The relationship between highly-cited papers and the frequency of citations to other papers within-issue among three top information science journals

Scientometrics - This study investigates a potential relationship between highly-cited scholarly papers and the number of citations received by other papers with which they share a journal issue....     

A stiffness parameter and truncation error criterion for adaptive path following in structural mechanics

We explore a truncation error criterion to steer adaptive step length refinement and coarsening in incremental-iterative path following procedures, applied to problems in large-deformation structural mechanics. Elaborating on ideas proposed by Bergan and collaborators in the 1970s, we first describe an easily computable scalar stiffness parameter whose sign and rate of change provide reliable information on the local behavior and complexity of the equilibrium path. We then derive a simple scaling law that adaptively adjusts the length of the next step based on the rate of change of the stiffness parameter at previous points on the path. We show that this scaling is equivalent to keeping a local truncation error constant in each step. We demonstrate with numerical examples that our adaptive method follows a path with a significantly reduced number of points compared to an analysis with uniform step length of the same fidelity level. A comparison with Abaqus illustrates that the truncation error criterion effectively concentrates points around the smallest-scale features of the path, which is generally not possible with automatic incrementation solely based on local convergence properties.     

Steels for Bridge Structures

Metallurgist - We consider domestic and foreign standards for rolled metals used in bridge building. Domestic standards contain elevated requirements to the reliability of rolled metals in terms of...     

Investigation into the Influence of Sodium Lignosulfonate,Anionic Surfactants,and Their Mixtures on the Copper Cementation Rate by Zinc

Russian Journal of Non-Ferrous Metals - This article is devoted to the influence of sodium lignosulfonate (SL), anionic surfactants (sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS), sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate...