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RISMechanics of Microtubule Buckling Supported by Cytoplasm
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The cytoskeleton provides the mechanical scaffold and maintains the integrity of cells. It is usually believed that one type of cytoskeleton biopolymer, microtubules, bears compressive force. In ...
Application of Infrared Thermography for Pedestrian Wind Evaluation
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper describes a new experimental method using infrared thermography for the evaluation of wind impact at pedestrian level. The developed measurement system consists of a heated plate on which building models stand, ...
Wind‐Tunnel Techniques for Assessment of Pedestrian‐Level Winds
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Wind conditions around high‐rise buildings in cities may create serious environmental problems at the pedestrian level. In spite of the progress of computational techniques in wind engineering, wind‐tunnel experiments are ...
An Analytical Shear Strength Model for Load-Carrying Fillet-Welded Connections Incorporating Nonlinear Effects
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: In this study, an analytical formulation of a weld throat stress model is presented for defining limit state condition of fillet-welded connections incorporating plate-to-plate contact conditions. The validity of the ...
Hysteresis Model for Fiber Elements in Effective Damaged Zone of Square-Section Steel Piers Considering Local Instability Effect of Steel Plates
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: The local instability of steel plates is the predominant seismic failure mode for steel bridge piers. However, the application of shell-based finite-element (FE) models in an engineering design presents significant ...
Form-Finding Analysis and Active Shape Adjustment of Cable Net Reflectors with PZT Actuators
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: High-precision cable net reflectors are widely required for future communications and observations. Concerning the improvement of their surface accuracy, the active cable structure constructed by incorporating a piezoelectric ...
Posttreatment of Effluent from Coke-Plant Wastewater Treatment System in Sequencing Batch Reactors
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The performance of sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) for the treatment of effluent from a conventional coke-plant wastewater biological treatment system has been evaluated. The results showed that an operating mode that ...
Evaluation of Micro-Pillar Compression Tests for Accurate Determination of Elastic-Plastic Constitutive Relations
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The micro-pillar compression test is emerging as a novel way to measure the mechanical properties of materials. In this paper, we systematically conducted finite element analysis to evaluate the ...
Experimental Study of the Aseismic Effect of a Locking Ball for a Continuous Bridge
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Current sliding-bearing designs do not make full use of the stiffness and potential ability of sliding piers in the aseismic design of continuous bridges. Aiming at the problem that the demand on the only fixed-pier force ...
Modeling of Fatigue Crack Propagation During Sliding Wear of Polymers
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The propagation of a crack initiating at the surface was analyzed to simulate the fatigue wear behavior of glassy polymer materials. A crack in a material half plane was assumed to propagate ...