Abstract: In the event of a lightning strike, aircraft composite structures can suffer major and severe core damage even when surface damage is minor. Large core damage, such as decimation, can cause ...

Topological defects are marvels of nature. Understanding their structures is important for their applications in, for example, directed self-assembly, sensing, and photonic devices. There is recent ...

Most traditional, procedural programming languages have a very steep learning curve. In fact, they require the user to spend a significant amount of time learning the specific text-based syntax ...