Pediatric cardiac tamponade caused by metallic wire penetration into the heart: A case report and literature review

Thin, metallic wires can easily penetrate the gastrointestinal system if ingested and cause serious cardiac issues in children. We report a pediatric case of such an object that caused cardiac tamponade after lodging in the left ventricle. The wire was extracted without cardiopulmonary bypass and a full recovery was made. Cardiac issues after ingestion of foreign objects are rare but immediate surgery is required for resolution.

Seismic Strengthening of RC Structures Using Wall-Type Kagome Damping System

In this study, the Kagome truss damper, a metallic wire structures, was introduced and its mechanical properties were investigated through theoretical analyses and experimental tests. The yield strength of the Kagome damper is dependent on the geometric shape and diameter of the metallic wire. The Kagome damper has higher resistance to plastic buckling as well as lower anisotropy. Cyclic shear loading tests were conducted to investigate the energy dissipation capacity and stiffness/strength degradation by repeated loadings. The hysteretic properties obtained from the tests suggest that a modification of the ideal truss model with a hinged connection could be used to predict the yield strength and stiffness of the damper. For seismic retrofitting of a low-rise RC moment frame system, a wall-type Kagome damping system (WKDS) was proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed system was verified by conducting cyclic loading tests using a RC frame with/without the WKDS (story drift ratio limit 1.0%). The test results indicated that both the strength and stiffness of the RC frame increased to the target level and that its energy dissipation capacity was significantly enhanced. Nonlinear static and dynamic analyses were carried out to validate that the existing building structure can be effectively retrofitted using the proposed WKDS.

Majorana Zero Modes in Ferromagnetic Wires without Spin-Orbit Coupling

We present a novel controllable platform for engineering Majorana zero modes. The platform consists of a ferromagnetic metallic wire placed among conventional superconductors, which are in proximity to ferromagnetic insulators. We demonstrate that Majorana zero modes emerge localised at the edges of the ferromagnetic wire, due to the interplay of the applied supercurrents and the induced by proximity exchange fields with conventional superconductivity. Our mechanism does not rely on the pairing of helical fermions by combining conventional superconductivity with spin-orbit coupling, but rather exploits the misalignment between the magnetization of the ferromagnetic insulators and that of the ferromagnetic wire.

Analysis and Experimental Research on Vibration Reduction in Ship High-Temperature Pipeline Based on Long Coated Damping Structure

To reduce the vibration of a ship’s high-temperature pipeline, a long coated damping structure (LCDS) with entangled metallic wire material (EMWM) is proposed in this paper. The structural analysis of the long coated damping structure for pipelines is carried out. The theoretical analysis indicates that increasing the thickness of the damping layer in a particular range can improve the vibration attenuation effect of an LCDS. Additionally, experimental verification confirms this analysis after an experimental system for pipelines. From the results, it is observed that increasing the thickness of the coated layer can effectively improve the damping property of LCDS to a certain extent. The change of the coated length and the temperature has little effect on the vibration attenuation effect of an LCDS, indicating that the LCDS can work well in a high-temperature environment.

Tunable polarization-induced Fano resonances in stacked wire-grid metasurfaces

Stacked metasurfaces are being investigated in light of exploring exotic optical effects that cannot be achieved with single-layered metasurfaces. In this article, we theoretically demonstrate that metallic wire-grid metasurfaces with specific polarization properties have the ability to induce tunable Fano resonances when they are stacked. The developed original model—combining a circulating field approach together with an extended Jones formalism—reveals the underlying principle that gives rise to the polarization-induced Fano resonances. The theoretical frame is validated in an experimental proof of concept using commercially available wire-grids and a terahertz time domain spectrometer. This unexplored possibility opens an alternative path to the realization and control of Fano resonances by using stacked metallic metasurfaces. Furthermore, these findings suggest that the polarization can be used as an additional degree of freedom for the design of optical resonators with enhanced and tunable properties.