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Background In contact sports, an impact on the jaw can generate destructive stress on the tooth-bone system. Mouthguards can be beneficial in reducing the injury risk by changing the dynamics of the trauma. The material properties of mouthguards and their ...

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Design of Customized Mouthguards with Superior Protection Using Digital-Based Technologies and Impact Tests

Computational Homogenization for Inverse Design of Surface-based Inflatables

Insights from an extensive triaxial testing campaign on a shale for comparative site characterization of a deep geological repository

Modeling friction and wear using an adaptive discrete-continuum coupling

Morphological and Material Programability of a Hall-Effect Based Soft Tactile Sensors

Influence of model uncertainty and long term deformations in action effects calculation in reinforced concrete structures

Reusability assessment of reinforced concrete components prior to deconstruction from obsolete buildings

Design for demise applied to spacecraft structural panels and experiments for ClearSpace One platform

A global framework for data-informed bridge examination

Atomic-scale Characterization of Strain and Gate effects on Two-dimensional Materials by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Experimental testing and structural analysis of composite tile – reinforced concrete domes

Experiments and proposed model for residual stresses in hot-rolled wide flange shapes

Tailoring Organic/Inorganic Interface Trap States of Metal Oxide/Polyimide toward Improved Vacuum Surface Insulation

A Depth-Averaged Material Point Method for Shallow Landslides: Applications to Snow Slab Avalanche Release

Imaging Radial Distribution Functions of Complex Particles by Relayed Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Digital manufacturing of personalised footwear with embedded sensors

Vibrational NDT with Under-sampled Data through Physics-informed Neural Networks

Modeling the mechanics and rheology of porous and granular media: an elastoplastic continuum approach

A hybrid Selective Laser Sintering based process for the additive manufacturing of architectured composites

Improved Waste Heat Management and Energy Integration in an Aluminum Annealing Continuous Furnace Using a Machine Learning Approach