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Data-Enhanced Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment and Design

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 1077

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School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
Interests: uncertainty-based design and optimization; reliability analysis
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School of Mechanical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
Interests: intelligent design optimization of energy storage systems; multidisciplinary design optimization of complex mechanical systems; reliability/robust/risk analysis; digital twins and intelligence manufacturing; low carbon design and optimization; electric vehicle; lithium-ion battery; battery thermal management system
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Dear Colleagues,

Engineering structures, such as construction, offshore platforms, machinery, and equipment, face significant challenges in maintaining structural integrity under complex and uncertain conditions. Traditional structural integrity assessment methods often rely on models that lack the capability to adapt to real-world complexities, including material degradation, environmental variability, and dynamic loading. This has also resulted in traditional modeling and design approaches struggling to address the intricacies posed by the above challenges, particularly when confronted with nonlinearity, uncertainty, and large-scale computations. This gap underscores the need for advanced computational methods, which are emerging as pivotal tools to solve these challenges with higher precision and speed.

Advances in data collection technologies and computational modeling now offer unprecedented opportunities to enhance the precision, reliability, and efficiency of structural integrity assessments. Data-enhanced methodologies leverage real-time monitoring, historical records, and advanced machine-learning techniques to understand structural behavior comprehensively. By integrating physics-based models with data-driven approaches, these methods enable engineers to address uncertainties, predict potential failures, and optimize maintenance strategies. Furthermore, advanced computational design methods are important because of their ability to enhance the performance, reliability, and safety of complex engineering structures. These methods, which include high-performance computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, enable engineers to simulate multifaceted phenomena more accurately and optimize multi-objective functions in real time. In addition, the integration of computational intelligence with conventional engineering approaches facilitates more adaptive and robust solutions, even in the presence of uncertainty. Such advanced methods have revolutionized fields like structural integrity analysis, structural optimization, and failure prediction, driving innovation and improving decision-making capabilities across diverse engineering domains.

This Special Issue seeks to develop advanced structural integrity assessment and design strategies for complex engineering structures by integrating advanced computational techniques and real-world data. The specific objectives include, but are not limited to:

  • Physics-informed machine learning;
  • Multifidelity modeling and optimization;
  • Uncertainty quantification and propagation;
  • Generative design and data augmentation;
  • Digital twin technology;
  • AI-augmented multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO);
  • Probabilistic design optimization;
  • Topology optimization with machine learning;
  • Real-time optimization using edge computing;
  • Energy-efficient computational methods;
  • Resilient infrastructure design;
  • Surrogate-assisted optimization;
  • Multi-objective optimization with explainable AI;
  • Robust and adaptive algorithms for dynamic systems;
  • Hybrid optimization frameworks for renewable energy systems.

Dr. Debiao Meng
Dr. Wei Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • advanced computational methods
  • uncertainty quantification
  • physics-informed machine learning
  • reliability-based design optimization (RBDO)
  • data augmentation
  • structural integrity modeling

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Study on Cavitation Effects in Elastic Cylinder Displacement and Bubble Morphology: Modeling, Reliability, and Behavioral Analysis
by Yuxin Gou, Dongyan Shi and Jiuqiang Wang
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(7), 3979; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15073979 - 4 Apr 2025
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The shape of a bubble changes near an elastic boundary, and this alteration also influences the boundary itself. This study investigates bubble shape and boundary displacement near an elastic cylindrical boundary through an electric spark bubble experiment. Three parameters—dimensionless distance, elastic cylinder tension, [...] Read more.
The shape of a bubble changes near an elastic boundary, and this alteration also influences the boundary itself. This study investigates bubble shape and boundary displacement near an elastic cylindrical boundary through an electric spark bubble experiment. Three parameters—dimensionless distance, elastic cylinder tension, and dimensionless size—are discussed and analyzed in relation to bubble shape. For studying elastic cylinder boundary displacement, a displacement formula is proposed by establishing a motion model, and impulse is used for verification. Furthermore, the elastic cylinder tension employed in this study has negligible impact on boundary displacement. Understanding how bubble shape changes near an elastic boundary, along with the corresponding boundary displacement, provides valuable insights into the stability and durability of materials and structures under similar conditions. The elasticity of the cylinder and its displacement response to external forces can help predict long-term behavior, contributing to the reliability assessment of engineering systems involving elastic boundaries and fluid dynamics. Full article
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Modeling and Reliability Evaluation of the Motion and Fluid Flow Characteristics of Spark Bubbles in a Tube
by Yuxin Gou, Dongyan Shi and Jiuqiang Wang
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(5), 2569; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15052569 - 27 Feb 2025
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Bubbles in pipes are widely present in marine engineering, transmission, and fluid systems with complex environments. This paper divides tubes into short, longer, and long tubes due to different lengths. In short tubes, the formation, development, and stability of spark bubbles are deeply [...] Read more.
Bubbles in pipes are widely present in marine engineering, transmission, and fluid systems with complex environments. This paper divides tubes into short, longer, and long tubes due to different lengths. In short tubes, the formation, development, and stability of spark bubbles are deeply analyzed through numerical simulation and experimental measurement, and the morphology and period of vortex rings generated in the surrounding fluid are studied. The results show that bubbles in tubes are significantly elongated compared with those in free fields. Changing the parameters of tubes can affect the size and oscillation speed of vortex rings. Secondary cavitation is found in asymmetric positions in longer tubes. The conditions, positions, and periods of multiple secondary cavitations are summarized in a series of experiments on long tubes. It is found that bubbles in tubes are related to the γt and γL tube parameters. More secondary cavitation is easily generated in thinner and longer tubes. In addition, the pumping effect brought about by the movement of bubbles in tubes is studied. By designing reasonable tube parameters, the life cycle of bubbles can be changed, and the pumping efficiency can be improved. This study provides important theoretical support for the reliability of the movement of bubbles and surrounding fluid in tubes and lays a foundation for the optimization and promotion of this technology in practical applications. Full article
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