Applied System on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability 2024

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Recently, the healthcare sector is undergoing a transformation due to advances in computing, networking technologies, big data, and artificial intelligence. Healthcare is not only changing from reactive and hospital centered to preventive and personalized, but is also changing from disease focused to focusing on well-being. Healthcare systems, as well as fundamental medicinal research, are becoming smarter and more enabled in Biomedical Engineering. Furthermore, with cutting-edge sensors and computer technologies, healthcare delivery could also yield better efficiency, higher quality, and lower costs. However, these innovations often do not result in sustainability, health, and happiness for all people. Science and technology need to be complemented by arts, humanities, social sciences, as well indigenous knowledge and wisdom if we are to increase the accessibility of the benefits for those in need across all regions and classes of people. We need ethically aligned and driven health care systems and sustainability. This topic “Applied System on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare, and Sustainability 2024” includes the five following journals: Applied Sciences, ASI, Bioengineering, Electronics, and Healthcare. This enables the interdisciplinary collaboration of science and engineering technologists in the academic and industrial fields, as well as international networking.

Topics of interest include as followings:

• Smart healthcare system analysis and design
• Computer and human–machine interactions of healthcare system
• Application of IoT (Internet of Things) on healthcare system
• Big data and artificial intelligence enabled healthcare systems
• Health-related aspects of sustainability
• Environmental education and public health
• Environmental engineering and biotechnology Rehabilitation Medicine and Physiotherapy
• Sports Medicine
• Pediatric and Geriatric Emergency Care
• Leisure recreation
• Health promotion
• Nourishment and health care
• Disaster and Health
• Health and Environment
• Health Services
• Occupational Health
• Impact of safety, security, and disaster management on sustainability
• Sustainability science 
• Medical electronics
• Biomedical materials
• Biomedical diagnostic techniques
• Medical information and rehabilitation technology
• Other related topics in Healthcare, Sustainability, Biomedical Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Teen-­Hang Meen
Prof. Dr. Chun-Yen Chang
Prof. Dr. Charles Tijus
Prof. Dr. Po-Lei Lee
Prof. Dr. Kuei-Shu Hsu
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Applied Sciences applsci	2.7	4.5	2011	16.9 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Applied System Innovation asi	3.8	4.9	2018	24.7 Days	CHF 1400	Submit
Bioengineering bioengineering	4.6	4.2	2014	17.7 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
Electronics electronics	2.9	4.7	2012	15.6 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Healthcare healthcare	2.8	2.7	2013	19.5 Days	CHF 2700	Submit

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Preliminary Failure Analyses of Loaded Hot Water Bottles

by Joseph Towler, Mohamed Baraya, Ziying Ran, Adel Alshammari, Syead Arif, Mohammad Desai, Sasidharan Palanivel, Rosti Readioff and Ahmed Abass

Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(11), 4427; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14114427 - 23 May 2024

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Hot water bottles are widely utilised for their therapeutic advantages, such as relieving muscle tension and imparting warmth. However, the increasing frequency and potential risks associated with bursting or failure necessitate a detailed examination of the contributing factors as their failure is not [...] Read more.

Hot water bottles are widely utilised for their therapeutic advantages, such as relieving muscle tension and imparting warmth. However, the increasing frequency and potential risks associated with bursting or failure necessitate a detailed examination of the contributing factors as their failure is not fully understood in a scientific manner. With the apparent lack of analysis of hot water bottles in the literature, this study employs, for the first time, a dual methodology involving finite-element (FE) analysis conducted in ABAQUS and experimental validation to systematically investigate the underlying mechanisms leading to failure incidents. Through FE modelling and analysis, the stress and strain distribution within typical hot water bottles is modelled under compression loading conditions, facilitating the identification of vulnerable areas prone to failure. Experimental validation encompasses uniaxial loading compression tests on distinct specimens, generating load–displacement curves that elucidate material responses to compressive forces and highlight variations in load-bearing capacities. The study explores diverse failure modes, attributing them to stress concentration at geometric transitions and contact regions. Stress–strain curves contribute valuable insights into material characteristics, with ultimate stress values as crucial indicators of resistance to deformation and rupture. The FE analysis simulation results visualise deformation patterns and stress concentration zones. The findings illustrate that the highest stress concentration areas exist in the internal boundary of hot water bottles near the neck and cap region. This is experimentally confirmed through the bursting failures of four samples, with three failures occurring in this specific region. The findings support the guidance that users should avoid sleeping with a hot water bottle as it may fail under compression if they lay on top of it. Meanwhile, this result guides manufacturers to strengthen the weak areas of hot water bottles around the nicks and edges. This study significantly enhances our understanding of hot water bottle mechanics, thereby guiding design practice to improve overall performance and user safety. In summary, hot water bottles are commonly used but have not been investigated scientifically regarding external loading conditions and their related failure, as the current study has achieved. Identifying the weak points through experiment and simulation directs manufacturers towards required improvements in particular regions, such as the bottleneck and edge reinforcement during the design and manufacturing phases. Full article

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