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19 October 2024

Based on the solutions of deterministic fracture mechanics and the methods of probability theory, the algorithm for calculating the probabilistic strength characteristics of plate elements of structures with an arbitrary stochastic distribution of su...

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,246 Views
14 Pages

Mechanical Properties of Monolayer MoS2 with Randomly Distributed Defects

  • Mohammed Javeed Akhter,
  • Wacław Kuś,
  • Adam Mrozek and
  • Tadeusz Burczyński

13 March 2020

The variation of elastic constants stiffness coefficients with respect to different percentage ratios of defects in monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MLMoS2) is reported for a particular set of atomistic nanostructural characteristics. The common metho...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,645 Views
22 Pages

Improved YOLO11 Algorithm for Insulator Defect Detection in Power Distribution Lines

  • Yanpeng Ji,
  • Da Zhang,
  • Yuling He,
  • Jianli Zhao,
  • Xin Duan and
  • Tuo Zhang

Distribution line insulators play a key role in electrical insulation and supporting lines in distribution lines. Insulator defects due to overvoltage, thermal stress, and environmental pollution may trigger power transmission instability and line co...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,763 Views
19 Pages

Vibration analysis is one of the important tools for the transformer winding faults diagnosis. Previous researchers have proved that the vibration spatial distribution of the winding is significantly influenced by the winding defects for the open cir...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,039 Views
10 Pages

A Distribution-Preserving Under-Sampling Method for Imbalance Defect Recognition in Castings

  • Han Yu,
  • Xinyue Li,
  • Xingjie Li,
  • Chunyu Hou,
  • Shangyu Liu and
  • Huasheng Xie

24 November 2022

Data imbalance is a crucial factor that limits the performance of automatic defect recognition systems in castings. The bias and deterioration of the model are generated by massive normal samples and minor defect samples. Traditional re-sampling meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solid Surfaces, Defects and Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,572 Views
17 Pages

10 June 2019

The unavoidable vacancy defects dispersed throughout the entire pristine graphene tailor to the integrity of the lattice structure and thereby have complicated impacts on the mechanical and thermal properties of graphene. In order to analyze the infl...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,834 Views
16 Pages

DAP-SDD: Distribution-Aware Pseudo Labeling for Small Defect Detection

  • Xiaoyan Zhuo,
  • Wolfgang Rahfeldt,
  • Xiaoqian Zhang,
  • Ted Doros and
  • Seung Woo Son

Detecting defects, especially when they are small in the early manufacturing stages, is critical to achieving a high yield in industrial applications. While numerous modern deep learning models can improve detection performance, they become less effe...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AIBSD))
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  • Open Access
1,174 Views
11 Pages

17 May 2025

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....

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,030 Views
18 Pages

30 June 2025

As the scale of distribution networks expand, existing defect identification methods face numerous challenges, including limitations in single-modal feature identification, insufficient cross-modal information fusion, and the lack of a multi-stage fe...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent, Flexible, and Effective Operation of Smart Grids with Novel Energy Technologies and Equipment)
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  • Open Access
1,278 Views
17 Pages

Investigation of Mechano-Electrochemical Effects on Hydrogen Distribution at Corrosion Defects

  • Zhixiang Dai,
  • Jiamin Tang,
  • Sijia Zheng,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Qin Bie,
  • Pengcheng Kang,
  • Xinyi Wang,
  • Shiwen Guo and
  • Lin Chen

12 September 2025

This study employed tensile test, hydrogen permeation measurements, and potentiodynamic polarization testing to investigate the mechanical properties, hydrogen diffusion coefficients, and electrochemical behavior of X80 steel. A multifield coupled fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hydrogen Production, Storage, and Utilization)
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  • Open Access
596 Views
27 Pages

27 February 2026

A major quality challenge in the application of titanium alloys is the persistence of substances known as “hard-alpha inclusions”. Although hard-alpha inclusions are extremely rare and typically small in size in high-quality titanium allo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Ultrasonic Testing for Metallurgical Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
369 Views
19 Pages

Defect Target Detection Network Integrating Depth Spatial Information and Adaptive Progressive Feature Fusion for Power Transmission and Distribution Lines

  • Junsheng Lin,
  • Jinchao Guo,
  • Gao Liu,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Changyu Li,
  • Kaipeng Gao,
  • Benxi Tian,
  • Zhenbing Zhao and
  • Haopeng Li

26 July 2026

Transmission and distribution networks are evolving into distributed smart grids, making accurate defect localization of line components increasingly important for power inspection. However, traditional manual inspection is inefficient and unreliable...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Diagnostic Analysis, Strategic Management, and Proactive Maintenance of Electrical Equipment—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,576 Views
11 Pages

Semi-Automated Extraction of the Distribution of Single Defects for nMOS Transistors

  • Bernhard Stampfer,
  • Franz Schanovsky,
  • Tibor Grasser and
  • Michael Waltl

23 April 2020

Miniaturization of metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is typically beneficial for their operating characteristics, such as switching speed and power consumption, but at the same time miniaturization also leads to increased v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Miniaturized Transistors, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
565 Views
22 Pages

Influence of Rhenium Content on Vacancy-Type Defect Distribution in Mo–Re Alloys Under Room-Temperature Irradiation

  • Yongli Liu,
  • Qigui Yang,
  • Yunpeng Zhou,
  • Tong Fu,
  • Linjiang Chai and
  • Xingzhong Cao

18 June 2026

Mo–Re alloys serve as critical structural components for high-temperature nuclear reactors, and their irradiation degradation is closely related to the evolution of vacancy-type defects. In this study, heavy-ion and He-ion irradiations were per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Metallurgy of Metals and Alloys (4th Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
961 Views
19 Pages

27 September 2025

Surface defect detection serves as one of the crucial auxiliary components in the quality control of varistors, and it faces real challenges such as the scarcity of defect samples, high labelling cost, and insufficient a priori knowledge, which makes...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,452 Views
7 Pages

Recently the ’t Hooft–Polyakov monopole solutions in Yang–Mills theory were given new physical interpretation in the geometric theory of defects describing the continuous distribution of dislocations and disclinations in elastic media. It means that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Gravity Phenomenology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,336 Views
19 Pages

24 March 2025

Railways are crucial in economic development and improving people’s livelihoods. Therefore, defect detection and maintenance of rails are particularly important. In order to accurately separate and identify the rail defect from the mixed signal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Vibration and Acoustics 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,079 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Interface Defects on the Harmonic Currents in Distribution Cable Accessories under Damp Conditions

  • Ran Hu,
  • Weixin Sun,
  • Xu Lu,
  • Feng Tang,
  • Zhifeng Xu,
  • Jie Tian,
  • Daning Zhang and
  • Guochang Li

15 August 2023

Dampness is one of the most important factors leading to the degradation of the insulation performance of cable accessories; it may easily lead to interface defects of composite insulation. In this paper, an electromagnetic field defect model of the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Methods for Power Equipment in New Energy Power Systems)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,739 Views
13 Pages

Characterization of Internal Defects and Fiber Distribution of BFRC Based on the Digital Image Processing Technology

  • Fengbin Chen,
  • Bin Xu,
  • Huazhe Jiao,
  • Zhuen Ruan,
  • Juanhong Liu,
  • Xinming Chen,
  • Liuhua Yang and
  • Zhen Li

22 July 2021

Adding basalt fiber into concrete can significantly improve its mechanical properties. In order to explore the influence of basalt fiber content on the uniaxial compressive strength and splitting tensile strength of concrete and the mechanism of fibe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Green Building Materials and Structural Performances)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,619 Views
22 Pages

31 May 2023

This research investigates the influence of the pre-existing defects within concrete taken from the in-service irrigation structure on the strain distribution. The X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) technique is employed to investigate the internal concr...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
905 Views
17 Pages

19 January 2026

This study aims to propose a defect diagnosis method for distribution cable intermediate joints based on microwave reflection. The research focuses on 10 kV cold-shrink-type distribution cable intermediate joints, employing both simulation analysis a...

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  • Open Access
664 Views
30 Pages

Defective Gamma–G Family for Cure Fraction Models: Novel Survival Methods with Applications to Cancer Data

  • Cynthia A. V. Tojeiro,
  • Vera L. D. Tomazella,
  • Agatha S. Rodrigues and
  • Pedro R. D. Marinho

17 June 2026

In this paper, we propose two novel defective survival models within the Gamma–G family: the defective Gamma–Gompertz and the defective Gamma–Dagum distributions. In contrast to the corresponding Gamma–G mixture cure formulati...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of Biostatistics in Medical Sciences and Global Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,563 Views
19 Pages

19 October 2022

One of the most urgent scientific needs from a technical and economic engineering point of view is the assessment of concrete structures suffering corrosion deterioration. However, the pursuit of this target in the case of corroded prestressed concre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Civil Engineering Materials: Design, Characterization, Corrosion and Durability)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,106 Views
11 Pages

8 July 2011

In this study, the low temperature aqueous chemical growth (ACG) method was employed to synthesized ZnO nanorods to process-organic hybrid white light emitting diodes (LEDs) on glass substrate. Electroluminescence spectra of the hybrid white LEDs dem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Luminescent Materials 2011)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,685 Views
24 Pages

Identification and Localization Study of Grounding System Defects in Cross-Bonded Cables

  • Qiying Zhang,
  • Kunsheng Li,
  • Lian Chen,
  • Jian Luo and
  • Zhongyong Zhao

Cross-bonded cables improve transmission efficiency by optimizing the grounding method. However, due to the complexity of their grounding system, they are prone to multiple types of defects, making defect state identification more challenging. Additi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Online Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Power Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,347 Views
13 Pages

Simulation Study on the Electric Field of Three-Phase Three-Post Insulators Under Typical Defects

  • Zhuoran Yang,
  • Lixiang Lv,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Hongze Li and
  • Xiaolong Li

3 May 2025

In three-phase three-post insulators, air gaps and crack defects are important sources of partial discharge and surface flashover. Using finite element analysis software, this study created a three-dimensional simulation model to investigate the effe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Design, Operation and Maintenance Technology for Electric Power Equipment)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,800 Views
13 Pages

28 November 2018

This study investigated defect risks in residential buildings using the Loss Distribution Approach (LDA), a method of identifying and quantifying operational risks in economic terms. Analysis was performed on 7554 defects in 48 residential buildings...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,033 Views
15 Pages

1 March 2024

Stress wave tomography technology uses instruments to collect stress wave velocity data via sensors, visualizes those velocity data, and reconstructs an image of internal defects using estimated velocity distribution. This technology can be used to d...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,460 Views
16 Pages

“Modified” Liquid–Liquid Displacement Porometry and Its Applications in Pd-Based Composite Membranes

  • Lei Zheng,
  • Hui Li,
  • Haijun Yu,
  • Guodong Kang,
  • Tianying Xu,
  • Jiafeng Yu,
  • Xinzhong Li and
  • Hengyong Xu

For H2 separation by Pd-based composite membranes, the pore mouth size distribution of the porous support immediately affects the quality of the deposited layer, including continuity and defect/pinhole formation. However, there is a lack of convenien...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pd-based Membranes: Overview and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,775 Views
16 Pages

16 December 2019

This study systematically analyzes various defect patterns that occur during the warranty period of residential buildings using the loss distribution approach (LDA). This paper examines 16,108 defects from 133 residential buildings where defect dispu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction Engineering and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,508 Views
33 Pages

5 December 2021

The present paper is intended to show the close interrelationship between non-linear models of solids, produced with additive manufacturing, and models of solids with distributed defects. The common feature of these models is the incompatibility of l...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,705 Views
23 Pages

16 October 2024

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is one of the high-precision additive manufacturing techniques for producing complex 3D components. It is well known that defects appear in additive-manufactured parts, and they deeply affect the fatigue properties; eve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,725 Views
13 Pages

19 April 2023

The energy distribution in molten pool is highly related to the quality of the weld formation in aluminum alloy welding. The forming defects in the weld are often improved by adjusting the molten pool dynamic behaviors affected by energy distribution...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,591 Views
18 Pages

Magnetic Resonance Study of Bulky CVD Diamond Disc

  • Alexander Shames,
  • Alexander Panich,
  • Lonia Friedlander,
  • Haim Cohen,
  • James Butler and
  • Raymond Moreh

18 April 2024

Diamonds produced using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) have found many applications in various fields of science and technology. Many applications involve polycrystalline CVD diamond films of micron thicknesses. However, a variety of optical, therma...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,525 Views
27 Pages

10 August 2017

The density of oxygen vacancies in semiconductor gas sensors was often assumed to be identical throughout the grain in the numerical discussion of the gas-sensing mechanism of the devices. In contrast, the actual devices had grains with inhomogeneous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gas Sensors based on Semiconducting Metal Oxides)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,457 Views
9 Pages

15 June 2022

Nano-scale crystal defects extremely affect the security and reliability of the explosive charges of weapons. In order to understand the evolution of nano-scale defects of 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaaza-isowurtzitane (CL-20) explosive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,340 Views
17 Pages

Fatigue Assessment of Wire and Arc Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

  • Sebastian Springer,
  • Martin Leitner,
  • Thomas Gruber,
  • Bernd Oberwinkler,
  • Michael Lasnik and
  • Florian Grün

4 May 2022

Wire and arc additively manufactured (WAAM) parts and structures often present internal defects, such as gas pores, and cause irregularities in the manufacturing process. In order to describe and assess the effect of internal defects in fatigue desig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technological Aspects in Fatigue Design of Metallic Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,332 Views
17 Pages

Investigation of Surface Defects in Optical Components Based on Reflection Mueller Matrix Spectroscopy

  • Ruyi Li,
  • Feibin Wu,
  • Huiling Huang,
  • Weibin Cai,
  • Yantong Zhang and
  • Jun Han

16 August 2023

Nanoscale defects on the surface of ultra-precision optical elements seriously affect the beam quality in optical systems. In response to the challenge of detecting nanoscale defects on optical component surfaces, we propose a method for the detectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,973 Views
15 Pages

Further Investigations into the Capacitive Imaging Technique Using a Multi-Electrode Sensor

  • Zhen Li,
  • Guoming Chen,
  • Yue Gu,
  • Kefan Wang,
  • Wei Li and
  • Xiaokang Yin

19 November 2018

As a novel non-destructive testing technique, capacitive imaging (CI) has been used to detect defects within the insulation layer and metal surface of an insulated metallic structure, that is, pipe or vessel. Due to the non-linearity of the probing f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nondestructive Testing and Imaging Based on Electromagnetic Fields and Waves)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,310 Views
12 Pages

Inclusion-Based Model: Calculating Tooth Root Bending Strength Considering Steel Cleanliness

  • Christian Eggert,
  • Dieter Mevissen,
  • Christian Westphal and
  • Christian Brecher

27 November 2024

Current gear design guidelines and standards have given little or no consideration to the increase in strength that can be achieved by using ultra-clean steels. In order to fully exploit the potential of ultra-clean steels, it is therefore necessary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,546 Views
42 Pages

1 July 2020

Most macroeconomic studies predict a decline in final energy demand and the use of natural gas in the heating sector in Europe. In the course of building retrofitting, gas-based heating systems are predominantly replaced by electricity-based solution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Utility Energy System Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,580 Views
19 Pages

18 April 2025

The effect of the void defect on β−HMX−based polymer−bonded explosives (PBXs) for a comprehensive understanding of the deformation and fracture process is lacking. In this paper, the atomic scale model of the β−HMX c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,754 Views
11 Pages

Multipotent Stromal Cell Extracellular Vesicle Distribution in Distant Organs after Introduction into a Bone Tissue Defect of a Limb

  • Igor Maiborodin,
  • Aleksandr Shevela,
  • Michael Toder,
  • Sergey Marchukov,
  • Natalya Tursunova,
  • Marina Klinnikova,
  • Vitalina Maiborodina,
  • Elena Lushnikova and
  • Andrew Shevela

1 April 2021

When administered intravenously, extracellular vesicles derived from multipotent stromal cells (MSC EVs) immediately pass through the lungs along with the blood and regularly spread to all organs. When administered intraperitoneally, they are absorbe...

(This article belongs to the Section Physiology and Pathology)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,168 Views
19 Pages

To address the limitations of traditional aircraft skin inspection, the aviation industry and academia have increasingly been exploring the integration of computer vision technologies into the defect detection process. These implementations of comput...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aviation Science and Technology Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,968 Views
14 Pages

Railway track bed defects affect the normal operation of trains and pose great safety risks. In order to detect such issues early, we developed a railway track bed defect detection method which uses optical fibre sensors and an improved HMM (hidden M...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,391 Views
17 Pages

29 September 2023

The influences of bubble defects on the bond strengths of externally bonded fiber-reinforced polymer (EB-FRP) concrete joints were investigated using numerical method in this research. Studies of the influences of increasing bubble defect areas on in...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,517 Views
13 Pages

17 December 2021

This paper proposes analytical modeling methods for the prediction of balling, lack-of-fusion and keyholing thresholds in the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing. The molten pool dimensions were first predicted by a closed-form anal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing Technology II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,024 Views
17 Pages

3 January 2020

The study of the thermodynamic properties of topological defects is important not only for understanding their magnetic properties but also for suggesting novel applications. In this paper, the statistical and statistical thermodynamic properties of...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,693 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2019

Image registration is a key step in printing defect inspection systems based on machine vision, and its accuracy depends on the selected feature regions to a great extent. Aimed at the current problems of low efficiency and crucial errors of human vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computer Vision in Automation and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,704 Views
24 Pages

Quasi-Distributed Fiber Sensor-Based Approach for Pipeline Health Monitoring: Generating and Analyzing Physics-Based Simulation Datasets for Classification

  • Pengdi Zhang,
  • Abhishek Venketeswaran,
  • Ruishu F. Wright,
  • Nageswara Lalam,
  • Enrico Sarcinelli and
  • Paul R. Ohodnicki

7 June 2023

This study presents a framework for detecting mechanical damage in pipelines, focusing on generating simulated data and sampling to emulate distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system responses. The workflow transforms simulated ultrasonic guided wave...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

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