Single-particle breakage test is becoming increasingly popular, as researchers seek to understand fracture response that is purely a function of the material being tested, instead of that which is based on the performance of the comminution device be...
Grain breakage serves as a primary causative factor for microbial infestation and oxidative deterioration, significantly diminishing product value and resulting in substantial grain waste and economic losses. The grain discharging process represents...
Water droplets released from the sea surface represent one of the major causes of ice accretion on marine vessels. A one-dimensional model of the freezing of a spherical water droplet moving in cold air was developed. The crystallization model allows...
Mechanical properties of corn grains are of key importance in a design of processing machines whose energy demand depends on these properties. The aim of this study is to determine the selected mechanical properties of corn grains and the rupture ene...
The strength and energy of processed biological materials depend, among others, on their properties. Despite the numerous studies available, the relationship between the internal structure of corn grains and their mechanical properties has not yet be...
This research proposes a wire-breakage detection method based on a Time-Domain Feature Weighted Network (TDFWNet) to address the challenging issue of wire-breakage detection in the feed source cabin drive cables of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sph...
This study aims to use particle level simulation to simulate the breakage behavior of glass fibers subjected to simple shear flow. Each fiber is represented as a chain of rods that experience hydrodynamic, interaction, and elastic effects. In order t...
This study explores the effect of steel ball size and proportion on mineral grinding characteristics using Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations. Based on batch grinding kinetics, this paper analyzes the contact behavior during grinding, discussi...
Freezing rain is a frequently occurring, but relatively rarely studied disturbance in Europe, although ice accumulation may occasionally cause severe damage for forestry. We aimed to characterize ice-accumulation damage to overstory trees in spruce s...
The European Commission (EC) maintains the consideration of tungsten as a critical raw material for the European industry, being the comminution stage of tungsten-bearing minerals an essential step in the tungsten concentration process. Comminution o...
Fanconi anaemia (FA) is a rare genetic chromosomal instability syndrome caused by impairment of DNA repair and reactive oxygen species (ROS) imbalance. This disease is also related to bone marrow failure and cancer. Treatment of these complications w...
The purpose of this research is to find relationships between the parameters of the acoustic emission signals accompanying the electroerosive processing with a wire electrode of metals and hard alloys and the most important process indicators. These...
An isolated fish skull from the Early Eocene Green River Lagerstätte from southwestern Wyoming, USA was tentatively identified as a regurgitalite. It consists of a skull of the perciform moronoid Mioplosus labracoides and articulated vertebrae....
30 January 2022
A risk-based approach to support water utilities in terms of defining pipe rehabilitation priorities is presented. In a risk analysis in the risk management process, the probability that a given event will happen and the consequences if it does happe...
The probability of accidents, including conductor breakage and tower collapse, for the transmission tower-line system significantly increases under combined ice and wind loads. The existing research on the failure probability of the tower-line system...
A common formalization of homeostasis is the free energy principle, a framework that defines a set of desired observation values, or critical states, that the agent should reach or remain close to. Under the free energy principle, an agent should act...
The mechanistic approach has proven so far to be flexible and successful for simulation of the grinding process. The basic idea underlying mechanistic models, namely the matrix and population balance models, is based on the identification of natural...
Currently, the integration of distributed power supply into the power grid is steadily increasing. The grid’s carrying capacity serves as a crucial metric for evaluating the grid’s resilience following the widespread integration of distri...
A need to quantify the impact of a particular wind disturbance on forest resources may require rapid yet reliable estimates of damage. We present an approach for combining pre-disturbance forest inventory data with post-disturbance aerial survey data...
The shape characteristics of blasting fragments are important for analyzing the blasting fragmentation mechanism and evaluating the fragmentation energy efficiency. In this study, through field blasting experiments and morphological parameter measure...
Eggshell strength is a critical quality factor for consumption eggs as it affects the probability of breakage in practice. In this study, a fast and low-cost methodology for the non-destructive determination of eggshell strength is presented. The met...
Along most of the European littoral, oysters were appreciated as a wholesome and palatable food from the Stone Age onwards, yet were transported much further from their natural habitats when long-distance trade in marine foodstuffs began in medieval...
The design of functional foods through 3D printing is proposed here as one of the most appropriate technologies to provide closer food personalization for the population. However, it is essential to study the properties of the biomaterials intended t...
The general trend towards lightweight components and stronger but difficult to machine materials leads to a higher probability of vibrations in machining systems. Amongst them, chatter vibrations are an old enemy for machinists with the most dramatic...
Multi-layered composite materials are being used in various engineering fields, such as aerospace, automobile, and wind energy, because of their superior material properties. Due to various impact loads during the service life of composite structures...
The marine habitats of the world’s oceans are being driven beyond their resilience. The ongoing biodiversity crisis is happening fast, within the lifespan of researchers trying to produce the information necessary for the conservation of habita...
The drop ball test (DBT) is a common quality control procedure used in many grinding media manufacturing units to evaluate the quality of manufactured balls. Whilst DBTs have provided reasonable data over many years, the quantitative comparison of th...
With the development of bridge structures towards being light weight and having a large span , the overall flexibility, and, hence, wind sensitivity, of the bridge increases. Flutter is one of the pivotal factors considered in the design and operatio...
To counter a perceived increase in multi-piece fracturing of wood baseball bats, Major League Baseball implemented standards to regulate the quality of wood used in the making of professional-grade baseball bats. These specifications included a minim...
30 November 2022
Due to social and individual conditions and access to health services, Amazonian riverside populations are highly vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections, including Chlamydia trachomatis. The aim is to estimate the seroprevalence of Chlamydia t...
Aerial images have complex backgrounds, small targets, and overlapping targets, resulting in low accuracy of intelligent detection of overhead line insulators. This paper proposes an improved algorithm for insulator breakage detection based on YOLOv5...
Research on hydrate dissociation mechanisms is critical to solving the issue of hydrate blockage and developing hydrate slurry transportation technology. Thus, in this paper, natural gas hydrate slurry decomposition experiments were investigated on a...
With the increase in the voltage level and number of transmission lines, the probability of lightning strikes on transmission lines is significantly increased, while lightning breakage accidents occur frequently. Therefore, an explosion airflow arc-q...
Data for the chromosomal FISH mapping localization of (AG3T3)3 are compiled for 37 species belonging 27 families; for 24 species and 14 families, this is the first such report. The chromosome number and length ranged from 14–136 and 0.56–...
Freeze–thaw action is a complicated process. How it affects particle characteristics of saturated silt may provide a much clearer understanding of its internal mechanism. A series of specific apparatus were developed for sample reconstitution,...
Concrete is a complex heterogeneous material, and thus, it is important to develop numerical modeling methods to enhance the prediction accuracy of the fracture mechanism. In this study, a two-dimensional mesoscale model is developed using a non-ordi...
Vertebral body tethering has been approved for adolescent scoliosis correction. The usual approach is anterior, which is relatively easy for the thoracic spine, but becomes much more challenging for the lumbar curves, with a higher rate of complicati...
Wheel burn can affect the wheel–rail contact state and ride quality. With long-term operation, it can cause rail head spalling or transverse cracking, which will lead to rail breakage. By analyzing the relevant literature on wheel burn, this pa...
Damaged support bores due to wear and ovality can be critical for a machine and its operation, in addition to representing a safety problem and risk of pin breakage. It can be a costly operation to perform the required repairs in between planned serv...
Reverse gyrase introduces positive supercoils to circular DNA and is implicated in genome stability maintenance in thermophiles. The extremely thermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus encodes two reverse gyrase proteins, TopR1 (topoisomerase reverse gyra...
High frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) plays an important role in marine surveillance on account of its ability to provide wide-range early warning detection. However, vessel target track breakages are common in large-scale marine monitoring, whic...
During the grinding process, the crushing of minerals mainly depends on the impact action of the grinding medium. Based on the JK drop weight test data of quartz and pyrrhotite and the research results of their impact crushing characteristic paramete...
To investigate the adoption behavior and decision-making mechanism of mechanized ear harvesting for seed corn, this study analyzed 786 household survey data from the Hexi Corridor using binary logistic regression, marginal effect analysis, interactio...
Leaf fragments and grain mixture produced by rice threshing with a combine harvester seriously affects the subsequent grain cleaning efficiency. In this paper, rice leaf breaking force was tested at different temperatures and moisture contents to ana...
The term “engineering cancer” refers to expansive soil, whose properties threaten the stability and safety of structures. As a result, appropriate steps must be taken to guarantee the sustainable development of buildings. To explore the i...
To investigate the influence of the cubic crystal morphology on the thermal properties and sensitivity of 2,6-bis(picrylamino)-3,5-dinitropyridine (PYX), cubic PYX (CPYX) crystals were prepared using the antisolvent method. Scanning electron microsco...
Oroxylum indicum, of the Bignoniaceae family, has various ethnomedical uses such as an astringent, anti-inflammatory, anti-bronchitis, anti-helminthic and anti-microbial, including anticancer properties. The druggability of OI stem bark extract was d...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are valued in 5G and 6G networks due to their communication capabilities, low cost, and flexible deployment. Recently, UAV-aided emergency networks in disasters have been designed where one single large UAV is used. Co...
The DNA in living cells can be effectively damaged by high-energy radiation, which can lead to cell death. Through the ionization of water molecules, highly reactive secondary species such as low-energy electrons (LEEs) with the most probable energy...
Long-term erosion and repeated scouring of water significantly affect the technical properties of coals, which are the essential elements that must be considered in evaluating an underground reservoir coal column dam’s standing sustainability....
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