316 Results Found

Al-air batteries are regarded as potential power source for flexible and wearable devices. However, the traditional cathodes of Al-air batteries are easy to be broken after continuous bending. This is why few Al-air batteries have been tested under t...

The increasing availability of data, which becomes a continually increasing trend in multiple fields of application, has given machine learning approaches a renewed interest in recent years. Accordingly, manufacturing processes and sheet metal formin...

Gas pipelines are a critical means of transportation in industrial production. To detect gas pipeline leaks, ultrasonic transducers with specific center frequencies and high sensitivity are required. This paper proposes a novel air-coupled ultrasonic...

This article presents the results of an analysis of the bending load characteristics and the springback phenomenon occurring during three-point bending of 1.0 and 2.0 mm thick AW-2024 aluminium alloy sheets with rolled AW-1050A cladding. A new propri...

Outer edge bending is already used on the axial fan blades of air conditioners, reducing the leakage flow loss at the blade tip and suppressing the tip vortex development, thereby improving fan aerodynamic and acoustic performance. However, there are...

Air tightness is a challenging task for 3D-printed components, especially for fused filament fabrication (FFF), due to inherent issues, related to the layer-by-layer fabrication method. On the other hand, the capability of 3D print airtight cavities...

Aiming at the forming efficiency and roundness of the longitudinal submerged arc welded (LSAW) pipes in JCO (J-shape to C-shape to O-shape) forming process, this paper proposes a four-point air bending process. Compared with the traditional three-poi...

Crop leaves naturally exhibit a curved morphology and primarily display bending deformation and vibrational responses under wind load. The curved surface structure of leaves plays a critical role in the deposition and retention of pesticide droplets....

In this paper, a trench-assisted low-bending-loss large-mode-field-area multi-core fiber with air hole is proposed, which can achieve dual-mode transmission. The influence of structural parameters on fiber performance is analyzed systematically, and...

The separation of oxygen from air by means of inorganic ceramic membranes requires gas-tight ceramic–metal joints that enable reliable permeation operation in the oxygen partial pressure gradient at 850 °C. Reactive air brazing is a promisi...

The objective of this work is to present the numerical simulation of the air-bending process of DC01 steel. There are plenty of works concerned with assessing the springback phenomenon in the bending process also using anisotropic material models (Hi...

This study aims to provide insights into the intricate interactions between gas and liquid phases within flow components, which are pivotal in various industrial sectors such as nuclear reactors, oil and gas pipelines, and thermal management systems....

Scouring is an erosional process driven by the water motion over a sediment bed. Scour can lead to structural safety risks of built structures and to riverbanks’ instabilities and collapse. In particular, scouring in river bends is a known phen...

The air-conditioner noise in a rehabilitation room can seriously affect the mental state of patients. However, the existing single-layer active noise control (ANC) filters may fail to attenuate the complicated harmonic noise, and the deep recursive A...

In this research work, real-time three-point bending coupled with the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) technique were used to study the crack formation and growth of air plasma spraying (APS) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). The acquired micrograph...

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the fatigue cracking behavior of super martensitic stainless steel in air and water environments, highlighting the critical influence of environmental factors on its mechanical properties. By examining...

It is known that the growth of the orbital part of the angular momentum of the fundamental air core mode of the negative curvature hollow-core fibers (NCHCFs) with circular polarization occurs at the edge of the transmission bands due to the spin&nda...

This study developed a soft pneumatic glove actuated by elliptical cross-sectional guided bending bellows to augment finger-knuckle rehabilitation for patients with hand dysfunction. The guided bending bellows actuators (GBBAs) are made of thermoplas...

During air bending of sheet metals, the correction of punch stroke for springback control is always implemented through repeated trial bending until achieving the forming accuracy of bending parts. In this study, a modelling method for correction of...

Foam-based soft actuators are lightweight and highly compressible, which make them an attractive option for soft robotics. A negative pressure drive would complement the advantages of foam actuators and improve the durability of the soft robotic syst...

Most traditional rigid grippers can cause damage to the surface of objects in actual production processes and are susceptible to factors such as different shapes, sizes, materials, and positions of the product. This article studies a flexible finger...

In this paper, a comparison of the mechanical properties of high-strength low-alloy S460N steel welded joints is presented. The welded joints were made by the gas metal arc welding (GMAW) process in the air environment and water, by the local cavity...

In this paper, a Paris law-based model is presented whereby crack propagation occurs under cyclic loading in air (fatigue) and in an aggressive environment (corrosion-fatigue) for the case of corner cracks (with a wide range of aspect ratios in the m...

The soft robot has many degrees of freedom, strong environmental adaptability, and good human–computer interaction ability. As the end-effector of the soft robot, the soft gripper can grasp objects of different shapes without destructivity. Bas...

Boundary profile evaluation (BPV) is an approach proposed in order to estimate water vapor content in the atmosphere. It exploits radio occultation (RO) observations of the signals emitted by the satellites of global navigation systems (GNSS) which a...

Waveguide bend is an indispensable component in the on-chip compact photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and the minimum bend size greatly limits the increase of integration density of PICs. Here, we propose broadband and low-loss silicon waveguide be...

The bending properties of Dahurian and Japanese larch grown in Korea were comparatively studied to facilitate the effective utilization of both species. The modulus of elasticity (MOE) and modulus of rupture (MOR) of the heartwood and sapwood of both...

Traditionally, subsea pipelines designed for the transportation of oil, gas, and water are constructed using carbon steel due to its strength, toughness, and ability to operate at temperatures up to 427 °C. However, polyethylene (PE), especially...

Bent wood has the advantages of visually appealing and ergonomic shapes and the disadvantage of processing failure. Understanding how water and temperature influence wood bending is critical to avoid processing failure. Compared with softwood, satura...

We examined optical fibers suitable for avoiding such problems as the fiber fuse phenomenon and failures at bends with a high power input. We found that the threshold power for fiber fuse propagation in photonic crystal fiber (PCF) and hole-assisted...

The main objective of this study was to determine the impact of glass waste as a valuable additive in cement mortars. As part of this study, three mortars with different glass waste contents were designed with the addition of 10, 20, and 30% glass wa...

This article presents the development of a self-bending contraction actuator (SBCA) through the analysis of its structure, kinematics, and torque formulas, and then explores its applications. The proposed actuator has been fabricated by two methods t...

In this article, one-dimensional photonic crystal cavities on bending waveguides (PCCoBW) used for achieving high-contrast spectra are proposed, analyzed, and experimentally verified on silicon on insulator (SOI). Both air and dielectric modes of the...

This study deals with the effect of heat treatment on Pinus oocarpa specimens from forest plantations in Colombia. The effects of two heat treatments at 170 and 190 °C for 2.5 h in saturated vapor were evaluated based on the color, dimensional stabil...

In a variety of modern, multi-phase steels, damage evolves during plastic deformation in the form of the nucleation, growth and coalescence of voids in the microstructure. These microscopic sites play a vital role in the evolution of the materials&rs...

Migratory birds have the ability to save energy during flight by arranging themselves in a V-formation. This arrangement enables an increase in the overall efficiency of the group because the wake vortices shed by each of the birds provide additional...

To optimize the bamboo heat treatment process, the corresponding evolution rules under various heat treatment conditions must be determined. When the heat treatment time and temperature remained constant, the effects of different heat treatment press...

Waveguide bends are critical components for compact routing in integrated photonic circuits, yet their design in air-clad polymer waveguides fabricated by two-photon polymerization direct laser writing (2PP-DLW) is challenging due to multimode behavi...

In this article, we design a low-loss, high-bandwidth Z-bend photonic silicon crystal waveguide bending in a triangular lattice through topology optimization. Based on the topological optimization method, we change the relative position of air holes...

A large core size and bending resistance are very important properties of mid-infrared energy transfer fibers, but large core sizes usually lead to the deterioration of bending properties. A negative-curvature nested node-free anti-resonant hollow-co...

In this work, we propose a fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based sensor for curvature measurements. Two gratings are inscribed through the protective coating in a specialty optical fiber using focused femtosecond laser pulses and point-by-point direct writ...

The pressure drop and conveying stability caused by the bend significantly affect the pneumatic conveying process of stiff shotcrete, which is the key to solving the problem of long-distance transportation. In this paper, the effects of different air...

A MEMS directional acoustic sensor housed in an air cavity and operated underwater in a near-neutral buoyancy configuration is demonstrated. The sensor consists of two wings connected by a bridge and attached to a substrate by two centrally mounted t...

The use of air propulsion to drive limb motion in soft robotics has been a largely untapped field even though the technology has been around since the 1700s. Air propulsion can generate greater degrees of motion in limb actuators compared to widely-e...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the influence of alumina air-abrasion on flexural and bond strengths of CAD/CAM composites. The flexural strength (FS) of two brands of commercial CAD/CAM composites was investigated by the three-point bending...

Orchids are fascinating for many reasons: their reproductive strategies, their pollination systems and the various morphological adaptations they have evolved, including the presence of pollen grains agglomerated into two masses, called pollinia, whi...

With the superior ductility and flexibility brought by compliant bodies, soft manipulators provide a nondestructive manner to grasp delicate objects, which has been developing gradually as a rising focus of soft robots. However, the unexpected phenom...

Elastic recovery of the material, called springback, is one of the problems in sheet metal forming of drawpieces, especially with a complex shape. The springback can be influenced by various technological, geometrical, and material parameters. In thi...

Pneumatic soft manipulators are one of the current development trends in the field of manipulators. The soft manipulator that has been developed at present still has problems with single function and poor load-bearing capacity. This paper designs a c...

For low speed diesel engines under severe ocean conditions, high efficiency air–water separators must be equipped to separate excess moisture contained in the air and reduce the corrosion. Optimal design of air–water separator is an indis...