Abstract: This study determines the effects of building openings, size, proportions, orientation, and latitude with regard to the needed energy to keep interior spaces within the comfort zone. For this analysis, the average temperatures ...

Abstract: Tensegrity, as a typology of designing structural forms, can be applied in the construction industry. As a structural system, it can produce a number of forms. Nonetheless, the particularly complex geometric forms that can ...

Abstract: We consider the mechanical properties of the outer hair cell cytoskeleton. The cytoskeleton is represented as a set of microdomains of different sizes and orientations composed of actin filaments ...

Abstract: A test specimen capable of measuring the fracture resistance of bimaterial interfaces has been devised. A finite element approach has been used to characterize trends in the stress intensities ...