With the rapid development of the aviation industry, airport pavement is subjected to ever-increasing loads, posing urgent and higher demands on the mechanical performance and durability of pavement materials.This study develops a novel Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) with outstanding mechanical properties, good workability, low curing maint
Prestress in amorphous solids bears the memory of their formation and plays a profound role in their mechanical properties.Here we develop a set of mathematical tools to investigate mechanical response of prestressed systems, using stress rather than strain as the fundamental variable.This theory allows microscopic prestress to vary for the same bo
Abstract Background Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is frequently associated with aortic involvement that is likely to cause life-threatening structural complications (aneurysm, dissection).Few studies have investigated the occurrence of these complications, and no predictive factor has been identified so far.The aim of this study was to investigate fac
The extension of thermodynamics into the quantum regime has received much attention in recent years.A primary objective of current research is to find thermodynamic tasks which can be enhanced by quantum mechanical effects.With this goal in mind, we explore the finite-time dynamics of absorption refrigerators composed of three quantum bits (qubits)