Computer Simulations of Contact Forces for Airbags with Different Folding Patterns During Deployment Phase by King H. Yang, Yun-Qiang Li, Danyu Sun

“…The neck shear force ranged from 87 to 229% and the neck flexion moment ranged from 68 to 127% of in-position experimental results. In both 300 mounting angle simulations, the neck axial forces were higher than that of the two simulations with 00 mounting angles, but the trend for the neck shear force was the opposite. …”
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Design and Optimization of Elliptical Cavity Tube Receivers in the Parabolic Trough Solar Collector by Fei Cao, Lei Wang, Tianyu Zhu

“…On increasing the tracking error angle, more lights are sheltered by the cavity outer surface. …”
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Electronic Angular Tunneling Effect by Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales, Cássio Almeida Lima, Gislan Silveira Santos, Alfredo Takashi Suzuki

“… In this article we show that the probability for an electron tunneling a rectangular potential barrier depends on its angle of incidence measured with respect to the normal line. …”
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Investigation on the Fracturing Permeability Characteristics of Cracked Specimens and the Formation Mechanism of Inrush Channel from Floor by Jianning Wang, Weitao Liu, Jianjun Shen

“…To study the fracture characteristics and the permeability change law of the cracked specimens during the complete stress-strain process, a mechanical model was constructed, from which different types of crack initiation angles were obtained. The crack inclination angles under uniaxial compression, confining compression, and confining tension, and the influence of confining pressure and pore water pressure on the crack propagation and permeability of rock mass were investigated and simulated with RFPA-Flow software using prefabricated crack models with crack initiation angles of 30°, 45°, and 60°. …”
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Theoretical Analysis of Mining Induced Overburden Subsidence Boundary with the Horizontal Coal Seam Mining by Weitao Yan, Junjie Chen, Yi Tan, Wenzhi Zhang, Lailiang Cai

“…For unconsolidated stratum, the results show that the larger the internal friction angle, the greater the angle between subsidence boundary and horizontal line. …”
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Clinical Features and Surgical Strategies of Distal Radius Posttraumatic Deformity by Ning Zhang, Jiahu Fang

“…All the patients underwent preoperative anterior and lateral X-ray plain scanning of bilateral wrist joints, showing different degrees of radius shortening, inferior ulnar and radial mismatch, palmar angle, and ulnar deviation angle, among which 11 patients had an uneven joint surface. …”
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Numerical Study on Shear Performance of a New Perfobond Connector with Controllable Stiffness by Yangqing Liu, Yuqing Liu, Haohui Xin, Hao Tian, Jun Wei

“…Further, the effects of the number of sectors, the size of side wings, the central angle of hollows, the offset angle, and the thickness of rubber rings were analysed. …”
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Vibration Analysis and Optimal Control of Hydraulic Turbine Based on Sliding Mode Control Strategy by Xiaoping Huang, Yaqiong Zhang, Wenzhe Huang

“…A control strategy combining fuzzy logic and sliding mode is adopted to adjust the convergence speed according to the change of working conditions and working points by using mechanical power. By incorporating the angle and voltage variables into the sliding mode function design, the influence of controller output on system damping is improved, and the stability of working angle output is improved. …”
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Influences of Coal Properties on the Principal Permeability Tensor during Primary Coalbed Methane Recovery: A Parametric Study by Jie Zang, Ze Ma, Yong Ge, Chengxin Li

“…The principal permeability perpendicular to the plane of isotropy is positively proportional to this principal Young modulus, and this correlation pattern is independent of both the dip angle and pitch angle.…”
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Experimental Study on Sand Inrush Hazard of Water-Sand Two-Phase Flow in Broken Rock Mass by Junce Xu, Hai Pu, Jiarui Chen, Ziheng Sha

“…In addition, it was also found that the angle of the fractures within the broken rock mass affected the seepage characteristics of water-sand mixture, and the permeability showed an exponential relationship with the fracture angle. …”
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N-Heterocyclic Germylenes: Structural Characterisation of Some Heavy Analogues of the Ubiquitous N-Heterocyclic Carbenes by Christopher A. Dodds, Alan R. Kennedy, Mark D. Spicer

“…The major geometrical difference observed, as expected, was the bond angle around the divalent group 14 atom. The N-Ge-N bond angle was 83.6° for compound 2 versus the N-C-N bond angle of 101.4° for IMes. …”
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Simulation and Analysis of the Optimal Electric Field from Modifications to the Winding Design for the Tesla Transformer by Nattachote Rugthaicharoencheep, Supawud Nedphokaew

“…The voltage and corresponding electric field stress were measured for the primary winding at various angles relative to the floor (0-, 30-, 45-, 60-, and 90-degree angles) to determine the configuration. …”
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Experimental Study on the Shear Strength of Loess Modified by Microbial Precipitation Technology by Bing-Xia Wang, Li-Jun Shi, Jian-Hua Dong, Lu Wang, Wen-Tong Tian

“…The shear strength (vertical pressure 50, 100, 200, and 300 kPa) and soil structure of the remolded loess with different proportions of the microbial cementing solution were measured and observed by the direct shear test and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).The results showed: (1) the increase in the microbial cementation solution led to the transformation of the stress-shear displacement curve from strain hardening to strain softening, with the transition interval of 26%∼34%. (2) With the increase in the microbial cementation solution, the change of cohesion showed a trend of “M,” the inflection point of the microbial cementation solution was 14%, 22%, and 34%, while the internal friction angle showed a law of “W,” where the inflection points of the internal friction angle were about 14%, 30%, 34%, and 38%, respectively. …”
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Angular Photometry of Biological Tissue by Ellipsoidal Reflector Method by M. A. Bezuglyi, N. V. Bezuglaya, A. V. Ventsuryk, K. P. Vonsevych

“…Analytical solution for calculating the angles range of incident radiation depending on the eccentricity and focal parameter of the ellipsoid are obtained. …”
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Enhancing the Performance of Novel Archimedes Spiral Hydrokinetic Turbines Utilizing Blade Winglets in Deep-Sea Power Generation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles by Ke Song, Huiting Huan, Liuchuang Wei, Chunxia Liu

“…The analysis focuses on the effects of the winglet angle and height ratio on the power and thrust, as well as the pressure distribution and flow characteristics. …”
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DDL R-CNN: Dynamic Direction Learning R-CNN for Rotated Object Detection by Weixian Su, Donglin Jing

“…Current remote sensing (RS) detectors often rely on predefined anchor boxes with fixed angles to handle the multi-directional variations of targets. …”
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Clinical Efficacy of Percutaneous Kyphoplasty Combined with Calcitriol and Calcium in the Treatment of Traumatic Nonosteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures by Shouqian Dai, Xin Lu, Ningning Dai, Xiu Shi, Peng Yang, Peng Peng, Feng Xu

“…The VAS scores, ODI scores, the height of the anterior edge of the injured vertebral body, and Cobb’s angle of the two groups of patients after surgery were significantly better than those before surgery. …”
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The Effect of Abutment Angulation and Crown Material Compositions on Stress Distribution in 3-Unit Fixed Implant-Supported Prostheses: A Finite Element Analysis by Ramin Mosharraf, Mahsa Abbasi, Pirooz Givehchian

“…In an angled posterior abutment-implant complex, less stress level was detected compared to straight ones. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Preimpact Energy Dissipation on Coefficient of Restitution regarding the Slope-Boulder Interaction by Ran Bi, Shaoying Li, Gou Liu, Jianxi Ren, Yongjun Song

“…The correlation between preimpact energy dissipation and four coefficients of restitution can be represented by the same decreasing linear function, when increasing the slope angle.…”
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Crack Initiation Behaviors of Granite Specimens Containing Crossing-Double-Flaws with Different Lengths under Uniaxial Loading by Haiyang Pan, Dawei Yin, Ning Jiang, Zhiguo Xia

“…They can initiate from the secondary flaw with a length 20 mm at α of 30° (included angle between main flaw and horizontal direction) and β of 90° (included angle between main and secondary flaws) and from main and secondary flaws at α of 30° and β of 60°. …”
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