Abstract: A new method for predicting daily whole-building electricity usage in a commercial building has been developed. This method utilizes a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of intercorrelated influencing ...

Abstract: A microstructure design framework for multiscale modeling of wear resistance in bioimplant materials is presented here. The increase in service lifetime of arthroplasty depends on whether we can ...

Abstract: In this study, nitrogen plasma treatment at atmospheric pressure was used to modify the surface of polylactic acid (PLA), especially its low surface energy and wettability, which do not favor ...

Abstract: Cavitation-induced deformation mechanisms in neat semicrystalline polymers, i.e., crazing, and in the derived composites, i.e., particle-matrix debonding, are generally activated during the transition ...