Edge-drop control is important for silicon strip cold rolling, as the silicon strip is mainly used as a laminated core. Moreover, cold rolling is the key process for the thin strip edge-drop control, and a Sendzimir mill is one of the most popular co...
The superficial quality of the strip is a very important issue in steel production. Considering the dimensions, the thickness is one of the most important variables in the production of a strip. In the present study, the elastic curve of Back Up Roll...
Rain is one of the dominant meteorological factors threatening the outdoor insulation performance of ultra-high voltage (UHV) power stations. Discharge occurring on the polluted surface of post insulators in rain has always been a major concern of po...
Cavitation is an important issue in pumps and usually starts on the blade leading-edge. For fixed blades with constant rotational speeds and specific flow rates, the incident angle, which is between the flow direction and the blade installing directi...
This study investigates the seismic performance of reinforced concrete flat slab buildings strengthened with conventional structural elements, including drop panels, edge beams, shear walls, and coupled shear walls. Unlike previous works that examine...
Droplet quality in drop-on-demand (DoD) Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) inkjet printing plays a crucial role in influencing the overall performance and manufacturing quality of the operation. The current approach to droplet printing analysis involves manua...
Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) has rapidly become one of the key enabling technologies for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) architectures. A wide range of different solutions relying on this communication technology can be found in...
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gradually become an important research branch in graph learning since 2005, and the most active one is unquestionably graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs). Although convolutional neural networks have successful...
In this paper, the reliability of a new online cutting edge radius estimator for micro end milling is evaluated. This estimator predicts the cutting edge radius by detecting the drop in the chip production rate as the cutting edge of a micro end mill...
We studied the effects of vertical vibrations on a water drop that was pinned to the sharp edges of a rectangular post. By varying the frequency and amplitude of the vertical displacement, distinct resonance peaks were observed using a simple optical...
The microphysical characteristics of a mesoscale convective system (MCS) during a summer monsoon of South Korea are investigated using the generalized drop size distributions (DSD) that are derived from S-band dual-polarization radar data. The charac...
There is an opinion in professional literature that edge-strands in β-sheet are critical to the processes of amyloid transformation. Propagation of fibrillar forms mainly takes place on the basis of β-sheet type interactions. In many protei...
Digital microfluidics, which relies on the movement of drops, is relatively immune to clogging problems, making it suited for micro-reactor applications. Here, graphene oxide paper of 100 μm thickness, fabricated by blade coating sedimented disper...
Stern-first operation under severe ice conditions (ridges) is one of the most effective modes to increase the operating efficiency of icebreakers and ice ships. However, when a ship overcomes the ridge astern, the propellers continuously interact wit...
Macroscopic spatial patterns were formed in calcium alginate gels when a drop of a calcium nitrate solution was placed on the center of a sodium alginate solution on a petri dish. These patterns have been classified into two groups. One is multi-conc...
This study investigates the single-phase heat transfer, pressure drop, and temperature distribution of water in an industrial plate and shell heat exchanger (PSHE) under high-temperature conditions. In this experiment, the hot fluid flows downward on...
The flow rate through hydraulic resistance increases with the pressure drop across it, but this correlation is no longer valid under cavitation conditions. This study investigates choked flow in calibrated screw-in orifices, widely used for control a...
The direct current potential drop method (DCPDM) is widely used to determine the crack length in fatigue experiments. In practice, some special features of this method must be considered. Aside from general information on the experimental setup and c...
In mobile edge computing networks, achieving effective load balancing across edge server nodes is essential for minimizing task processing latency. However, the lack of a priori knowledge regarding the current load state of edge nodes for user device...
Valves are important components in controlling the amount of fluid going to devices. One of these types is the butterfly valve (BFV) that adjusts the amount of flow by rotating the valve disk by means of its shafts which is usually located in the mid...
In edge-assisted low-latency video analytics, a critical challenge is balancing on-device inference latency against the high bandwidth costs and network delays of offloading. Ineffectively managing this trade-off degrades performance and hinders crit...
Composites are widely used in aircraft structures that have free edges and are vulnerable to impact events during manufacturing and maintenance. On-edge impact may have a great contribution in terms of the compression strength loss of composites, but...
Hardware bottlenecks can throttle smart device (SD) performance when executing computation-intensive and delay-sensitive applications. Hence, task offloading can be used to transfer computation-intensive tasks to an external server or processor in Mo...
Mixed-flow pumps compromise large flow rate and high head in fluid transferring. Long-axis mixed-flow pumps with radial–axial “spacing” guide vanes are usually installed deeply under water and suffer strong cavitation due to strong...
We used a spatially explicit model to simulate the potential effects of exclosures and acaricides targeted at medium-sized mammalian hosts on the local distribution and abundance of lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) within forestlands of the sou...
Evaporation of a sessile drop is ubiquitous in nature and has many industrial applications. Despite extensive studies over recent decades, a critical issue, i.e., how temperature varies near contact lines, remains elusive. In this work, we report to...
Structural members with low-flexural stiffness, such as slabs, are more susceptible to impulsive loadings induced by falling machines/tools during construction and installation, and also from rolling boulders/rocks triggered by wind/earthquake, espec...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) integrated with lightweight visual cameras hold significant promise in renewable energy asset inspection and monitoring. This study presents an AI-assisted soiling detection methodology for inspecting solar photovoltai...
Rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses are a common presbyopic correction tool. However, many patients clinically need a long period of adaptation after wearing. This study adopted finite element modeling to analyze the contact stress between RGP c...
The primary objective of this investigation was to explore the aerodynamic impact of adding trailing edge serrations to a Wells turbine. The baseline turbine consists of eight NACA 0015 blades. The blade chord length was 0.125 m and the span was 0.10...
Edge intelligence is currently facing several important challenges hindering its performance, with the major drawback being meeting the high resource requirements of deep learning by the resource-constrained edge computing devices. The most recent ad...
In rock slopes with a three-section landslide, the locking section is the key control factor. This study conducted double-sided freeze–thaw tests on a scale model of a rock slope with a three-section landslide in a cold region. We monitored the...
Task offloading and resource allocation is a research hotspot in cloud-edge collaborative computing. Many existing pieces of research adopted single-agent reinforcement learning to solve this problem, which has some defects such as low robustness, la...
In the present work, the influence of the cooling time on the mechanical performance, hardness, and microstructural features of a double pulse resistance spot welded medium-Mn steel are investigated. Curves of the electrical resistance throughout the...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents significant diagnostic challenges due to its complex, heterogeneous nature. This study explores a novel approach to enhance the accuracy and reliability of ASD diagnosis by integrating resting-state functional...
This paper presents an incremental backstepping sliding-mode (IBS) controller for trajectory control of a tailless aircraft with unknown disturbances and model uncertainties. The proposed controller is based on a nonlinear dynamic model of the taille...
Pressure fluctuation is the primary factor that affects the stability of turbomachines. The goal of the present work is to explore the propagation of pressure fluctuations in a two-stage double-suction centrifugal pump. The pressure fluctuation chara...
Even though research has shown that the spectral parameters of yellow-edge, red-edge and NIR (near-infrared) shoulder wavelength regions are able to estimate green cover and leaf area index (LAI), a large amount of dead materials in grasslands challe...
In hydraulic machinery, the surface of the blade can get damaged by the cavitation of the leading-edge. In order to improve the cavitation performance, the anti-cavitation optimization design of blade leading-edge is conducted. A heuristic-parallel l...
Movie archives still rely on manual cataloging and sparse metadata, limiting fine-grained retrieval, relationship tracing, and reuse under privacy-constrained edge settings. We propose EdgeCineTag-KG, an edge framework using a single video foundation...
Rocks ejected from a volcanic eruption often cause loss of lives and structures. Aerodynamic characteristics are needed for evaluating motions of volcanic rocks for the reduction of damage. Falling motions of volcanic rock were measured by using mode...
Ring aggregation networks are often employed by network carriers because of their efficiency and high fault tolerance. A fairness scheme is required in ring aggregation to achieve per-flow throughput fairness and bufferbloat avoidance, because frames...
This paper employs an innovative investigation approach to study pore evolution in Al-Si-Mg-Cu alloy within aluminum foam sandwiches (AFS) by integrating data from heating–expansion ratio curves, in situ observation of synchronous radiation, an...
The effect of mainstream velocity and mainstream temperature on the behavior of deposition on a flat plate surface has been investigated experimentally. Molten wax particles were injected to generate particle deposition in a two-phase flow wind tunne...
The shape vibrations of a superheavy nucleus with a complete (bubble) or a partially (semi-bubble) depleted density in its central region and sharp-edge inner and outer surfaces are investigated in the frame of the Liquid-Drop Model. The quadrupole o...
The use of coat-hanger dies is prevalent in the plastic film and sheet extrusion industry. The product quality and the power of the extrusion machine depend on the uniformities of the fluid velocity at the exit and the pressure drop. Die manufacturer...
Small-size turbine drilling tools have better application prospects in small borehole drilling and so on. Based on the SST model, the influence of a Φ73 mm turbine knuckle-shape parameters on the mechanical energy output characteristics was simul...
The current study investigated the effect of leading-edge slats on the longitudinal stability at high angles of attack of a Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). Using a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach and, specifically, the Taguch...
Based on density functional theory, we theoretically investigate the electronic structures of free-standing armchair Janus MoSSe nanoribbons (A-MoSSeNR) with width up to 25.5 nm. The equilibrium structures of nanoribbons with spontaneous curling are...
Melamine-faced particleboards are widely used in interior applications; however, their performance is often limited by the near-surface structure, film adhesion, and edge damage that can be generated during machining and service impacts. Here, model...
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