Abstract: The mixing efficiency of red blood cells and magnetic microspheres with red blood cell tagging ability is investigated using color particle image velocimetry. A hybrid separation system that ...

Abstract: This paper compares the elastic stiffness of reduced beam section (RBS) beams with either flange or web reductions. The former has received considerable attention. However, recently the latter has been shown to have superior ...

Abstract: Pipelines laid over long distances in harsh offshore environments may be affected by excessive strain, corrosion, scouring, icebergs, and other third-party damage. Small chronic leaks may cause severe safety and environmental ...

Abstract: Improved damage spectra are proposed to quantify the damage potential of recorded earthquake ground motion. The damage spectra are based on a combination of normalized hysteretic energy and deformation ductility of a series ...

Abstract: The effectiveness of using an externally bonded carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (EB-CFRP) system with mechanical end anchorage to retrofit severely shear-damaged reinforced concrete (RC) beams is examined in this paper. A ...

Abstract: This paper presents a many-objective optimal (MOO) control design of an adaptive and robust sliding mode control (SMC). A second-order system is used as an example to demonstrate the design method. The robustness of the ...

Abstract: This paper considers some historical aspects of engineering mechanics with emphasis on the long historical development of mechanics from the evolution of mathematics and tool making before the Common Era to modern genomic ...