Industry 4.0 encompasses a new industrial revolution in which advanced manufacturing
systems are interconnected with information technologies. These sophisticated data …

Wind energy has become a large contender of traditional fossil fuel energy, particularly with
the successful operation of multi-megawatt sized wind turbines. However, reasonable wind …

Conductive silicone rubber has great advantages for tactile sensing applications. The
electrical behavior of the elastomeric material is rate-dependent and exhibit hysteresis upon …

This article seeks to reduce the stiffness of NiTi parts from a nonporous state to that of
human bone by introducing porosity. Compact bone stiffness is between 12 and 20 GPa …

Current trends in the progress of technology demand availability of materials resources
ahead of the advancing fronts of the application areas. During the last couple of decades …

The huge demand for energy and construction materials has become an issue of great
concern recently. The energy usage of buildings accounts for a large percentage of the total …

Shape memory alloys (SMAs)—a type of smart materials—offer unique benefits for
constructing unique medical implants, especially for heart stents, vertebral nails, and braces …

Porosity can change the phase transformation behaviors of the NiTi Shape Memory Alloys
(SMAs). In this work, the dependence of porosity of nanocrystalline (NC) NiTi SMAs on …

Adaptive grippers should be able to detect and recognize gras** objects. To be able to do
it control algorithm need to be established to control gripper tasks. Compliant underactuated …

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the accuracy of two computational intelligence
methods in the prediction of hardness and density of 3Y-PSZ/316L composites. For this …