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The article is devoted to highlight the challenges, bottlenecks and possible solutions of VHF antenna integrated into a winglet from both the designer‘s and the airframer‘s perspective. We look into pros and cons specific for different antenna solutions and discuss ways how to [...]

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Within this paper we discuss a numerical strategy to solve the elasticity problem upon unstructured and non conforming meshes, allowing all kinds of flat-faced elements (polygons in 2D and polyhedra in 3D). The core of the formulation relies on two numerical procedures 1) the Control [...]

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A large number of breakaway-type highway signs toppled over during hurricane María in Puerto Rico.  The cause was the unintended rupture of the fuse plates, a key component of the breakaway system.  The design of fuse plates is unusual because two opposing constraints [...]

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Fork’s related structural design and detail have a significant impact on the overall performance of a forklift. In this paper, the structural stress analysis [...]

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Curvilinear cylindrical gear drives are a type of parallel-axis gear set, and the longitudinal geometrical shape of the gear teeth is a part of the circular arc. This study aims to develop a curvilinear cylindrical gear drive with superior transmission performance. This study proposes [...]