Vibration-based damage assessment technology is a hot topic in aerospace engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. In this paper, a damage assessment approach using multiple-stage dynamic flexibility analysis is proposed for structu...
In transient high-pressure gas rock breaking, resilient sealing materials can reduce energy loss during rock breaking and ensure the effectiveness and safety of the operation. This study, utilizing experimental data and finite element analysis, inves...
Concrete sleepers are essential components of railroad infrastructure, yet their service life has been reduced by one-third due to deterioration caused by internal swelling reactions (ISR), leading a major Brazilian railroad to replace millions of sl...
In recent decades, rice disease co-epidemics have caused tremendous damage to crop production in both China and Southeast Asia. A variety of remote sensing based approaches have been developed and applied to map diseases distribution using coarse- to...
A damaged stator vane can disrupt the circumferential symmetry of the design flow for turbine assemblies, which can lead to a low-engine-order (LEO) forced response of rotor blades. To help engineers be able to better address sudden vane damage failu...
Flood is a frequent natural hazard that has significant financial consequences for Australia. In Australia, physical losses caused by floods are commonly estimated by stage-damage functions. These methods usually consider only the depth of the water...
Low temperature (LT) chilling damage often occurs at the seedling stage of rice growth, especially direct-seeded early indica rice, and flooding can alleviate the damage caused by LT chilling at the rice seedling stage. However, few studies have eluc...
As the retrieval of unconventional oil and gas resources extends to the deep and ultra-deep domains, the issue of cement sheath failure in shale oil wellbores seriously endangers wellbore safety, making it imperative to uncover the relevant damage me...
Soybeans are a crucial crop, and it is therefore necessary to make accurate predictions of their mechanical properties during harvesting to optimize the design of threshing cylinders, minimize the breakage rate during threshing, and enhance the quali...
Oxidative stress plays a leading role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. However, many aspects of oxidative stress reactions in the initial stages of this disease are not fully understood. The men cohort is of particular interest because of...
Background/Objectives: Severe aortic stenosis (AS) is the most frequent valvular heart disease. Models for stratifying cardiac damage associated with aortic stenosis have been developed to predict outcomes following valve replacement. However, eviden...
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...
Mudstone, a common complex medium in oil and gas reservoirs and with widely distributed micro-pore and micro-fissures, is liable to produce significant damage evolution and plastic deformation under high buried depth stress environments. Based on the...
The accurate evaluation of crop damage by wild animals is crucial for farmers when seeking compensation from insurance companies or other institutions. One of the game species that frequently cause crop damage in Europe is the wild boar, which often...
This work discusses the advantage of using cross-correlation analysis in a data-driven approach based on principal component analysis (PCA) and piezodiagnostics to obtain successful diagnosis of events in structural health monitoring (SHM). In this s...
As essential load-bearing equipment to support the nacelle and blades, the tower is subjected to the whole wind turbine loading. This study proposes a new method of combining acoustic emission and normalized accumulation parameters to characterize wi...
Vehicle load is one of the primary factors influencing fatigue damage in reinforced concrete beam bridges, and diseases of bearings will accelerate the fatigue damage of beam bridges, but most of the current studies only consider the influence of veh...
The paper presents the results of tests conducted to identify the damage process in specimens collected from the steel of a gas pipeline. The tests concerned specimens made of S235 steel subject to quasi-static loading—uniaxial tension until fa...
DNA damage during early life stages may have a negative effect on embryo development, inducing mortality and malformations that have long-lasting effects during adult life. Therefore, in the current study, we analyzed the effect of DNA damage induced...
Background: The classification of damage in glaucoma is usually based either on visual field or optical coherent tomography (OCT) assessment. No currently available method is able to simultaneously categorize functional and structural damage. Materia...
A metal fatigue damage model is established in this study by employing real-time strain monitoring to evaluate the damage state of metal materials. The fatigue life simulation, based on crystal plasticity finite element analysis, establishes the cons...
Concrete is a versatile material widely used in modern construction. However, concrete is also subject to freeze–thaw damage, which can significantly reduce its mechanical properties and lead to premature failure. Therefore, the objective of th...
Technologies that increase safety and efficiency, while facilitating and streamlining the work of seed analysts, are increasingly required by the seed industry. X-ray image analysis is a technique that has been used in the analysis of grain and seeds...
Aluminum thermal welding joints are widely used in the maintenance welding of heavy-haul railways due to their easy handling and high efficiency. However, due to their inherent welding characteristics, welding results in certain differences in the ma...
For practical engineering structures, fatigue is one of the main factors affecting their safety and durability. Under long-term service conditions, the minor damage will be affected by fatigue loading and expand to macroscopic cracks, affecting the s...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) in fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites is essential to ensure safety and reliability during service, particularly in critical industries such as aerospace and wind energy. Traditional methods of analyzing Acou...
The primary objective of the presented paper is the numerical and experimental investigation related to developing a useful diagnostic method, which can be used for determining the site and size of damage in laminated shells of wind turbine blades. T...
Freeze–thaw damage is one of the primary causes deteriorating the seismic resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. This paper proposed a freeze–thaw damage deterioration model for C30 concrete, and it can be employed to study th...
Background/Objectives: In patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS), extra valvular cardiac damage is associated with outcomes following intervention. We aimed to analyze differences in AS-related cardiac damage between surgical aortic valve replacem...
High costs for the repair of concrete structures can be prevented if damage at an early stage of degradation is detected and precautionary maintenance measures are applied. To this end, we use numerical wave propagation simulations to identify simula...
Deep mining is often accompanied by complex geological conditions, which can cause damage to the coal seam roof surrounding rock, thereby reducing its safety and stability. Therefore, analyzing the long-term mechanical behavior of multiscale damaged...
In this paper, the rib beam bridge slabs were taken as the research object. Static load and fatigue tests were carried out on the benchmark bridge slabs to determine the ultimate load capacity and fatigue life of the bridge slabs. Then, the bridge sl...
An experimental methodology was developed for estimating a very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) life of the aluminum alloy AMG-6 subjected to preliminary deformation. The analysis of fatigue damage staging is based on the measurement of elastic modulus dec...
When an ultrasonic pulse propagates in a thin plate, nonlinear Lamb waves with higher harmonics and a zero-frequency component (ZFC) will be generated because of the nonlinearity of materials. The ZFC, also known as the static displacement or static...
Uniaxial compression tests were carried out based on acoustic emission technology to study the rule and process of the damage evolution of marble powder concrete (MPC) under compression. The fracture characteristics of MPC are examined by analyzing t...
Stress damage of shale during the uniaxial loading process will cause the change of permeability. The study of stress sensitivity of shale has focused on the influence of confining pressure on shale permeability and the change of shale permeability d...
Tapered roller bearings are used partly in very rough and highly stressful environmental conditions. Therefore, the need for condition monitoring is increasing. This study is intended to provide an approach for monitoring bearings in a two-stage plan...
The rapid advancement of autonomous vehicle technology has brought into focus the critical need for enhanced road safety systems, particularly in the areas of road damage detection and surface classification. This paper explores these two essential c...
Bedrock fault dislocation is a crucial structural factor influencing landslide movement. Accurately predicting the location and scale of rupture zones within a slope body is essential for effective slope construction design and risk mitigation. Based...
This study emphasizes the significance of employing systematic approaches and precise modeling techniques to evaluate potential building damage from metro tunnel excavations. Mair et al. (1996) proposed a three-stage assessment framework comprising p...
The time-dependent creep behavior of coal is essential for assessing long-term structural stability and operational safety in deep coal mining. Therefore, this work develops a full-stage creep constitutive model. By integrating fractional calculus th...
Indentation tests were used for early detection of deformation-induced damage of Inconel 718. Damage was produced in a controlled manner using specially designed specimens with a variable width of the gage part. Static tension, LCF, and HCF tests wer...
In order to address the difficulty in determining the seismic damage probability of continuous girder bridges under construction, the seismic vulnerability analysis method of the construction state is proposed in this study. Firstly, taking a long-sp...
The deformation and failure of surrounding rock mass under different water environments is a basic mechanical problem encountered in the safe operation of ground pumped storage power station and abandoned mine pumped storage power station. According...
Recycling irrigation return flow is a viable option to achieve sustainability in horticultural production systems, but residual herbicides present in recycled water may be phytotoxic. The sensitivity of plants to residual herbicides may vary dependin...
Background: A staging system based on cardiac damage for severe aortic stenosis (AS) has been validated for prognosis prediction following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Our study aims to investigate whether TAVR can lead to changes i...
Due to the increasing use of the different composite materials in lightweight applications, such as in aerospace, it becomes crucial to understand the different damages occurring within them during life cycle and their possible inspection with differ...
Current non-destructive testing (NDT) methods, such as those based on wave velocity measurements, lack the sensitivity necessary to detect early-stage damage in concrete structures. Similarly, common signal processing techniques often assume linearit...
Mining salt tolerance genes is significant for breeding high-quality salt-tolerant rice varieties in order to improve the utilization of saline–alkaline land. In this study, 173 rice accessions were measured for their germination potential (GP)...
The damage and fracture of fiber reinforced polymer composites are vital constraints in their applications. To understand the mechanism of damage of wood fiber (WF) reinforced high density polyethylene (HDPE) composites, we used waste WF and recycled...
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