Design, Fabrication, and Testing of Active Skin Antenna with 3D Printing Array Framework by Jinzhu Zhou, Haitao Li, Le Kang, Baofu Tang, Jin Huang, Zhiheng Cai

“…An active skin antenna with structural load-bearing and electromagnetic functions is usually installed in the structural surface of mobile vehicles such as aircrafts, warships, and high-speed train. …”
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Evolution Mechanism, Monitoring, and Early Warning Method of Water Inrush in Deep-Buried Long Tunnel by Wenfeng Tu, Liping Li, Shuai Cheng, Diyang Chen, Yongcai Yuan, Yanhao Chen

“…Firstly, the failure mode and determination method of safety thickness of the antioutburst structure are summarized. The key breakthrough directions and development trends of water inrush mechanism was analyzed. …”
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Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Masonry Infills Based on Material Strain Limit Approach by Mangeshkumar R. Shendkar, Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni, Sasankasekhar Mandal, Pabitra Ranjan Maiti, Omid Tavasoli

“…The seismic evaluation and retrofit of reinforced concrete (RC) structures considering masonry infills is the correct methodology because the infill walls are an essential part of RC structures and increase the stiffness and strength of structures in seismically active areas. …”
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Hydrothermal Synthesis and Tunable Multicolor Upconversion Emission of Cubic Phase Y2O3 Nanoparticles by Haibo Wang, Chao Qian, Zhigao Yi, Ling Rao, Hongrong Liu, Songjun Zeng

“…Highly crystalline body-centered cubic structure Y2O3 with lanthanide (Ln) codopants (Ln = Yb3+/Er3+ and Yb3+/Ho3+) has been synthesized via a moderate hydrothermal method in combination with a subsequent calcination. …”
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Distribution of Corrosion Attack in Chloride Exposed Concrete – Summary of Field Observations by Baral Kedar, Geiker Mette Rica, Øverli Jan Arve

“…Knowledge of the distribution of corrosion attack is required for the structural assessment of existing marine-exposed RC structures to extend their service life. …”
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An Approach to Classical Quantum Field Theory Based on the Geometry of Locally Conformally Flat Space-Time by John Mashford

“…This paper gives an introduction to certain classical physical theories described in the context of locally Minkowskian causal structures (LMCSs). For simplicity of exposition we consider LMCSs which have locally Euclidean topology (i.e., are manifolds) and hence are Möbius structures. …”
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Topological Aspects of Molecular Networks: Crystal Cubic Carbons by Muhammad Javaid, Aqsa Sattar, Ebenezer Bonyah

“…Theory of networks serves as a mathematical foundation for the construction and modeling of chemical structures and complicated networks. In particular, chemical networking theory has a wide range of utilizations in the study of chemical structures, where examination and manipulation of chemical structural information are made feasible by utilizing the numerical graph invariants. …”
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Vibration and Damping Analysis of a Multilayered Composite Plate with a Viscoelastic Midlayer by Haochuan Wan, Yinong Li, Ling Zheng

“…Symmetrical structure can obtain higher structural loss factor than one-direction structure. …”
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A New Method to Calculate Additional Damping Ratio considering the Effect of Excitation Frequency by Weizhi Xu, Dongsheng Du, Shuguang Wang, Weiwei Li

“…The additional damping ratio (ADR) is an important indicator for evaluating the damping effect of structures with energy-dissipation devices. Most existing methods for determining the ADR require an analysis of the structural dynamic response and complex iterative calculations. …”
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Numerical Analysis of a New Block-Type Rail Bearing Beam for the Mid-Low-Speed Maglev Train by Wubin Wang, Yandong Li, Kang Xie, Zhichao Huang, Linchuan Shi

“…The results show that the increase in driving speed has the most significant effect on the vertical acceleration of the structure, and the self-vibration frequency of the structure is relatively large, which means the structure is safe. …”
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Molecular modelling of four penicillins: bencylpenicillin, phenoxymethylpenicillin, ampicillin and amoxicillin by Elso Manuel Cruz Cruz, Eslhey María Sánchez Domínguez

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong>Penicillins differ structurally among themselves by the lateral chains. …”
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Wind-Induced Response of an L-Shaped Cable Support Glass Curtain Wall by Yan Yu, Tao Liu, Qilin Zhang, Bin Yang

“…Four wind flow directions are specified, namely, 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45°, to analyze the wind-induced dynamic response of this structure with consideration of the fluid-structure interaction effect. …”
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Optimal Three-Dimensional Sensor Placement for Cable-Stayed Bridge Based on Dynamic Adjustment of Attenuation Factor Gravitational Search Algorithm by Bo Gao, Zhihui Bai, Yubo Song

“…Structural health monitoring (SHM) is essential when detecting damage in large and complex structures in order to provide a comprehensive assessment of the structural health state. …”
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Study of Tunnel-Face to Borehole ERI (TBERI) Measurement Configurations and Its Optimization by Wei Zhou, Lichao Nie, Yongheng Zhang, Yonghao Pang, Zhao Dong, Zhimin An, Zhengyu Liu, Chuanyi Ma

“…Most of the existing electrical-resistivity-based ahead prospecting methods in tunnel use only the tunnel cavity and tunnel face space to locate the water-bearing structures in front of the tunnel. However, due to the limitation of the narrow available space for arranging electrodes in tunnel, this kind of method is difficult to achieve more accurate image for water-bearing structures. …”
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Numerical Study on Failure Mechanisms of Shaft Wall Consisting of Steel Plate and Concrete under the Effects of Explosion by Yanjun Qi, Linming Dou, Zhaoxing Dong, Bo Meng

“…To enhance the antidynamic and static load resistance of reinforced concrete structures, the measure of covering steel plates on the inner surface of concrete structures arises, which has been rapidly developed and applied in civil engineering and other fields and has achieved a good performance. …”
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The sharpness of the images in metallography by A. G. Anisovich

“…The article presents the issues of sharpness of images of the structure of materials in metallographic studies. The use of the concept of depth of field to obtain images of the structure of various objects – fractures, microsection polished specimen, optically transparent materials is illustrated. …”
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Study on the Influence of the Internal Elastic Constraint Stiffness on the Vib-Acoustic Performance of a Coupled Plate-Cylindrical Shell System by Yonggan Sun, Yong Xiao

“…Regarding the vib-acoustic performance of internal coupled structures, basically all relevant studies have been confined to the classic form of connections. …”
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Investigating LiDAR Metrics for Old-Growth Beech- and Spruce-Dominated Forest Identification in Central Europe by Devara P. Adiningrat, Andrew Skidmore, Michael Schlund, Tiejun Wang, Haidi Abdullah, Marco Heurich

“…This study introduces a novel approach for identifying old-growth forests by optimizing a set of selected LiDAR standards and structural metrics. These metrics effectively capture the arrangement of multiple forest structures, such as canopy heterogeneity, multilayer canopy profile, and canopy openness. …”
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Metacavities by harnessing the linear-crossing metamaterials by Wu Jiaju, Guo Zhiwei, Qi Xin, Wei Qian, He Li, Fang Kai, Sun Yong, Li Yunhui, Chen Yuguang, Jiang Haitao, Chen Hong

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Feature engineering descriptors, transforms, and machine learning for grain boundaries and variable-sized atom clusters by C. Braxton Owens, Nithin Mathew, Tyce W. Olaveson, Jacob P. Tavenner, Edward M. Kober, Garritt J. Tucker, Gus L. W. Hart, Eric R. Homer

“…Abstract Obtaining microscopic structure-property relationships for grain boundaries is challenging due to their complex atomic structures. …”
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