Materials handling is essentially related with production and manufacturing flow. Thus, it has direct impact on transit time, resource usage, and service levels. The logistics industry is identified to be a competitive environment, connected to the globalization phenomena, requires from...

The concept of metabolism, as applied to the interrelations between human society and the rest of nature, has been one of the most fruitful iterations of socioecological thought over the last few decades. Here we will examine specific orientations of metabolic thought commonly employed in the...

Extremal materials are elastic metamaterials with rank-deficient elasticity tensor. Due to this novel property of the elasticity tensor, extremal materials (especially pentamode materials) show outstanding performance in various wave manipulation applications. However, until now there is still a...