Abstract This paper demonstrates a stacking sequence optimisation process of composite aircraft wing skin. A two-stage approach is employed to satisfy all sizing requirements this industrial sized, medium altitude, long endurance drone. In the first stage optimisation, generic stacks are used describe thickness and stiffness properties structure while considering both structural discrete guidel...

High level ab initio methods have been used to study stacking interactions in ten unique base pair steps both in A-RNA and in B-DNA duplexes. The protocol for selection of geometries based on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is proposed, and its suitability is demonstrated by comparison with stacking in steps at fiber diffraction geometries. It is shown that fiber diffraction geometries are ...

most impact tests are carried out on specimens with specific stacking sequence and dimensions to meet standard and experimental limitations. the damaged areas and the resulted reduction in the strength values of specimens may not agree very well with those of real application. in this paper an attempt is made to study the variation in the size of damaged areas due to varying the dimension of te...

Base-stacking is a key factor in the energetics that determines nucleic acid structure. We measure the tensile response of single-stranded DNA as a function of sequence and monovalent salt concentration to examine the effects of base-stacking on the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of single-stranded DNA. By comparing the elastic response of highly stacked poly(dA) and that of a polypyri...

The finite element analysis is adopted in this primary study. Using the Tsai-Wu criterion and delamination criterion, the stacking sequence [45/04/−454/904]s is the final optimal design for the wheelchair frame. On the contrary, the uni-directional laminates, i.e. [9013]s, [4513]s and [−4513]s, are bad designs due to the higher failure indexes. Keywords—Wheelchair frame, stacking sequence, fail...

Synthetically derived trimethylene interstrand DNA cross-links have been used as surrogates for the native cross-links that arise from the 1,N(2)-deoxyguanosine adducts derived from alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes. The native enal-mediated cross-linking occurs in the 5'-CpG-3' sequence context but not in the 5'-GpC-3' sequence context. The ability of the native enal-derived 1,N(2)-dG adducts t...