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The rectangular labyrinth emitter is taken as the study object in this article, as we added internal teeth to vortex-free and vortex areas in its lateral channel or lengthened the vertical channel, to change the channel structure. Using the computati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future of Irrigation in Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,046 Views
15 Pages

26 November 2020

When damaged by an earthquake, a general structure suffers only primary damage such as in the structure’s collapse, whereas a fluid storage structure can cause secondary damage such as environmental contamination or personal injury due to leaka...

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35 Citations
19,357 Views
15 Pages

Critical Hydraulic Gradient of Internal Erosion at the Soil–Structure Interface

  • Quanyi Xie,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Bo Han,
  • Hongtao Li,
  • Yuying Li and
  • Xuanzheng Li

18 July 2018

Internal erosion at soil–structure interfaces is a dangerous failure pattern in earth-fill water-retaining structures. However, existing studies concentrate on the investigations of internal erosion by assuming homogeneous materials, while igno...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluid Flow in Fractured Porous Media)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,823 Views
16 Pages

Free Vibration Analysis of Hydraulic Quick Couplings Considering Fluid–Structure Interaction Characteristics

  • Yuchao Liu,
  • Fei Ma,
  • Xiaoguang Geng,
  • Songyuan Wang,
  • Zhihong Zhou and
  • Chun Jin

11 December 2024

As an important component of the automatic hydraulic quick coupling device (AHQCD) on rescue vehicles, the hydraulic quick couplings (HQCs) are used to rapidly dock hydraulic lines and transport fluid while changing and operating hydraulic working to...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,557 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2022

An anti-swaying or swaying-reduction effect for a container crane is key for improving the rapidity and safety of container handling operations. By analyzing the structure of a container crane hydraulic anti-swaying system, a dynamic system model was...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,097 Views
23 Pages

9 June 2022

This paper focuses on the frequency domain fluid–structure interaction (FSI) vibration characteristics of aircraft hydraulic pipe with complex constraints. The linear partial differential fourteen-equation model is applied to describe the nonli...

(This article belongs to the Topic Processing, Analysis, Modelling and Mechanics of Materials and Structures)
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  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,027 Views
16 Pages

2 December 2024

Understanding the effects of salinity on soil structure and hydraulic properties is critical for addressing environmental challenges in coastal saline and sodic areas. In this study, soil samples were collected from a coastal region in eastern China...

(This article belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,134 Views
14 Pages

12 May 2024

A series of COMSOL numerical models were developed to explore how confining pressure impacts the microscopic structure and hydraulic conductivity of Geosynthetic Clay Liners (GCLs), taking into account the bentonite swelling ratio, mobile porosity, p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Solid Waste Treatment Technology and Contamination Remediation)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,094 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2023

In response to the problems of considerable size, loose structure, and low energy conversion efficiency of multi-energy power coupling devices, this paper makes improvements based on the mechanical–electric–hydraulic power coupler propose...

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26 Citations
7,795 Views
19 Pages

Design of a Bio-Inspired Anti-Erosion Structure for a Water Hydraulic Valve Core: An Experimental Study

  • Haihang Wang,
  • He Xu,
  • Yonghui Zhang,
  • Siqing Chen,
  • Zitong Zhao and
  • Junlong Chen

Animals and plants have numerous active protections for adapting to the complex and severe living environments, providing endless inspiration for extending the service life of materials and machines. Conch, a marine animal living near the coast and c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from ICBE2019)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,882 Views
19 Pages

20 May 2020

This paper aims at studying the axial vibration response characteristics of Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) vibration of aircraft hydraulic pipe when considering the friction coupling. Based on the Brunone empirical model and the Zielke weighting f...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,077 Views
22 Pages

15 December 2021

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is prevalent in aircraft hydraulic pipes due to high-pressure fluid pulsation, complex pipe path routing and boundary constraints, which pose a serious threat to the safety and reliability of the aircraft hydraulic s...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,941 Views
18 Pages

11 May 2024

An integrated model that considers multiphysics is necessary to accurately analyze the time-dependent response of hydraulic structures on soft foundations. This study develops an integrated superstructure–foundation–backfills model and in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Hydraulic Structure Safety Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,076 Views
20 Pages

In the development trend of intelligent and high-performance construction machinery, the dual-spool electro-hydraulic valve, as a new-generation core control element, directly affects the operation accuracy and energy-efficiency level of construction...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
442 Views
25 Pages

7 May 2026

Under high-frequency commutation conditions, the Single-Piston Two-Dimensional Electro-Hydraulic Pump suffers from severe reverse flow and pressure pulsation, which limit its volumetric efficiency and operational stability. To address this issue, thi...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
806 Views
20 Pages

Relationships Between Leaf Coloration Changes, Cellular Structure, Photosynthetic Physiology, and Hydraulic Traits in Liquidambar formosana Hance Under Drought Stress in Autumn

  • Mengting Li,
  • Xiongsheng Liu,
  • Renjie Wang,
  • Ying Jiang,
  • Yufei Xiao,
  • Rongyuan Fan,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Jing Huang and
  • Fengfan Chen

10 April 2026

Liquidambar formosana Hance, a tree species in subtropical broad-leaved forests, exhibits a striking autumn leaf coloration. However, how drought stress during this period influences leaf color change remains poorly understood. In this study, two-yea...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,531 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2022

Along with the increased use of water resources, some large water conservancy projects began construction to address power supply shortages and control flooding and drainage. As investment grows, construction cycles lengthen, external environmental i...

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1 Citations
486 Views
18 Pages

Lateral Structure of Multi-Layer Thick Hard Roofs and Hydraulic Roof-Cutting Pressure Relief in Xiao Jihan Mine

  • Hui Liu,
  • Lichuang Chen,
  • Xufeng Wang,
  • Hui Gao,
  • Chenlong Qian and
  • Xuyang Chen

22 January 2026

This study aims to address the pronounced stress concentration in roadway-surrounding rock under conditions of multiple thick and hard roof strata at Xiao jihan coal mine, China. The work was carried out on the 13216 working mining face as the engine...

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359 Views
23 Pages

20 July 2026

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) and the rapid advancement of 3D data acquisition technologies (e.g., LiDAR) have enabled scalable semantic interpretation of georeferenced large-scale 3D point clouds across different applications. 3D deep l...

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1 Citations
9,397 Views
31 Pages

Applicability of the Goda–Takahashi Wave Load Formula for Vertical Slender Hydraulic Structures

  • Nadieh Elisabeth Meinen,
  • Raphaël Daniël Johannes Maria Steenbergen,
  • Bas Hofland and
  • Sebastiaan Nicolaas Jonkman

31 October 2020

Vertical slender hydraulic structures such as sluices, navigation locks, or storm-surge barriers are often dynamically loaded by waves. For a safe and economic design, an accurate description of the wave loads is needed. A widely used formula for thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Response of Marine Structures under Wave Action)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,061 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2018

Coastal and hydraulic structures, such as revetments, embankments and levees—as well as their underlying soil—may experience piping when exposed to outward pressure gradients. The aim of the present study is twofold: (1) to derive the for...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
1,294 Views
19 Pages

Accurate prediction of vibration responses in hydraulic structures during flood discharge is essential for ensuring safe and stable operation. This study develops a hybrid deep learning model that combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Bidirec...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,000 Views
12 Pages

Simulation of Hydraulic Structures in 2D High-Resolution Urban Flood Modeling

  • Yunsong Cui,
  • Qiuhua Liang,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Jiaheng Zhao,
  • Jinchun Hu,
  • Yuehua Wang and
  • Xilin Xia

15 October 2019

Urban flooding as a result of inadequate drainage capacity, failure of flood defenses, etc. is usually featured with highly transient hydrodynamics. Reliable and efficient prediction and forecasting of these urban flash floods is still a great techni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Techniques and Applications in Water Science and Engineering: Selected Papers from the Inaugural International Symposium on Water Modelling (iSymWater2019))
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,478 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2019

In addition to non-hydraulic lime, natural hydraulic lime (NHL) is a material widely used to repair and restore historic buildings. In Korea, although lime mortars have been used as important building materials for thousands of years, the sharing of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Preventive Conservation and Energy Efficiency of Heritage Buildings)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,437 Views
25 Pages

Assessment of Object-Level Flood Impact in an Urbanized Area Considering Operation of Hydraulic Structures

  • Yunsong Cui,
  • Qiuhua Liang,
  • Yan Xiong,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Tianwen Wang and
  • Huili Chen

3 March 2023

Urban flooding has become one of the most common natural hazards threatening people’s lives and assets globally due to climate change and rapid urbanization. Hydraulic structures, e.g., sluicegates and pumping stations, can directly influence f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coastal Hazards and Safety)
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  • Open Access
2,120 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2024

The construction time of concrete structures in hydraulic tunnels is long, the construction environment is complex, and there are many influencing factors. The requirements for construction quality are high not only to meet the strength requirements...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Tunneling and Underground Engineering)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,445 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2022

Hydraulic structures installed in rivers inevitably create a water level difference between upstream and downstream regions. The potential energy due to this difference in water level is converted into kinetic energy, causing high-velocity flow and h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue River Flood Indicators for Sustainability: Field Studies, Trends and Modeling)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,919 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2024

During the long-term operation of hydraulic structures under the action of complex loads and impacts, non-design changes occur, which lead to a decrease in the bearing capacity and safety and, accordingly, to the need for structural reinforcements. E...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,975 Views
17 Pages

15 September 2023

The foundation of a seismic safety assessment of cross-fault hydraulic tunnels is an acceptable and accurate seismic response. A dynamic contact force algorithm that may take into consideration the interaction between the fault–surrounding rock...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
548 Views
19 Pages

Morphology-Adaptive YOLO for Underwater Crack Detection in Hydraulic Structures

  • Zhe Chen,
  • Changning Zhou,
  • Jingkun Guo and
  • Guangjun Yin

21 May 2026

Accurate underwater crack detection is essential for the condition monitoring of hydraulic structures. However, reliable detection in underwater inspection imagery remains challenging because of low visibility, complex backgrounds, large-scale variat...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,065 Views
21 Pages

Using one opening (filter) within the floors of hydraulic structures is a known technique to relieve the seepage effects on their floors. In this study, a new method to control seepage flow by using two identical filters instead of one was tackled nu...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,199 Views
17 Pages

As a key component of a drip irrigation system, the performance of drip irrigation emitters is determined by the flow channel structures and parameters. In this paper, a novel Y-shaped labyrinth-channel emitter was proposed, and the influence of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Water Management)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,350 Views
29 Pages

Sustainable Water Management for Small Farmers with Center-Pivot Irrigation: A Hydraulic and Structural Design Perspective

  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Saif Haider,
  • Muhammad Umer Masood,
  • Chaitanya B. Pande,
  • Abebe Debele Tolche,
  • Fahad Alshehri,
  • Romulus Costache and
  • Ismail Elkhrachy

28 November 2023

In Pakistan, surface water supply for irrigation is decreasing, while water demand is increasing for agriculture production. Also, due to the fast rate of population growth, land holding capacity is decreasing. So, there is a need to develop appropri...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,060 Views
14 Pages

24 September 2022

Successively conducted monitoring and inspections allow for the detection of emerging issues and their elimination. The objective of this study is the analysis of the administrative procedures related to the monitoring of the technical condition of s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Hydraulic Structures: Design, Monitoring, and Management)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,064 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2024

Herein, we present a method for detecting and determining the corrosion level of hydraulic metal structure surfaces through images while reducing the difficulty of dataset annotation. To achieve accurate detection of corrosion targets, the MobileViTv...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,195 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2025

The flow occurring at the bottom of a polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) drill bit involves a complex process made up of drilling fluid and the drilled rock cuttings. A thorough understanding of the bottom-hole flow conditions is essential for acc...

(This article belongs to the Section Flow of Multi-Phase Fluids and Granular Materials)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,469 Views
19 Pages

10 April 2025

Accurate monitoring of ground deformation is crucial for ensuring the safety and stability of hydraulic structures. Current deformation monitoring techniques often face challenges such as limited accuracy and robustness, particularly in complex envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS Advanced Positioning Algorithms and Innovative Applications (2nd Edition))
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,301 Views
21 Pages

Study on Hydraulic Dampers Using a Foldable Inverted Spiral Origami Structure

  • Jingchao Guan,
  • Jingshun Zuo,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Nobuyuki Gomi and
  • Xilu Zhao

21 October 2022

Hydraulic dampers for the vibration damping of industrial machinery and building structures are typically cylindrical. This study proposes a novel, axially free-folding hydraulic damper of the origami type to improve the structural characteristics of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Engineering Technologies and Applications in Structural Dynamics and Vibrations)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,921 Views
20 Pages

8 February 2022

When the axial-flow pump is running, the blade angle is not fully adjusted or there are errors in the manufacture of the blades, which will lead to inconsistent blade placement angles during operation, and which will reduce the efficiency of the axia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Optimization Method of Pumps)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,315 Views
20 Pages

Optimization of Multi-Way Valve Structure in Digital Hydraulic System of Loader

  • Chunshuang Li,
  • Xinhui Liu,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Jinshi Chen and
  • Yuqi Wang

29 January 2021

In this paper, a digital hydraulic variable control method based on multi-way valve spool displacement feedback is proposed, which combines the advantages of low cost and high reliability of the loader fixed displacement pump hydraulic system, and th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,236 Views
16 Pages

6 June 2025

This article analyses the necessity of employing an interdisciplinary approach in the geotechnical practice of designing, constructing, and operating industrial hydraulic structures—tailings dams of processing plants. Tailings dam failures ofte...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,353 Views
20 Pages

21 June 2023

The surfaces of hydraulic structures are vulnerable to damage and cracking, which can result in high-pressure reservoir water entering cracks and endangering the safety of the structures. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the anti-seepage trea...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
490 Views
19 Pages

28 May 2026

Hydraulic short-circuit (HSC) has gained widespread attention as a novel approach to enhancing the flexibility of pumped-storage power plants (PSPPs). This paper investigates the flow and structural characteristics of bifurcated pipes in PSPPs, condu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Hydropower Flexibility: Theory, Optimization, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,872 Views
13 Pages

11 August 2020

This study investigated two types of abrasion resistance of steel–fiber-reinforced concrete in hydraulic structures, friction abrasion and impact abrasion using the ASTM C1138 underwater test and the water-borne sand test, respectively. Three w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composites)
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  • Open Access
2,223 Views
16 Pages

25 October 2023

Water resources are of elementary economic and environmental importance, and the observed global transformations as well as regional environmental conditions necessitate activities aimed at providing an optimal amount of water at different levels. On...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,373 Views
14 Pages

25 August 2024

Due to the complexity of terrain and climate in the mountain–plain transition zone, it is difficult to simulate and forecast the flow discharge of river basins accurately. The poor regularity of the river thus leads to uncertain flood control s...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,255 Views
18 Pages

20 November 2018

The aircraft full-scale fatigue test is widely used in the modern aircraft industry for the safety of flight. Generally, the aircraft full-scale fatigue test is achieved by structural loading; multiple hydraulic actuators are used to apply load for f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechatronic Systems for Automatic Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
1,422 Views
22 Pages

Geodynamic Characterization of Hydraulic Structures in Seismically Active Almaty Using Lineament Analysis

  • Dinara Talgarbayeva,
  • Andrey Vilayev,
  • Tatyana Dedova,
  • Oxana Kuznetsova,
  • Larissa Balakay and
  • Aibek Merekeyev

Monitoring the stability of hydraulic structures such as dams and reservoirs in seismically active regions is essential for ensuring their safety and operational reliability. This study presents a comprehensive geospatial approach combining lineament...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,962 Views
24 Pages

23 November 2018

A hydraulic torque converter (HTC) is a key component in an automatic transmission. To monitor its operating status and to detect and locate faults, and considering the high-efficiency fault detection and identification (FDI) scheme design by the met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,961 Views
25 Pages

15 January 2020

According to the results of a dynamic prototype test for the surface outlet radial gate on the Jinping high arch dam during the flood discharging process, a novel cause of vibration fundamentally different from the traditional causes of flow-induced...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances on Structural Engineering)

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