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MDPI AG

Effect of Corrosion-Induced Structural Degradation on the Ultimate Strength of a High-Tensile-Steel Ship Hull

Standard structural assessments of ship hulls include the evaluation of the elastic structural response. Elastic analysis neglects extreme and unpredicted loadings, which can produce catastrophic outcomes, such as the loss of the ship’s ultimate strength. Moreover, hull elements are considered unaffected by age-related degradation. Therefore, this study models and quantifies the effect of corrosion-induced structural degradation on the ultimate strength of a high-tensile-steel (HTS) cargo ship using...

Download 2024 Špiro Ivošević , Ana Petrović , Nemanja Ilić , Nikola Momčilović , Milan Kalajdžić

MDPI AG

Editorial: Mitochondrial Research: Yeast and Human Cells as Models 2.0

Mitochondrial research stands at the forefront of modern biology, unraveling the intricate mechanisms governing cellular metabolism, energy production, and disease pathogenesis [...]

Download 2024 Clara Musicco , Maša Ždralević , Sergio Giannattasio

IEEE

SAR Despeckling Via Regional Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model

Download 2024 Xuran Hu , Mingzhe Zhu , Ljubisa Stankovic , Ziqiang Xu , Zhenpeng Feng , Zhihan Chen

SAGE Publications

QAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism

The messy politics of combating the COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by the confusion caused by the global (dis)infodemic, have propelled conspiracism from the fringes of society into the public mainstream. Despite the growing political impact of digitally enabled conspiracy theories, they are predominantly delegitimized on three fronts – as psychopathology, pseudoscience, and/or parapolitics. In contrast, this article employs three non-pathologizing conceptual counteroffers borrowed from critical...

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IEEE

Vibration monitoring using sub-pixel edge localization

Download 2024 Alexander Šatka , Radovan Stojanovic , Miroslav Hagara , Peter Kubinec

ASME International

Uncoupling of Damped Linear Potential Multi-Degrees-of-Freedom Structural and Mechanical Systems

Abstract This paper provides the necessary and sufficient conditions for a multi-degrees-of-freedom linear potential system with an arbitrary damping matrix to be uncoupled into independent subsystems of at most two degrees-of-freedom using a real orthogonal transformation. The incorporation of additional information about the matrices, which many structural and mechanical systems commonly possess, shows a reduction in the number of these conditions to three. Several new results are...

Download 2024 Ranislav M. Bulatovic , Firdaus E. Udwadia

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture

Development of the City of Nikšić through the Planning Documentation of Croatian Architects

The task of this work is to present three key urban plans, courtesy of which the city of Nikšić developed during its modern history. After liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1877, Nikšić received its first regulatory plan, prepared by the architect Josip Slade Šilović (1828-1911) in 1883. The city developed according to this plan until the Second World War. After the Second World War, Montenegro became part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a republic, and Nikšić became the city...

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Wiley

Beyond the office walls: Work design configurations for task performance across on‐site, hybrid and remote forms of work

AbstractDespite alternative work arrangements becoming more prevalent, existing work design approaches are mostly based on research and practice of traditional on‐site work. Struggles with capturing employee performance are reported across different off‐site, non‐traditional forms of work, such as remote and hybrid. This article performs a comprehensive fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to juxtaposing different configurations of job characteristics across forms of work. Our multi‐source...

Download 2024 Shaima' Salem Mohammed , Matej Černe , Amadeja Lamovšek , Ivan Radević

MDPI AG

Embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Architectural Education: A Step towards Sustainable Practice?

This study explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the behavior and knowledge of final-year architectural students in Serbia and Montenegro. It aims to describe how students approach sustainability in architecture and their use of AI tools within this context. The primary objective is to analyze how AI affects students’ understanding of sustainable architecture indicators and how sustainability challenges and concerns influence AI applications. Using a comparative analysis approach...

Download 2024 Marija Mosurović Ružičić , Dragan Komatina , Mirjana Miletic

AIP Publishing

Phase holonomy underlies puzzling temporal patterns in Kuramoto models with two sub-populations

We present a geometric investigation of curious dynamical behaviors previously reported in Kuramoto models with two sub-populations. Our study demonstrates that chimeras and traveling waves in such models are associated with the birth of geometric phase. Although manifestations of geometric phase are frequent in various fields of physics, this is the first time (to our best knowledge) that such a phenomenon is exposed in ensembles of Kuramoto oscillators or, more broadly, in complex systems.

Download 2024 Aladin Crnkić , Vladimir Jaćimović