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Influence of Inner Roller Geometric Parameters on Counter-Roller Spinning with 6061 Aluminum Alloy Tube

  • Xiaokai Zhao,
  • Zheyuan Mu,
  • Haopeng Zhao,
  • Pengyi Wang and ,
  • Wenjie Song and
  • Guang Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 October 2023

The inner roller exerts a supportive and thinning effect on the inner side of the tube during counter-roller spinning. In this paper, the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) model of counter-roller spinning for a 6061 aluminum alloy tube was established ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis, Design, Simulation and Practice of Aluminum Alloy Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,679 Views
15 Pages

1 October 2020

The combination of additive manufacturing and conventional metal forming processes provides the possibility for improvements of forming efficiency and flexibility. Substrate preheating is an implementable technique to improve the interface adhesion p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microstructural and Mechanical Characterization of Alloys Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,458 Views
29 Pages

24 May 2024

This study focuses on the streets and spatial networks of the historic urban area in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China, by mainly investigating the evolution of their geometric and topological characteristics. It draws on the theories an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Morphology: A Perspective from Space)
  • Article
  • Open Access
694 Views
37 Pages

17 June 2026

ETFE cushions are applied to building facades in a wide range of geometric forms and sizes. However, information on how cushion geometry and dimensions affect bulging behavior, thickness and area values, structural strength, thermal conductivity, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation of Building Energy System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,640 Views
30 Pages

17 February 2025

Since one of the effective methods for producing the form-cutting tools used in the form-turning process involves utilizing a wire cut machine, the effect of the geometric characteristics of the form contour on reducing the negative effects of the re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Micro/Nanofabrication, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,630 Views
13 Pages

The Size Effect on Forming Quality of Ti–6Al–4V Solid Struts Fabricated via Laser Powder Bed Fusion

  • Huixin Liang,
  • Deqiao Xie,
  • Yuyi Mao,
  • Jianping Shi and ,
  • Changjiang Wang,
  • Lida Shen and
  • Zongjun Tian
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 April 2019

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is useful for manufacturing complex structures; however, factors affecting the forming quality have not been clearly researched. This study aimed to clarify the influence of geometric characteristic size on the forming...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing of Metals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,642 Views
15 Pages

Analytical Study of Powder Stream Geometry in Laser-Based Direct Energy Deposition Process with a Continuous Coaxial Nozzle

  • Qipeng Liu,
  • Kun Yang,
  • Yuehua Gao,
  • Fencheng Liu and ,
  • Chunping Huang and
  • Liming Ke
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 October 2021

In the process of laser-based direct energy deposition, the particle concentration distribution and geometric characteristics of powder flow play an important role in laser–powder interaction and powder utilization, and they affect the forming qualit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Processing, Characterization and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,178 Views
9 Pages

Effect Analysis of Process Parameters on Geometric Dimensions during Belt-Heated Incremental Sheet Forming of AA2024 Aluminum Alloy

  • Zhengfang Li,
  • Zhengyuan Gao,
  • Zhiguo An,
  • Han Lin and ,
  • Pengfei Sun,
  • Zhong Ren,
  • Zhengyang Qiao,
  • Yuhang Zhang and
  • Youdong Jia
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

17 July 2024

The effect of process parameters on geometric dimensions is complex during belt-heated incremental sheet forming, leading to control difficulties in the geometric dimension of parts. In this study, the geometric errors were analyzed under the action...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Processing and Characterization of Metal-Based Nanocomposites Materials towards Development of Functional Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,207 Views
14 Pages

Study on the Transverse Vibration Characteristics of Phenine Nanotubes

  • Zhuoqun Zheng,
  • Han Li,
  • Lifeng Wang,
  • Xu Xu and
  • Eric Li

16 February 2025

Phenine nanotubes are tubular molecular structures with periodic hexatomic vacancies. The holes formed by these vacancies have a significant impact on their electrical, mechanical, and other properties. In this paper, the transverse vibration charact...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,523 Views
15 Pages

On Control Polygons of Planar Sextic Pythagorean Hodograph Curves

  • Yujun Li,
  • Lincong Fang,
  • Zhihao Zheng and
  • Juan Cao

11 January 2023

In this paper, we analyze planar parametric sextic curves to determine conditions for Pythagorean hodograph (PH) curves. By expressing the curves to be analyzed in the complex form, the analysis is conducted in algebraic form. Since sextic PH curves...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer-Aided Geometric Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,969 Views
16 Pages

29 April 2022

Aggregate geometrical features directly affect asphalt pavement surface properties, which further affect the resistance to skidding of a road surface. In order to establish a relationship between the aggregate geometrical features and pavement surfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,003 Views
15 Pages

Stochastic Natural Vibration Analyses of Free-Form Shells

  • Bingbing San,
  • Yunlong Ma,
  • Zhi Xiao,
  • Dongming Feng and
  • Liwei Yin

4 August 2019

This work investigates the natural vibration characteristics of free-form shells when considering the influence of uncertainties, including initial geometric imperfection, shell thickness deviation, and elastic modulus deviation. Herein, free-form sh...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
884 Views
15 Pages

29 May 2025

This research examines key inequalities associated with the scalar and Ricci curvatures of slant submersions within generalized Sasakian space forms (GSSFs). We establish significant geometric constraints and conduct a detailed analysis of the condit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Differential Geometry and Singularity Theory, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,491 Views
19 Pages

Optimizing Catamaran Hull Form for Resistance Reduction: Methodology and Case Study

  • Evgenii Iamshchikov,
  • Jolanta Janutenienė,
  • Pranas Mažeika,
  • Rima Mickevičienė and ,
  • Diego Villa,
  • Tomas Zapnickas and
  • Vasilij Djackov
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Existing studies and methodologies do not offer designers clear guidelines for selecting optimal catamaran geometric parameters. Most focus on separate geometric characteristics or hull elements to minimize total resistance, providing only general tr...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,780 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2022

Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing technology is suitable for the direct 3D printing of geometrically complex periodic micro-rod-lattices. However, controlling the geometric and performance consistency remains challenging due to m...

(This article belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,854 Views
9 Pages

27 March 2019

Information geometry is the study of the intrinsic geometric properties of manifolds consisting of a probability distribution and provides a deeper understanding of statistical inference. Based on this discipline, this letter reports on the influence...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,525 Views
16 Pages

11 April 2018

The aim of the study is to develop an original, methodical, and practical approach to the early stages of parametric design of roof shells formed by repetitive modules of Catalan surfaces. It is presented on the example of designing the roof shells c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Civil Engineering and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
871 Views
13 Pages

28 January 2026

Origami is frequently used in the design of deployable structures due to its large storage ratio and simple structure. A bistable characteristic is a common feature of origami-inspired structures. In this paper, a new configuration is designed with a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformable and Modular Building Systems: Mechanics, Design, and Applications Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
444 Views
21 Pages

27 April 2026

The lower-velocity clay in the Yinggehai Basin (northwestern South China Sea) forms under rapid depositional conditions. These clays are typically buried at depths of 1.3–4.0 km, with P-wave velocities ranging from 2.5 to 3.0 km/s. They produce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,242 Views
11 Pages

16 August 2021

We introduce the fourth fundamental form of a Dini-type helicoidal hypersurface in the four dimensional Euclidean space E4. We find the Gauss map of helicoidal hypersurface in E4. We obtain the characteristic polynomial of shape operator matrix. Then...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Differential Geometry II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
182 Views
49 Pages

21 October 2026

Airfoil profiles form the foundation of flight performance by determining the balance between lift and drag forces. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analyses enable a detailed examination of the velocity and pressure distributions around these prof...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Multiphase Flows)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,469 Views
26 Pages

Research on the Karhunen–Loève Transform Method and Its Application to Hull Form Optimization

  • Haichao Chang,
  • Chengjun Wang,
  • Zuyuan Liu,
  • Baiwei Feng and ,
  • Chengsheng Zhan and
  • Xide Cheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Hull form optimization becomes prone to the curse of dimensionality as the number of design variables increases. The traditional sensitivity analysis method requires massive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) computations and analyzing the effects of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ship Dynamics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access

3 November 2026

In fused deposition modelling (FDM), build orientation is known to govern the mechanical properties of printed parts, but its effect on geometric and form accuracy is far less thoroughly characterised. This study investigates how build orientation in...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Symposium 2026)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,603 Views
12 Pages

18 January 2018

In this paper we consider pricing problems of the geometric average Asian options under a non-Gaussian model, in which the underlying stock price is driven by a process based on non-extensive statistical mechanics. The model can describe the peak and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonadditive Entropies and Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
26 Pages

27 September 2026

The geometric configuration of curved roofing elements in historic structures provides valuable evidence of the design knowledge and construction practices of their respective periods. This study examines the geometric and proportional organization o...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
671 Views
17 Pages

Generalized Almost Schouten Solitons in LP-Sasakian Geometry and Relativistic Spacetimes

  • Sunil Kumar Yadav,
  • Najwa Mohammed Al-Asmari and
  • Abdul Haseeb

The objective of this work is to characterize certain geometric aspects of LP-Sasakian (LPS) manifolds admitting a generalized almost Schouten soliton (GASS) and to prove that a such manifold with GASS is of constant scalar curvature. Initially, we e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Phenomena in Fluid Mechanics and Related Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,977 Views
18 Pages

Analysis and Modeling of the Micro-Cutting Process of Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy with Single Abrasive Grain

  • Łukasz Rypina,
  • Dariusz Lipiński,
  • Błażej Bałasz,
  • Wojciech Kacalak and
  • Tomasz Szatkiewicz

21 December 2020

Modeling of material displacements in the microcutting zone is complex due to the number and interdependence of factors affecting the results of the process. An important problem in the modeling process is the selection of the constitutive model and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Design for Manufacturing Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,279 Views
25 Pages

25 December 2025

In this research, we establish a precise correspondence between the theory of logarithmic connections on principal G-bundles over compact Riemann surfaces and the geometric formulation of control systems on curved manifolds, providing a novel differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
3,836 Views
13 Pages

Geometrical Structure in a Perfect Fluid Spacetime with Conformal Ricci–Yamabe Soliton

  • Pengfei Zhang,
  • Yanlin Li,
  • Soumendu Roy,
  • Santu Dey and
  • Arindam Bhattacharyya

17 March 2022

The present paper aims to deliberate the geometric composition of a perfect fluid spacetime with torse-forming vector field ξ in connection with conformal Ricci–Yamabe metric and conformal η-Ricci–Yamabe metric. We delineate the co...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,452 Views
15 Pages

Application Research on Contour Feature Extraction of Solidified Region Image in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Based on SA-TransUNet

  • Mengxiang Dang,
  • Xin Zhou,
  • Guorong Huang,
  • Xuede Wang and ,
  • Ting Zhang,
  • Ying Tian,
  • Guoquan Ding and
  • Hanyu Gao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2025

The solidified state after the melting of the forming layer in the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) directly reflects the final forming quality. Compared with the powder layer and the melt pool, it is easier to recognize and remove the defects of conto...

(This article belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,394 Views
19 Pages

A Parametric Study of Optimum Road Modular Hinged Frames by Hybrid Metaheuristics

  • Andrés Ruiz-Vélez,
  • Julián Alcalá and
  • Víctor Yepes

18 January 2023

This paper addresses a study of cost-optimal road modular hinged frames. The performance of three hybrid metaheuristics is assessed through a fractional factorial design of experiments. The results allow for selecting and calibrating the hybrid simul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,701 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Long-Distance Geometric Error Measurement and Uncertainty Based on PSD Laser Collimation Principle

  • Yinbao Cheng,
  • Penghuang Luo,
  • Bin Shen,
  • Yinghui Wang and ,
  • Yaru Li and
  • Shaohui Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Due to the limitations of traditional geometric error measurement, the measurement accuracy of long-stroke geometric errors is generally not high and the operation is complicated. In response to the above situation, in this study, a geometric error m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Photonic Sensing and Measurement II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,716 Views
10 Pages

Experimental Study of Bubble Formation from a Micro-Tube in Non-Newtonian Fluid

  • Georgia Kontaxi,
  • Yorgos G. Stergiou and
  • Aikaterini A. Mouza

11 January 2021

Over the last few years, microbubbles have found application in biomedicine. In this study, the characteristics of bubbles formed when air is introduced from a micro-tube (internal diameter 110 μm) in non-Newtonian shear thinning fluids are studie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro Process-Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,863 Views
20 Pages

24 September 2021

This study proposed a dynamic forming mechanism development of the negative Poisson’s ratio elastomer molds—plate to plate (P2P) forming process. To dynamically stretch molds and control the microstructural shape, the proposal is committed to using t...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Physics and Theory)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,512 Views
14 Pages

22 February 2024

In this work, molecular dynamic (MD) simulations are applied to investigate the heterogeneous nucleation mechanism of KI on a graphene surface in water. As graphene is immersed in water, it mainly affects the structure of interfacial water (the topmo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,829 Views
17 Pages

13 November 2022

In view of its high compactibility, flexibility, reduced compacting pressure, and other superiorities, the single point incremental forming (SPIF) technique has been applied increasingly in the cranial prosthesis forming of perforated TA1 sheet with...

(This article belongs to the Section Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,576 Views
24 Pages

25 January 2025

In the field of Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), a proper model can be achieved depending on certain characteristics of the predefined blending basis functions. The presence of these characteristics ensures the geometric properties necessary f...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,651 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Geometric Characteristics of Fine Aggregate and Its Impact on Viscoelastic Property of Asphalt Mortar

  • Tan Tan,
  • Zepeng Fan,
  • Chao Xing,
  • Yiqiu Tan and ,
  • Huining Xu and
  • Markus Oeser
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 December 2019

It has long been recognized that fine aggregate (FA) plays a crucial role in the performance of asphalt mixture, especially for the viscoelastic behavior. In this research, 13 types of FA (1 natural sand, 5 stone chips, and 7 machine-made sands) were...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
767 Views
25 Pages

31 May 2026

Reducing building energy demand is essential for achieving carbon neutrality and advancing sustainable urban development. This study examines the associations between building-related and topographical characteristics and summer electricity consumpti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Built Environment and Green Building Design)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,745 Views
12 Pages

12 December 2024

Incoherent digital holography is a promising solution for acquiring three-dimensional information in the form of interference without a laser. Self-interference is the principal phenomenon of incoherent holography which splits the incident light wave...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Imaging Innovations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,157 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2026

Laser metal deposition operates on the principle of layer-by-layer material addition, wherein each layer is formed by overlapping individual single tracks. Consequently, clads formed serve as the fundamental building blocks for this technology. Their...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing and Characterization of Metallic Alloys and Composites)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,674 Views
17 Pages

A Structured Approach for the Design and Manufacturing of Titanium Cranial Prostheses via Sheet Metal Forming

  • Gianfranco Palumbo,
  • Giuseppina Ambrogio,
  • Alberto Crovace,
  • Antonio Piccininni and ,
  • Angela Cusanno,
  • Pasquale Guglielmi,
  • Luigi De Napoli and
  • Giuseppe Serratore
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

8 February 2022

Currently, the growing need for highly customized implants has become one of the key aspects to increase the life expectancy and reduce time and costs for prolonged hospitalizations due to premature failures of implanted prostheses. According to the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tube and Sheet Metal Forming Processes and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,110 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2023

A slot formed between the slat and the main wing of the 2D high-lift device is used to accelerate the convergence of the flow to the upper surface of the main wing to improve the flow field quality. In order to further enhance flow characteristics, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flow Control, Active and Passive Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,187 Views
19 Pages

2 March 2025

This article describes the findings of a study that examined the impact of the process of shaping the stator core of a synchronous reluctance motor on its operating parameters. The SynRM motor, with compact geometrical dimensions and a flux barrier r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Analysis, Optimization and Control of Electric Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,691 Views
15 Pages

Research on Film-Forming Characteristics and Mechanism of Painting V-Shaped Surfaces

  • Shiming Chen,
  • Wenzhuo Chen,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Junze Jiang and ,
  • Zhaojie Wu and
  • Shuang Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Painting a V-shaped surface, which is widely found in various facilities and equipment, often results in poor coating quality, which may be caused by an insufficient understanding of film-forming characteristics and mechanism. In this study, computat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,043 Views
7 Pages

10 April 2019

Contact resistance is a major characteristic of organic transistors, and its importance has received renewed attention due to the recent revelation of mobility overestimation. In this article, we propose a method to describe the contact resistance as...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical and Photonic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,145 Views
15 Pages

Study of Concentrated Short Fiber Suspensions in Flows, Using Topological Data Analysis

  • Rabih Mezher,
  • Jack Arayro,
  • Nicolas Hascoet and
  • Francisco Chinesta

18 September 2021

The present study addresses the discrete simulation of the flow of concentrated suspensions encountered in the forming processes involving reinforced polymers, and more particularly the statistical characterization and description of the effects of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Fluid Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,036 Views
17 Pages

17 July 2023

A denoising algorithm was proposed for point cloud with high-density noise. The algorithm utilized geometric metrics on the statistical manifold and applied the idea of clustering K-means based on local statistical characteristics between noise and v...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
416 Views
20 Pages

Methodology for Early-Stage Seakeeping Evaluation of Catamarans Using Geometric Parameter Variation

  • Evgenii Iamshchikov,
  • Jolanta Janutenienė,
  • Lukas Norkevicius and
  • Vasilij Djackov

The determination of optimal geometric characteristics of a catamaran that minimize vessel motion responses under prescribed design and operational conditions remains insufficiently addressed in existing engineering practice. This study presents a sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation-Based Design Optimization in Ship and Offshore Hydrodynamics)

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