A PM0.1 personal sampler devised by the authors (Furuuchi et al., 2010a) was investigated into its performance for the practical application, or on an improvement for a smaller cut-off size and also the removal of coarse particles using pre-cut impactors. The pressure drop through the inertial filter was discussed along with the separation performance since it is important to use a portable bat...

We reported a composite electrolyte prepared by incorporating layered α-titanium phosphate (α-TiP) into an iodide-based electrolyte using 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate(EmimBF4) ionic liquid as solvent. The obtained composite electrolyte exhibited excellent electrochemical and photovoltaic properties compared to pure ionic liquid electrolyte. Both the diffusion coefficient of tri...

In this work, an inverse finite element formulation was modified for considering material anisotropy in obtaining blank shape and forming severity of deep drawn orthotropic parts. In this procedure, geometry of final part and thickness of initial blank sheet were known. After applying ideal forming formulations between material points of initial blank and final shape, an equation system was obt...

Polarization control of electromagnetic wave is very important in many fields. Here, we propose an active meta-mirror to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic polarization state at a broad band. This meta-mirror is composed of a double-layered metallic pattern backed by a metallic flat plate, and the active elements of PIN diodes are integrated into the meta-atom to control the reflection phas...

Geometric problems originating in architecture can lead to interesting research and results in geometry processing, computer aided geometric design, and discrete differential geometry. In this article we survey this development and consider an important problem of this kind: Discrete surfaces (meshes) which admit a multi-layered geometric support structure. It turns out that such meshes can be ...

In the present paper the elastodynamic finite integration technique (EFIT) is combined with pointsource-synthesis (PSS) in order to efficiently calculate 3-D ultrasonic wave fields in the time-domain. The technique can be applied to arbitrarily layered locally isotropic media and includes the complete spectrum of linear elastic wave phenomena like surface and interface waves, head waves, mode c...