Objective: Today, manufacturing companies must pay attention to environmental and social issues throughout the supply chain in order to survive. Many efforts have been made to examine the sustainable supply chain, but the agility of sustainable supply chain has been only observed in very few studies. Therefore, the aim of this study is to present an agility model of sustainable supply chain in ...

Superposition principle is used to separate the incident acoustic wave from the scattered and radiated waves in a displacement-based finite element model. An absorbing boundary condition is applied to the perturbation part of the displacement. Linear constitutive equation allows for inhomogeneous, anisotropic materials, both fluids and solids. Displacement-based finite elements are used for all...

This paper presents the buzzing issue of green brick technology with the promises to protect the environment against the multidimensional damage done by traditional brick system. Bangladesh now facing a flourish in real estate sector that stimulates the brick industry too, but the very traditional brick making system destroys the diminishing forest of this country intensifying the emission of c...

According to the interview and details described by the domain scientists, the major difficulty in the domain research is to determine the relationships between Epistemic Frames. Thus, in our opinion, the most important purpose of our design is to clearly show the comparison of frame matrices while providing detailed comparisons for each element in the matrices if needed. Therefore, we decided ...

The seismic assessment of existing masonry buildings is based on the prediction of their nonlinear response under lateral loading. This requires a reliable estimation of the force and displacement demand. For this purpose, modelling strategies using structural component elements are widely applied both in research and in engineering practice, since they can provide a satisfactory description of...

Multibody dynamic simulations are performed for a large deployable space structure using ®nite element models and an explicit temporal integration procedure. The structure considered is NASA's light-weight, 8 m-aperture next generation space telescope (NGST). The NGST structure consists of beam components (modeled using beam ``super-elements'', each composed of two truss elements and a torsiona...

In this work we solve a special case of the problem of building an n-dimensional parallelepiped using a given set of n-dimensional parallelepipeds. Consider the identity x = xHx 1L Hx 2L + 3 xHx 1L + x. For sufficiently large x, we associate with x3 a cube with edges of size x, with x Hx 1L Hx 2L a parallelepiped with edges x, x 1, x 2, with 3 x Hx 1L three parallelepipeds of edges x, x 1, 1, a...