Abstract: Nature has long been an important source of inspiration for mankind to develop artificial ways to mimic the remarkable properties of biological systems. In this work, a new method was explored to fabricate a biomimetic ...

Abstract: In recent years, global positioning system (GPS) has been widely used for the measurement of deflections of bridges. However, due to multipath and satellite signal obstructions caused by towers, cables, and passing vehicles, ...

Abstract: Damage detection in subway tunnels is important for maintenance and is very labor intensive and time consuming. In recent years, machine vision has been applied to surface damage detection because of its noncontact tracking ...

Abstract: The synergistic effect of surface texturing and lubricants with various viscosity and polarity properties is an attractive and unexplored topic. In this study, surface texturing characterized by circular dimples has been ...