Blasch, Khanh D. Pham and Genshe Chen
This paper discusses using ground-based imagery to determine the attitude of a flying projectile assuming prior knowledge of its external geometry. It presents a segmentation-based approach to follow the object and evaluates it quantitatively with simula...
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Sipho G. Thango, Georgios A. Drosopoulos, Siphesihle M. Motsa and Georgios E. Stavroulakis
A methodology to predict key aspects of the structural response of masonry walls under blast loading using artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented in this paper. The failure patterns of masonry walls due to in and out-of-plane loading are complex d...
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Catharina Moreira, Nikolai Herzog and Christian Breitsamter
Recent developments in electrical Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles show the need for a better understanding of transient aero-mechanical propeller loads for non-axial inflow conditions. The variety of vehicle configurations conceptualized w...
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Panagiotis D. Kordas, George N. Lampeas and Konstantinos T. Fotopoulos
The main purpose of this study comprises the design and the development of a novel experimental configuration for carrying out tests on a full-scale stiffened panel manufactured of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material. Two different test-bench design ...
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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Junrong Wang, Chunlei He, Dianfu Fu, Kuang He and Junfeng Du
Fatigue failure caused by frequent tension and bending loads is a crucial safety concern for mooring chains used on floating structures in the oil and gas industry. The bending effect for a chain?s fatigue is usually not considered by existing fatigue an...
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Munashe Ignatius Chibinyani, Thywill Cephas Dzogbewu, Maina Maringa and Amos Muiruri
Lattice structures are useful in the aerospace, automotive, infrastructural, and medical fields due to the way they incorporate a lightweight design and good mechanical properties, because of their hollow shapes. This review paper documents work carried ...
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Ho Choi, Chunri Quan and Kiwoong Jin
This study focused on the in-plane rocking behavior of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls. Three URM wall specimens were designed and fabricated based on a typical masonry house in Korea. The experimental parameters were the layout of openings (its presenc...
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