Results 111 to 120 of about 380,246 (279)

Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybridization of Principal Component Analysis-Entropy-TOPSIS Techniques for Minimization of Angular Deviation in Gas Metal Arc Welded Stainless Steel Plates

Metals
The current study involves optimizing gas metal arc welding input parameters by hybridization techniques such as principal component analysis, entropy, and TOPSIS for minimizing the angular distortion resulting from the welding process.
Kuluthupalayam Maruthavanan Eazhil, Ranganathan Sudhakaran, Abdul Aabid, Omar Shabbir Ahmed   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Artificial to Embodied and Physical Intelligence in Smart Manufacturing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Smart manufacturing is reframed through complementary artificial, embodied, and physical intelligence, spanning computational reasoning, perception‐action coupling, and material‐level adaptation. Their integration across design, fabrication, operation, and maintenance reveals how intelligence can be co‐designed across algorithms, embodied agents, and ...
Kang Wang, Xinyu Lu, Tong Liu, Jinjie Fang, Xin Li, Siqian Wu, Liuchao Jin, Wei‐Hsin Liao, Shuyou Zhang, Jianrong Tan   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiscale Interfacial Engineering Enables Robust Reconstituted Wood

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Conventional adhesives used in wood composites create heterogeneous interfaces that cause stress concentration under humid or aqueous conditions, thereby compromising long‐term stability. A synergistic strategy integrating interfacial reconstruction and water‐induced regeneration transforms heterogeneous interfaces into homogeneous ones with ...
Huizheng Wu, Yi Kong, Liangxian Liu, Yuyan Jiang, Jiahuan He, Haiyu Li, Ming Wei, Dexiu Min, Jian Li, Yanjun Xie, Chi Zhang, Shaoliang Xiao   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safety of Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Evaluation and Perspective from Component Materials to Cells, Modules, and Packs

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides a bottom‐up evaluation of sodium‐ion battery safety, linking material degradation mechanisms, cell engineering parameters, and module/pack assembly. It emphasizes that understanding intrinsic material stability and establishing coordinated engineering control across hierarchical levels are vital for preventing degradation coupling ...
Won‐Gwang Lim, Seoa Kim, Erik A. Wu, Darren H. S. Tan, Shawn Peng, Xiaolin Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermally Drawn Bioelectric Catheters: Enabling Proprioceptive Endovascular Navigation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This work introduces a novel bioelectric navigation system eliminates the need for harmful fluoroscopy during endovascular surgeries. A bespoke 16‐electrode catheter is fabricated using rapid thermal drawing and laser micro‐machining. Paired with a real‐time tracking algorithm fusing vascular geometry detection and distance estimation, this technology ...
Alex Ranne, Heiko Maier, Jinshi Zhao, Songli Moey, Ayhan Aktas, Manik Chana, Burak Temelkuran, Nassir Navab, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimization of shielded metal arc welding process parameters for IS 2062 E250 steel using Taguchi’s L16 method

Discover Mechanical Engineering
This study investigates the optimization of Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) parameters for IS 2062 E250 structural steel using the Taguchi L16 orthogonal array.
Nirav Vora, Himanshukumar Patel, Divyang Pandya, Vipul Shah, Pranav Mehta, Ghanshyam G. Tejani, A. Johnson Santhosh   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Review on Additive Manufacturing of Smart Components: Technologies, Applications, and Future Scope

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
How can additive manufacturing enable components that sense, adapt, heal, and power themselves? This review synthesizes recent advances in smart functionalities, manufacturing technologies, and intelligent design strategies, revealing a pathway toward fully integrated, autonomous, and multifunctional systems across diverse engineering sectors. Additive
Aiswarya Rony, P. M. Ushasree, Michael Short, Jinoop Arackal Narayanan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing Exploration and Exploitation Through a Sequential Hybrid of Roach Infestation and Mayfly Algorithms for Constrained Engineering Design Optimization

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Maintaining an effective balance between exploration and exploitation is essential during optimization processes, from mathematical functions to more complex problems such as constrained engineering design optimization, particularly when addressing highly nonlinear issues with numerous local optima and strict feasibility requirements.
Enrique Lizárraga, Fevrier Valdez, Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cyclic Processability of Functional Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Networks via Dynamic Ester Bonding

Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.
This work reports the successful reprocessing of liquid crystal epoxy networks through two distinct modes—welding of clean breaks and reconstitution from shredded material—without significant loss of functionality. Thermal and mechanical characterization shows stability in the shape memory behavior and glass transition temperature over multiple ...
Collin Pekol, Mohammad Husein, David J. Keffer, David P. Harper   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source