Abstract: The thermoelectromechanical system can have a porous structure having a spinodoid geometry and formed of an electrically polarized ferroelectric material, the structure occupying a volume and having a first area spaced apart from a second area; and a device electrically connected to the first area and to the second area.

Abstract: A graphics processing unit (GPU)-based numerical simulation system and method for a helicopter flow field (FF). The GPU-based system includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a GPU. The CPU is configured to initialize a moving overset grid according to a preset configuration file and the mesh files of a to-be-simulated helicopter; determine face batch information according to mesh blocks in the moving overset grid; determine an overset interpolation relationship between the mesh blocks and an interpolation mapping index according to the mesh files at a current simulation moment; and perform FF information exchanging between the mesh blocks according to the overset interpolation relationship, the interpolation mapping index, and FF information of the mesh blocks, to obtain to-be-simulated helicopter FF information. The GPU computes the FF information of the mesh blocks in the motion nested mesh according to surface batch information by using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method.

Abstract: A method for calculating coupled lubrication and dynamics characteristic parameters of a flanged bearing includes three modules: a flanged bearing journal-trust thermal elastohydrodynamic coupled lubrication module, a flanged bearing dynamics characteristic parameter calculation module and a flanged bearing relative position feedback module. It considers the joint motion law of the journal part and the thrust part, and also considers the flow, pressure and thermal continuity conditions of the lubricant on the common boundary of the flange bearing, and finally forms the journal-thrust transient coupled lubrication analysis method of the flange bearing. On the basis, considerations are further given to the stiffness and the damping characteristics of the flanged bearing under the coupled effect, thereby achieving accurate simulation of the dynamic and the tribology performance of the flanged bearing, and solving the problem of lubrication failure of the flanged bearing.

Abstract: A shell-based material, also referred to as a shellular or a shell-based mechanical metamaterial, is comprised of a plurality of unit cells that are each made of a curved shell, and contain at least one perforation on their snapping motif. The shell-based material has a predetermined number of structural stable states based on the snapping motif and on the at least one perforation. The predetermined number of structural stable states including a first structural stable state, for example an unloaded initial state, and a second structural stable state being different from the first structural stable state.

Abstract: Copolymer-1 is a mixture of synthetic polypeptides composed of alanine, glutamic acid, lysine, and tyrosine. The invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of copolymer-1 characterized by the deblocking of the protected copolymer-1 that is carried out in one reaction. The process of the present invention has the advantage of high yield and ease of production. Copolymer-1 is a useful drug in treating multiple sclerosis.