2026 June - 45 articles
Accurate detection of field insect pests remains a significant challenge for precision agriculture due to the elongated and variable morphology of the target organisms, their frequent resemblance to complex background textures, and the long-tail dist...
To address the deterioration issues of wet joints in prefabricated steel–UHPC composite bridge decks caused by inadequate interfacial performance, an orthotropic steel–UHPC composite bridge deck system under hogging moments was investigat...
The design of a railway coach must meet strict certification requirements, especially in crashworthiness analysis under the European standard EN 15227. Performing this analysis with full-scale FEM models is highly demanding in terms of time, computat...
This study aims to establish a simple theoretical method for estimating the sound absorption characteristics of randomly packed granular materials. Using insights gained from existing mathematical models for regular packing and methods utilizing CT i...
Accelerated carbonation of cement-based materials offers a promising route for CO2 sequestration driven by waste heat co-emitted from cement and power plants; however, existing kinetic models typically describe the low-temperature gas–liquid&nd...
The evolution of 193 nm deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography toward high numerical aperture (NA > 1.35) presents challenges approaching physical limits for antireflective (AR) coatings on strongly curved lens elements. In this study, a full-stack mu...
With the rising integration of high-performance GPUs, localized hotspots induced by discrete heat sources present severe thermal challenges. Traditional single-inlet–single-outlet liquid cold plates can scarcely meet the heat dissipation requir...
Heated crude oil pipelines transporting high-pour-point, high-viscosity, and high-wax-content crude oil are increasingly operated under small-batch and multi-condition scenarios. Under such conditions, fixed-parameter models and experience-based oper...
To address the issues of pronounced resonance, limited control bandwidth, and insufficient trajectory tracking accuracy in piezoelectric-driven elliptical vibration-assisted cutting (EVC) systems under high-frequency vibration, this paper proposes a...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are commonly used to reinforce and functionalize cement matrices, thereby imparting new properties. To facilitate the introduction of CNTs into inorganic matrices such as cement, the use of a master batch is advantageous. In t...
This study develops an inventory model for deteriorating products within a dual-warehouse system under carbon tax regulation. The framework is motivated by supply chains for perishable goods where storage constraints, product deterioration, environme...
This paper focuses on the characterization of the micro-leakage channel geometry in the flange-gasket rough contact interface of hazardous chemicals transport vehicles. This work represents the first step in a multi-physics simulation framework for o...
As an active defense paradigm, cyber deception technology effectively misleads attackers by constructing deceptive network environments, thereby increasing the cost of attack operations and introducing uncertainty into their decision-making, while pr...
Establishing long-term human settlements in deep space presents significant challenges. Environmental conditions, such as extreme temperature fluctuations, micrometeorite impacts, seismic activity, and exposure to solar and cosmic radiation, pose obs...
This study investigates the inverse estimation of the effective thermal diffusivity of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) plate subjected to oscillatory heating from a hot plate with on–off control. Transient temperature measurements at four inte...
While conventional wind towers operate at heights of 80 to 90 m across many regions, including the United States, emerging tower technologies enable higher hub heights that are expected to reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and increase profi...
Voltage stability under transmission line contingencies is a critical concern in modern power systems, as the growing electricity demand and the large-scale integration of renewable energy sources increasingly challenge the security of network operat...
Aiming at the problem that the degradation mechanism of lithium-ion batteries is complex during aging and that a single feature is difficult to fully characterize the battery state of health (SOH), this paper proposes an SOH prediction method for lit...
Magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) is a passive technique for detecting ferromagnetic targets, but weak magnetic anomaly signals are often submerged in background noise. Existing stochastic resonance (SR)-based MAD methods mainly focus on target detect...
To examine the dynamic response of tunnel floor slabs subjected to blasting under varying stress conditions, a numerical model was developed to simulate blasting effects at different tunnel depths. This model integrated Hopkinson bar experiments cond...
The Loop subdivision scheme is one of the most widely used approximation subdivision methods for generating smooth surfaces. However, the limiting surface of the Loop subdivision scheme does not interpolate the vertices of the original mesh and may e...
An explicit dynamic framework based on the Nonlocal Macro-Meso-scale Consistent Damage (NMMD) model is proposed to simulate complex multiple-crack evolution in quasi-brittle materials subjected to blast loading. Three numerical examples—a singl...
Although PI and PID controllers are mature control laws, their effect on energy-related variables is rarely isolated in a complete electric vehicle traction model when the plant, controller tuning basis and driving conditions are kept unchanged. A fu...
Virtual flow metering (VFM) serves as an effective alternative to traditional physical flow meters, significantly reducing gas-field metering costs and operational complexity. However, conventional VFM typically employs a single-modeling approach, fa...
The development of renewable energy is vital for addressing future climate change and environmental degradation. Nevertheless, the irregular and fluctuating essential features of wind power presents a considerable barrier to grid operational stabilit...
Road intersection crashes remain a major contributor to injuries due to complex conflict patterns and multimodal interactions. Among the factors influencing intersection safety, inadequate intersection sight distance (ISD) attributed to roadside sigh...
Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) research is crucial for applications in fields such as naval engineering, geological hazards, and biomechanics. Traditional grid-based methods (such as CFD) often face challenges in simulating large-deformation...
This study selects five numerical methods: the explicit Leap-Frog scheme, the implicit Crank–Nicolson scheme, the explicit second-order Runge–Kutta scheme, the implicit Newmark-β scheme, and the implicit Bathe scheme. These methods a...
This study investigates the mechanical behaviour of continuous carbon-fibre-reinforced additively manufactured composite structures aimed at applications in aeronautical structures, through a combination of experimental testing and numerical simulati...
To address the issues associated with traditional multi-point surveying processes in the dead-end cutting for oil and gas pipelines—such as cumbersome procedures, high error rates, lengthy emergency repair cycles, and difficulties in ensuring w...
Magmatic–hydrothermal systems transport heat through coupled conduction and buoyancy-driven fluid flow in porous rock, behavior conventionally modeled with grid-based finite-difference simulators such as HYDROTHERM. We demonstrate that a physic...
Modelling plays a critical role in many engineering applications. Partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous, describing various physical phenomena such as fluid flow, electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics. Although some of these equation...
Lithology identification is a key task in petroleum geological exploration and development, essential for evaluating sweet spots and characterizing reservoirs. A significant challenge in lithology identification is the insufficient accuracy of tradit...
Reliable fault detection in brushless DC motors is challenging owing to environmental complexity and high equipment costs. To address these challenges, we propose an effective and cost-effective approach using an optimized end-to-end one-dimensional...
This study presents a comparative computational fluid dynamics (CFD) investigation of the aerodynamic performance of four simplified crossover/sports utility vehicle (SUV)-type vehicle body configurations. The models were developed with systematic ge...
Hydraulic fracture geometry is of great importance for evaluating stimulation effectiveness and supporting the efficient development of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, and it can be estimated from field shut-in water hammer signals. However, f...
Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) composites reinforced with reduced graphene oxide (rGO) were investigated in order to elucidate the influence of nanofiller concentration and compatibilization on the viscoelastic relaxation behavior across the glas...
To improve the assembly efficiency and productivity of complex aircraft components, the optimization of an assembly line was investigated in this study. A hierarchical hybrid multi-objective optimization algorithm (HHMOA) was proposed using an improv...
A significant number of regional boats are used in the Brazilian Amazon to perform a range of social activities. However, the estimation of their propulsion parameters still requires exploring technically supported methods if the efficiency and susta...
Accurate detection of cardboard boxes is essential to mobile manipulators to perform pick-and-place operations in warehouses. Conventional object detection methods like YOLOv11 struggle in low-texture and occluded environments. This paper presents YO...
Self-contained local forecasting of wind and solar series can improve operational planning of wind farms and photovoltaic (PV) plant day-cycles in addition to numerical models, which are mostly behind time due to high simulation costs. Unstable elect...
Air-to-air heat pumps are a key technology for improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions in residential buildings, yet their optimal control remains challenging under real-world conditions. This study evaluates the performance of a hy...
Bird strike events on rotating jet engine fan blades pose significant risks to aviation safety, yet high-fidelity numerical simulations remain computationally expensive, limiting their use in parametric design studies. This study develops a physics-g...
To address the insufficient parameter estimation accuracy and poor filtering convergence caused by noise in radar trajectory measurement data, this paper proposes a joint framework combining SW-STPSO adaptive wavelet denoising and an improved Unscent...
Cavitation damage poses a serious threat to the reliability of morning-glory spillways. This study aims to develop a reliability framework for predicting cavitation damage probability under uncertain operational conditions for the Haraz Dam spillway....
