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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,638 Views
21 Pages

12 April 2023

The formation mechanism and evolution of plastic damage in billet during reduction pretreatment were investigated using laboratory experiments and simulations. The microstructure and damage distribution were observed using reduction pretreatment expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,105 Views
21 Pages

27 June 2025

The cause of the Cambrian explosion is one of the centuries-old puzzles. For centuries, scholars from numerous disciplines have proposed various theories based on evidence such as paleontological fossils and changes in geology and climate to try to r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,448 Views
36 Pages

29 April 2024

Micropores are one of the critical factors affecting materials’ performance and service life. As the need for a deeper understanding of micropore evolution and damage mechanisms grows, assessing the mechanical properties of materials containing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,290 Views
16 Pages

18 February 2022

To explore the influence of crack angle on the mechanical properties, energy evolution, and damage evolution of sandstone, uniaxial loading tests were conducted on sandstones with different crack angles. Through the stress–strain curve, the inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,811 Views
21 Pages

14 May 2023

In the process of modernization and urbanization, some government projects or facilities with negative externalities have caused the psychology of residents nearby to “Not in My Backyard” (NIMBY). That is, adopting strong and resolute, so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,927 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2020

In railway electrification systems, the harmonic impedance of the traction network is of great value for avoiding harmonic resonance and electrical matching of impedance parameters between trains and traction networks. Therefore, harmonic impedance i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,345 Views
20 Pages

21 June 2024

With the increasingly fierce market competition, customers’ needs are gradually becoming more complicated, specialized, customized, and personalized. How manufacturing enterprises adopt innovation strategies to achieve value-added products as w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,212 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2018

The aim of this paper is to discuss the coopetition (cooperative competition) relationship between a manufacturer and a collector in the collection of waste mobile phones (WMPs) and examine the evolution mechanism and the internal reward-penalty mech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,474 Views
20 Pages

Evolution Mechanism of Interlayer Properties of CRTS III Slab Track during Construction

  • Ji Wang,
  • Liang Gao,
  • Ludong Wang,
  • Wenqiang Zhao,
  • Ying Qin,
  • Chen Hua and
  • Yuanwei Li

14 January 2024

The interlayer properties of the CRTS III slab track during construction directly affect its long-term service condition. This article introduces time-varying coefficients that characterize the early properties of the interface between track slab and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,423 Views
20 Pages

Influence Mechanism of Geomorphological Evolution in a Tidal Lagoon with Rising Sea Level

  • Cuiping Kuang,
  • Jiadong Fan,
  • Zhichao Dong,
  • Qingping Zou,
  • Xin Cong and
  • Xuejian Han

A tidal lagoon system has multiple environmental, societal, and economic implications. To investigate the mechanism of influence of the geomorphological evolution of a tidal lagoon, the effect of critical erosion shear stress, critical deposition she...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,528 Views
13 Pages

Reactivity and Mechanism of Photo- and Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by a Diimine Copper(I) Complex

  • Maria Drosou,
  • Fotios Kamatsos,
  • George Ioannidis,
  • Athanasios Zarkadoulas,
  • Christiana A. Mitsopoulou,
  • Constantina Papatriantafyllopoulou and
  • Demeter Tzeli

11 November 2020

The tetrahedral copper(I) diimine complex [Cu(pq)2]BF4 displays high photocatalytic activity for the H2 evolution reaction with a turnover number of 3564, thus representing the first type of a Cu(I) quinoxaline complex capable of catalyzing proton re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,045 Views
26 Pages

19 July 2021

Taking the “11.28” rockburst occurred in the Jinping II Hydropower Station as the engineering background, the evolution mechanism of structure-type rockburst was studied in detail based on the particle flow code. The results indicate that the failure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,304 Views
12 Pages

7 October 2021

Improving regional innovation efficiency is the key to developing an innovative country. Exploring the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of regional innovation efficiency is crucial in the formulation of regional policies and the choice of in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,218 Views
24 Pages

Study on Uniaxial Mechanical Behavior and Damage Evolution Mechanism of Water-Immersed Mudstone

  • Yanqi Song,
  • Junjie Zheng,
  • Hongfa Ma,
  • Zhixin Shao,
  • Jiangkun Yang,
  • Fuxin Shen and
  • Chuanpeng Liu

17 August 2023

The existence of mudstone weak interlayers has a significant impact on the stability of open-pit coal mine slopes. Under the combined influence of rainfall and groundwater, the mechanical properties of the mudstone of weak interlayers deteriorate, le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,494 Views
12 Pages

21 August 2020

Cuboid samples with significant initial texture differences were cut from extruded AZ31 Mg alloy samples, whose long axis and bar extrusion direction ED were 0° (sample E0), 45° (sample E45), and 90° (sample E90). The relationship among t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
986 Views
23 Pages

17 May 2025

In order to study the microstructure evolution of polytetrafluoroethylene–copper (PTFE-Cu) composites under compression load and reveal the molecular dynamics mechanism of deformation failure, three PTFE-Cu composites with different densities (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,564 Views
19 Pages

Mechanism of Surrounding Rock Failure and Crack Evolution Rules in Branched Pillar Recovery

  • Gaojian Hu,
  • Tianhong Yang,
  • Jingren Zhou,
  • Qinglei Yu,
  • Lianku Xie,
  • Honglei Liu and
  • Yong Zhao

8 June 2017

To study the mechanism of surface collapse and crack evolution in a roadway chain failure process in the pillar recovery of Hongling lead zinc ore in Inner Mongolia Province, China, microseismic monitoring technology, moment tensor theory, and numeri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,561 Views
28 Pages

30 December 2023

Urban park green areas are part of territorial space planning, shouldering the mission of providing residents with high-quality ecological products and public space. Using a combination of several measurement models such as the BCG (Boston Consulting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,948 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2021

This study focuses on investigating the changing export patterns, evolution characteristics, and influencing trade mechanisms of countries on a global scale. Based on comprehensive customs data, our study found that core location and export types, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,670 Views
22 Pages

The evolution of public opinion on social media affects societal security and stability. To effectively control the societal impact of public opinion evolution, it is essential to study its underlying mechanisms. Public opinion evolution on social me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,227 Views
11 Pages

2 June 2017

The microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of a Ti-Al-Cr-Nb alloy prepared by spark plasma sintering (SPS) at different temperatures and stresses were investigated in detail. Sintering temperature plays a key role in the densification pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,203 Views
12 Pages

China has implemented strict policies for protecting cultivated land, and the Chinese government has focused on the non-grain production (NGP) of cultivated land. This study aimed to analyze the spatial evolution law of grain-producing cultivated lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,855 Views
18 Pages

The Influence Mechanism of Farmer Behavior on the Spatial Pattern Evolution of Agricultural Production in the Yanhe River Basin

  • Quanhua Hou,
  • Ziye Hu,
  • Yuxuan Yang,
  • Xiaoyang Fan,
  • Jizhe Zhou,
  • Lingda Zhang and
  • Yaqiong Duan

24 June 2023

Featuring complex and fractured terrain, the Loess hilly and gully regions suffer poor grain production capacity. The behavior of farmers, the major users of agricultural production space, significantly influences the agricultural production space. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,314 Views
19 Pages

Damage Evolution and Failure Mechanism of Red-Bed Rock under Drying–Wetting Cycles

  • Tao Wen,
  • Yankun Wang,
  • Huiming Tang,
  • Junrong Zhang and
  • Mingyi Hu

25 July 2023

The rock mass on the bank slope of the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) area often suffers from a drying–wetting cycle (DWC). How the DWCs significantly affect the mechanical properties and the stability of the rock mass is worth comprehensively in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,278 Views
20 Pages

Research Progress on Microstructure Evolution and Strengthening-Toughening Mechanism of Mg Alloys by Extrusion

  • Yaqi Zheng,
  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Yun Liu,
  • Yaqiang Tian,
  • Xiaoping Zheng and
  • Liansheng Chen

17 May 2023

Magnesium and magnesium-based alloys are widely used in the transportation, aerospace and military industries because they are lightweight, have good specific strength, a high specific damping capacity, excellent electromagnetic shielding properties...

  • Article
  • Open Access
734 Views
21 Pages

Study on Mesoscopic Evolution Mechanism and Influencing Factors of Concrete Blasting Damage Based on PFC

  • Xueying Hu,
  • Shuyang Yu,
  • Yifei Li,
  • Yihan Tang,
  • Ying Sun and
  • Pingping Gu

23 August 2025

In urban construction, the efficient demolition of concrete structures imposes high-precision requirements on blasting technology. The mesoscopic evolution mechanism of concrete blasting damage is the key to optimizing blasting parameters. In this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,168 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2018

Covert fault zone is an important type of geological phenomenon that is closely related to hydrocarbon formation and distribution but has often been overlooked because it lacks obvious fault displacement and fault plane. To meet this challenge, a nov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,469 Views
13 Pages

9 May 2022

In this paper, a quasi in situ method is established to study the microstructural evolution and deformation mechanism transition behavior of pure Ti under a high strain rate of 4000 s−1. The main deformation mechanism is found to be influenced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,789 Views
22 Pages

27 August 2022

In order to reveal the inducing factors and safety dynamic evolution mechanism of frequent personal injury accidents under a low carbon manufacturing process, a nonlinear safety dynamic evolution model of a distributed low carbon manufacturing system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,130 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2024

The uniaxial compression experiments and acoustic emission (AE) monitoring are conducted to investigate the macroscopic mechanical behavior and microscopic fracture characteristics of limestone samples with varying moisture contents. The findings rev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,390 Views
13 Pages

2 August 2024

To investigate the macroscopic mechanical properties and failure evolution mechanism of desulfurization gypsum–fly ash fluid lightweight soil, a microscale numerical model using PFC2D (Particle Flow Code) was constructed. Uniaxial compression t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,133 Views
34 Pages

2 November 2025

From the perspective of “dynamic supply–demand coordination,” this study evaluates the development level of China’s economic “dual circulation” across 30 provinces during 2001–2020. Employing Kernel density e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
892 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2024

The main reason for serious consequences caused by disasters is “insufficient emergency preparedness and obvious system vulnerability”. To ensure the safe operation and maintenance of the high-speed railway in goaf sites and achieve effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
388 Views
23 Pages

Tip Discharge Evolution Characteristics and Mechanism Analysis via Optical–Electrical Sensors in Oil-Immersed Transformers

  • Zehao Chen,
  • Yong Qian,
  • Gehao Sheng,
  • Fenghua Wang,
  • Bing Xue,
  • Chunhui Zhang and
  • Chengxiang Liu

4 January 2026

Tip discharge in oil-immersed transformers poses a significant threat to insulation integrity. Conventional detection methods, such as gas and electrical analysis, are limited by slow response times or susceptibility to interference. Additionally, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,468 Views
18 Pages

12 September 2017

A thin coal seam mined as a protective coal seam above a gas outburst coal seam plays a central role in decreasing the degree of stress placed on a protected seam, thus increasing gas permeability levels and desorption capacities to dramatically elim...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,954 Views
20 Pages

16 March 2021

In metastatic renal cell carcinoma, pancreatic metastases can appear in two clinical manifestations: (a) very rarely as isolated pancreatic metastases and (b) in the context with multi-organ metastatic disease. Both courses are characterised by rare,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,427 Views
19 Pages

15 November 2024

Coal seam water injection technology enables seam permeability enhancement and facilitates outburst risk reduction. This study investigated the microscale effects of water infiltration on coal and the evolution mechanisms of its mechanical properties...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,377 Views
13 Pages

31 May 2023

In this paper, through high-temperature tensile tests of 55NiCrMoV7 steel, high-temperature fracture behavior, microstructure evolution, and carbide distribution characteristics of both the thermal–mechanical coupling zone (fracture zone) and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,074 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2025

Precipitation strengthening is one of the fundamental factors occurring at high temperatures in medium-alloy structural steels, which offer greater durability under service conditions. This research employed transmission electron microscopy (TEM) via...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,586 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Formation Mechanism, Evolution Law, and Precise Composition Control of Interstitial Oxygen in Body-Centered Cubic Mo

  • Hai-Rui Xing,
  • Ping Hu,
  • Chao-Jun He,
  • Xiang-Yang Zhang,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Jia-Yu Han,
  • Song-Wei Ge,
  • Xing-Jiang Hua,
  • Wen Zhang and
  • Alex A. Volinsky
  • + 1 author

20 December 2022

Interstitial oxygen (O) on the formation mechanism and enrichment distribution of body-centered cubic (BCC) molybdenum (Mo) has rarely been reported, and the O usually can cause serious brittle fracture in Mo. In this paper, we studied the formation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,378 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2025

With the accelerated urbanization in China, the irrational utilization of land resources has triggered a series of ecological challenges. In this context, exploring the decoupling relationship between population and construction land is crucial for a...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,697 Views
18 Pages

13 May 2020

Water–sand inrush disasters are frequently encountered during underground engineering construction in karst terrain. The objective of this paper is to study the failure mechanism and evolution characteristics of water–sand inrush caused b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,582 Views
24 Pages

Complete Balancing of the Six-Bar Mechanism Using Fully Cartesian Coordinates and Multiobjective Differential Evolution Optimization

  • María T. Orvañanos-Guerrero,
  • Mario Acevedo,
  • Claudia N. Sánchez,
  • Daniel U. Campos-Delgado,
  • Amir Aminzadeh Ghavifekr,
  • Paolo Visconti and
  • Ramiro Velázquez

26 May 2022

The high-speed operation of unbalanced machines may cause vibrations that lead to noise, wear, and fatigue that will eventually limit their efficiency and operating life. To restrain such vibrations, a complete balancing must be performed. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,868 Views
18 Pages

Creep Mechanism and Microstructure Evolution of a Directionally Solidified Ni-Based Superalloy with Different Orientations at 850 °C

  • Anping Long,
  • Jiangying Xiong,
  • Bing Wei,
  • Gaoxiang Zhang,
  • Ganjiang Feng,
  • Jianzheng Guo and
  • Rutie Liu

28 March 2025

The creep properties of directionally solidified superalloys are largely influenced by the degradation rate of the γ/γ’ microstructure and the dislocation motion, which exhibit distinct mechanisms under varying temperature and stres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,029 Views
9 Pages

Microstructural Evolution and Strengthening Mechanism of SiC/Al Composites Fabricated by a Liquid-Pressing Process and Heat Treatment

  • Sangmin Shin,
  • Seungchan Cho,
  • Donghyun Lee,
  • Yangdo Kim,
  • Sang-Bok Lee,
  • Sang-Kwan Lee and
  • Ilguk Jo

16 October 2019

Aluminum alloy (Al7075) composites reinforced with a high volume fraction of silicon carbide (SiC) were produced by a liquid-pressing process. The characterization of their microstructure showed that SiC particles corresponding to a volume fraction g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,309 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2023

Rural settlement is an important part of studying the relationship between humans and land; it is highly significant in revealing the evolution, driving mechanism and reconstruction scheme of rural settlement pattern. In this paper, Jiangning Distric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,003 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2020

Though hindered phenol/polymer-based hybrid damping materials, with an excellent loss factor, attract more and more attention, the significantly decreased mechanical property and the narrow damping temperature range limit the application of such prom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,596 Views
13 Pages

29 March 2024

A hard-particle-reinforced high-entropy alloy (HEA) coating shows significant potential for tribological applications, but relatively little work on the fracture mechanism of the coating has been reported. In this work, the FeCoCrNiMn HEA coatings, d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,357 Views
17 Pages

Study on Microstructure Evolution Mechanism of Gradient Structure Surface of AA7075 Aluminum Alloy by Ultrasonic Surface Rolling Treatment

  • Lei Fu,
  • Xiulan Li,
  • Li Lin,
  • Zhengguo Wang,
  • Yingqian Zhang,
  • Yunrong Luo,
  • Shisen Yan,
  • Chao He and
  • Qingyuan Wang

14 August 2023

The materials with grain size gradient variation on the surface, which were prepared with mechanical-induced severe plastic deformation, always show high resistance to high and low cycle fatigue and frictional wear because of their good strength&ndas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,226 Views
26 Pages

19 March 2025

The fluid action mechanism and diagenetic evolution of tuff reservoirs in the Cretaceous Huoshiling Formation of the Dehui fault depression are discussed herein. The fluid properties of the diagenetic flow are defined, and the pore formation mechanis...

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