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16 July 2024

The elasticity of bearings as well as their clearance have an essential influence on the total arrow and, therefore, on their own pulsation. In most of the literature, this elasticity is neglected in the calculation of shaft deflections. In some work...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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16 Citations
5,380 Views
18 Pages

A Multi-Scale Method for Designing Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Composite Drive Shafts with Carbon Nanotube Inclusions

  • Stelios K. Georgantzinos,
  • Panagiotis A. Antoniou and
  • Stylianos I. Markolefas

In this paper, the modal and linear buckling analysis of a laminated composite drive shaft reinforced by 11 multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) was carried out using an analytical approach, as well as the finite element method (FEM). The theoretic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Characterization and Modelling of Composites, Volume II)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,636 Views
16 Pages

7 July 2022

This article addresses the issue of the durability of mining shaft equipment elements. Shafts as a transport route are one of the most exploited parts of a mine. Consequently, their components are exposed to high mechanical stresses, which cause the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Non-destructive Testing and Inspection of Engineering Materials)
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2 Citations
2,136 Views
16 Pages

Assessing the Sustainability of Alternative Shaft Construction Methods

  • António M. G. Pedro,
  • Lucas Repsold and
  • Jorge Almeida e Sousa

24 May 2024

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is a global priority. The concrete industry has a major role in this reduction since it accounts for about 8% of global CO2 emissions. Despite significant improvements in the sustainability of the production of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Geotechnics)
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8 Citations
4,316 Views
14 Pages

Podded propulsors are widely used in warships and cruise ships, which have a higher requirement of vibrational and acoustic design. Therefore, studying vibration characteristics and the transmission mechanism of podded propulsor shafting is significa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Developments in Marine Propulsors)
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17 Citations
4,197 Views
24 Pages

The analysis of the influence of hull deformation on shaft alignment is predominately conducted using the finite element method (FEM), which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and challenging to use for iterative hull design optimization. In this pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Marine Propulsion II)
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3 Citations
2,517 Views
15 Pages

Technological Methods for Controlling the Elastic-Deformable State in Turning and Grinding Shafts of Low Stiffness

  • Antoni Świć,
  • Arkadiusz Gola,
  • Olga Orynycz,
  • Karol Tucki and
  • Jonas Matijošius

29 July 2022

The article presents original technological methods that allow the improvement of the accuracy of the turning and grinding of elastic-deformable shafts by increasing their stiffness by controlling the state of elastic deformations. In particular, the...

(This article belongs to the Collection Machining and Manufacturing of Alloys and Steels)
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1 Citations
776 Views
21 Pages

10 December 2025

The stability and safety of the vertical shaft during construction is an important problem for deep mining engineering because of the high in situ stresses. This paper conducts experimental studies on the difficulty of shaft support during the constr...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,758 Views
16 Pages

Ship Shaft-Rate Electric Field Signal Denoising Method Based on VMD-MSS

  • Ye Wang,
  • Dan Wang,
  • Cheng Chi,
  • Zhentao Yu and ,
  • Jianwei Li and
  • Lu Yu
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The presence of complex electromagnetic noise in the ocean significantly impacts the accuracy of ship shaft-rate electric field signal detection, necessitating the development of an effective denoising method to enhance detection precision. Neverthel...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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14 Citations
4,647 Views
16 Pages

Severe vibrations of the marine propulsion shaft can evidently affect the dynamical response of the propulsion system and degrade the performance of a ship. As the vibration forms couples which interact with each other, a better understanding of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Propellers and Ship Propulsion)
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1 Citations
4,188 Views
18 Pages

28 September 2023

Automobile manufacturers often outsource key components and parts to suppliers, hence ensuring that process quality has been a hot topic in current research. The quality control demands at different stages of the manufacturing supply chain cycle have...

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5 Citations
2,695 Views
15 Pages

23 January 2023

Large shaft usually achieves high surface quality through multi-pass grinding in practice. Common surface quality indexes include surface roughness and glossiness, which are not only required numerically, but also require high consistency of distribu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Manufacturing Processes)
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1 Citations
1,516 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2025

In the context of the “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” era, China’s steel industry, as one of the pillars of the national economy, must accelerate the exploration and adoption of innovative production processes to effectively...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Processes)
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1 Citations
981 Views
27 Pages

9 November 2025

A finite element dynamic modeling method considering the bolt non-uniform connection effect for the vibration characteristics of the disk–drum–shaft coupled structure is proposed. This structure consists of disks, drums, and hollow shafts...

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1,020 Views
24 Pages

Analysis of Vertical Shafts Excavation and Support Based on Cavity Contraction–Expansion Method

  • Xian-Song Deng,
  • Pei-Hong Xin,
  • Jun Jiang,
  • Yang Wang and ,
  • Feng-Sheng Yang,
  • Hai-Yang Huang and
  • Pin-Qiang Mo
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29 January 2026

Vertical shafts are key channels for underground energy storage, mineral exploitation, and related engineering fields. Yet in deeply buried complex strata and high ground stress environments, traditional passive supports are prone to lining failure,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Smart Underground Construction and Tunneling Design)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,990 Views
19 Pages

An Online Data-Driven LPV Modeling Method for Turbo-Shaft Engines

  • Ziyu Gu,
  • Shuwei Pang,
  • Wenxiang Zhou,
  • Yuchen Li and
  • Qiuhong Li

9 February 2022

The linear parameter-varying (LPV) model is widely used in aero engine control system design. The conventional local modeling method is inaccurate and inefficient in the full flying envelope. Hence, a novel online data-driven LPV modeling method base...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optimisation, Optimal Control and Nonlinear Dynamics in Electrical Power, Energy Storage and Renewable Energy Systems)
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1 Citations
1,007 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2025

This study investigates the excavation stability of vertical shafts using the Raise Boring Machine (RBM) method in karst strata with multiple cavities, based on the ventilation shaft project of the Zimuyan Tunnel along the Wudao Expressway. A three-d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Construction Mechanical Behavior and Deformation Characteristics of Lining Structure—2nd Edition)
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11 Citations
2,880 Views
16 Pages

13 March 2023

The artificial ground freezing method has been widely used in shield tunneling breakthrough working shafts. The freezing effect was mainly considered in the previous research, and the heat generation of the shield machine was not considered, which ha...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
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510 Views
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An Improved Design Method for Basal Heave Resistance and Embedded Depth of Circular Shafts Under Spatial Confinement

  • Xinfeng Pang,
  • Jinling Liu,
  • Liqiang Yin,
  • Yaoxu Li and ,
  • Kewen Zhang,
  • Yuchen Fang,
  • Jing Wang and
  • Shuangxi Feng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 August 2026

Circular shafts are widely used in shield launching and receiving, metro ventilation, municipal utilities, and underground energy facilities. In practical shaft construction, embedded depth design directly affects basal heave safety, material consump...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of New Technologies or Building Materials in Civil Engineering)
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11 Citations
3,178 Views
16 Pages

Research on Deep-Hole Cutting Blasting Efficiency in Blind Shafting with High In-Situ Stress Environment Using the Method of SPH

  • Bo Sun,
  • Zhiyu Zhang,
  • Jiale Meng,
  • Yonghui Huang and ,
  • Hongchao Li and
  • Jun Wang
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14 December 2021

This article aiming at the lack of research on the influence of rock clamp production on cutting blasting under high in-situ stress conditions and the lack of rock damage criteria for RHT constitution in numerical simulation. Combined with the critic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical, Numerical and Big-Data-Based Methods in Deep Rock Mechanics)
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2 Citations
4,802 Views
14 Pages

21 September 2024

One of the most common solutions to access the underground is through the construction of circular shafts. At a preliminary design stage, analytical expressions are often used to estimate the horizontal earth pressure acting on the lining. However, m...

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5 Citations
2,752 Views
15 Pages

19 January 2025

The excavation of deep and large vertical shafts in karst areas can easily lead to sudden changes in the stress field of the surrounding rock and even cause disasters such as cave collapses. To investigate the influence of karst areas on the stabilit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Construction Mechanical Behavior and Deformation Characteristics of Lining Structure—2nd Edition)
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13 Citations
3,445 Views
21 Pages

29 January 2023

In this study, a three-dimensional finite difference numerical model of the Jinfeng Gold Mine, including surface topography, ore body, shafts, and main faults, was built to estimate the shaft stability and surface deformation induced by underground m...

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5 Citations
2,440 Views
24 Pages

7 June 2024

In research concerning the impact resistance characteristics of ship power transmission shaft systems incorporating a high-elasticity coupling, a significant challenge lies in ascertaining the displacement compensation metrics for the high-elasticity...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)
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2 Citations
1,598 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2025

The design scheme of elastically supported submarine propulsion shafting can effectively realize the attenuation of the vibration energy and improve the stealth performance of the whole submarine. However, the elastic deformation generated by the sys...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)
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7 Citations
4,593 Views
25 Pages

Numerical Investigations of the Effects of the Rotating Shaft and Optimization of Urban Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

  • Lidong Zhang,
  • Kaiqi Zhu,
  • Junwei Zhong,
  • Ling Zhang and ,
  • Tieliu Jiang,
  • Shaohua Li and
  • Zhongbin Zhang
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18 July 2018

The central shaft is an important and indispensable part of a small scale urban vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). Normally, it is often operated at the same angular velocity as the wind turbine. The shedding vortices released by the rotating shaft...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Turbine Loads and Wind Plant Performance)
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9 Citations
2,409 Views
14 Pages

10 November 2022

The theoretical basis for a multi-physics coupling modeling involving a turbulence flow field and a ship’s electric field was analyzed using the principles of electrochemistry and hydrodynamics. Considering the mass transfer of oxygen in the ca...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
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17 Citations
4,672 Views
19 Pages

23 December 2019

With the large-scale and complexity of ship propulsion shafting, it is more difficult to analyze and control the torsional vibration of shafting. Therefore, an effective control method for the torsional vibration of shafting is of great significance...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
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Interference fit is one of the most common assembly methods in textile machinery, this paper focuses on the interference assembly of hollow shaft and sleeve. The mechanical behaviors of hollow shaft and sleeve were investigated by using the finite el...

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6 Citations
1,494 Views
18 Pages

VSG Frequency Response Strategy for Doubly-Fed Wind Farm Considering the Fatigue Load

  • Ruichao Cui,
  • Hanbo Wang,
  • Yingming Liu,
  • Xiaodong Wang and
  • Panpan Zhang

A wind farm composed of doubly-fed wind turbines (DFWTs) based on the virtual synchronous generator (DFWTs-VSG) control strategy exacerbates the fatigue load on the main shaft of the DFWT-VSGs in the wind farm when responding to the frequency variati...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optimisation, Optimal Control and Nonlinear Dynamics in Electrical Power, Energy Storage and Renewable Energy Systems, 2nd Edition)
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3 Citations
6,582 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2023

Engineering site and shaft pillars are excavated to prolong the life of collieries and excavate more underground coal. The Jinggezhuang colliery (‘JGZ’) is a resource-exhausted coal mine in eastern China. It was determined that the indust...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances on Structural Engineering, 2nd Volume)
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23 Citations
7,894 Views
17 Pages

17 March 2017

In the dual-axis rotation inertial navigation system (INS), besides the gyro error, accelerometer error, rolling misalignment angle error, and the gimbal angle error, the shaft swing angle and the axis non-orthogonal angle also affect the attitude ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inertial Sensors and Systems 2016)
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3 Citations
2,399 Views
18 Pages

Improved Design of an Eddy-Current Speed Sensor Based on Harmonic Modeling Technique

  • Duy-Tinh Hoang,
  • Manh-Dung Nguyen,
  • Yong-Joo Kim,
  • Anh-Tuan Phung and ,
  • Kyung-Hun Shin and
  • Jang-Young Choi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 March 2025

This study proposes an improved design of an eddy-current speed sensor (ECSS) by adding a ferromagnetic core to the stator, resulting in a sensitivity enhancement ranging from three to sixty times compared to a reference model according to shaft mate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis in Electrical Engineering, 2nd Edition)
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1 Citations
730 Views
20 Pages

Investigation of Radial Mixing Dynamics and Saturation Effect in Stirred Brown Rice Granular Systems Using Discrete Element Method

  • Yawen Xiao,
  • Yajuan Wang,
  • Qianqian Yu,
  • Minyue Sun and ,
  • Xingeng Ni,
  • Chunmeng Liu and
  • Kexiang Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 January 2026

In rice and food processing, spray mixing plays an essential role, with radial distribution uniformity serving as a key metric for assessing mixing performance. However, noticeable variations in the radial migration behavior of brown rice particles c...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Engineering and Technology)
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9 Citations
2,587 Views
22 Pages

24 May 2021

When the fracture is not developed and the connectivity is poor, the original single medium simulation cannot meet the accuracy requirements. Now, the seepage simulation of fractured rock mass has gradually developed from equivalent continuous medium...

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9 Citations
2,755 Views
13 Pages

3 September 2021

This paper conducts a parameter interval uncertainty analysis of the internal resonance of a rotating porous shaft–disk–blade assembly reinforced by graphene nanoplatelets (GPLs). The nanocomposite rotating assembly is considered to be composed of a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Analysis of Static, Dynamic, and Thermal Behavior of Shell, Plate, and Beam Structures)
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10 Citations
3,824 Views
14 Pages

18 May 2022

The static drill rooted nodular (SDRN) pile is a new kind of composite pile foundation made by inserting a precast nodular pile into the cemented soil. Based on the tests and analysis on the mechanism characteristics of these two kinds of interfaces,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Progress on Advanced Foundation Engineering)
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1 Citations
2,153 Views
14 Pages

10 February 2023

This paper reports the results of research on the influence of the compliance of the technological system used in grinding low-stiffness shafts on the shape accuracy of the workpieces. The level of accuracy achieved using passive compliance compensat...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modern Technologies and Manufacturing Systems, 2nd Volume)
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8 Citations
5,377 Views
12 Pages

Finite Element Simulation of the Presta Joining Process for Assembled Camshafts: Application to Aluminum Shafts

  • Robert Scherzer,
  • Sebastian Fritsch,
  • Ralf Landgraf,
  • Jörn Ihlemann and
  • Martin Franz-Xaver Wagner

11 February 2018

This work shows a sequence of numerical models for the simulation of the Presta joining process: a well-established industrial process for manufacturing assembled camshafts. The operation is divided into two sub-steps: the rolling of the shaft to wid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scientific and Engineering Progress on Aluminum-Based Light-Weight Materials: Research Reports from the German Collaborative Research Center 692)
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1 Citations
4,908 Views
15 Pages

7 August 2022

An advanced process of mandrel forging and necking (MFN) was proposed for a hollow shaft with an inner stepped hole. The conventional mandrel forging process with an equal-diameter mandrel was used to form the outer stepped preform, and then the pref...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal Forming and Forging)
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4 Citations
3,934 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2025

To investigate the effect of combined end-and-shaft post-grouting on the vertical load-bearing performance of bridge-bored piles in the Dongting Lake area of Hunan, two post-grouted piles were subjected to bi-directional O-cell and top-down load test...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Development of Building Pile Foundation Engineering and Underground Structure)
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3 Citations
2,161 Views
24 Pages

9 October 2024

In order to achieve the goal of a lightweight shaft–disk rotor, this paper applies the fiber woven composite material to the disk structure, and at the same time considers the design of the weight-reducing holes on the porous disk. It introduce...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
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8 Citations
2,022 Views
20 Pages

29 June 2023

The unstable flow of a shaft tubular pump device (STPD) leads to energy loss, thereby reducing its efficiency. The aim of this study is to investigate the distribution pattern of energy loss in STPDs. This paper reveals that the two components with t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Science and Engineering Applications)
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495 Views
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2 September 2026

This study establishes a dynamic model for a functionally graded (FG) shaft–double-disk rotor system under rotational motion. The effective properties of the functionally graded material (FGM) are described using the Voigt homogenization scheme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Characteristics of Advanced Materials and Innovative Structures)
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3 Citations
1,984 Views
24 Pages

24 July 2025

This study conducts a numerical simulation of the working performance of a single horizontal shaft forced mixer using the Discrete Element Method (DEM). It systematically investigates the effects of blade installation angle, feeding method, mixing sp...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
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994 Views
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Synergistic Mechanisms and Operational Parameter Optimization of Excavation–Muck Removal Systems in AGF Shaft Sinking

  • Deguo Zeng,
  • Yongxiang Lu,
  • Man Yao,
  • Zhijiang Yang and ,
  • Bin Zhu and
  • Yuan Sun
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21 November 2025

Shaft sinking in soft, water-rich strata frequently suffers from low cutting efficiency, cycle-time mismatches between excavation and muck removal, and weak system-level coordination. To elucidate the synergistic mechanisms governing excavation&ndash...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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5 Citations
1,813 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2024

The mechanical behavior associated with the flow of ore-rock bulk materials is an important factor leading to the instability and failure of the shaft wall of the ore storage section in ore passes. It is of great significance for accurately understan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Methodology and Analysis in Coal Mine Gas Control)
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534 Views
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Effects of Flow Distributor Position and Loosener Configuration on Particle Flow Behavior in a Hydrogen-Based Direct Reduction Shaft Furnace

  • Qingbin Xue,
  • Haotian Liao,
  • Qiqiang Zhao,
  • Aibing Ji and ,
  • Dongsheng Huang,
  • Guolei Zhao,
  • Chunhe Jiang,
  • Jianliang Zhang and
  • Kejiang Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 May 2026

This study investigates the effects of flow distributor placement and loosener configuration on particle-flow behavior in a hydrogen-based direct reduction shaft furnace using the discrete element method (DEM). A three-dimensional industrial-scale fu...

(This article belongs to the Section Metals and Alloys)
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20 Citations
6,594 Views
16 Pages

Hot Forging Die Design Optimization Using FEM Analysis for Near-Net Forming of 18CrNiMo7-6 Steel Pinion Shaft

  • Nijenthan Rajendran,
  • Charles Chemale Yurgel,
  • Wojciech Z. Misiolek and
  • Ricardo Alves de Sousa

21 April 2023

The objective of the presented work was to develop a new forging process for a pinion shaft as a component of a wind turbine. A study of near-net-shape forming using Deform 3D software was performed to reduce operational cost, time, and material scra...

(This article belongs to the Topic Numerical and Experimental Advances in Innovative Manufacturing Processes)
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5 Citations
3,553 Views
14 Pages

Virtual Screening-Based Study of Novel Anti-Cancer Drugs Targeting G-Quadruplex

  • Ruizhuo Ouyang,
  • Jinyao Liu,
  • Shen Wang,
  • Weilun Zhang and ,
  • Kai Feng,
  • Conghao Liu,
  • Baolin Liu,
  • Yuqing Miao and
  • Shuang Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

In order to develop new anti-cancer drugs more efficiently and reduce side effects based on active drug targets, the virtual drug screening was carried out through the target of G-quadruplexes and 23 hit compounds were, thus, screened out as potentia...

(This article belongs to the Section Drug Targeting and Design)

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