As a major contributor to environmental pollution in recent years, solid waste has become an increasingly significant concern in the realm of sustainable development. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery, known for its high spatial resolution, has b...
As the nondestructive testing method based on industrial computerized tomography (ICT) is widely used in solid rocket motor (SRM) propellant defect detection, the demand for a corresponding image processing algorithm is increasing. In order to extrac...
To facilitate measuring crystal sizes during batch crystallization at high-solid concentrations by using an invasive imaging system, an in situ imaging measurement strategy based on edge detection and superpixel is proposed for the ambiguous boundary...
Due to dynamics caused by factors such as random collection and transportation requirements, vehicle failures, and traffic jams, it is difficult to implement regular waste collection and transportation schemes effectively. A challenge for the stable...
Achieving long-term stable optimization in complex industrial processes (CIPs) is notoriously challenging due to their unclear physical/chemical reaction mechanisms, fluctuating operating conditions, and stringent regulatory constraints. A significan...
In this paper, we present an automatic procedure that enhances the solution accuracy of edge-based smoothed 2D solid finite elements (three-node triangular and four-node quadrilateral elements). To obtain an enhanced solution, an adaptive enrichment...
Data storage in the Industrial Internet-of-Things scenario presents critical aspects related to the necessity of bringing storage devices closer to the point where data are captured. Concerns on storage temperature are to be considered especially whe...
Numerous combustion applications are concerned with the stabilization of diffusion flames formed by injecting gaseous fuels into a co-flowing stream containing an oxidizer. The smooth operation of these devices depends on the attachment and lift-off...
The recognition of data matrix (DM) codes plays a crucial role in industrial production. Significant progress has been made with existing methods. However, for low-quality images with protrusions and interruptions on the L-shaped solid edge (finder p...
Unstructured hex meshes are partitions of three spaces into boxes that can include irregular edges, where
Pre-seismic anomalies in solid tidal factors can reveal crustal stress accumulation and predict seismic risk; such disturbance signals associated with earthquake incubation are extremely subtle and easily obscured by environmental noise, instrument e...
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) poses significant simulation challenges due to its highly nonlinear thermo-fluid-solid coupling. To address this, we propose an adaptive framework coupling the edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) and smoo...
Automated classification of municipal solid waste remains challenging due to high variability in object appearance, deformation, contamination, and inconsistent consumer disposal behavior, creating a need for representative multimodal datasets that e...
The integration of automated tools in engineering education has the potential to improve student assessments, ensuring consistency and reducing instructor workload. This study introduces a Python-based automation tool designed to evaluate student Com...
Immunotherapies based on immune checkpoint blockade have shown remarkable clinical outcomes and durable responses in patients with many tumor types. Nevertheless, these therapies lack efficacy in most cancer patients, even causing severe adverse even...
Although conventional tool steels have been heat treated on a routine basis for decades, the search continues for new ways to eliminate their troublesome sharp-edged primary chromium carbides, which impair toughness. One of the available techniques i...
This article aims at analytically solving the free vibration problem of rectangular thin plates with one corner free and its opposite two adjacent edges rotationally-restrained, which is difficult to handle by conventional semi-inverse approaches suc...
The effect of irradiation by a hyperthermal-atomic-oxygen beam on hydrogenated titanium-doped diamond-like carbon (hydrogenated Ti-DLC) films, applied as a solid lubricant for equipment used in low-earth orbit was investigated. Unlike the film thickn...
Several global challenges are converging: rising organic solid waste generation, growing food demand, and increasingly unfavorable conditions for food production, including more frequent and severe droughts, water scarcity, and limited agricultural l...
The influence of guide-vane leading-edge profiles on interstage flow, particle transport, and erosion in multistage deep-sea mining pumps remains unclear. This study compares Convex, Linear, and Concave profiles in a two-stage pump using an Euler&nda...
The planar solid-state pulse-forming line (planar solid-state PFL) is an important solid-state device used in compact pulse power systems. Moreover, pulsed power systems constitute a crucial element within electroporation systems. In this paper, we p...
In this study, a model was developed to calculate the power required for the circumferential cutting of solid wood in the longitudinal direction, considering the relevant technological parameters and mechanical properties of the wood. Based on measur...
The correction of the blockage effect is crucial in wind tunnel experiments, particularly for the drag forces on bluff bodies with a large flow separation at the leading edge. Maskell’s wake blockage correction is a widely used method for bluff...
Sediment abrasion may cause the removal of material and efficiency loss to hydraulic machinery (hydro-turbine, pump, etc.), which may worsen the internal flow and endanger the safe operation of the machines. As abrasion is caused by the impact of sed...
The development of global urbanization has brought about a significant amount of solid waste. These untreated wastes may be dumped in any corner, causing serious pollution to the environment. Thus, it is necessary to accurately obtain their distribut...
A solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) plays an essential role in the functionality and service life of ion batteries, where the structure and formation mechanism are still in the midst. Here, we investigate the initial decomposition and reactions of e...
The reaction of UO2 with the respective lanthanide metal and purified graphite in an arc-melting furnace led to the formation of solid solutions of the composition LnxU1−xC2, with Ln = Tb, Dy, Ho, Tm, and Lu. They all crystallize in the tetrago...
The slurry pump is widely used in ore mining, metal smelting, petrochemical, and other industries, mainly to transport fluid media containing large solid particles. Importantly, it is easy to damage the impeller of a slurry pump in the operation proc...
Recycling of phosphorus (P) from feed input in aquaculture systems gains increasing importance, especially relating to sustainable agriculture and food production. In order to find possible areas of application of African catfish solid waste, the pur...
We study the structural and mobility properties of edge dislocations in rare-gas crystals with the hexagonal close-packed (hcp) structure by using classical simulation techniques. Our results are discussed in the light of recent experimental and theo...
The study of entropy generation in thermal non-equilibrium (TNE) states has significant implications for optimizing thermal management systems and understanding heat transfer mechanisms in permeable media. This study investigates the entropy properti...
The subsonic flows around NACA 0012 aerofoils with a solid, a porous, and a poro-serrated trailing edge (TE) at a Reynolds number of 1 × 106 are investigated by a hybrid Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS)/large-eddy simulation (LES) a...
This paper employs an innovative investigation approach to study pore evolution in Al-Si-Mg-Cu alloy within aluminum foam sandwiches (AFS) by integrating data from heating–expansion ratio curves, in situ observation of synchronous radiation, an...
Edge effect denotes better growth of microbial organisms situated at the edge of the solid agar media. Although the precise reason underlying edge effect is unresolved, it is generally attributed to greater nutrient availability with less competing n...
Computer-extended Descriptive Geometry (CeDG) is a new approach to solving and building computer models of three-dimensional (3D) geometrical systems through descriptive geometry procedures (thus inheriting invariant-symmetry properties from projecti...
Superhydrophobic coatings are beneficial for applications like self-cleaning, anti-corrosion, and drag reduction. In this study, we investigated the impact of surface geometry on the static, dynamic, and sliding contact angles in the Cassie–Bax...
The recent advances in additive manufacturing technology have widened the choice of materials that can be printed, opening new frontiers in the field of heat transfer devices. This paper explores the use of a solid porous matrix in which paraffin wax...
Edge dislocations are linear defects that locally break the positional order of the layers in smectic A liquid crystals. As in usual solids, these defects play a central role for explaining the plastic properties of the smectic A phase. This work foc...
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is commonly used to print different products with highly complex features. Process parameters for FDM are divided into controllable or uncontrollable parameters. The most critical ones are built orientation, layer thic...
Vertices and symmetries of regular and irregular chiral polyhedra are represented by quaternions with the use of Coxeter graphs. A new technique is introduced to construct the chiral Archimedean solids, the snub cube and snub dodecahedron together wi...
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) [1,2] loosely refer to multi-principal-element solid solution alloys due to their high configurational entropy, in contrast to traditional alloys, which focus on the edge or corner of phase diagrams with one principal compo...
By using EDEM–Fluent codes and coupling the continuous fluid medium with a solid particle discrete element, the solid–liquid two-phase flow field in a centrifugal pump was simulated under the same inlet conditions of the particle volume f...
Uniform growth of ultrathin silicon nanowire (SiNW) channels is the key to accomplishing reliable integration of various SiNW-based electronics, but remains a formidable challenge for catalytic synthesis, largely due to the lack of uniform size contr...
This paper presents a number of thrust-collar-specific effects to consider when simulating the elastohydrodynamic lubrication state. Plate bending can lead to edge loading and can be considered via an FEM model of the solids. When bending is of no co...
The oxidation state and local atomic environment of admixtures of In, Cu, and Ag in synthetic sphalerite crystals were determined by X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The sphalerite crystals doped with In, Cu, Ag, In–Cu, and In–Ag were...
Reducing the tonal noise from airfoil instabilities has attracted significant interest from the aeronautical community in the past few years. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of structured porous trailing edges on the tonal noise re...
High porosity phenomena of U-10Mo fuel foil appear in the U–Mo/Al monolithic fuel plate under deep burnup. In this study, the fuel skeleton creep-based bubble growth model is further improved with the intrusion effect of solid fission products,...
The emergence of computer-aided design (CAD) has propelled the evolution of the sheet metal engineering field. Sheet metal design software tools include parameters associated to the part’s forming process during the pattern drawing calculation. Curre...
To address the challenges of complex cutting force formation and low prediction accuracy in discrete-edge end mills, this study proposes a precise cutting force modeling method based on an effective chip slot function. An effective chip slot function...
We indicate that Heron’s formula (which relates the square of the area of a triangle to a quartic function of its edge lengths) can be interpreted as a scissors congruence in four-dimensional space. In the process of demonstrating this, we examine a...
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