Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 500-520, February 2026.ABSTRACT Since the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami evacuation towers have been constructed in coastal regions based on worst‐case predictions to provide additional safety margins against unprecedented tsunamis. However, the extent to which such assumptions effectively reduce casualty risk remains unclear.
Ravi Thapa +5 more
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A finite element reliability analysis platform for damage index-based fragility assessment of RC bridges. [PDF]
Sci RepSong H, Kim M, Lee YJ, Kim TH, Lee S.
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Failure Criterion‐Based Bead Optimization of a Wind Turbine Blade Root Section
Wind Energy, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT This study presents a bead‐based optimization framework for fiber composite wind turbine blades, employing the Tsai–Wu failure criterion as the structural performance measure. The objective is to design an optimal transition geometry between an existing blade and a root section with 20% smaller diameter, while preserving the original material ...
Philipp Ulrich Haselbach +4 more
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Numerical Design Calculation According to EN 1993-1-14 of Innovative Thin-Walled Columns with Sectional Transverse Strengthening. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Szewczyk S, Semko V, Studziński R.
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Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 109, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT Rice husk ash (RHA) is an agricultural by‐product that can replace microsilica (MS) as a suitable silica source in MgO–SiO2 cement mixes, offering low‐carbon benefits. This study investigated the 3D printing properties, including thixotropy and hardened mechanical properties, of the MgO–SiO2 system formed by partial and total replacement of MS
Yiming Peng, Cise Unluer
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Fabrication‐Directed Entanglement for Designing Chiral and Anisotropic Metamaterial Foams
Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 28, Issue 2, January 21, 2026.This work introduces fabrication‐directed entanglement (FDE), combining viscous thread printing and topology optimization to program entangled foams with spatially patterned stiffness. By tuning coil density, FDE enables anisotropy, programmable Poisson's ratio, and chirality in foams.
Daniel Revier +3 more
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Numerical simulation and design recommendations for prestressed steel stayed columns subjected to static and dynamic effects. [PDF]
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Experimental Analysis and Physics‐Based Analytical Model on Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles
Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 28, Issue 2, January 21, 2026.Twisted and coiled artificial muscles made from silver‐coated nylon fibers are investigated through experiments and analytical modeling. The actuators achieve contractions up to 19.3% and specific work of 8 kJ kg−1, though efficiency remains limited (≈0.15%) by thermal losses.
Salvatore Garofalo +3 more
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Dynamic Behaviour of Two-Layered Beam Subjected to Mechanical Load in Thermal Environment. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Doneva S, Warminski J, Manoach E.
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One‐Dimensional Finite Elements With Arbitrary Cross‐Sectional Displacement Fields
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 127, Issue 1, 15 January 2026.ABSTRACT This paper introduces an unprecedented unified approach for developing structural theories with an arbitrary kinematic variable over the beam cross‐section. Each of the three displacement variables can be analyzed using an independent expansion function. Both the order of the expansion and the number of terms in each field can be any. That is,
E. Carrera, D. Scano, E. Zappino
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