Abstract In this article, we propose an optimisation framework that can contribute to the prevention of premature failure or damage building structures and thereby strengthen their longevity. We concentrate on are contaminated by chemical substances have strong destructive effects material. The aim contribution is a mathematical algorithm allows structure exposed influences thus assurance stati...

Friction is the force resisting relative motion of objects. The depends on material properties, loading conditions and external factors such as temperature humidity, but also contact aging has been identified a primary factor. Several mechanisms have proposed, including increased "contact quantity" due to plastic or elastic creep enhanced quality" formation strong interfacial bonds. While propo...

Two German eye-tracking experiments tested whether top-down expectations interact with acoustically-driven word-recognition processes. Competitor objects with two synonymous names were paired with target objects whose names shared word onsets with either the dominant or the non-dominant name of the competitor. Non-dominant names of competitor objects were either introduced before the test sessi...

It is now possible to circumvent costly and complex cleanroom fabrication procedures to produce MHz-order acoustically-driven microfluidic platforms through the use of electrode strips cut simply from kitchen aluminium foil and pressed against piezoelectric substrates. Cleanroom deposition, lithographic patterning, and etching are entirely avoided in favor of this cut-and-place technique, which...

We describe work towards articulatory speech synthesis driven by realistic 3D tissue and bone models. The vocal tract shape is modeled using a fast 3D finite element method (FEM) of a muscle-activated human tongue in conjunction with fixed rigid models of jaw, hyoid and palate connected to a deformable mesh representing the airway. Actuation of the tissue model deforms the airway providing a ti...

Herein we report a new design for acoustic nanoswimmers, making use of a nanoshell geometry that was synthesized using a sphere template process. Such shell-shaped nanomotors display highly efficient acoustic propulsion on the nanoscale by converting energy from the ambient acoustic field into motion. The propulsion mechanism of the nanoshell motors relies on acoustic streaming stress over the ...

Regions of the human temporal lobe show greater activation for speech than for other sounds. These differences may reflect intrinsically specialized domain-specific adaptations for processing speech, or they may be driven by the significant expertise we have in listening to the speech signal. To test the expertise hypothesis, we used a video-game-based paradigm that tacitly trained listeners to...