Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are types of materials that can restore their original shape upon severe or quasi-plastic deformation, being exposed to specific external stimuli, including heating, electric current, magnetic field, etc. They a category functional provides superelasticity as significant material property. The roots this unintentional discovery were in the 20th century, and later it a...

In this paper, an analytical formula to calculate the radial stiffness of groove elastic support is presented. The influence of structure parameters on radial stiffness and homogeneity of radial stiffness is investigated as well. The accuracy and calculating speed of the analysis formula are compared to that of finite element method (FEM). Findings are as following: The calculating speed of ana...

One of the most pressing usability issues in the design of web sites is that of how to improve navigation and search. We are conducting a series of usability studies to address this problem, focusing on web sites that consist of large collections of loosely organized information. This article describes our method and presents preliminary results which suggest that use of faceted metadata can be...

Linear peptides derived from the membrane proximal region of the gp41 ectodomain are effective inhibitors of HIV type 1 (HIV-1)-mediated fusion events. These inhibitory peptides lack structure in solution, rendering mechanistic interpretation of their activity difficult. Using structurally constrained analogs of these molecules, we demonstrate that the peptides inhibit infectivity by adopting a...

This study explored the effect of porosity and installation angle, thickness (dimension) and second layer of permeable obstacles on density current control and trapping in the laboratory. For this purpose, an insoluble suspended polymer and two types of groove and cavity obstacles made from plexiglass sheets were selected. The experiments were conducted with two different concentrations, five d...

Full synchronization (FS) leaf sequencing removes tongue-and-groove underdosages (TGU) but increases the number of segments. Constrained partial synchronization (CPS) uses a minimum tongue-and-groove ratio (TGR) to reduce the number of segments while achieving acceptable TGUs. TGR is the ratio of non-overlapping intensities that irradiate a common junction. For TGRs of 1, 1.5 and 2, the TGUs we...

Layered Ti-Al metal composite (LMC) fabricated by hot-pressing and hot-rolling process displays higher ductility than that of both components. In this paper, a combination of digital image correlation (DIC) and X-ray tomography revealed that strain delocalization and constrained crack distribution are the origin of extraordinary tensile ductility. Strain delocalization was derived from the tran...