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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,256 Views
15 Pages

Fresh-cut cucumbers (Cucumis sativus L.) are appreciated by consumers for their convenience and freshness. In the process of home cooking and in the food industry, different cutting methods for cucumbers are needed. In order to explore the effect of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advancements in Postharvest Fruit Quality and Physiological Mechanism)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,129 Views
43 Pages

Advanced Precision Cutting Titanium Alloy Methods: A Critical Review Considering Cost, Efficiency, and Quality

  • Guangping Wang,
  • Xiaoxuan Chen,
  • Zhipeng Xu,
  • Feng Feng,
  • Jianfu Zhang,
  • Xiangyu Zhang and
  • Pingfa Feng

This literature review focuses on titanium alloys, which are crucial in modern manufacturing due to their excellent properties. The review covers their classification, machining challenges, and advanced cutting methods. Different alloy types (α...

(This article belongs to the Collection Review Papers Collection for Advanced Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,490 Views
16 Pages

The Biomechanical Effects of Kinesiology Taping Methods on Side-Step Cutting Movements in Chronic Ankle Instability

  • Xuting Wang,
  • Wenjing Quan,
  • Yiwen Ma,
  • Sarosi Jozsef,
  • Yufei Fang and
  • Yaodong Gu

19 December 2024

Background: The ankle joint is among the most vulnerable areas for injuries during daily activities and sports. This study focuses on individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI), comparing the biomechanical characteristics of the lower limb duri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,177 Views
19 Pages

The Role of Observation–Measurement Methods in the Surface Characterization of X39Cr13 Stainless-Steel Cutting Blades Used in the Fish Processing Industry

  • Wojciech Kapłonek,
  • Krzysztof Nadolny,
  • Bartosz Zieliński,
  • Jarosław Plichta,
  • Danil Yurievich Pimenov and
  • Shubham Sharma

18 December 2020

In the modern fish processing industry, flat fishes play an important role. They are processed into a final product in the form of a fillet during the skinning operation, which is carried out on machines operating in automated production lines. These...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precision and Ultra-Precision Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing Processes of Alloys and Steels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,411 Views
16 Pages

Research on the Cutting Control Method of a Shield-Type Cutting Robot

  • Hongwei Ma,
  • Limeng Xue,
  • Chuanwei Wang and
  • Wenda Cui

1 December 2024

With problems of low cutting efficiency, poor forming quality, and low control accuracy in large-section semi-coal rock roadway tunneling, comprehensive coal tunneling seriously lags behind fully mechanized mining. A fuzzy PID control method was prop...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,190 Views
18 Pages

21 September 2023

In the field of agricultural machinery, various empirical field tests are performed to measure the tillage force for precision tillage. However, the field test performance is costly and time-consuming, and there are many constraints on weather and fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Modern Agricultural Machinery)
  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,439 Views
24 Pages

Review of Cutting Temperature Measurement Methods

  • Piotr Cichosz,
  • Paweł Karolczak and
  • Kamil Waszczuk

22 September 2023

During the cutting process, large quantities of emitted heat are concentrated on a small surface area of the interface between the workpiece and the cutting edge. The resultant very high temperature significantly affects the tool life. Knowledge of m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Manufacturing Technology: Materials, Innovations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,934 Views
18 Pages

Comparison of Cut-to-Length Harvesting Methods in Tree Plantations in Brazil

  • Teijo Palander,
  • Antti Pasi,
  • Annamari Laurèn and
  • Heikki Ovaskainen

7 April 2024

The aim of this research was to determine the most productive tree-cutting methods, and the factors influencing them, in flat and sloping terrains in tree plantations in Brazil. The study utilized drone-captured video material from harvesting operati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Forest Operations Planning and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Views
25 Pages

Proposal of Internal Cooling Method by Cutting-Edge-Adjacent Plural Microchannels (CPM) for Reduction of Tool Wear

  • Kensuke Suzuki,
  • Takehiro Hayasaka,
  • Takashi Nakamura,
  • Takashi Ueda,
  • Tomoaki Watanabe,
  • Koji Nagata and
  • Eiji Shamoto

A new internal cooling method by cutting-edge-adjacent plural microchannels (CPM) is proposed to overcome the limitation of cutting temperature reduction. External cooling methods have been used in practice, and internal cooling methods have been stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machining Processes of Difficult-to-Machine Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,000 Views
20 Pages

Measuring the radial error motion of a spindle during the cutting process is important for monitoring the machining quality of the workpiece and spindle running condition. The problem of long separation time encountered in the application of traditio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,117 Views
23 Pages

Numerical Modeling of an Impinging Jet Flow inside a Thermal Cut Kerf Using CFD and Schlieren Method

  • Upendra Tuladhar,
  • Sang-Hyun Ahn,
  • Dae-Won Cho,
  • Dae-Hwan Kim,
  • Seokyoung Ahn,
  • Seonmin Kim,
  • Seung-Hoon Bae and
  • Tae-Kook Park

23 September 2022

The dynamics of high-pressure gas flow injected through a nozzle during a thermal cutting process has an important effect on cutting performance. In this study, an actual gas flow condition inside a cut kerf of a plasma cut sample was simulated by co...

(This article belongs to the Section Fluid Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,218 Views
20 Pages

Research on Cutting Angle Design Optimization of Rubber Cutter Based on Discrete Element Method

  • Heng Zhang,
  • Zhentuo Wen,
  • Yaya Chen,
  • Junxiao Liu,
  • Hongxin Liu,
  • Zhifu Zhang and
  • Xirui Zhang

27 September 2023

This paper focuses on obtaining fundamental data for optimizing the design of intelligent equipment for cutting natural rubber and its key components. It uses natural rubber bark as the research subject and employs specific experimental apparatus to...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,922 Views
16 Pages

Study on the Improved Method of Wedge Cutting Blasting with Center Holes Detonated Subsequently

  • Bing Cheng,
  • Haibo Wang,
  • Qi Zong,
  • Mengxiang Wang,
  • Pengfei Gao and
  • Nao Lv

10 June 2022

To acquire a satisfying cutting effect during medium-length hole blasting driving of rock tunnels, an improved wedge cutting blasting method with supplementary blasting of the center holes was proposed. Initially, the cavity forming mechanism of the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Mining Safety and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,241 Views
16 Pages

18 November 2022

The cutting forces that occur during machining cause static and dynamic deformations of the machine–tool–workpiece system. In general, the cutting force is spatial. However, knowledge of the tangential component of the cutting force is cr...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,997 Views
19 Pages

Impact of Core Sheet Cutting Method on Parameters of Induction Motors

  • Maria Dems,
  • Krzysztof Komeza,
  • Witold Kubiak and
  • Jacek Szulakowski

16 April 2020

The method of cutting motor core sheets causes a change in their magnetic properties and core losses, especially additional losses. Reducing motor losses is very important because of the fulfillment of increasingly stringent requirements set by inter...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,430 Views
21 Pages

18 October 2021

In the process of metal cutting, the cutting performance of cutting tools varies with different parameter combinations, so the results of the performance indicators studied are also different. So in order to achieve the best performance indicator it...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forming Technologies and Mechanical Properties of Advanced Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,749 Views
11 Pages

10 July 2022

As research progresses, the surface texture tool can significantly reduce the cutting heat and cutting force. However, the tool surface texture width, depth, and spacing also have an impact on the cutting performance. Using the Taguchi method and fin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Micro-Milling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,486 Views
15 Pages

A New Cutting Strategy to Reduce Plasticity Errors in Measuring Welding Residual Stress via the Contour Method

  • Sanjooram Paddea,
  • Ruiyao Zhang,
  • Xiaodong Hou,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Wenchao Dong,
  • Shanping Lu,
  • Peter John Bouchard and
  • Shuyan Zhang

The Contour Method is a well-established destructive technique for determining cross-sectional maps of residual stress in manufactured metallic components. The validity of the technique is dependent on linear elastic relaxation of residual strains ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
1,748 Views
16 Pages

1 August 2023

The use of selected multi-criteria decision methods for the optimization of cutting processes by abrasive water jet methods is increasingly being used in industrial processes. This is due to the complexity of the processes and the need to reduce oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,023 Views
17 Pages

22 July 2020

The Cartesian cut-cell method is one of the most promising methods for computational fluid dynamics due to its sharp interface treatment. However, the Cartesian cut-cell method and other Cartesian mesh solvers have difficulty with concentrating grid...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,217 Views
16 Pages

11 August 2020

Optimization of cutting parameters in micro-milling is an important measure to improve surface quality and machining efficiency of the workpiece. Investigation of micro-milling forces prediction plays a positive role in improving machining capacity....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,728 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2024

This work investigates the milling of the surface of glass and carbon fiber-reinforced plastics using tools with a polycrystalline diamond insert. The milling process was conducted under three different conditions, namely without the use of a cooling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Material Surface Topography Measurement, Analysis and Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,423 Views
22 Pages

20 December 2022

In this study, we aimed to optimize the cutting parameters that affect the minimum temperature and power consumption in the turning of AISI 52100 bearing steel. For this, the Box-Behnken experimental design method, which was used for the lowest numbe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,456 Views
15 Pages

Study on the Construction Method and Effects of Ipsilateral, Multi-Nozzle, High-Pressure Jet Grouting Cut-Off Wall

  • Da Liu,
  • Weijiang Xie,
  • Jianglin Gao,
  • Songtao Hu,
  • Ming Chen,
  • Yan Li and
  • Linhua Li

20 August 2022

High-pressure jet grouting is widely used in the construction of cut-off wall in hydraulic engineering. Compared to the high-pressure jet grouting used for foundation improvement, the high-pressure jet grouting cut-off wall of hydraulic engineering h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Civil and Hydraulic Engineering Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,296 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Tooth Cutting Method and Bionic Cutter Design for Broccoli Xylem (Brassica oleracea L. var. Italica Plenck)

  • Yunlong Cao,
  • Yao Yu,
  • Zhong Tang,
  • Yunfei Zhao,
  • Xinyang Gu,
  • Sifan Liu and
  • Shuren Chen

During the harvesting of cut-stem vegetables, the structural parameters of cutters have an important influence on the harvesting effect. Structural parameters of stalks directly affect the cutting effect of the cutter. The thickness of the stalk xyle...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,829 Views
14 Pages

9 January 2022

The appearance of cracks in brittle materials in general and in marble, in particular, is a problem in the hydro-abrasive jet cutting process. In this paper is presented a method to reduce the appearance of cracks when cutting with a hydro-abrasive j...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Machining of Difficult-to-Cut Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,157 Views
19 Pages

2 October 2020

The non-open-cut method is used for constructing tunnels under existing roads without blocking traffic. Various non-open-cut methods use pipe roofs made of medium- and large-diameter steel pipe piles. However, the risk of ground settlement or heave i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,541 Views
14 Pages

24 January 2020

The objective of this work is to analyze the influence of the vibration-assisted turning process on the machinability of S235 carbon steel. During the experiments using this vibrational machining process, the vibrational amplitude and frequency of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modelling of Materials Mechanical Behaviour)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,221 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2023

An automatic hole-cutting method is proposed to search donor cells between a structured Cartesian mesh and an overlapping body-fitted mesh. The main flow is simulated on the structured Cartesian mesh and the viscous flow near the solid boundary is si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Modern Numerical Methods in Partial Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,274 Views
17 Pages

6 September 2022

Prediction of rock fracturing capacity demands particular requirements for the exploitation of mineral resources, especially for the parameter design of conical pick performance for hard rock fragmentation, which must take into account differences in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Investigations and Applications in Advanced Materials Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,636 Views
23 Pages

4 July 2025

This study established a numerical model for a foundation pit at the Zhongyilu Station of the Wuhan Metro Line 12, using Plaxis3D version 2021 finite element software to examine the horizontal displacement of the diaphragm wall, ground surface settle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,847 Views
12 Pages

22 October 2020

In West Sumatra, Indonesia, a high-yield perennial rice cropping method called SALIBU was recently reported, in which the most unique feature is double cutting (DC) at harvest and after harvest. The objective of this study was to verify the ratooning...

(This article belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,157 Views
29 Pages

7 March 2024

A method for the accurate calculation of the cut-off wavenumbers of a waveguide with an arbitrary cross section and a number of inner conductors is demonstrated. Concepts of integral and infinite-matrix (summation) operator-valued functions depending...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,840 Views
18 Pages

Electrodischarge Methods of Shaping the Cutting Ability of Superhard Grinding Wheels

  • Marcin Gołąbczak,
  • Robert Święcik,
  • Andrzej Gołąbczak,
  • Dariusz Kaczmarek,
  • Ryszard Dębkowski and
  • Barbara Tomczyk

10 November 2021

In the paper, the influence of the electrodischarge dressing methods of superhard grinding wheels on shaping their cutting ability are presented. The results of research concerning the influence of dressing conditions using a stationary electrode, ro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative and Modern Technologies of Material Machining in Cutting and Abrasive Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,516 Views
15 Pages

3 September 2025

Corner radius end mills (CREMs) are widely used in machining due to their unique tool geometry, which improves surface quality. Variations in cutting force during machining significantly impact machining quality. Therefore, precisely predicting cutti...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,963 Views
22 Pages

Nutritional Inadequacy: Unraveling the Methodological Challenges for the Application of the Probability Approach or the EAR Cut-Point Method—A Pregnancy Perspective

  • Foteini Tsakoumaki,
  • Charikleia Kyrkou,
  • Apostolos P. Athanasiadis,
  • Georgios Menexes and
  • Alexandra-Maria Michaelidou

29 September 2021

The aim of this study was to unravel the methodological challenges when exploring nutritional inadequacy, involving 608 healthy pregnant women. The usual intake of twenty-one nutrients was recorded by employing a validated FFQ. Simulated datasets of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition Assessment Methodology: Current Update and Practice)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,143 Views
17 Pages

30 December 2022

Mechanical mining is a widely used method of separating materials from the face to obtain a useful mineral (e.g., coal, metal ores, salts, and diamonds), to make underground workings (e.g., mine galleries, tunnels, and underground garages), level roa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,623 Views
18 Pages

A Multi-Equipment Task Assignment Model for the Horizontal Stripe Pre-Cut Mining Method

  • Siyu Tu,
  • Mingtao Jia,
  • Liguan Wang,
  • Shuzhao Feng and
  • Shuang Huang

7 December 2022

This paper proposes a multi-equipment task assignment model for the horizontal stripe pre-cut mining method to address the problem of cooperative scheduling operation of multi-equipment in underground metal mines under complex constraints. The model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent and Sustainable Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,080 Views
25 Pages

10 April 2024

This paper presents a topology optimization (TopO) method for conjugate heat transfer (CHT), with turbulent flows. Topological changes are controlled by an artificial material distribution field (design variables), defined at the cells of a backgroun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for Heat Transfer Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,930 Views
22 Pages

30 December 2024

In evaluating the construction safety of the building in the subway tunnel using the cover-and-cut method, the main objective is to analyze the diaphragm wall, the central pillar, and the roof. This article conducted a blasting vibration test based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,145 Views
16 Pages

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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,519 Views
12 Pages

20 April 2018

The stress distributions in a thick welded specimen with a partial repair weld were measured with the three-cut contour method. The longitudinal stress maps in the original weld and the repair weld were obtained and the transverse stress map at the w...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,892 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2022

A fully penetrating cut-off wall is a vertical seepage barrier that fully penetrates an aquifer and is embedded in an underlying aquitard to a certain depth. Groundwater seepage with this type of wall occurs through three paths: leakage through the b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flow and Transport Processes in Groundwater Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,953 Views
14 Pages

Combined Lithium-Rich Czochralski Growth and Diffusion Method for Z-Cut Near-Stoichiometric Lithium Niobate Crystals and the Study of Periodic Domain Structures

  • Xuefeng Xiao,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Han Zhang,
  • Jiayi Chen,
  • Yan Huang,
  • Jiashun Si,
  • Shuaijie Liang,
  • Qingyan Xu,
  • Huan Zhang and
  • Xuefeng Zhang
  • + 2 authors

16 August 2025

This paper presents the preparation of Z-cut near-stoichiometric lithium niobate (NSLN) wafers using a combined process of the lithium-rich Czochralski growth and diffusion methods. The fabricated Z-cut NSLN wafers exhibited outstanding comprehensive...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,580 Views
31 Pages

9 February 2025

The wastewater conveyance systems in the United States are facing severe structural challenges, with the nation’s overall wastewater infrastructure receiving a critically low grade of D- from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Inno...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,296 Views
13 Pages

Adaptation of Fracture Mechanics Methods for Quality Assessment of Tungsten Carbide Cutting Inserts

  • Sylwester Samborski,
  • Jerzy Józwik,
  • Jakub Skoczylas and
  • Mariusz Kłonica

22 June 2021

Tungsten carbide (WC) is well known as one of the hardest materials widely used in machining, cutting and drilling, especially for cutting tools production. Knowing fracture toughness grants the opportunity to prevent catastrophic wear of a tool. Mor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative and Modern Technologies of Material Machining in Cutting and Abrasive Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,216 Views
12 Pages

Effects of Milling Methods on Cutting Performance of Wood–Plastic Composites Based on Principal Component Analysis

  • Yunqi Zhu,
  • Dietrich Buck,
  • Jun Guan,
  • Meiqi Song,
  • Qi Tang,
  • Xiaolei Guo and
  • Zhaolong Zhu

29 August 2024

In the industrial machining of wood–plastic composites, optimization of cutting parameters is key to improving workpiece machinability. To explore the influence of different milling methods of straight-tooth milling, helical milling, and tapere...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Technology and Solutions for Wood Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,042 Views
31 Pages

Cutting Force—Vibration Interactions in Precise—and Micromilling Processes: A Critical Review on Prediction Methods

  • Szymon Wojciechowski,
  • Marcin Suszyński,
  • Rafał Talar,
  • Vit Černohlávek and
  • Jan Štěrba

28 July 2025

In recent years, much research has been devoted to the evaluation of physical phenomena and the technological effects of precise and micromilling processes. However, the available current literature lacks synthetic work covering the current state of...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Views
30 Pages

9 October 2026

To address the challenging stope roof support problem associated with the the Upward Two-Step Staggered-Drift Cut-and-Fill Mining Method (UTSCF method) under fractured surrounding rock conditions, this study establishes an elasto-plastic zoning model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,221 Views
18 Pages

9 December 2019

This article focuses on the energy density alteration during non-pillar mining method of goaf-side entry retaining by roof cutting (GERRC) and adjacent working face mining. We also studied the support control strategy of goaf-side roadway. Numerical...

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