2026 August - 54 articles
Most existing creep studies on NEPE propellant focus on room and high temperatures, lacking systematic investigation into low-temperature creep damage. In this work, uniaxial creep tests at −10 °C, −30 °C and −50 °C unde...
Soft deformable materials such as elastomers, biological tissues, and polymeric membranes are widely used in modern engineering applications including biomechanics, soft robotics, and flexible electronics. Accurate identification of their constitutiv...
To address the challenge of efficiently blending low-mutual-solubility gas–liquid two-phase systems, a composite structure comprising a Venturi and a static mixer was designed, and its flow field characteristics were analyzed using computationa...
This paper investigates the problem of event-triggered secure regulation for high-order fully actuated (HOFA) systems subject to stochastic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Through a suitable state transformation, the original HOFA plant is recast in...
To address the critical role of armature–rail contact in electromagnetic railguns, a comprehensive electromagnetic–thermal–mechanical coupled model is developed. In contrast to existing coupled railgun models, this work uniquely int...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used in low-altitude mobility and electric aviation are increasingly required to carry higher payloads, operate for longer durations and maintain reliable performance under constrained installation conditions. In compa...
Lightweight metro carbodies may exhibit elastic modes within ride-comfort-relevant frequency bands, limiting semi-active suspension controllers tuned offline for nominal conditions. This study proposes a skyhook-based parameter self-tuning fuzzy cont...
Sustainable machining of composite materials requires optimizing conflicting responses influenced by limited experimental datasets, trade-offs, nonlinear process variables, and response variability. This study proposes a hybrid framework (Gaussian Pr...
Fire-induced domino effects in tank farms can be catastrophic, particularly under wind conditions. However, due to multiple evolutionary stages, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-based modelling of wind-influenced, fire-induced domino effects and ta...
Paired comparison models are examined from the perspective of the placement of objects within specific comparison structures. For both pairwise comparison matrix-based models and stochastic models, previous studies have examined which comparison stru...
Non-uniform illumination in tunnel environments severely degrades image quality, posing substantial challenges to visual monitoring and intelligent transportation systems. While histogram equalization (HE) remains prevalent due to its computational s...
Constitutive models define how physical properties depend on evolving state variables, and consequently have a strong influence on computational simulations. However, material descriptions are commonly embedded within solver implementations, limiting...
Assembly-oriented geometric models of aero-engine casings require the spatial distribution of deviations at mating interfaces. Conventional scalar descriptors, including flatness, axial runout, and radial runout, cannot retain this information. This...
Roofing systems strongly influence the energy performance and environmental footprint of buildings, particularly in hot–arid climates such as Saudi Arabia, where cooling dominates electricity demand; however, the comparative lifecycle environme...
In the wet-process stage of lithium-ion battery manufacturing, double-sided coating combined with air-flotation drying can reduce repeated drying operations, thereby helping improve production throughput. However, the requirements of air-flotation dr...
Accurate probabilistic analysis of wind-induced structural vibration is essential for accurately analyzing structural safety and serviceability. Though the FPK equation offers a tool for analysis, its application is challenged by the noise characteri...
A powder layer was treated as a one-dimensional beam undergoing longitudinal vibration, and the loss factor was derived from the damping ratio based on Rayleigh damping, thereby introducing frequency dependence into the complex modulus. The transfer...
Mechanical metamaterials (MMMs) are periodic architectures engineered to achieve extraordinary macroscopic mechanical properties. A primary objective in their design is wave propagation isolation, achieved through the generation of phononic bandgaps....
Band selection is a crucial step in hyperspectral imaging to reduce spectral redundancy and processing costs whilst retaining information useful for classification. Most existing approaches require the number of bands to be retained to be set manuall...
Traffic states evolve on irregular sensor graphs and vary with calendar context, yet the original ASTGCN does not explicitly model how the contribution of different graph receptive fields changes across traffic periods. This paper proposes CD-MRFG, a...
This paper presents an efficient framework for surrogate modeling and rapid optimization of a dual-band circular patch antenna with a C-shaped slot (DB-CPAC) using multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural networks. Although highly accurate, traditional ful...
The roller–raceway contact response is a key factor affecting stress concentration, fatigue initiation, and raceway spalling in spherical roller thrust bearings. Uncertainty analysis of this response is therefore important for revealing how pra...
The integration of bio-based constituents into cementitious materials requires robust predictive models capable of describing mechanical degradation while supporting sustainability-driven material design. This study presents a macro-constitutive dama...
The discrete element method (DEM) has become an important numerical tool for investigating the interactions between agricultural machinery and granular agricultural materials. By enabling the analysis of particle-scale dynamics and macroscopic system...
This study develops an integrated risk assessment framework to trace the evolution from multi-factor coupling to systemic failure, using coal mine rock burst as a case study. First, a fault tree containing 56 basic events is established from statisti...
Dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a key technique for nanoscale characterization and mechanical property measurement, where the geometric shape of the probe tip critically determines imaging quality and measurement accuracy. This study propose...
Diesel generator sets are key frequency-supporting units in islanded microgrids and shipboard power systems, where rapid speed recovery under abrupt load variations is essential for maintaining power quality. However, conventional linear active distu...
Stable drainage of coalbed methane wells is essential for reducing reservoir pressure and promoting methane desorption. However, coal fines carried by produced water tend to accumulate and deposit within the standing valves of drainage pumps. To addr...
To address the challenges in remote monitoring of power system secondary equipment, including dispersed multi-source heterogeneous corpora, inconsistent terminology, non-standardized expressions, unstable knowledge granularity, and fragmented evidenc...
Understanding wind load characteristics of greenhouse clusters in valley terrain is essential for ensuring structural safety in high-altitude agricultural regions. This study investigates the wind pressure coefficient distribution of plastic greenhou...
This study presents a structural design sensitivity analysis and metamodeling framework for a 30-ft class modular pontoon boat utilizing High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and an aluminum alloy (Al-5083) frame. Finite element analysis (FEA) was perform...
This research presents a physics-informed deep learning framework for investigating the magnetohydrodynamic flow of a dissipative non-Newtonian micropolar nanofluid induced by a stretching sheet, incorporating Stefan blowing, internal heat generation...
To enhance the thermal performance of a Stirling air conditioner, this study applies Schmidt-based dimensionless analysis to systematically investigate the influence of key structural parameters on its cooling and heating characteristics. A dimension...
Three-port DC-to-DC converters based on the SEPIC-boost circuit have gained remarkable attraction in standalone applications such as DC micro grids having PV panels as roof-tops in electric boats, electric and hybrid vehicles, LED driving circuits, t...
This study conducts a preliminary FE simulation of screw piercing and screw rolling processes for producing bimetallic pipes with variable inner and outer positioning and thickness of the corrosion-resistant steel CL (13Cr and 18Cr10Ni grades) as a r...
Fractures exert a significant influence on rock mass deformation and seepage pathways, thereby posing a serious challenge to the safe and efficient extraction of deep mines. This problem is particularly evident in deep mines located near the sea, whe...
Despite growing interest in sustainable construction materials, unfired clay bricks still exhibit limited thermal insulation performance. This study investigates the enhancement of perforated raw earth bricks through the integration of a bio-based ph...
Wind turbines are critical components in renewable energy systems, where early fault detection is essential to ensure reliable operation and reduce maintenance costs. Vibration-based monitoring using multichannel signals provides rich information abo...
Accurate prediction of natural gas thermophysical properties is essential for applications in production and transportation engineering, including reservoir simulation and flow modeling. Although machine learning (ML) techniques have been widely used...
Simulation optimization has been used to analyze construction operations and support planning decisions under uncertainty. It enables the identification of effective planning strategies throughout a project’s lifecycle. However, the use of stoc...
This paper introduces a methodology for evaluating the voltage stability margin in high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) systems, which analyzes the singularity of the power flow Jacobian matrix—computed via the Newton—Raphson method—a...
This study presents the analysis of global dynamics and stability (e.g., coexisting attractors, Hopf bifurcation boundary) for a nonlinear rotor system with an automatic ball balancer (ABB). The presence of nonlinearity, anisotropy and non-ideal dyna...
In-plane curved steel beams with circular hollow sections (CHSs) are widely gaining appeal in bridges. Strengthening such elements for increased demand or decreased strength due to environmental effects or fatigue, without affecting the usage of stru...
Due to the low stiffness characteristics, thin-walled parts are prone to force-induced deformation during the peripheral milling process, which severely restricts machining accuracy and efficiency. In existing studies, for curved thin-walled parts, t...
Rice straw, a byproduct of global rice production (~530 million tons annually), is generated at 80–100 million tons per year, yet a significant portion is incinerated or discarded, causing environmental problems. This study investigated the sou...
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a fundamental NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with broad applications in logistics, scheduling, and satellite mission planning. While Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) offers distributed search and posit...
Recognizing that efficient and high-fidelity simulation of wind farms in mountainous terrain remains a significant challenge, this study adopted an integrated Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Dynamic Wake Meandering (DWM) approach to conduct medium-fi...
In this paper, a class of distributed event-triggered (ET) control strategy is proposed to address the average consensus problem for multi-agent systems (MAS). Compared with the existing ET control methods with fixed connected communication links, un...
Energy-efficient operation of railway systems is of great importance for both environmental and economic reasons. Minimizing net energy consumption helps to achieve such energy-efficient operation. In this paper, the train’s speed profile and h...
Accurate characterization of wind-speed distributions is essential for preliminary wind-resource assessment, vertical wind-profile evaluation, and energy-yield estimation. This study presents a CFD-assisted reconstruction and validation framework tha...
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