Abstract: Construction robots have emerged as a revolutionary technology for buildings. However, real-world adoption is still limited. Little is known how the decision of adopting construction robots or not is made in organizations, ...

Abstract: Robotics is an important technological innovation in building prefabrication to fully capitalize on the benefits of off-site construction, but its uptake has been low. This paper explores the determinants affecting the ...

Abstract: The hydraulic buck converter (HBC) is a novel high-bandwidth and energy-efficient device which can adjust or control flow and pressure by a means that does not rely on throttling the flow and dissipation of power. However, ...

Abstract: Elastomer foam materials are shock absorbers that have been extensively used in applications of electronic packaging. Finite element modeling simulation plays an important role in helping the ...

Abstract: Exact solutions are derived for three-dimensional, anisotropic, linearly magneto-electro-elastic, simply-supported, and multilayered rectangular plates under static loadings. While the homogeneous ...

Abstract: In this paper, three-dimensional Green’s functions in anisotropic elastic bimaterials with imperfect interface conditions are derived based on the extended Stroh formalism and the Mindlin’s ...

Abstract: This paper derives, for the first time, the complete set of three-dimensional Green’s functions (displacements, stresses, and derivatives of displacements and stresses with respect to the source ...

Abstract: An estimation of the energy release rate J for a three-dimensional nonlinear elastic solid containing a two-dimensional plane crack is presented. Special attention is focused on a pipe with a ...