An increasing number of marine structures are utilizing composite materials. Major structure and components can be built lighter and corrosion-resistant using composite construction. The recreational boating industry has long recognized this and now commercial ferries are increasingly realizing fuel savings through weight reduction. The US Navy’s DDG-1000 topside structure and LPD-17 advanced e...

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is important for reducing maintenance costs while increasing safety and reliability. Traditionally, structural integrity tests required attachment of sensors to the material surface. This is often a burdensome and time-consuming task, especially considering the size and magnitude of the surfaces measured (such as aircraft, bridges, structural supports, etc.). ...

Using three-dimensional finite element analysis (3D-FEA), stress distributions in the remaining radicular tooth structure were investigated under the condition of varying diameters of fiber post for fiber post-reinforced composite resin cores (fiber post and core) in maxillary central incisors. Four 3D-FEA models were constructed: (1) fiber post (ø1.2, ø1.4, and ø1.6 mm) and composite resin cor...

This paper proposes an H-type magnetoelectric (ME) composite structure consisting of a fork Fe-Ni magnetostrictive substrate and PZT piezoelectric plates. The fork composite structure has a higher ME voltage coefficient and a higher ME power output relative to other ME composite structures due to its higher quality (Q) factor. The fork composite structure can obtain an output power of 61μW at a...

We introduce a new approach for part-based human pose estimation using multi-layer composite models, in which each layer is a tree-structured pictorial structure that models pose at a different scale and with a different graphical structure. At the highest level, the submodel acts as a person detector, while at the lowest level, the body is decomposed into a collection of many local parts. Edge...

An NbC-Fe composite powder was synthesized from an Nb₂O₅/Fe/C mixture by electrochemical reduction and subsequent carbonization in molten CaCl₂-NaCl. The composite has a core-shell structure, in which NbC acts as the cores distributing in the Fe matrix. A strong bonding between NbC and Fe is benefit from the core-shell structure. The sintering and electrochemical reduction processes were invest...

Reducing the settlements of soft foundation effectively is a critical problem of high-speed railway construction in China. The new CFG pile-slab structure composite foundation is a ground treatment technique which is applied on CFG pile foundation and pile-slab structure composite foundation. Based on the experience of constructing Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway in China, the settlement-co...

In this paper, an optimization framework is developed for performance-based seismic design of composite moment frames consisting of concrete filled steel box columns and I-shaped steel beams. Material cost of the structure and seismic damage under severe earthquake ground motions are minimized as objective functions. Two design examples are presented to demonstrate the applicability and efficie...