Abstract Due to the increasing use of multi-material constructions and resulting material incompatibilities, mechanical joining technologies are gaining in importance. The reasons for this variety possibilities as well high load-bearing capacities. However, currently rigid tooling systems cannot react changing boundary conditions, such changed sheet thicknesses or strength. For reason, a large ...

In the customary law of southwestern Georgia, first all, criminal draws attention, which contains very riveting traditions. Firstly, reflected customs and folk forms punishment related to vengeance, particularly reconciliation enemies. second half 19th century, common Georgian operating in Samtskhe Adjara preserved several signs norms sphere hostility. The functioning law, turn, was determined ...

The bacterial toxin aerolysin kills cells by forming heptameric channels, of unknown structure, in the plasma membrane. Using disulfide trapping and cysteine scanning mutagenesis coupled to thiol-specific labeling on lipid bilayers, we identify a loop that lines the channel. This loop has an alternating pattern of charged and uncharged residues, suggesting that the transmembrane region has a be...

For the structural systems with both epistemic and aleatory uncertainties, in order to analyze the effect of the epistemic uncertainty on the safety of the systems, a variance based importance measure of failure probability is constructed. Due to the large computational cost of the proposed measure, a novel moving least squares (MLS) based method is employed. By fitting the relationship of para...

Adhesive joints are continuously emerging as candidate to replace traditional fastening systems, such as riveting or welding, in primary structural applications. A wide class of components belonging to electronic, automotive and aerospace industries contains adhesive joints, however, the reliability during service constitutes a major technical problem as these contain flaws. Therefore, their us...