Optimizing hydraulic machinery is a critical research area within the field of fluid mechanics, aiming to enhance product design efficiency and improve performance while reducing development time. The application of intelligent algorithms and combina...
Clothing management is a major challenge for blind and visually impaired individuals to perform independently. This research developed and validated the iSight, a mechatronic smart wardrobe prototype, integrating computer vision and artificial intell...
This article uses the sailfish outline as an airfoil profile to create a dual vertical-axis water turbine model for capturing wave and tidal current energy. A parametric water turbine model is built with the shape function perturbation and characteri...
The aluminium alloy front subframe of an automobile was developed through multi-operating condition topology optimization and multi-objective optimization methods. By considering the influences of loads on the strength, static stiffness, and modal of...
The linkage mechanism of a cotton bundle fiber strength tester will have an unstable clamping force when clamping fiber bundle samples with uneven thickness, resulting in slippage or damage to the fibers increasing the pectin residue, leading to inac...
This study investigates an aerodynamic optimization framework inspired by marine biological morphology, utilizing the sailfish profile as a basis for airfoil configuration. Through Latin hypercube experimental design combined with optimization algori...
The horizontal axis tidal turbine, as a crucial device for capturing tidal energy, has gained significant attention because it has better energy efficiency performance. Enhancing the performance of foils, a vital part of tidal turbine blades, can sig...
In this paper, several aspects were studied, including the effect of an electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise interference strategy with High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) 1.4, the analysis of a test on a printed circuit board (PCB) layou...
In order to reduce energy consumption, improve driving mileage, and make vehicles adopt driver styles, research on automatic optimization of control strategy based on driver style is conducted in this paper. According to the structure of the powertra...
In turbine tenon joint structures, fretting fatigue is common and can have detrimental effects on the components. To increase the fretting fatigue life, the design of tenon joint structures must be optimized. A parametric model of the three-tooth mor...
Membrane-type acoustic metamaterials (MAMs) are the focus of the current research due to their lightweight, small size, and good low-frequency sound insulation performance. However, there exists difficulties for extensive application because of the n...
Class function/shape function transformation (CST) is an advanced geometry representation method employed to generate airfoil coordinates. Aiming at the morbidity of the CST coefficient matrix, the pivot element weighting iterative (PEWI) method is p...
Soft tactile sensors have been applied to robotic grippers for assembly. It is a challenging task to obtain contact information and object orientation using tactile sensors during grasping. Currently, the design of Hall-effect-based tactile sensors t...
In this study, we improved the energy acquisition efficiency of tidal turbines with bionic airfoils by optimizing the seagull, long-eared owl, sparrowhawk, and two-dimensional airfoils, thereby obtaining a better lift–drag ratio. We used Isight...
Composite thin-walled booms can easily be folded and self-deployed by releasing stored strain energy. Thus, such booms can be used to deploy antennas, solar sails, and optical telescopes. In the present work, a new four-cell lenticular honeycomb depl...
Inspired by the bionic Bouligand structure, helicoidal carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite (CFRPC) laminates have been proven to own outstanding out-of-plane mechanical properties. This work aims to further explore the excellent bending charact...
This study proposes a novel graded-thickness, thin-walled aluminum alloy (Al) circular tube energy-absorbing structure and conducts comprehensive parametric modeling and multi-objective optimization research. The 7050Al tube was selected for analysis...
In coastal pumping stations, the intake sump geometry strongly affects flow uniformity, hydraulic loss, and vortex formation. This study establishes an Isight-based automated simulation and optimization framework for an axial-flow pump with a closed-...
This paper explores the application of multidisciplinary design optimization to the blades in horizontal-axis wind turbines. The aerodynamics and structural performance of blades are considered in the optimization framework. In the aerodynamic discip...
Improving the ride comfort of commercial vehicles is crucial for driver health and operational safety. This study focuses on optimizing the parameters of a cab suspension system to improve its vibration isolation performance. Initially, nonlinear fit...
Tires are often in service under dynamic conditions. Realizing the high-precision prediction of the mechanical response of rubber materials under cyclic loading can provide guidance for the design of high-performance tires. In this work, the tensile...
High-value sensitive cargoes are often damaged by low-frequency vibration and shock of containers during land and rail transport processes or mixed transport processes. Therefore, a dedicated cylindrical elastomer spring that absorbs vibration transm...
Self-oscillating cavitation jet technology has become a research hotspot of scholars in various fields. However, existing research lacks a summary of the rules of the influence of various factors on the cavitation performance, such that efficient and...
Advanced cascade design theories and methods are crucial to the rapid development of torque converters. Therefore, the study proposed a new parametric design method for a hydrodynamic torque converter cascade. The method is embodied by using a cubic...
Power system parameter matching is one of the key technologies in the development of hybrid electric vehicles. The power source is the key component of the power system which composed of engine, motor, and battery. Reasonable power source parameters...
Although the mechanized harvesting rate of maize in China has exceeded 90%, there are still shortcomings in the mechanized harvesting of silage maize. Some areas still rely on manual harvesting, which is not only inefficient but also requires more la...
Aortic dissection (AD) is a highly lethal cardiovascular emergency, and clinical studies have found that a high percentage of AD patients are hypertensive. In previous studies, the AD model was simplified, such as by treating the vessel wall as a sin...
The process parameters in the low-pressure casting of large-size aluminum alloy wheels are systematically optimized in this work using numerical casting simulation, response surface methodology (RSM), and genetic algorithm (NSGA-II). A nonlinear inpu...
Traditional cooling structures in gas turbines greatly improve the high temperature resistance of turbine blades; however, few cooling structures concern both heat transfer and mechanical performances. A lattice structure (LS) can solve this issue be...