Railway settlement requires long-term monitoring with millimeter-level accuracy; however, conventional leveling provides limited spatial coverage and requires considerable field effort. This study presents a practical assessment of selected StaMPS pa...
This study introduces an amplitude-based method that applies Spatially Variant Apodization (SVA) to reduce sidelobes in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. Unlike conventional approaches, the filter is applied only to the amplitude while preserving...
The subway alleviates the traffic pressure in the city but also brings the potential risk of land subsidence. The land subsidence caused by the subway is a global problem that seriously affects the safety of subway operations and surrounding building...
Persistent scatterers interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PS-InSAR) is capable of precise topography measurement up to sub-meter scale and monitoring subtle deformation up to mm/year scale for all the radar image pixels with stable radiometric...
Land subsidence in urban environments is an increasingly prominent aspect in the monitoring and maintenance of urban infrastructures. In this study we update the subsidence information over Rome and its surroundings (already the subject of past resea...
External Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) with different resolutions and accuracies cause different topographic residuals in differential interferograms of Multi-temporal InSAR (MTInSAR), especially for the phase-based StaMPS-PS. The PS selection and...
This paper discusses a full interferometry processing chain based on dual-orbit Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B (S1) synthetic aperture radar data and a combination of open-source routines from the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP), Stanford Method fo...
This study applies InSAR time series analysis derived from Sentinel-1 satellite data (ascending and descending orbits) processed with ISCE2 and StaMPS (v.4.1) software to evaluate deformation dynamics in three landfill types near Gijón, Spain....
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is a satellite–based remote sensing technique capable of measuring surface displacement. However, InSAR measurements can be affected by temporal decorrelation, baseline geometry, and surface char...
Areas at risk of land subsidence in Jakarta can be identified using a land subsidence susceptibility map. This study evaluates the quality of a susceptibility map made using functional (logistic regression and multilayer perceptron) and meta-ensemble...
Vajedian et al. [1] present an improved method for the derivation of deformation parameters using satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data. The method is a modification of the Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) method as implemented...
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) capability to detect slow deformation over terrain areas is limited by temporal decorrelation, geometric decorrelation and atmospheric artefacts. Multitemporal InSAR methods such as Persistent Scattere...
The sub-Saharan African coast is experiencing fast-growing urbanization, particularly around major cities. This threatens the equilibrium of the socio-ecosystems where they are located and on which they depend: underground water resources are exploit...
For the past few years, the transfer printing method has been developed and has secured numerous advantages. Here, via both experiments and analyses, we have focused on identifying key parameters and optimizing their values in the fabrication process...
Development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology and the dedicated suite of processing tools have aided the evolution of remote sensing techniques for various Earth Observation (EO) applications. Interferometric SAR (InSAR) is a relatively ne...
For many developing countries, historical inflation figures are rarely available. We propose a simple method that aims to recover such figures of inflation using prices of postage stamps issued in earlier years. We illustrate our method for Suriname,...
In this manuscript, we present a novel approach for integrating Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs) into signature stamps, termed Stamp TENG (S-TENG). We have modified a commercially available stamp holder to integrate triboelectric layers for multi...
Mixed micro- and nanoscale structures are gaining popularity in various fields due to their rapid advances in patterning. An investigation in stamp resist filling with multiscale cavities via ultraviolet (UV) nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) is neces...
Scanning micrο X-ray fluorescence (μ-XRF) and multispectral imaging (MSI) were applied to study philately stamps, selected for their small size and intricate structures. The μ-XRF measurements were accomplished using the M6 Jetstream Br...
Coke-making technology utilises two systems for charging the coke oven chambers with coal—a stamp-charged system (stamp-charging) and a gravity charged system (top charging). The presented study examines the impact of selected coal properties o...
Landslides are a major threat for population and urban areas. Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) is a powerful tool for identifying landslides and monitoring their evolution over long periods and has proven to be very useful especially in urba...
Differential Interferometric SAR (DInSAR) time-series techniques can be used to derive surface displacement rates with accuracies of 1 mm/year, by measuring the one-dimensional distance change between a satellite and the surface over time. However, t...
The wider Zagreb area is considered one of the few seismically active areas in the Republic of Croatia. During the period 1880–1906, moderate to strong seismic activity with three earthquakes magnitude ML ≥ 6 occurred on the NW-SE striking K...
Improvement of the hot stamping process is important for reducing processing costs and improving the productivity and tensile properties of final components. One major approach to this has been to conduct all or part of the process at lower temperatu...
Stamping dies perform two functions in the hot stamping process of body-in-white components. Firstly, they form the steel sheet into the desired shape and, secondly, they quench the steel at a cooling rate that leads to hardening by means of the aust...
Counterfeit and unaccounted postage stamps used on mailings cost postal administrations a significant amount of money each year. Corporate and individual clients become victim to stamp fraud and incur losses when security teams investigate such maili...
To improve the production quality and efficiency of the concave ring, a multi-pass stamping technology is used to replace the spinning technology to form the concave ring. First, the multi-pass stamping dies are designed according to the structural c...
The warm stamping technology is a promising technology to meet the needs of car weight reduction and energy conservation. In order to compare with the mechanical properties of the traditional hot-stamped boron-alloyed steel 22MnB5, a new warm-stamped...
As government documents, postage stamps are a rich source of information about a government’s policies on a wide range of subjects. In this article, a comparative semiotic analysis of the first seventy-five years of North and South Korean stamp...
The forming of a micro tapered hole is based on nanosecond pulsed laser processing, which conforms to fast processing time and high throughput; however, the microhole quality should be improved. Micro stamping is a technology providing high precise s...
This paper presents a new solution for shaping the rivet progression of a beverage end. The classic method uses three operations to press the cylindrical rivet using 0.208 mm and 0.203 mm thick sheets. The increasing demand for aluminium alloys is pr...
Stamping is one of the most widely used processes in the sheet metalworking industry. Because of the increasing demand for a faster process, ensuring that the stamping process is conducted without compromising quality is crucial. The tool used in the...
The combination of stamping and subsequent welding of components is an important area of the automotive industry. Stamping inaccuracies affect the final size of the stamping and the welded part. In this article, we deal with a specific component that...
Reverse engineering methods like 3D scanning are becoming common in engineering practice. These methods enable engineers to reproduce the original shape of a scanned part. If other properties are required, then other reverse engineering methods can f...
Background: Achieving correct tooth anatomy and saving time at the dental chair are some of the goals of modern restorative dentistry. Stamp technique has gained acceptance in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness...
In this study, hot stamping tests on continuous glass fiber (GF)-reinforced thermoplastic (PP) composites were conducted under different process parameters using a self-designed hemispherical hot stamping die with a heating system. The effects of par...
Reducing the mass of vehicles is an effective way to improve energy efficiency and mileage. Therefore, hot stamping is developed to manufacture lightweight materials used for vehicle production, such as magnesium and aluminum alloys. However, in comp...
One of the important steps in the design of hot stamping tools is the analysis of their cooling system. This article presents an authorial, two-stage approach to solving this problem. The first stage consisted of a series of simulations of the hot st...
This study investigates the forming process (stamping) of bipolar plates which have applied a novel ultra-thin (0.1 mm) super ferritic stainless steel, i.e., SUS470, whose chromium is sufficiently high for corrosion resistance. A three-dimensional fi...
The manufacture of automotive parts using progressive stamping tools demands high precision and efficiency to meet industry standards. This research explores integrating quality monitoring techniques, focusing on load sensors and tonnage monitoring,...
Aluminum alloy hot stamping technology can improve the formability of materials and obtain parts with high dimensional accuracy. Friction behavior in the hot stamping process is very important for forming quality. Accurate friction coefficient is hel...
The progressive stamping process includes blanking, piercing, bending, and drawing operations on press machines with a single die set for high production runs. The processing conditions at individual progressive stamping stations are intricately coup...
Inflammatory events and dysregulated cytokine expression are implicated in prostate cancer (PCa), but the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood at present. We have previously identified six transmembrane protein of the prostate 2 (STA...
In the production of modern nongxiangxing daqu, mechanical stamping is utilized to compact raw materials into daqu bricks. Nevertheless, variations in stamping frequencies may modify the initial physicochemical properties of daqu, which in turn influ...
In the present study, a new Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) method for hot stamping dies is evaluated, namely lattice structured. In order to evaluate the benefits of the lattice structured method with regards to the thermal performance, a h...
The aim of this work is to develop a die material selection criterion for aluminum hot stamping applications. The criterion has been based on the back-to-back comparison of a set of reciprocating friction and wear tests. Three representatives belongi...
Hot stamping is an important manufacturing process for sheet metal parts. However, it is easy to produce defects such as thinning and cracking in the drawing area during the stamping process. In this paper, the finite element solver ABAQUS/Explicit w...
Six transmembrane protein of prostate 2 (STAMP2) is a critical modulator of inflammation and metabolism in adipose tissue. There are no data on the expression of STAMP2 in chronic kidney disease, which is an inflammatory disease related to metabolic...
The production of ultra-high strength automotive components requires a multi-directional approach. Hot stamping combines both forming and heat treatment processes to obtain a usually martensitic structure of complicated shaped automotive parts. The p...
The stamping process produces thin-walled structures that, in general, have uniform wall thickness and no enclosed cavity. However, it is difficult to satisfy the above geometric requirements with the current density-based topology optimization metho...
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