The shape of biological structures, ranging from flower petals to the limbs or organs of animals, is often naturally best ...

Textechno offers a portfolio of testing systems spanning single-fiber characterization, matrix adhesion and intermediate ...

GXBeam is a pure Julia implementation of Geometrically Exact Beam Theory, originally based on the open source code GEBT and its associated papers[1] [2], though it has since been augmented with a ...

Building frames can be analyzed by various methods such as force method, displacement method, and approximate method. The method of analysis to adopt depends upon the types of frame, its configuration ...

Tensegrity structures are geometric nonlinear systems and statically and kinematically indeterminate structures that require an initial shape-finding procedure to establish a self-equilibrium state.

With the continuous deepening of human exploration of the universe, space telescopes have emerged as pivotal tools for obtaining information about celestial bodies and their evolutionary principles.

Aiming at the situation that the structural parameters of the general manipulators are uncertain, a time-varying impedance controller based on model reference adaptive control (MRAC) is proposed in ...

1 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace, Brunel University, London, UK. 2 Department of Design, Brunel University, London, UK. This paper is to review the theory of thin-walled beam structures of the ...

1 School of Automation & Information Engineering, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, China. 2 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, ...

A structure that fails at large loads is expected to be dense and stiff. This is because in conventional materials failure load depends directly on stiffness and density. This paper shows that the ...