Seismic compression is the accumulation of contractive volumetric strains in unsaturated soil from earthquake shaking. For Chinese loess, behavior seismic extremely significant and has been recognized historical earthquakes. As a main technical mean, dynamic triaxial apparatus employed to study compressibility loess for long time. However, simple shear superior modeling real stress condition un...

in a large scale cyclic storage system ,as the number of rule parameters and/or number of operating period increase, general purpose gradient-based nlp solvers and/or genetic algorithms may loose their merits in finding optimally feasible solution to the problem. in these cases hybrid ga which decomposes the main problem into two manageable sub-problems with an iterative scheme between ga and l...

Lithium-Ion Batteries The cover shows cyclic fluorinated phosphazene compounds as additional stabilizing additives in a state-of-the-art electrolyte for SiOx/C-based lithium ion battery cells. In article number 2203503 Aurora Gomez-Martin, Tobias Placke, and co-workers demonstrate the beneficial properties of these terms gassing, stabilizing, electrochemical performance solid interphase forming...

The lateral confinement of masonry columns using composites have shown to improve their strength and ductility. Although, several research studies were focused on investigating the monotonic compression behaviour confined in past, cyclic characteristics, which are necessary for seismic dynamic analyses, not well investigated. Thus, an attempt has been made experimentally characterise under axia...

BACKGROUND Effective soft tissue graft fixation to the tibial tunnel in all-inside anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions has been reported to be a problem and may lead to retrograde pullout at ultimate load testing. HYPOTHESIS A combined retrograde bioabsorbable screw and cortical-cancellous suture button suspension apparatus would gain stiffness from the button and strength from the scr...