With the rapid advancement of electronic and microelectronic technologies, it has become crucial to efficiently characterize and simulate semiconductor devices and systems under various operating conditions. These circuits ...

Shear walls are the main lateral-load-resisting system in reinforced concrete buildings. This study examines the seismic performance of slender, under-reinforced shear walls, and proposes retrofit guidelines to enhance the ...

Powerline inspections have always been a challenge due to its cost and safety issues. As a result, it has been crucial to create new methods/mechanisms for inspecting the powerlines. Moreover, existing solutions typically ...

In this paper, we introduce the Robot Quadruped Materials Dataset (RQMD), which is a collection of RGB color images as well as a friction coefficient associated with each image for 5 different material types taken in ...

Rotary friction welding (RFW) is a highly efficient and sustainable process for joining both metals and plastics. The welding process parameters of RFW must be carefully selected to ensure a good quality weld with minimum ...

Distribution System State Estimation (DSSE) remains a challenging problem due to the nature of distribution grids. Conventional methods, which are used to solve state estimation on the transmission level, require the grid ...

As the concern of fresh and clean water scarcity is raised worldwide, the necessity of water reuse stands out. In this sense, the AnMBR, an advanced wastewater treatment technology combining the advantages of the MBR and ...

Nanomaterials are engineered materials with at least one dimension in the range of 1–100 nm. Nanofluids—nanoscale colloidal suspensions containing various nanomaterials—have distinctive properties and offer unprecedented ...

Access to deeper oil and gas reservoirs in hostile environments necessitates improvement of existing drilling fluids. This work focuses on the lab techniques for developing, assessing and analyzing innovative water-based ...

A well-validated analytical method based on microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) and SPE is presented for the combined analysis of alachlor, alachlor–oxanilic acid (OXA), alachlor–ethanesulfonic acid (ESA), metolachlor, ...