With critical lessons drawn from recent strong earthquakes, the engineering community is
appealing for a fundamental shift of the existing design philosophy for infrastructures in …

Severe challenges such as depletion of natural resources, natural catastrophes, extreme
weather conditions, or overpopulation require intelligent solutions especially in architecture …

Given their excellent self‐centering and energy‐dissipating capabilities, superelastic shape
memory alloys (SMAs) become an emerging structural material in the field of earthquake …

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are a class of alloys that possess numerous unique
characteristics. They offer complete shape recovery after experiencing large strains, energy …

Transdermal drug delivery holds great promise for enhancing therapeutic outcomes and
patient compliance, and bioinspired 4D microneedles represent a cutting-edge approach in …

This paper proposes novel self-centering (SC) seismic base isolators by utilizing shape
memory alloy U-shaped dampers (SMA-UDs) with favorable superelastic behavior. Two …

This paper presents an innovative type of friction sliding bearing system incorporating shape
memory alloy (SMA) cables. The study commences with cyclic tests on individual SMA …

Shape memory alloys (SMAs), as the self-explanatory name indicates, are materials that can
'memorize'or retrieve their pristine shape when exposed to temperature or load due to their …

With the goal to assess its effectiveness in structural vibration suppression under strong
seismic excitations, this paper experimentally investigates shaking table tests of a new …

Due to the preferable self-centering and energy dissipation capabilities, self-centering
energy dissipation (SCED) braces have become an emerging structural component in …