2026 January - 54 articles
This paper presents a closed-loop price–dispatch framework for park-scale virtual power plants (VPPs) with coupled electric–thermal processes under high penetrations of photovoltaics (PVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). The outer layer clea...
Chitosan hydrogels are effective wound dressings that promote healing through the synergy of chitosan’s inherent biological properties and the moist environment they maintain. We previously developed hydrogel microparticles using a highly bioco...
Mosque buildings have symbolic significance, which makes them ideal candidates for implementing energy-efficient building design strategies. Mosques located in hot climates face several challenges in achieving thermal comfort while meeting energy eff...
Fault diagnosis in the power systems of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) is crucial for ensuring vehicle safety and energy efficiency. This study proposes an innovative CNN-LSTM fusion model for diagnosing common faults in HEV power systems, such as b...
With the rapid development of industries, hard sealing ball valves are increasingly adopted in extreme working conditions, especially for the advantage of high sealing performance. However, current research works on ball valves are lack of leakage ra...
In response to the growing demand for environmentally friendly and sustainable yet functional technical textiles, this research developed a spun-bonded nonwoven from the biodegradable thermoplastic starch-based biopolymer BIOPLAST®, incorporating...
As the retrieval of unconventional oil and gas resources extends to the deep and ultra-deep domains, the issue of cement sheath failure in shale oil wellbores seriously endangers wellbore safety, making it imperative to uncover the relevant damage me...
With the increasing frequency of precipitation events under global warming, understanding rainfall-induced disruptions to urban mobility has become increasingly important. While prior studies primarily focus on road traffic, the lagged and threshold...
The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of air-abrasion as a dentin pre-treatment on the bond strength of contemporary adhesive systems. The bonding approaches included etch-and-rinse (ER), self-etch (SE) and universal (UN) adhesive systems, w...
Prestack seismic waveform inversion starts with an initial model and computes synthetic or predicted seismic data using a wave equation-based approach. Then, by matching these predicted data with the observed seismic data, it iteratively modifies the...
Robot-assisted rehabilitation has demonstrated significant efficacy in improving motor function among patients with physical and neurological impairments. The development of effective rehabilitation robots requires careful integration of mechanical d...
Photocatalytic membrane reactors (PMRs) are an innovative technology for water treatment, effectively combining membrane filtration and photocatalysis to enhance contaminant removal while enabling the regeneration of fouled membranes. In this study,...
This paper presents an integrated study on the design, simulation, manufacturing, and experimental testing of a three-blade tritoroidal propeller compared to a conventional two-blade configuration for small UAVs. The aerodynamic analysis was performe...
Accurate and efficient defect detection in printed circuit boards (PCBs) is critical for manufacturing quality control. Existing methods predominantly rely on manually extracted features such as surface texture, color, and shape for defect recognitio...
Arid and semi-arid soils represent extreme habitats where microbial life is constrained by high temperature, low water availability, salinity, and nutrient limitation, yet these ecosystems harbor unique bacterial communities that sustain key ecologic...
Refractory geopolymers derived from aluminosilicate sources and alkaline activation are a promising alternative to traditional fired bricks, particularly when low-cost, waste-derived raw materials are used. This study improves the workability of a re...
Growing pressure from shrinking freshwater supplies and worsening pollution has heightened the demand for more effective water treatment solutions, especially those that promote reuse. This review synthesizes findings from 235 peer-reviewed papers ex...
This paper presents an experimental and numerical investigation of continuous reinforced concrete (RC) beams made of self-compacting concrete (SCC) strengthened with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars using the Near-Surface Mounted (NSM) method. Whi...
Reliability and safety of high-voltage transmission lines are essential for stable and continuous operation of a power system. Environmental factors such as pressure, temperature, surface contamination, humidity, etc., significantly affect the dielec...
5G deployment in Malaysia is increasing the need for safe and efficient radio-frequency (RF) scanning at telecommunication towers, but service providers lack a clear, structured way to choose among available methods. This study develops a decision fr...
This study investigated the efficacy of electrochemical treatment of a water-soluble cutting fluid (SCF) solution using Al, Fe, and stainless steel (SUS304) scraps as three-dimensional (3D) electrode packing materials. The SCF solution had an initial...
The shift toward digital and smart manufacturing requires an accurate prediction of cutting behavior, such as cutting forces. Controlling cutting forces in machining is important for maintaining product quality, particularly in steels such as X5CrNi1...
This study assessed the production and characterisation of biochars derived from the pyrolysis and co-pyrolysis of urban biosolids (BSs) combined with two lignocellulosic biomasses: rice husk (RH) and pruning waste (PW). The treatments were conducted...
This study investigates rim seal flow in axial turbine configurations through a combined experimental–numerical approach, with the objective of identifying sealing-flow conditions that minimize ingestion while limiting aerodynamic losses. Exper...
This article offers a comprehensive technical and mechanical review of the Tesla turbine, an innovative device conceived by Nikola Tesla. The core research question guiding this review is: How can the design and application of the Tesla turbine be op...
Environmental health concerns remain a major global challenge. In many nations, the adoption of measures to mitigate the negative environmental impacts of construction-related activities has been slow. Prior research has clarified that further study/...
Defects in printed circuit boards (PCBs), if not detected promptly, may persist over time until they cause the failure of critical components. Traditional monitoring methods, which are limited to simulations or superficial measurements, obstruct pred...
Flexible photovoltaic (PV) support systems, referring to cable-supported structural systems that carry conventional rigid PV modules rather than flexible thin-film modules, have attracted increasing attention as a promising solution for photovoltaic...
Understanding the flow characteristics of tight sandstone reservoirs is crucial for improving resource recovery efficiency. During fluid flow in porous media, surfactant components in the fluid can adsorb onto solid surfaces, forming a boundary layer...
The present research demonstrates the utility of the linear canonical transform (LCT) in constructing the characteristic function of real random variables. We refer to this construction as the linear canonical characteristic function (LCCF). The prop...
This study introduces a hybrid optimization method to enhance the melting characteristics and weld bead morphology of flux-cored wire hardfacing with exothermic addition into the core filler. The Taguchi Design of Experiments (L9 orthogonal array) wa...
Underground hydrogen storage (UHS) in saline aquifers offers a viable alternative to surface-based storage systems, which are limited by capacity constraints, high operational pressures, complex thermal regulation, low energy densities, and potential...
The parasitic currents issue arises in induction machines operating at higher frequencies. The parasitic current flow is the main cause of premature degradation of winding insulation deterioration and bearing damage. The effect of electromagnetic int...
With the deepening of mineral resource exploitation, conical picks are subjected to severe wear under high-stress and high-friction conditions, which has become a critical factor governing rock-breaking efficiency. To address this issue, this study s...
The selection of a final operating point from a Pareto front set of marine diesel engine configurations relies on the critical task of translating operator priorities into quantitative criterion weights. This study isolates this pivotal weighting ste...
Digital telecommunications have become the backbone of modern healthcare, transforming how patients and professionals interact, share information, and deliver treatment. The integration of telecommunications with medicine, biomedical engineering and...
Early and reliable identification of vertebral metastases on computed tomography remains a major challenge in oncologic imaging due to the morphological complexity of metastatic lesions and the high inter-patient variability of spinal anatomy. In thi...
The transition to the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) in the electroplating industry necessitates intelligent, real-time monitoring systems to replace traditional, time-consuming offline analysis. In this study, we developed a cost-effective, automat...
This article presents an analysis of the effects of braking system damage on the course of the vehicle collision and driving safety. Research was conducted using simulation methods in the V-SIM 7.0 environment, analysing the collision between a car a...
Although conceptually simple, the application of seismic isolation can pose dangerous pitfalls. It is based on decoupling the dynamic response of a structure from the ground motion by inserting isolation devices at its base. Significant displacements...
Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is widely used for machining hard and difficult-to-cut materials; however, the complex and nonlinear nature of the process makes the accurate prediction of key performance indicators challenging, particularly when...
Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) is widely studied and the most used prepolymer for the binder system of composite solid propellants. A suitable functionalization of HTPB with energetic groups greatly improves the performance of the propellan...
Multi-material additive manufacturing (MMAM) enables integration of multiple materials within single products, but existing design methodologies lack systematic frameworks linking detailed consolidation decisions to product-level functional requireme...
Constructed wetlands (CWs), increasingly adopted as nature-based solutions (NBS) for wastewater treatment, require a rigorous assessment of the durability and structural performance of the materials used in their supporting systems. In contrast to th...
This paper addresses the issues of target unreachability and local optima in traditional artificial potential field (APF) methods for UAV swarm path planning by proposing an improved collaborative obstacle avoidance algorithm. By introducing a virtua...
To address the challenge of simultaneously modelling temporal evolution and static properties in fatigue life prediction, this paper proposes a Hybrid GRU–Attention–DNN model: The Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) captures time-evolution feature...
Many studies have investigated tree-contact arcing ground faults. However, the effects of branch moisture content and wind speed are still not fully understood. Therefore, this paper addresses the wildfire risk caused by tree-contact arc grounding fa...
Accurate identification of lithology is considered very important in oil and gas exploration because it has a direct impact on the evaluation and development planning of any reservoir. In complex reservoirs where extreme class imbalance occurs, as cr...
This study calculates the intensity of radiation received by two types of greenhouses: Even Span and Modified Arched geometry. The Even Span greenhouse is covered with glass, while the Modified Arched greenhouse is covered with polyethylene plastic s...
The increasingly stringent environmental requirements, as well as the tendency to achieve significant savings of energy products in HMA production processes, prompted researchers to investigate the possibility of reducing the moisture of the stone ag...
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