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The structural behaviour of steel frames with composite floorslabs subject to fire
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Structural fire design: core or specialist subject?
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National Systems of Innovation: Creating High Technology Industries
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)In an era of globalisation, a lively debate has raged over the continued importance of a firm's national base. National Systems of Innovation cuts a swathe through this enduring debate and confirms that in this technological ... -
Design optimization for truss structures under elasto-plastic loading condition
(2006-09-01)In this paper, a method for the design optimization of elasto-plastic truss structures is proposed based on parametric variational principles (PVPs). The optimization aims to find the minimum weight/volume solution under ... -
Cell-based bone tissue engineering
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Bi-functional optimization of actively cooled, pressurized hollow sandwich cylinders with prismatic cores
(Elsevier, 2007-05-08)All metallic, hollow sandwich cylinders having ultralight two-dimensional (2D) prismatic cores are optimally designed for maximum thermo-mechanical performance at minimum mass. The heated cylinder is subjected to uniform ... -
Structural modeling of sandwich structures with lightweight cellular cores
(Springer, 2007-07-24)An effective single layered finite element (FE) computational model is proposed to predict the structural behavior of lightweight sandwich panels having two dimensional (2D) prismatic or three dimensional (3D) truss cores. ... -
A new concept for smart drug delivery: adhesion induced nanovector implosion.
(2008-05-14)In this paper we show that controlling adhesion in highly flexible nanovectors can help in smartly delivering the drug. The high flexibility of the nanovector is used to smartly deliver the drug only at the target site by ... -
Analytical modeling and finite element simulation of the plastic collapse of sandwich beams with pin-reinforced foam cores
(Elsevier, 2008-06-06)Analytical predictions are presented for the plastic collapse strength of lightweight sandwich beams having pin-reinforced foam cores that are loaded in 3-point bending. Both polymer and aluminum foam cores are considered, ...
