Abstract: The anisotropic elastic mechanical properties of a family of single material chiral mechanical metamaterials are explored systematically. An integrated monoclinic-micropolar constitutive model is developed to quantify the ...

Abstract: Because of the inherent nonlinearities involving the behavior of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) when excited by electrostatic forces, modeling and simulating their behavior are challenging. The complicated form of the electrostatic ...

Abstract: Based on experimental data and the flow property analysis of the drying-wetting process of fluids under a microscope, a theoretical model is developed to consider the effect of air entrapment in the soil-water retention ...

Abstract: In this study, the influence length of wire damage and wire-to-wire interaction in helically wired strands were investigated both experimentally and numerically. Greased seven-wire steel strands (2 long and 11 short ...

Abstract: In this paper, the dynamical properties of multiple van der Pol-Duffing oscillators with time delays are studied. The amplitude death and bifurcation curves in the parameter plane are determined by using the space decomposition ...

Abstract: When drying from a fully saturated state, soil transits from saturation to unsaturation, activating the effects of capillarity, adsorption, and osmosis. Traditionally, these effects have been elusive in modeling soil ...

Abstract: Abstract. In gasoline/diesel dual-fuel engines, regulating fuel concentration and reactivity stratification effectively extends the high-load limit. This study investigates the effects of mixing characteristics of low- and ...

Abstract: The relation between the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) and the soil freezing characteristic curve (SFCC) is investigated based on the similarity between the freezing/thawing and drying/wetting behaviors of soils. ...

Abstract: A series of experiments were performed to investigate the hydraulic and