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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,818 Views
10 Pages

Experimental Analysis and Verification of the Influence on the Elastic Recovery Coefficient of Wheat

  • Jizhong Wang,
  • Weipeng Zhang,
  • Fengzhu Wang,
  • Yangchun Liu,
  • Bo Zhao and
  • Xianfa Fang

28 April 2023

To establish a collision model of wheat grains impacting a force plate with a piezoelectric sensor, and to investigate the influence of the elastic recovery coefficient on the sensor’s detection accuracy during the collision process, this study...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,077 Views
9 Pages

Recovery of Filtered Particles by Elastic Flat-Sheet Membrane with Cross Flow

  • Manoka Miyoshi,
  • Shintaro Morisada,
  • Keisuke Ohto and
  • Hidetaka Kawakita

20 January 2021

After filtration, filtered residue is recovered by a spoon, during which, the structure of the residue is destroyed, and the activity of the microorganism would be reduced. Thus, a more efficient recovery method of filtered residue is required. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,701 Views
11 Pages

Elastic Recovery Properties of Ultralight Carbon Nanotube/Carboxymethyl Cellulose Composites

  • Kazuki Matsushima,
  • Kenta Ono,
  • Reo Yanagi,
  • Naoto Shioura,
  • Takahiro Segi and
  • Tomonaga Ueno

20 July 2021

Ultralight materials exhibit superelastic behavior depending on the selection, blending, and carbonization of the materials. Recently, ultimate low-density materials of 5 mg/cm3 or less have attracted attention for applications such as sensors, elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,478 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2020

The paper presents preliminary studies of a new innovative surface treatment method—the process of roller burnishing of macro-irregularities of the surface. As part of the work, the possibility of plastic shaping of the surface macrostructure w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,180 Views
15 Pages

7 June 2023

The finite element error and adaptive analysis are implemented in finite element procedures to increase the reliability of numerical analyses. In this paper, the mesh-free error-recovery technique based on moving least squares (MLS) interpolation is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
865 Views
14 Pages

6 December 2024

Anaerobic digestate represents a valuable organic by-product, with one of the main challenges being its enhanced utilization. Pelletization offers potential benefits by improving the digestate’s storability, facilitating transport, and signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,253 Views
27 Pages

30 May 2024

In the realm of Ceph distributed storage systems, ensuring swift and symmetrical data recovery during severe data corruption scenarios is pivotal for data reliability and system stability. This paper introduces an innovative FPGA-based Multi-Dimensio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,807 Views
14 Pages

26 August 2024

This study evaluates the crack performance of stone mastic asphalt (SMA) mixtures according to the performance of a modified asphalt binder, evaluated based on the asphalt performance grade (PG) and the elastic recovery of multiple stress creep and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,398 Views
12 Pages

Background and Objectives: Clinicians have been using elastic abdominal binder for stabilizing incision site after major abdominal surgery. However, the benefits of that practice have never been formally assessed. The aim of this study was to examine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,637 Views
14 Pages

Indentation Hardness and Elastic Recovery of Some Hardwood Species

  • Maciej Sydor,
  • Grzegorz Pinkowski,
  • Martin Kučerka,
  • Richard Kminiak,
  • Petar Antov and
  • Tomasz Rogoziński

17 May 2022

The purpose of the study was to measure the Brinell hardness (HB) of six wood species and evaluate the ability to recover the depth of the imprint (self-re-deformation). Straight-grain clear samples of ash, beech, alder, birch, iroko, and linden wood...

  • Article
  • Open Access
844 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted traditional patterns of sport consumption, raising questions about whether fans would return to stadiums and how sensitive they would be to ticket prices in the recovery period. This study reconceptualizes ticket price...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,022 Views
8 Pages

Recovery of Filtered Graphene Oxide Residue Using Elastic Gel Packed in a Column by Cross Flow

  • Yuji Takaoka,
  • Manoka Miyoshi,
  • Koichi Sakaguchi,
  • Shintaro Morisada,
  • Keisuke Ohto and
  • Hidetaka Kawakita

25 April 2018

To recover the filtered residues on a gel layer in a column, the method using the elasticity of the gel layer and flowing water in a cross-flow manner is proposed. Polymerized spherical gel (40 μm) was packed in a column to a set height of 0.7 cm....

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,306 Views
13 Pages

A Self-Healing Polymer with Fast Elastic Recovery upon Stretching

  • Pei-Chen Zhao,
  • Wen Li,
  • Wei Huang and
  • Cheng-Hui Li

30 January 2020

The design of polymers that exhibit both good elasticity and self-healing properties is a highly challenging task. In spite of this, the literature reports highly stretchable self-healing polymers, but most of them exhibit slow elastic recovery behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,130 Views
25 Pages

30 September 2024

The meshless displacement error-recovery parametric investigation in finite element method-based incompressible elastic analysis is presented in this study. It investigates key parameters such as interpolation schemes, patch configurations, dilation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,279 Views
11 Pages

Contact noise, often arising from frictional vibrations in mechanical systems, significantly impacts performance and user experience. This study investigates the generation of contact noise due to the elastic recovery of surface asperities during sph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,514 Views
10 Pages

16 September 2020

We report optical and mechanical properties of hard aluminum magnesium boride films magnetron sputtered from a stoichiometric AlMgB14 ceramic target onto Corning® 1737 Glass and Si (100) wafers. High target sputtering rf-power and sufficiently sh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,958 Views
11 Pages

14 June 2020

Soft electronics based on various rubbers have lately been needed in many advanced applications such as soft robotics, wearable electronics, and remote health monitoring. The ability of a self-sensing material to be monitored in use provides a signif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,492 Views
16 Pages

15 April 2022

The displacement and stress-based error estimates in a posteriori error recovery of compressible and nearly-incompressible elastic finite element solutions is investigated in the present study. The errors in the finite element solutions, i.e., in dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,401 Views
23 Pages

1 August 2025

In this study, we aimed to address the lack of systematic research on key collision dynamics parameters (elastic restitution coefficient) in the full mechanization of rapeseed operations, which hinders the development of precision agriculture. In thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,467 Views
19 Pages

10 August 2021

The study develops the displacement error recovery method in a mesh free environment for the finite element solution employing the radial point interpolation (RPI) technique. The RPI technique uses the radial basis functions (RBF), along with polynom...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,828 Views
15 Pages

12 February 2023

Error estimation and adaptive applications help to control the discretization errors in finite element analysis. The study implements the radial point interpolation (RPI)-based error-recovery approaches in finite element analysis. The displacement/pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,356 Views
15 Pages

16 August 2023

In recent decades, the application of modified bitumens has experienced tremendous growth. However, due to the varying modification mechanism of different modifiers, the creep and recovery properties of modified bitumen have not been comprehensively...

  • Review
  • Open Access
637 Views
22 Pages

Interfacial Rheology of Surfactant–Asphaltene Systems: State of the Art and Implications for Enhanced Oil Recovery

  • Maria Isabel Sandoval Martinez,
  • Ronald Mercado,
  • Arlex Chaves-Guerrero and
  • Hassan Hassanzadeh

5 November 2025

The study of the viscoelastic properties of surfactants in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) has gained significant attention due to the role of interface elasticity in improving oil recovery. Interfacial rheology has been demonstrated to be a valuable too...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,829 Views
12 Pages

29 July 2024

In order to improve the basic pavement performance of high-elastic asphalt concrete filled in the expansion longitudinal joints of seamless bridges, rubber particles and polyester fibers were added to optimize the mix proportion of elastic asphalt co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,721 Views
14 Pages

Design, Simulation and Experimentation of a Polythene Film Debris Recovery Machine in Soil

  • Wei Jin,
  • Jingyi Liu,
  • Chunbao Xu,
  • Xuejun Zhang and
  • Shenghe Bai

27 January 2022

With the rapid development of planting techniques using plastic film mulching, the content of residual plastic film in soil increases year by year, which pollutes the soil and water, endangers the growth of crops and reduces the quality and yield of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,917 Views
13 Pages

The Brinell Method for Determining Hardness of Wood Flooring Materials

  • Maciej Sydor,
  • Grzegorz Pinkowski and
  • Anna Jasińska

12 August 2020

We hypothesize that the ability to recovery the depth of the indentation increases with increasing the hardness of the flooring material. The research was carried out for ten lignocellulosic flooring materials: merbau, oak, maple, red oak, laminated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,742 Views
26 Pages

A Methodological Approach for Assessing the Post-Fire Resilience of Pinus halepensis Mill. Plant Communities Using UAV-LiDAR Data Across a Chronosequence

  • Sergio Larraz-Juan,
  • Fernando Pérez-Cabello,
  • Raúl Hoffrén Mansoa,
  • Cristian Iranzo Cubel and
  • Raquel Montorio

19 December 2024

The assessment of fire effects in Aleppo pine forests is crucial for guiding the recovery of burnt areas. This study presents a methodology using UAV-LiDAR data to quantify malleability and elasticity in four burnt areas (1970, 1995, 2008 and 2015) t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,744 Views
12 Pages

21 May 2023

Objectives: Impression materials could be a source of cross-contamination due to the presence of microorganisms from blood and saliva inside the oral cavity. Nevertheless, routinely performed post-setting disinfection could compromise the dimensional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,535 Views
16 Pages

Development of Scalable Elastic Gelatin Hydrogel Films Crosslinked with Waterborne Polyurethane for Enhanced Mechanical Properties and Strain Recovery

  • Soon Mo Choi,
  • Eun Joo Shin,
  • Sun Mi Zo,
  • Madhusudana Rao Kummara,
  • Chul Min Kim,
  • Anuj Kumar,
  • Han Jo Bae,
  • Ankur Sood and
  • Sung Soo Han

8 January 2025

Exploiting novel crosslinking chemistry, this study pioneers the use of waterborne polyurethane (WPU) to chemically crosslink porcine-derived gelatin, producing enhanced gelatin hydrogel films through a solvent-casting method. Our innovative approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,704 Views
24 Pages

Finite Difference Modeling of the Interstand Evolutions of Profile and Residual Stress during Hot Strip Rolling

  • Chihuan Yao,
  • Anrui He,
  • Jian Shao,
  • Jianwei Zhao,
  • Guanyu Zhou,
  • Hui Li and
  • Yi Qiang

25 October 2020

Elastic recovery and viscoplastic stress relaxation occur in the interstand of hot rolling, impacting the evolutions of strip profile and residual stress, which are major concerns for obtaining high-quality flat products. A better understanding of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,658 Views
14 Pages

Bacteria Cell Hydrophobicity and Interfacial Properties Relationships: A New MEOR Approach

  • Ehsan Ganji-Azad,
  • Aliyar Javadi,
  • Moein Jahanbani Veshareh,
  • Shahab Ayatollahi and
  • Reinhard Miller

For microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR), different mechanisms have been introduced. In some of these papers, the phenomena and mechanisms related to biosurfactants produced by certain microorganisms were discussed, while others studied the direct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,379 Views
21 Pages

The present study focuses on the compaction behavior of polymeric excipients during compression in comparison to nonpolymeric excipients and its consequences on commonly used Heckel analysis. Compression analysis at compaction pressures (CPs) from 50...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Synergistic Effects of Devulcanized Rubber, Polyethylene, and Fumed Silica on the Rheological and Structural Stability of Bitumen

  • Akkenzhe Bussurmanova,
  • Anar Akkenzheyeva,
  • Viktors Haritonovs,
  • Remo Merijs-Meri,
  • Janis Zicans,
  • Uzilkhan Yensegenova,
  • Yerzhan Imanbayev,
  • Yerbolat Ayapbergenov,
  • Maira Turkmenbayeva and
  • Murshida Aimova
  • + 3 authors
Polymers2026, 18(2), 208;https://doi.org/10.3390/polym18020208 
(registering DOI)

12 January 2026

This study examines the influence of virgin polyethylene (vPE), recycled polyethylene (rPE), and Aerosil (A) on the performance of bitumen binders modified with partially devulcanized rubber (DVR). The experimental program included morphology analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,562 Views
15 Pages

5 March 2021

Aging has a detrimental impact on the interfacial interaction and bonding between asphalt-binder and aggregates, which influence ultimately on the performance of asphalt mixtures and pavements. Evaluation of the mechanical properties of the interface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Views
18 Pages

6 January 2026

Coalbed methane development is constrained by reservoir characteristics including high gas adsorption, high salinity, and high closure pressure, which impose significant limitations on conventional polymer fracturing fluids regarding viscosity enhanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,406 Views
20 Pages

28 January 2020

The aim of this paper is to extend knowledge on biobased poly(butylene furanoate)–block–poly (ethylene oxide) (PBF-b-PEO) copolymers’ performance by studying the effect of the PEO segment’s molecular weight on the microstructu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,677 Views
12 Pages

21 August 2019

Zr–Si–N films with atomic ratios of N/(Zr + Si) of 0.54–0.82 were fabricated through high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS)–radio-frequency magnetron sputtering (RFMS) cosputtering by applying an average HiPIMS power...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,825 Views
16 Pages

10 February 2020

Elastomeric, conductive composite yarns have recently received attention around the opportunity for them to offer special protective fields. A straightforward approach for fabricating tri-component elastic-conductive composite yarns (t-ECCYs) contain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,848 Views
13 Pages

Investigations of Micro-Deformation in Monocrystalline Copper at Low Temperatures via Indentation

  • Shunbo Wang,
  • Dan Zhao,
  • Yihan Niu,
  • Zhaoxin Wang,
  • Hongxiu Yang and
  • Hongwei Zhao

30 June 2022

Indentation experiments on differently oriented faces of monocrystalline copper were conducted to investigate the micro-deformation process at temperatures ranging from room temperature to 150 K. The morphologies and textures of the residual imprints...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,094 Views
18 Pages

Designing a Robotic Gripper Based on the Actuating Capacity of NiTi-Based Shape Memory Wires

  • Adrian Petru Teodoriu,
  • Bogdan Pricop,
  • Nicoleta-Monica Lohan,
  • Mihai Popa,
  • Radu Ioachim Comăneci,
  • Ioan Doroftei and
  • Leandru-Gheorghe Bujoreanu

21 August 2024

In the present study, the capacity of two commercial NiTi and NiTiCu shape memory alloy (SMA) wires to develop work-generating (WG) and constrained-recovery (CR) shape memory effects (SMEs), as well as the capacity of a commercial NiTiFe super-elasti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,456 Views
15 Pages

3 January 2020

In this contribution, we explored the copolymerization of propylene with higher α-olefins, including 1-octene (C8) 1-dodecene (C12), 1-hexadecene (C16) and 1-eicosene (C20), by using a dimethyl pyridylamidohafnium catalyst. A series of copolyme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,315 Views
28 Pages

Sparse Density Estimation with Measurement Errors

  • Xiaowei Yang,
  • Huiming Zhang,
  • Haoyu Wei and
  • Shouzheng Zhang

24 December 2021

This paper aims to estimate an unknown density of the data with measurement errors as a linear combination of functions from a dictionary. The main novelty is the proposal and investigation of the corrected sparse density estimator (CSDE). Inspired b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,379 Views
14 Pages

Slip Backflow of Polymers in Elastic Fractures for Subsurface Heat Recovery

  • Alessandro Lenci,
  • Farhad Zeighami,
  • Irene Daprà and
  • Vittorio Di Federico

10 December 2023

This research delves into the complexities of backflow phenomena in finite-length and flat-walled fractures with elastic walls, specifically focusing on power-law fluids, whose shear-thinning behavior distinguishes them from Newtonian fluids. We mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
12,429 Views
12 Pages

17 April 2018

A high performance ladder-like structured methacrylate siloxane hybrid material (LMSH) was fabricated via simple hydrolytic sol–gel reaction, followed by free-radical polymerization. A structurally ordered siloxane backbone, the ladder-like str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,040 Views
12 Pages

2 August 2024

This research focuses on cylindrical helical springs with circular cross-sections made from carbon steel (SH 0.82% C) and stainless steel (AISI 302). The transformation from a linear bar to a circular spiral involves numerous factors such as material...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,194 Views
23 Pages

17 January 2019

In this study the effects of increased graphene nanosheet (GNS) concentration on variations in the structure and properties of electrospun GNS-filled poly(trimethylene terephthalate) (PTT/GNS) composite fiber, such as its morphologies, crystallizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,450 Views
10 Pages

All rotating shafts, even in the absence of external load, deflect during rotation. The magnitude of the deflection depends upon the stiffness of the shaft, its supports and also upon the load level. In this paper, a complete study of the effect of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,445 Views
18 Pages

20 April 2023

Metallic wire mesh has gained attention as a potential material for lightweight aircraft structures, e.g., a metallic frame of morphing wings, due to its customizable mechanical properties associated with cell structures. However, the relationship be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,541 Views
14 Pages

13 July 2020

This paper presents a measurement method for high-precision cutting edge radius of single point diamond tools using an atomic force microscope (AFM) and a reverse cutting edge artifact based on the edge reversal method. Reverse cutting edge artifact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,739 Views
19 Pages

Seismic Monitoring at the Farnsworth CO2-EOR Field Using Time-Lapse Elastic-Waveform Inversion of 3D-3C VSP Data

  • Xuejian Liu,
  • Lianjie Huang,
  • Kai Gao,
  • Tom Bratton,
  • George El-Kaseeh,
  • William Ampomah,
  • Robert Will,
  • Paige Czoski,
  • Martha Cather and
  • Robert Balch
  • + 1 author

6 May 2023

During the Development Phase of the U.S. Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration, supercritical CO2 was continuously injected into the deep oil-bearing Morrow B formation of the Farnsworth Unit in Texas for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)....

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