Seismic Performances of Replaceable Steel Connection with Low Yield Point Metal by Haoxiang He, Kui Chen, Ruifeng Li

“…In addition, the energy dissipation capacity and damage characteristics of different connections are compared. …”
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Constitutive Model and Damage Evolution of Mudstone under the Action of Dry-Wet Cycles by Ming Hu, Yuanxue Liu, Linbo Song, Yu Zhang

“…The essence of the damage of rock masses is a damage evolution process, during which the deformation energy of the structure phase converts into dissipation energy of the damage phase, and the energy dissipation from phase transformation promotes the structure phase to change into the damage phase. …”
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Stable-to-unstable transition in quantum friction by Daigo Oue, J. B. Pendry, Mário G. Silveirinha

“…We investigate the frictional force arising from quantum fluctuations when two dissipative metallic plates are set in a shear motion. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Studies on Wave Breaking Characteristics over a Fringing Reef under Monochromatic Wave Conditions by Jong-In Lee, Sungwon Shin, Young-Taek Kim

“…Fringing reefs play an important role in protecting the coastal area by inducing wave breaking and wave energy dissipation. However, modeling of wave transformation and energy dissipation on this topography is still difficult due to the unique structure. …”
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Study on the Fractal Characteristics of the Pomegranate Biotite Schist under Impact Loading by Jianguo Wang, Ting Zuo, Xianglong Li, Zihao Tao, Jun Ma

“…Finally, the relationships between fractal dimension and dynamic compressive strength, crushing characteristics, and energy dissipation characteristics were analysed. The results show that under different impact loads, the strain rate effect of the rock is significant and the dynamic compressive strength increases with the increasing strain rate, and they show a multiplicative power relationship. …”
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Cyclic Testing of Concrete-Filled Double-Skin Steel Tubular Column to Steel Beam Joint with RC Slab by Dongfang Zhang, Junhai Zhao, Shuanhai He

“…Composite connections of this type exhibit excellent ductility and favorable energy dissipation and can be effectively utilized in superhigh-rise buildings erected in earthquake zones.…”
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Seismic Behavior Experimental Study on the Joint of Circular Tubed Steel-Reinforced Concrete Columns by Yan Dai, Shaofeng Nie, Tianhua Zhou, Chengfeng Xue, Jingrong Peng

“…The results show that the new joint has reasonable failure characteristics, high bearing capacity, good ductility, excellent seismic energy dissipation performance, and strong resistance to strength and stiffness degradation, which meets the seismic design principle of “strong joint and weak component” and is suitable for the results with special requirements for seismic performance. …”
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Performance evaluation of the SM4 cipher based on field‐programmable gate array implementation by Sa'ed Abed, Reem Jaffal, Bassam Jamil Mohd, Mohammad Alshayeji

“…Alternatively, pipelined implementations perform better regarding speed and energy dissipation by 10 times and 40% of the scalar implementation, respectively. …”
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Quantum correlations and artificial intelligence by L. B. Boldyreva, E. Yu. Belova

“…In this case the special relativity postulate concerning the speed of light is not violated, because it relates to inertial systems only; however, quantum correlation due to being dissipation free is an inertialess process (which follows from the well-known, experimentally-verified relationship between mass m and energy E: E = mc2, where с is the speed of light). …”
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Effect of Clip Characteristics on Thermal Performance of Dr.MOS Packages by Hao-Lin Yen, Fang-I Lai

“…This study explores the impact of copper clip design on the thermal performance of driver MOSFET (Dr.MOS) packages with the goal of optimizing heat dissipation efficiency in microelectronic components. …”
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Seismic Behavior of a Novel Buckling-Restrained Steel Plate Shear Wall by Yang Li, Xiaofeng Zhao, Ping Tan, Fulin Zhou, Jin Jiang

“…The test results show that the novel BRSPSW does not only significantly enhance the ultimate bearing capacity, stiffness, ductility, and accumulated energy dissipation of the SPSW but also keep the steel plate basically intact at the end of the test. …”
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Investigation of the flow characteristics of slit check dams using novel models by Muhammet Emin Emiroglu, Erdinc Ikinciogullari, Eyyup Ensar Yalcin, Enes Gul

“…The results showed that slit-check dams caused hydraulic jumps and dissipated flow energy. The Arced and Rectangular models, in particular, demonstrated a significant performance for energy dissipation, which is essential for flood management. …”
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Seismic Fragility Assessment of RC Plan-Asymmetric Wall-Frame Structures Based on the Enhanced Damage Model by Ning Wang, Xiaoning Huang, Dan Zhang

“…Accordingly, the maximum deformation and hysteretic energy dissipation can be determined. Then, an enhanced damage model, which is based on the combination of deformation and hysteretic energy dissipation, is used to identify floor damage factor. …”
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Effectiveness of earthquake drains in mitigating liquefaction-induced settlement by Salimah A’isyah, Yelvi, Andienti Meidi, Adi Prakoso Widjojo, Rahayu Wiwik

“…The results revealed reduced excess pore-water pressure generation around the drains due to the rapid dissipation of pore pressures during shaking. Additionally, the excess pore water pressure increased more slowly with the drains, as they allowed partial dissipation of pressure through drainage. …”
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Physical Modelling of Rainfall-Induced Sandy and Clay-Like Slope Failures by Martina Vivoda Prodan, Josip Peranić, Sara Pajalić, Željko Arbanas

“…Rainfall infiltration caused increase of volumetric water content, dissipation of suction in initially partially saturated materials of the small-scale slope models, resulting in a decrease in effective stresses and shear strength, which in turn led to the occurrence of movements and initiation of slope failures. …”
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Influence of moving heat sources on thermoviscoelastic behavior of rotating nanorods: a nonlocal Klein–Gordon perspective with fractional heat conduction by Ahmed E. Abouelregal, M. Marin, Abdelaziz Foul, Sameh S. Askar

“…These findings showed that the fractional and tempering parameters controlled thermal dissipation rates and thermal wave propagation velocity, ensuring physically realistic thermal responses. …”
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Investigation of Flow Characteristics in Valveless Piezoelectric Pumps with Airfoil Baffles at Varying Angles of Attack by Jun Huang, Hiba Affane, Bo Zhang, Ming Kuang, Jian Xiong, Siyao Zhang

“…High turbulent dissipation was primarily observed at the pump chamber inlet, the trailing edges of the airfoils in both the inlet and outlet pipes, and the outlet bend. …”
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CFD analysis of the main operating parameters for a complete braking friction system under transient working conditions by F. Orlandi, C. De Marco, S. Meleti, A. Manian, M. Milani, L. Montorsi

“…In particular, the lubricant oil flow rate, the thermal energy to be dissipated and the characteristic braking time are analysed. …”
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Assessing thiamethoxam environmental distribution in successively cultivated corn: insights from drainage lysimeter and laboratory studies by Affonso Celso Gonçalves Junior, Elio Conradi Junior, Daniel Schwantes, Angélica de Fatima Bortolato Piccioli, Deonir Secco

“…Laboratory analyses assessed TIA sorption and dissipation, using UPLC-DAD for quantification and categorizing soil samples into calcined and uncalcined treatments. …”
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Lateral Seismic Response and Self-Centering Performance of a Long-Span Railway Continuous Beam-Arch Bridge by Yan Shi, Zhanhong Zhang, Hongguo Qin, Xiangyu Zhao, Xiong Yang

“…The sliding bearings afford the vertical loads, and the self-centering energy dissipation brace (SCED) and buckling restrained brace (BRB) control the horizontal displacement of the beam, so the functional separation was achieved under the combined action. …”
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