Fatigue damage accumulation under variable amplitude loadings is vital for the life prediction of welded structures. An approach based on damage distribution mapping is presented. S-N curves of welded joints are utilized to construct fatigue damage z...
The paper presents the novel method of damage identification and quantification in beams using the Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD). The presented non-parametric method is characterized by high sensitivity to a local stiffness decrease due to the pres...
Owning to the fact that ammunition can cause varying degrees of damage to its target, this article presents a damage effectiveness calculation method of hitting targets with ammunition based on Bayesian multinomial distribution to solve the problems...
In this paper, a Weibull probabilistic methodology is proposed with an approach to model vibration fatigue damage accumulation using two parameters: Weibull distribution and a nonlinear fatigue damage accumulation model. The damage is cumulated based...
Ion irradiations have a damage peak near the beam incident surface. A simulation model with reaction kinetic analysis using rate equations was employed to study the defect evolution caused by localized damage distribution in self-ion irradiated iron....
This study investigates the mechanical performance and a constitutive model of basalt-fiber-reinforced cemented soil (BFRCS) containing 0%, 0.1%, 0.3%, 0.5%, and 0.7% basalt fibers with lengths of 3, 6, 12, 20, and 35 mm, respectively. Unconfined com...
Evaluation of the residual seismic capacity (RSC) of post-earthquake damaged buildings is instrumental to the formation of reasonable recovery strategies. At present, incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) that considers the mainshock and aftershock is t...
The phenomenon of surrounding rock damage and rupture caused by high temperatures is widespread, and has become a potential threat to the safety of nuclear waste disposal repositories. In order to reveal the energy distribution pattern of fractured g...
Water pipe leaks due to seismic damage are more difficult to detect than bursts, and such leaks, if not repaired in a timely manner, can eventually reduce supply pressure and generate both pollutant penetration risks and economic losses. Therefore, l...
The room-pillar mining technology of underground gypsum resources results in numerous gypsum rock pillars for controlling and supporting mined gobs, which forms a large area of roof hanging gobs. Owing to weathering and mining activities, gypsum rock...
Heat damage is a major abiotic stress that affects maize yield and quality. Although the differential impacts of heat damage during various growth stages have been widely documented, the grade levels of heat damage at different growth stages remain i...
Damage due to abnormal conditions in water distribution systems is attributable to direct causes, such as facility deterioration, as well as indirect causes, including inadequate management, natural disasters, and negligence of a manager. Such damage...
When a blasting is executed near two tunnels, the blasting wave will trigger a dynamic response and damage to the tunnels. Depending on the tunnel distribution, the path of the blasting wave to the remote non-adjacent tunnels will change. The aim of...
The addition of alkali-resistant glass fiber to concrete effectively suppresses the damage evolution such as microcrack initiation, expansion, and nucleation and inhibits the development and penetration of microcracks, which is very important for the...
The rupture process in brittle materials is associated with tensile stresses at microscopic flaw scale inside their volume. Acoustic emission monitoring of diametral compression tests is an adequate option to assess the progression of damage. An impr...
Underground coal gasification (UCG) is a promising technology for extracting synthesis gas from coal seams through in situ gasification. This study aims to investigate the thermo-mechanical behavior and integrity of the surrounding rock in the gasifi...
The application of distributed fiber sensing technology in civil engineering has been developed to obtain more accurate and reliable information for structural health monitoring (SHM). With this sensing technique, high-density strain data are provide...
Discontinuous rock mass, such as joints and fractures, have a great influence on the blasting quality and sometimes induce additional damage at the discontinuity. In deep rock engineering, high in situ stress makes the damage mechanism of rock with d...
The assessment of Coda Wave Interferometry (CWI) and Distributed Fiber Optics Sensing (DFOS) techniques for the detection of damages in a laboratory size reinforced concrete beam is presented in this paper. The sensitivity of these two novel techniqu...
This paper presents a cross-correlation function-based method applied to a spatially shifted differential strain readout vectors using distributed sensors under backscattering random noise and impact excitations. Structural damage is generated by low...
This study develops a thermo-mechanical damage (TMD) model for predicting damage evolution in heterogeneous rock materials after heat treatment. The TMD model employs a Weibull distribution to characterize the spatial heterogeneity of the mechanical...
Collision is one of the main causes of mechanical damage to the seedling during transplanting. To reveal the impact damage characteristics of plug seedlings, the kinetics equations of seedling collision were established based on Hertz’s contact...
The reflective optical multi-films with high damage thresholds are widely used in intense-light systems. Metasurfaces, which can manipulate light peculiarly, give a new approach to achieve highly reflective films by a single-layer configuration. In t...
Tunnels frequently experience issues such as lining spalling and water leakage, making the stability of tunnel support critical for engineering safety. Given that tunnels are subjected to various ground stress disturbances and groundwater influences,...
Thrips constitute the primary pest responsible for reducing mango yield and quality every year in Asia. Therefore, the efficient monitoring of thrips damage across mango orchards on a large scale to aid farmers in devising rational pesticide applicat...
Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is an invasive pest causing significant damage to tree crops. Our study examined the impact of newly designed aggregation pheromone-baited ‘mini–sailboat’ (MSB) traps for cont...
RNA binding protein with multiple splicing (RBPMS) is expressed exclusively in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in the retina and can label all RGCs in normal retinas of mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, and monkeys, but its function in these cell...
Metallic taper junctions of modular total hip replacement implants are analysed for corrosion damage using visual scoring based on different granularity levels that span from analysing the taper holistically to dividing the taper into several distinc...
At present, there is a problem that the growth quality is reduced due to damage to the plug seedling pot during the transplanting process. In this study, the pressure distribution measurement system was used to measure the contact area of plug seedli...
The deformation and damage process of rocks is accompanied by crack extension and penetration. The rock strength criterion, as a macroscopic characterization of the rock strength microelement, is the basis for establishing the damage constitutive mod...
Skid damage affects the performance of aviation bearing, which covers different disciplines in tribology, thermology, materials science, dynamics, et al. In this manuscript, a novel horizontal skid damage test rig of a rolling bearing with higher rot...
To reveal the collision damage mechanisms of plug seedlings and improve the quality of seedlings, the kinetics equations of the plug seedlings were established based on the generalized Hertz-theory. The influence laws of different factors on pot dama...
Human–wildlife conflicts are becoming increasingly common worldwide and are a challenge to biodiversity management. Compared with compensatory management, which often focuses on solving emergency conflicts, mitigation management allows decision...
Due to their low permeability, the location of natural fractures is key to the successful development of buried hill reservoirs. Due to the high degree of rock fragmentation and strong absorption of seismic waves at the top of buried hill formations,...
This study systematically investigates how a single high-dose therapeutic proton beam versus X-rays influences cell-cycle phase distribution and DNA damage in human peripheral blood lymphocytes (HPBLs). Blood samples from ten volunteers (both male an...
Extreme weather, such as rainstorms, often triggers faults in the distribution network, and power outages occur. Some serious faults cannot be repaired by one team alone and may require equipment replacement or engineering construction crews to work...
Vibroacoustic diagnostics (VM—Vibroacoustic Method) is one of the methods for diagnosing the active part of power transformers. Measurement technologies have been refined over the past several years, but the methods of analyzing data obtained i...
This study presents an approach for assessing the flood risk using the fully probabilistic description of the annual damage using the derived higher-order statistical moments of the annual damage random variable. The annual damage distribution is use...
Tokyo, which is located near the boundary between the North American and Philippine Sea plates, has been frequently struck by large earthquakes throughout the Holocene. The 1923 Taisho Kanto Earthquake is a rare historical earthquake that can be reco...
A soil-amplification analysis method is developed that uses high-resolution ground data and a three-dimensional nonlinear dynamic finite-element method to screen for possible areas of seismic damage to buried water-distribution pipeline networks. The...
Prediction models of damage severity are crucial for the damage expression of fruit. In light of issues such as the mismatch of existing models in actual damage scenarios and the failure of static models to meet research needs, this article proposes...
The neutral point of a 10 kV distribution network often adopts an arc suppression coil or high resistance grounding mode to ensure the reliability of the power supply. The single-phase grounding fault current is below 10 A, and the distribution netwo...
Cylindrical charges are widely used in engineering blasting, yet the three-dimensional propagation mechanism of the associated stress waves remains inadequately understood. This study aims to investigate the effects of key wave source parameters on s...
In order to research the special embankment (thermosyphon embankment) damages and the distribution of permafrost under the Qinghai–Tibet Highway (QTH) embankment. The section K2952–K2953, which is a typical representative of the QTH, was...
Cavitation damage on a mercury target vessel for a pulsed spallation neutron source is induced by a proton beam injection in mercury. Cavitation damage is one of factors affecting the allowable beam power and the life time of a mercury target vessel....
In optical fabrication, brittle-hard materials are used for numerous applications. Especially for high-performance optics for laser or lithography applications, a complex and consistent production chain is necessary to account for the material proper...
In the field test, we found that the failure depth of the goaf floor strata tends to be further because the periodic breaking and caving of the immediate roof, upper roof, and roof key stratum has dynamic stress disturbance effects on the floor. To f...
Forest managers demand reliable tools to evaluate post-fire vegetation and soil damage. In this study, we quantify wildfire damage to vegetation and soil based on the analysis of burn severity, using multitemporal and multispectral satellite data and...
The paper complements an earlier publication by the authors addressing the probability of survival in the IMO framework for damage stability assessment, the s-factor. The focus here is on the probability of occurrence of a certain damage scenario (br...
In order to improve the utilization rate of coal gangue and expand the application range of coal gangue concrete (CGC), a certain proportion of steel fiber was added to the concrete, and the freeze–thaw cycles (FTCs) and flexural tests were use...
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