• Lumbar load attenuation for rotorcraft occupants using a design methodology for the seat impact energy-absorbing system 

  Moradi, Rasoul; Beheshti, Hamid; Lankarani, Hamid M. (Springer-Verlag Wien, 2012-06-09)

  Aircraft occupant crash-safety considerations require a minimum cushion thickness to limit the relative vertical motion of the seat-pelvis during high vertical impact loadings in crash landings or accidents. In military ...

• Delamination of impacted composite structures by cohesive zone interface elements and tiebreak contact 

  Dogan, Fatih; Hadavinia, Homayoun; Donchev, Todor; Bhonge, Prasannakumar S. (Springer-Verlag Wien, 2012-05-21)

  Maximising impact protection of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) laminated composite structures and predicting and preventing the negative effects of impact on these structures are paramount design criteria for ground and ...

• Evolution of stability/flexibility relationships in beta-lactamase 

  Patterson, John; Tsilimigras, Matthew C. B.; Livesay, Dennis R.; Jacobs, Donald J. (Cell Press, 2019-02-15)

  We have curated over 100 structures of class A beta-lactamase proteins, a family of enzymes that is responsible for a considerable percentage of multidrug antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Our dataset includes three ...

• Characterizing dynamical differences between TEM-1 and TEM-52 beta-lactamases 

  Avery, Christopher; Farmer, Jenny; Tsilimigras, Matthew C. B.; David, Charles; Livesay, Dennis R.; Jacobs, Donald J. (Cell Press, 2019-02-15)

  Beta-lactamase, produced in bacteria, defends against beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillin and cephalosporins by hydrolyzing the beta-lactam ring. This is a primary cause of antibiotic resistance to beta-lactam ...

• Performance evaluation of a differentially-private neural network for cloud computing 

  Hoefer, Nathaniel D.; Salinas Monroy, Sergio A. (IEEE, 2018-12)

  Due to the large computational cost of data classification using deep learning, resource-limited devices, e.g., smart phones, PCs, etc., offload their classification tasks to a cloud server, which offers extensive hardware ...

• Modeling of robotic fish propelled by a servo/IPMC hybrid tail 

  Chen, Zheng; Hou, Piqi; Ye, Zhihang (IEEE, 2018-10)

  This paper presents modeling of robotic fish propelled by a hybrid tail with Servo and IPMC actuated two joints. The first joint is driven by a servo motor, which generates flapping motion for main propulsion. The second ...

• Robotic fish propelled by a servo motor and ionic polymer-metal composite hybrid tail 

  Chen, Zheng; Hou, Piqi; Ye, Zhihang (ASME, 2019-03-25)

  In this paper, a new robotic fish propelled by a hybrid tail, which is actuated by two active joints, is developed. The first joint is driven by a servo motor, which generates flapping motions for main propulsion. The ...

• Residential demand response program: predictive analytics, virtual storage model and its optimization 

  Basnet, Saurav Man Singh; Aburub, Haneen Mohammad Dawoud; Jewell, Ward T. (Elsevier, 2019-06)

  Demand response programs are becoming an integral part of the power system, helping create a closer alignment between the electrical service providers and customers. The research described in this paper uses the residential ...

• Efficient privacy-preserving large-scale CP tensor decompositions 

  Luo, Changqing; Salinas Monroy, Sergio A.; Li, Pan (IEEE, 2018-12)

  Tensor decompositions are very powerful tools for analyzing multi-dimensional multi-modal data. Particularly, CP tensor decomposition is one of the most fundamental tensor decomposition models. However, it is usually ...

• Optimal vibration control and energy scavenging using collocated nonlinear energy sinks and piezoelectric elements 

  Nili Ahmadabadi, Zahra; Esmaeilzadeh Khadem, Siamak (ASME, 2018-11)

  This paper presents an optimal design for a system comprising multiple nonlinear energy sinks (NESs) and piezoelectric-based vibration energy harvesters attached to a free–free beam under shock excitation. The energy ...

• Food waste in hospitals: review 

  Alshqaqeeq, Fadhel Y.; Twomey, Janet M.; Overcash, Michael (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2019-03-12)

  Uneaten food, whether by patients or unserved, is considered food waste. Plate waste is the remaining, uneaten food after being served to patients in the hospital. The uneaten food has a cascading environmental impact on ...

• Layout of phase change materials in a thermal energy storage system 

  Rahman, Khan Habeeb Ur; Aldoss, Taha Khalil; Rahman, Muhammad M. (ASME, 2018)

  The objective of this work is to investigate the performance of a thermal energy storage system using multiple phase change materials (PCMs). This study is based on latent heat thermal energy storage. Three phase change ...

• Material characterization and bioanalysis of hybrid scaffolds of carbon nanomaterial and polymer nanofibers 

  Srikanth, Madhulika; Asmatulu, Ramazan; Cluff, Kim; Yao, Li (ACS, 2019-03-08)

  The interconnected porous structures that mimic the extracellular matrix support cell growth in tissue engineering. Nanofibers generated by electrospinning can act as a vehicle for therapeutic cell delivery to a neural ...

• Effects of graphene oxide thin films and nanocomposite coatings on flame retardancy and thermal stability of aircraft composites: a comparative study 

  Uddin, M. Nizam; Le, Louie N.; Nair, Rajeev; Asmatulu, Ramazan (ASME, 2019-03-11)

  A polymer matrix system of thermoset fiber-reinforced composites helps protect its high modulus and strength fibers from an adverse environment and transfers the load to the reinforced fibers. However, when subjected to a ...

• Chemical functionalization of helical carbon nanotubes: influence of sonication time and concentrations of sulfuric and nitric acids with 3:1 mixing ratio 

  Taklimi, Sean Reza; Ghazinezami, Ali; Askari, Davood (Hindawi, 2019-02-26)

  Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with straight geometries have been widely studied for various engineering applications, and they are often treated or functionalized to improve their effectiveness, depending on their role and ...

• Mechanics of a curved electrode actuator operating in viscous dielectric media: simulation and experiment 

  Burugupally, Sindhu Preetham (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019)

  Curved electrode electrostatic actuators have been shown to have the potential to manipulate microparticles at high speeds in viscous dielectric media. However, there are no multiphysics models that fully describe the ...

• Sustained releasing of methotrexate from injectable and thermosensitive chitosan-carbon nanotube hybrid hydrogels effectively controls tumor cell growth 

  Saeednia, Leyla; Yao, Li; Cluff, Kim; Asmatulu, Ramazan (American Chemical Society, 2019-02-22)

  Injectable thermosensitive hydrogels have been widely investigated for drug delivery systems. Chitosan (CH) is one of the most abundant natural polymers, and its biocompatibility and biodegradability make it a favorable ...

• Learning robotic grasping strategy based on natural-language object descriptions 

  Rao, Bharath; Krishnan, Krishna; He, Hongsheng (IEEE, 2018-10)

  Given the description of an object's physical attributes, humans can determine a proper strategy and grasp an object. This paper proposes an approach to determine grasping strategy for an anthropomorphic robotic hand simply ...

• Introducing graphene thin films into carbon fiber composite structures for lightning strike protection 

  Kumar, Sachin S. A.; Uddin, M. Nizam; Rahman, Muhammad M.; Asmatulu, Ramazan (John Wiley and Sons, 2019-01)

  The research and development of graphene and graphene-based materials have been significantly increasing since they were invented. However, in many industries, the applications of graphene nanoflakes are still few, compared ...

• Elastic-plastic analysis of adhesive-bonded single-lap composite joints under tension 

  Yang, Chihdar Charles; Pang, Su-Seng (American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), 1993-07)

  An analytical model of adhesive-bonded single-lap composite joints is developed to predict the stress-strain distributions with such joints under tensile loading. The First-order laminated anisotropic plate theorem is ...

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