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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
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21 Pages

Optimization of Cold Pressing Process Parameters of Chopped Corn Straws for Fuel

  • Tianyou Chen,
  • Honglei Jia,
  • Shengwei Zhang,
  • Xumin Sun,
  • Yuqiu Song and
  • Hongfang Yuan

4 February 2020

Pressed condensation is a key process before the reclamation of loose corn straws. In this study, the effects of stabilization time on the relaxation density and dimensional stability of corn straws were studied firstly, and then the stabilization ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,344 Views
13 Pages

16 August 2019

This study experimentally investigated the dimensional stability of SBR (styrene butadiene rubber)-modified cementitious mixtures in order to determine whether their properties are sustainable as a 3D additive construction material. Dimensional stabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,495 Views
10 Pages

Effects of Shellac Treatment on Wood Hygroscopicity, Dimensional Stability and Thermostability

  • Mihaela Liu,
  • Guanglin Xu,
  • Jianan Wang,
  • Xinwei Tu,
  • Xinyou Liu,
  • Zhihui Wu,
  • Jiufang Lv and
  • Wei Xu

14 September 2020

Dimensional stability proves to be an important factor affecting the quality of wooden products. As a sort of crude and thermoplastic resin, shellac excreted by lac insects demonstrates water-repellent and environmental-friendly features. The researc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,517 Views
41 Pages

Coefficient of Linear Thermal Expansion of Polymers and Polymer Composites: A Comprehensive Review

  • Alexander G. Khina,
  • Denis P. Bulkatov,
  • Ivan P. Storozhuk and
  • Alexander P. Sokolov

21 November 2025

This work presents a comprehensive literature review of the coefficient of linear thermal expansion (CLTE) of polymers and polymer composite materials (PCMs). It systematizes CLTE measurement methods for isotropic and anisotropic materials, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,903 Views
11 Pages

Stable Variable Selection Method with Shrinkage Regression Applied to the Selection of Genetic Variants Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Vera Afreixo,
  • Ana Helena Tavares,
  • Vera Enes,
  • Miguel Pinheiro,
  • Leonor Rodrigues and
  • Gabriela Moura

19 March 2024

In this work, we aimed to establish a stable and accurate procedure with which to perform feature selection in datasets with a much higher number of predictors than individuals, as in genome-wide association studies. Due to the instability of feature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,453 Views
16 Pages

Compression Molding Characteristics of Seed Cotton and Damage from Cottonseed Crushing

  • Xuewen Fu,
  • Ximei Wei,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Hongwen Zhang,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Yuanzhao Zheng

This study investigated the impact of compression molding parameters on the post-molding characteristics of machine-harvested seed cotton and aimed to determine the optimal compression molding parameters. The closed compression test of seed cotton an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,630 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Wet Fermented Soybean Dregs on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Pellets of Corn Stover

  • Tianyou Chen,
  • Wenyu Zhang,
  • Yuxin Liu,
  • Yuqiu Song,
  • Liyan Wu,
  • Cuihong Liu and
  • Tieliang Wang

30 September 2022

Pelleting experiments were carried out in this study to clarify the influence mechanism of wet-fermented soybean dregs on the forming of corn stover. The effects of addition of water or wet fermented soybean dregs on the forming quality of corn stove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,819 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2023

The tire/road peak friction coefficient (TRPFC) is the core parameter of vehicle stability control, and its estimation accuracy significantly affects the control effect of active vehicle safety. To estimate the peak adhesion coefficient accurately, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,314 Views
14 Pages

23 October 2023

This article is devoted to the study of the stability of time-dependent source identification telegraph type differential problems with dependent coefficients. Time-dependent source identification problems (SIPs) for telegraph differential equations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,621 Views
28 Pages

12 March 2025

This paper aims to evaluate the thermal decomposition temperature and linear thermal expansion coefficient of typical non-metallic materials in aero-engine components. Thermogravimetric analysis and thermomechanical analysis were employed to systemat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,897 Views
21 Pages

Based on the lift-to-drag ratio of a two-dimensional trajectory correction projectile, in this paper, a novel correction efficiency coefficient model has been proposed for the trajectory optimization of a two-dimensional trajectory correction project...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
6,753 Views
13 Pages

15 March 2019

The thermal performance of wood–plastic composites (WPCs) with different fiber, different fiber contents, and different lubricants were investigated in this paper. The results show that the thermal degradation temperature, melting temperature,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,185 Views
10 Pages

13 June 2022

We provide a systematic procedure for generating the coefficients of the continued fraction expansion of the test function associated with the characteristic polynomial of a stable system of difference equations. We illustrate the feasibility of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,402 Views
22 Pages

16 November 2023

This study explores adapted mathematical methods to solve the couple-breaking soliton (BS) equations in two-dimensional spatial domains. Using these methods, we obtained analytical soliton solutions for the equations involving free parameters such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,541 Views
16 Pages

Temperatures within the boundary layers of high-enthalpy hypersonic flows can soar to thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees, leading to significant real gas phenomena. Although there has been significant research on real gas effects on hyper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,213 Views
24 Pages

Collinearity and Dimensionality Reduction in Radiomics: Effect of Preprocessing Parameters in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Magnetic Resonance T1 and T2 Mapping

  • Chiara Marzi,
  • Daniela Marfisi,
  • Andrea Barucci,
  • Jacopo Del Meglio,
  • Alessio Lilli,
  • Claudio Vignali,
  • Mario Mascalchi,
  • Giancarlo Casolo,
  • Stefano Diciotti and
  • Marco Giannelli
  • + 2 authors

Radiomics and artificial intelligence have the potential to become a valuable tool in clinical applications. Frequently, radiomic analyses through machine learning methods present issues caused by high dimensionality and multicollinearity, and redund...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,019 Views
12 Pages

Potential of Oil Palm Wood Thermally Modified via Hot Press Machine for Eco-Friendly Wall Insulation Applications

  • Suthon Srivaro,
  • Hyungsuk Lim,
  • Heejin Cho,
  • Jung-Kwon Oh,
  • Zoltan Pasztory and
  • Thammarong Eadkhong

23 May 2025

To utilize a huge amount of oil palm trunk (Elaeis guineensis) biomass as wall insulation, its dimensional stability and insulation properties need to be improved. Thermal modification (TM) (without compression or densification) is one of the efficie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,351 Views
13 Pages

30 November 2024

The stability of a nonlinear aero-thermo-elastic panel in supersonic flow is analyzed numerically. In light of Hamilton’s principle, the governing equation of motion for a two-dimensional aero-thermo-elastic panel is established taking geometri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,269 Views
32 Pages

28 February 2022

This paper investigates the questions about the local dynamics in the neighborhood of the equilibrium state for the spatially distributed delay logistic equation with diffusion. The critical cases in the stability problem are singled out. The equatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,728 Views
16 Pages

2 February 2023

In recent years, China is increasingly dependent on imported wood. Afrormosia and Newtonia are some of the imported species with good utilization potential. However, both of them also have problems with poor dimensional stability. In order to make be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,803 Views
23 Pages

Numerical Study of Discharge Coefficients for Side-Damaged Compartments

  • Siwen Tian,
  • Fei Peng,
  • Zhanzhi Wang and
  • Jingda Li

1 September 2024

Accurately evaluating the buoyancy and stability of damaged ships, particularly the flow rate of the water inflow through damaged openings, is of great significance for ship rescue and emergency repair. A three-dimensional simplified model of inflow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,998 Views
20 Pages

Analytical Reliability Evaluation Framework of Three-Dimensional Engineering Slopes

  • Genbao Zhang,
  • Jianfeng Zhu,
  • Changfu Chen,
  • Renhua Tang,
  • Shimin Zhu and
  • Xiao Luo

24 February 2022

An analytical three-dimensional slope reliability evaluation framework was developed in this work independent of use of numerical simulations. The slope stability analysis was necessarily carried out by utilizing an extended three-dimensional Morgens...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,572 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2018

The mathematical model of the two-dimensional steady stagnation-point flow over a stretching or shrinking sheet of nanofluid in the presence of the Soret and Dufour effects and of second-order slip at the boundary was considered in this paper. The pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,195 Views
19 Pages

1 March 2020

Coherent structures in the turbulent boundary layer were investigated under different stability conditions. Qualitative analyses of the flow field, spatial correlation coefficient field and pre-multiplied wind velocity spectrum showed that the domina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,698 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2022

Unsteady aerodynamic forces are significantly critical to the safety and stability of trains traveling in high winds. This paper describes a study into unsteady crosswind forces of a moving train subjected to a three-dimensional stochastic wind field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,483 Views
13 Pages

26 March 2025

We propose an unconditionally stable computational algorithm that preserves the maximum principle for the three-dimensional (3D) high-order Allen–Cahn (AC) equation. The presented algorithm applies an operator-splitting technique that decompose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,887 Views
13 Pages

Based on the generalized Routh–Hurwitz criterion, we propose a sufficient and necessary criterion for testing the stability of fractional-order linear systems with order α1,2, called the fractional-order Routh–Hurwitz criterio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
13,639 Views
28 Pages

Nanostructured Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Calum McDonald,
  • Chengsheng Ni,
  • Paul Maguire,
  • Paul Connor,
  • John T. S. Irvine,
  • Davide Mariotti and
  • Vladimir Svrcek

18 October 2019

Over the past decade, lead halide perovskites have emerged as one of the leading photovoltaic materials due to their long carrier lifetimes, high absorption coefficients, high tolerance to defects, and facile processing methods. With a bandgap of ~1....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,296 Views
28 Pages

Based on the spatial compact finite difference (SCFD) method, an improved high-order temporal accuracy scheme for high-dimensional time-fractional diffusion equations (TFDEs) is presented in this work. Combining the temporal piecewise quadratic inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,572 Views
12 Pages

A New Method for Detecting Weld Stability Based on Color Digital Holography

  • Qian Li,
  • Guangjun He,
  • Haiting Xia,
  • Ruijie Wang,
  • Weifan Zhang,
  • Jinbin Gui,
  • Qiang Fang,
  • Cong Ge and
  • Qinghe Song

27 May 2024

Weld stability is directly related to the safety and reliability of engineering, and continuous improvement of its detection technology has great research significance. This paper presents a novel method for weld stability detection based on color di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Views
17 Pages

Noise-Limited Failure of OGY Chaos Control in Regulating Monosynaptic Reflex Variability in the In Vivo Cat Spinal Cord

  • Elias Manjarrez,
  • Ignacio Méndez-Balbuena,
  • Saul M. Dominguez-Nicolas and
  • Oscar Arias-Carrión

2 February 2026

Monosynaptic reflexes (MSRs) elicited by constant-intensity group I afferent stimulation exhibit marked amplitude variability, commonly attributed to stochastic presynaptic modulation and dynamic postsynaptic excitability. Here, we tested whether thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,686 Views
29 Pages

Fatigue Analysis of 3D-Printed Materials for Temporary Reconstructions on Dental Implants—A Pilot Study

  • Adam Nowicki,
  • Karina Krawiec,
  • Karolina Osypko,
  • Adam Kurzawa,
  • Mateusz Stachowicz,
  • Piotr Kotowski and
  • Dariusz Pyka

15 March 2025

The rapid development of 3D printing technology has enabled its application in many fields, including dentistry. One of the key applications is temporary prosthetic restorations on dental implants, used during the osteointegration process. These rest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,002 Views
19 Pages

24 December 2020

This paper investigates the asymptotical behavior of the equilibrium of linear classical duopolies by reconsidering the two-delay model with two different positive delays. In a two-dimensional analysis, the stability switching curves were first analy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,349 Views
12 Pages

4 November 2021

Eucalyptus plantations wood have great potential application in high quality solid wood product. In order to improve the overall characteristics, heat treatments (HT) were carried out using Eucalyptus urophylla S.T. Blake wood at 150, 170 and 190 °C,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
528 Views
25 Pages

Dynamic Behavior of a Modernized Passenger Coach for Multimodal Transport: Effect of Wheel Wear and Clearance Optimization

  • Almas Alizhan,
  • Baitak Apshikur,
  • Murat Alimkulov,
  • Anatoly Goltsev,
  • Valeriy Chernavin and
  • Kunanbayev Almas

This study examines the modernization of the 61-4179 TVZ passenger coach for transporting light automobiles up to 3 tons, addressing the efficiency of multifunctional rail use. The objective was to assess how additional mass–dimensional loading...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,687 Views
12 Pages

31 July 2019

The local chemistry and mechanics of the control and phenol formaldehyde (PF) resin modified wood cell walls were analyzed to illustrate the modification mechanism of wood. Masson pine (Pinus massoniana Lamb.) is most widely distributed in the subtro...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,652 Views
14 Pages

3 June 2021

With the development of space optical remote sensing technology, especially off-axis space cameras, the thermal dimensional stability of the support structure has become increasingly demanding. However, the asymmetry of the camera structure has not b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,138 Views
15 Pages

Convergence and Stability of a Split-Step Exponential Scheme Based on the Milstein Methods

  • Leila Torkzadeh,
  • Hassan Ranjbar,
  • Sanda Micula and
  • Kazem Nouri

15 November 2022

We introduce two approaches by modifying split-step exponential schemes to study stochastic differential equations. Under the Lipschitz condition and linear-growth bounds, it is shown that our explicit schemes converge to the solution of the correspo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,337 Views
12 Pages

1 May 2022

Bamboo is an ideal material as it is green, fast-growing, and easy to process. However, the low dimensional stability may limit the application of bamboo due to its richness in hydrophilic groups. Thus, an effective and environment-friendly modificat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,111 Views
15 Pages

12 April 2023

In this paper, we investigate a practical numerical method for solving a one-dimensional two-sided space-fractional diffusion equation with variable coefficients in a finite domain, which is based on the classical Crank-Nicolson (CN) method combined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
5,582 Views
15 Pages

Entropy Analysis and Neural Network-Based Adaptive Control of a Non-Equilibrium Four-Dimensional Chaotic System with Hidden Attractors

  • Hadi Jahanshahi,
  • Maryam Shahriari-Kahkeshi,
  • Raúl Alcaraz,
  • Xiong Wang,
  • Vijay P. Singh and
  • Viet-Thanh Pham

7 February 2019

Today, four-dimensional chaotic systems are attracting considerable attention because of their special characteristics. This paper presents a non-equilibrium four-dimensional chaotic system with hidden attractors and investigates its dynamical behavi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
1,818 Views
20 Pages

8 January 2025

Hyperspectral images are high-dimensional data containing rich spatial, spectral, and radiometric information, widely used in geological mapping, urban remote sensing, and other fields. However, due to the characteristics of hyperspectral remote sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,218 Views
17 Pages

4 October 2023

In this paper, we introduce a numerical integration method for hyperbolic systems problems known as the splitting method, which serves as an effective tool for solving complex multidimensional problems in mathematical physics. The exponential stabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,297 Views
13 Pages

20 November 2023

We here employ a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) to reduce the dimensionality of unknown coefficient vectors of finite element (FE) solutions for the fractional Tricomi-type equation and develop a reduced-dimension extrapolating FE (RDEFE) meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,562 Views
13 Pages

Initial-Condition Effects on a Two-Memristor-Based Jerk System

  • Han Bao,
  • Ruoyu Ding,
  • Mengjie Hua,
  • Huagan Wu and
  • Bei Chen

27 January 2022

Memristor-based systems can exhibit the phenomenon of extreme multi-stability, which results in the coexistence of infinitely many attractors. However, most of the recently published literature focuses on the extreme multi-stability related to memris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,573 Views
18 Pages

Minimum and Stable Coefficient of Thermal Expansion by Three-Step Heat Treatment of Invar 36

  • Mehmet Kul,
  • Bekir Akgül,
  • Yusuf Ziya Karabay,
  • Leonhard Hitzler,
  • Enes Sert and
  • Markus Merkel

19 December 2024

The low coefficient of thermal expansion of Invar 36 represents a significant consideration in light of its potential effects, particularly in industrial applications where thermal stability is of paramount importance. In light of this, a three-step...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,645 Views
19 Pages

3 March 2022

In this paper, a type of high-order compact (HOC) finite difference method is developed for solving two- and three-dimensional unsteady convection diffusion reaction (CDR) equations with variable coefficients. Firstly, an HOC difference scheme is der...

  • Article
  • Open Access
703 Views
22 Pages

4 April 2025

The high-precision estimation of multi-dimensional parameters for spatial targets based on high-resolution range profiles is crucial for target recognition. However, existing estimation methods face difficulties in resolving the strong coupling betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
937 Views
20 Pages

Sensitivity Analysis of Foundation Soil Physical–Mechanical Properties on Pile Foundation Stability

  • Yuan Ma,
  • Xinghong He,
  • Yao Guan,
  • Debao Fan,
  • Rui Gao,
  • Fan Luo and
  • Shiyuan Liu

6 November 2025

The stability of pile foundation is influenced by many interacting factors, particularly geological conditions. Quantifying the impact of physical and mechanical soil properties on pile stability is critical for achieving optimal design outcomes. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,637 Views
11 Pages

13 July 2023

The present work analyses the absorption coefficient of sound waves and the speed of sound propagation in thermally modified wood. The high resistance to weathering, fungi, and better dimensional stability, and therefore the broad physical properties...

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