The civil engineering community is currently moving towards the continuous monitoring of civil structures in order to forecast their unavoidable failure with enough precision. So-called smart technologies seem to be well adapted to this specific task. For a civil structure, such as a bridge or a dam, a monitoring smart system often includes a set of sensors, whose data is passed onto a controll...

Till date, there has been no single material in dentistry that is idyllic in nature, which can satisfy all the necessities of a superlative material. As the search for an ―ideal restorative material‖ continues, newer group of materials were introduced. These are ―Smart Materials’’, as they support the remaining tooth structure to the level, so that more conservative cavity preparation can be pe...

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the Internet-like structure of billions of interconnected constrained devices, denoted as “smart objects”. Smart objects have limited capabilities, in terms of computational power and memory, and might be battery-powered devices, thus raising the need to adopt particularly energy efficient technologies. Among the most notable challenges that building inter...

The ever-growing amount of data produced by and in today’s smart cities offers significant potential for novel applications created by city stakeholders as well as third parties. Current smart city application models mostly assume that data is exclusively managed by and bound to its original application and location.We argue that smart city datamust not be constrained to such data silos so that...

An effective wide band active control law through one kind of the Dynamic Vibration Absorber (DVA) is proposed and studied in this paper. With the help of mechanical impedance method, active DVA control law is formulated based on the passive mechanical model. The electrical DVA can generate multi-mode active damping to the structure. The host structure is an aluminum plate and acceleration sign...

objective: pmbn, poly [2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphoryl choline (mpc)-co-n- buthyl methacrylate (bma)-co-p-nitrophenyl- oxycrabonyl poly (ethylene glycol-methacrylate (meonp)], as a biocompatible ter-polymer is a unique polymer with wide range of application from drug delivery systems to scaffolds and biomedical devices. in this research, monomer of p- nitrophenyl- oxycarbonyl poly (ethylene g...

Many innovation policy programs of both national and state governments in Australia are implicitly or explicitly directed at seeking to transform the industrial structure of the economies to which they are applied, so that some types of industries gain prevalence (i.e. grow or create jobs) relative to other types of industry. Queensland’s Smart Queensland: Smart State Strategy 20052015, for exa...

Smart biomaterials hold great potential for many biological applications in regenerative medicine. In this field, we aim to develop a novel electro-responsive PolyPhosphoEster (PPE) based hydrogel. This hydrogel can transform electrical energy into conformational changes of the structure when exposed to an electrical field (Fig. 1b). These hydrogels have high potential, allowing development of ...

Smart grid allows the integration of distributed renewable energy resources into the conventional electricity distribution power grid such that the goals of reduction in power cost and in environment pollution can be met through an intelligent and efficient matching between power generators and power loads. Currently, this rapidly developing infrastructure is not as "smart" as it should be beca...