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18 Citations
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16 October 2014

Performance degradation assessment of rolling element bearings is vital for the reliable and cost-efficient operation and maintenance of rotating machines, especially for the implementation of condition-based maintenance (CBM). For robust degradation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exergy: Analysis and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,074 Views
13 Pages

Research on the Design of an Optical Information Storage Sensing System Using a Diffractive Optical Element

  • Xuemin Cheng,
  • Qun Hao,
  • Jianbo Hou,
  • Xiangping Li and ,
  • Jianshe Ma and
  • Min Gu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 November 2013

This paper introduces a compact optical information storage sensing system. Applications of this system include longitudinal surface plasmon resonance detection of gold nanorods with a single femtosecond laser in three-dimensional space as well as da...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanotube and Nanowire Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
11,155 Views
16 Pages

Sustainable ecological and environmental development is the basis of regional development. The sensitivity classification of the ecological environment is the premise of its spatial distribution for land use planning. In this paper, a fuzzy matter-el...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geostatistics in Environmental Pollution and Risk Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,392 Views
16 Pages

9 January 2025

(1) The presented paper proposes an approach to the BIM-based generation of FE models of different complexity and FE dimensionality. This is particularly important as different FE models are needed to assess various structural or material limit state...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue BIM Methodology and Tools Development/Implementation)
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  • Open Access
1,717 Views
33 Pages

Here we perform a detailed information-theoretic (IT) analysis of atomic electron densities in the periodic table, from hydrogen (Z = 1) to lawrencium (Z = 103). By use of the Shannon entropy, the Fisher information and the disequilibrium functionals...

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  • Open Access
128 Views
31 Pages

29 October 2026

This paper presents a finite-element-informed analytical modelling framework for an electrically excited synchronous machine (EESM) drive under constant-field-current excitation. The aim is to extend operating-point-dependent electromagnetic data obt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control and Performance Optimization in Power Electronic Systems)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,625 Views
24 Pages

17 May 2022

The study was aimed at assessing the influence of urban informal settlement on trace element accumulation in road dust from the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa, and their possible health implications. The concentration of major and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Potentially Toxic Elements Pollution in Urban and Suburban Environments)
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  • Open Access
481 Views
26 Pages

Data-driven site characterization in geotechnical engineering increasingly relies on high-dimensional waveform data and computationally intensive inverse modeling. Full waveform inversion and finite element model updating typically rely on gradient-b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Modelling and Data-Driven Methods in Geotechnical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3,063 Views
22 Pages

4 December 2023

With the increasing ease of building information modeling data usage, digital watermarking technology has become increasingly crucial for BIM data copyright protection. In response to the problem that existing robust watermarking methods mainly focus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Multimedia Steganography and Watermarking)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,060 Views
18 Pages

Method for Extracting Optical Element Information Using Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Jiucheng Nie,
  • Yukun Wang,
  • Dacheng Wang,
  • Yue Ding and ,
  • Chengchen Zhou,
  • Jincheng Wang,
  • Shuangshuang Zhang,
  • Junwei Song,
  • Mengxue Cai and
  • Xiaokun Wang
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

30 October 2024

This study examines the measurement of film thickness, curvature, and defects on the surface or inside of an optical element using a highly accurate and efficient method. This is essential to ensure their quality and performance. Existing methods are...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,025 Views
17 Pages

29 December 2025

To reduce the reliance on large training sets for representative volume element (RVE) generation using machine learning, this work presents a novel approach based on physics-informed neural network (PINN) to generate RVEs for unidirectional fiber-rei...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Physics and Theory)
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  • Open Access
62 Views
33 Pages

5 November 2026

This paper proposes a physics-informed identification framework for the spatial and dynamic responses of dual-element pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensors using variable circular-aperture excitation. The dynamic half is carried through to experimental...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,366 Views
35 Pages

23 June 2025

Sustainable informal learning environments are increasingly recognized as critical components of educational architecture, yet their environmental and behavioral dynamics remain underexplored. Informal learning spaces (ILS) support flexible, student-...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,360 Views
18 Pages

8 November 2021

Information management, an important element of which is the information system, has a direct impact on the functioning of a company, including its competitive position. Information management is related to the shape of the organizational culture, re...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,993 Views
27 Pages

31 May 2023

In practical engineering applications, there is a high demand for inverting parameters for various materials, and obtaining monitoring data can be costly. Traditional inverse methods often involve tedious computational processes, require significant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Mathematical Modeling and Neural Networks)
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  • Open Access
271 Views
31 Pages

28 September 2026

Blast-induced ground vibration is traditionally predicted using empirical scaled-distance equations or numerical simulations driven by simplified analytical loading functions. Although dynamic finite element modeling has significantly advanced the un...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,587 Views
26 Pages

18 March 2011

In this paper we review a particular connection between information theory and group theory. We formalize the notions of information elements and information lattices, first proposed by Shannon. Exploiting this formalization, we expose a comprehensiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Information Theory)
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  • Open Access
116 Views
29 Pages

28 October 2026

Undocumented structural modifications and spatially incomplete inspection data complicate the assessment of existing bridges. This study evaluates their influence on a six-span composite highway bridge by combining project records, field observations...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,618 Views
28 Pages

New Geochemical Framework and Geographic Information System Methodologies to Assess Element Occurrence, Persistence, and Mobility in Groundwater and Surface Water

  • Johanna M. Blake,
  • Katherine Walton-Day,
  • Tanya J. Gallegos,
  • Douglas B. Yager and ,
  • Andrew Teeple,
  • Delbert Humberson,
  • Victoria Stengel and
  • Kent Becher
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

26 March 2022

This study presents a geochemical framework and geographic information system (GIS) method for assessing the intrinsic potential of surface water and groundwater to mobilize arsenic, molybdenum, selenium, uranium, and vanadium. The method was created...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmentally Sound In-Situ Recovery Mining of Uranium)
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  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,759 Views
15 Pages

An Automatic Generation Method of Finite Element Model Based on BIM and Ontology

  • Jing Jia,
  • Jieya Gao,
  • Weixin Wang,
  • Ling Ma and ,
  • Junda Li and
  • Zijing Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 November 2022

For the mechanical analysis work in the structural design phase, data conversion and information transfer between BIM model and finite element model have become the main factors limiting its efficiency and quality, with the development of BIM (buildi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automation and Information and Knowledge Model Technologies in Construction Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,719 Views
16 Pages

The Application of Airborne Gamma-Ray Spectrometric Multi-Element Composite Parameters in the Prediction of Uranium Prospecting Areas in Qinling Region, China

  • Yongzai Xi,
  • Junjie Liu,
  • Shan Wu,
  • Ning Lu and ,
  • Guixiang Liao,
  • Yongbo Li,
  • Fei Li and
  • Niannian Qu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 May 2025

Progress in the exploration of uranium deposits in the Qinling region is impacted by a number of factors, including extensive forest distribution, large-scale terrain segmentation, and hidden ore bodies. Airborne gamma-ray spectrometry measurement is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mineral Prospectivity Mapping (MPM) Using Multi-Source Datasets, Geo-Statistical Algorithms and Machine Learning Techniques)
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  • Open Access
109 Citations
8,700 Views
20 Pages

21 July 2022

Road traffic elements are important components of roads and the main elements of structuring basic traffic geographic information databases. However, the following problems still exist in the detection and recognition of road traffic elements: dense...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Extraction and Distress Assessment by Spaceborne, Airborne and Terrestrial Platforms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,981 Views
21 Pages

30 May 2022

The harsh environment of high-latitude areas with large amounts of snow and ice cover makes it difficult to carry out full geological field surveys. Uranium resources are abundant within the Ilimaussaq Complex in the Narsaq region of Greenland, where...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multispectral Remote Sensing Satellite Data for Mineral and Hydrocarbon Exploration: Big Data Processing and Deep Fusion Learning Techniques)
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  • Open Access
50 Citations
15,140 Views
22 Pages

1 April 2009

This paper proposes a feature extraction method based on information theory for fault diagnosis of reciprocating machinery. A method to obtain symptom parameter waves is defined in the time domain using the vibration signals, and an information wave...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Japan)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,398 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2024

With the rapid development of machine learning and data science, computer performance continues to improve. It has become possible to integrate finite element analyses and machine learning technology. In this study, a surrogate-based finite element m...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,484 Views
21 Pages

31 March 2023

Once the high-speed railway tunnel is put into use, its resilience will determine the possibility of permanent safety of the tunnel due to the closure of the structural space of the high-speed railway tunnel in service. Resilience theory is introduce...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,642 Views
24 Pages

19 July 2025

Amid the rapid development of the digital economy, data elements—emerging as a new type of production factor—are gradually becoming a key resource for enhancing corporate efficiency and promoting high-quality development. The marketizatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
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  • Open Access
637 Views
14 Pages

28 June 2026

This work presents an unsupervised machine learning approach for the synthesis of nonuniform antenna arrays with consideration of mutual coupling effects. By integrating physical array synthesis formulas into the loss function, the physics-informed g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,619 Views
18 Pages

23 January 2017

Single-crystal Ni-base superalloys, consisting of a two-phase γ/ γ ′ microstructure, retain high strengths at elevated temperatures and are key materials for high temperature applications, like, e.g., turbine blades of aircraft engines. The la...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Materials Characterization)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,741 Views
26 Pages

27 March 2025

A neural network model for a constitutive law in nonlinear structures is proposed in this paper. The artificial neural network (ANN) model is constructed based on a data set of responses from representative volume elements, which was calculated by fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications in Neural and Symbolic Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,183 Views
20 Pages

1 November 2025

Irreducible polynomials are widely used in modern cryptography; however, algorithms for finding such polynomials remain quite complex and require significant computational resources. In this study, a new approach to finding irreducible equations over...

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  • Open Access
1,008 Views
55 Pages

20 February 2026

Research shows that structures are often over designed in reliability-based calculations compared to code requirements. To address the knowledge gap in applying Reliability Based Design Optimisation (RBDO) within Building Information Modelling (BIM),...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,313 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2021

In optimal experimental design theory it is usually assumed that the response variable follows a normal distribution with constant variance. However, some works assume other probability distributions based on additional information or practitioner’s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Techniques with Applications to Health and Education)
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  • Open Access
369 Views
16 Pages

17 August 2026

Fake news often manipulates fine-grained knowledge elements such as entities, events, claims, temporal expressions, attributes, and source credibility. Existing information extraction methods usually require task-specific annotations or focus on gene...

(This article belongs to the Collection Natural Language Processing and Applications: Challenges and Perspectives)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,534 Views
26 Pages

Rethinking Traditional Playgrounds: Temporary Landscape Interventions to Advance Informal Early STEAM Learning in Outdoors

  • Nazia Afrin Trina,
  • Muntazar Monsur,
  • Nilda Cosco,
  • Leehu Loon and ,
  • Stephanie Shine and
  • Ann Mastergeorge
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Traditional playground settings are often less effective in fostering STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics)-related activities, as fixed play structures tend to restrict the diversity of play behaviors and inhibit children&r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interdisciplinary Approaches to STEM Education)
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  • Open Access
686 Views
20 Pages

28 August 2026

Masonry structures, frequently encountered both in traditional architecture and in historical buildings, occupy a significant place among structural system types. In these systems, the load-bearing elements typically consist of walls made of material...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in BIM-Based Technologies for Sustainable Building Performance Predictions—2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,933 Views
33 Pages

18 July 2024

Bearing component damage contributes significantly to rotating machinery failures. It is vital for the rotor-bearing system to be in good condition to ensure the proper functioning of the machine. Over recent decades, extensive research has been devo...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,566 Views
25 Pages

SIDe-HBIM: Single-Image Depth Inference as a Tool for Semi-Automatic Decorative Modeling

  • Fabio Bianconi,
  • Marco Filippucci,
  • Claudia Cerbai,
  • Filippo Cornacchini and
  • Andrea Migliosi

11 February 2026

This paper introduces SIDe-HBIM (Single-Image Depth inference for HBIM), a semi-automated image-to-BIM pipeline aimed at improving the integration of architectural decorative elements into HBIM environments. The research addresses the difficulty of r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue HBIM and Information Systems for Cultural Heritage Memory and Preservation)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,604 Views
12 Pages

Detection of Dynamic Modulus and Crack Properties of Asphalt Pavement Using a Non-Destructive Ultrasonic Wave Method

  • Weiguang Zhang,
  • Muhammad Arfan Akber,
  • Shuguang Hou,
  • Jiang Bian and ,
  • Dong Zhang and
  • Qiqi Le
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 July 2019

Non-destructive ultrasonic testing has attained popularity due to its robustness and cost-effectiveness in monitoring the structural health and performance evaluation of pavements, thus replacing traditional methods. This paper presents the applicati...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,899 Views
15 Pages

Spatial Patterns in Rush-Hour vs. Work-Week Diesel-Related Pollution across a Downtown Core

  • Brett J. Tunno,
  • Drew R. Michanowicz,
  • Jessie L. C. Shmool,
  • Sheila Tripathy and ,
  • Ellen Kinnee,
  • Leah Cambal,
  • Lauren Chubb,
  • Courtney Roper and
  • Jane E. Clougherty
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Despite advances in monitoring and modelling of intra-urban variation in multiple pollutants, few studies have attempted to separate spatial patterns by time of day, or incorporated organic tracers into spatial monitoring studies. Due to varying emis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transportation-Related Air Pollution and Human Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,221 Views
16 Pages

Measuring Setup for Experimental Research of Two-Coordinate Fiber-Optic Acceleration Sensors with Cylindrical Lenses

  • Elena Badeeva,
  • Tatiana Murashkina,
  • Andrey Motin,
  • Saygid Uvaysov and ,
  • Ainur Kozbakova and
  • Daniel Sawicki
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 February 2022

The article presents the possibilities of using fiber-optic acceleration (FOC) sensors on products of rocket-space and aviation technology as part of information-measuring systems. A special measuring device has been developed for experimental confir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application and Technology Trends in Optoelectronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,336 Views
28 Pages

Magnetic core loss is an important indicator for describing the performance of magnetic elements. The traditional physical model has an insufficient performance for predicting the magnetic core loss of magnetic elements under complex conditions such...

(This article belongs to the Section Magnetic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,963 Views
20 Pages

Migration Route of Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis in the South China Sea Based on Statolith Trace Element Information

  • Jiangtao Fan,
  • Zhou Fang,
  • Shengwei Ma,
  • Peng Zhang and ,
  • Xue Feng and
  • Zuozhi Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 September 2023

Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830) is a pelagic species with a complex population structure and wide migration range. The trace elements in statoliths are effective indicators for reconstructing the life history of an individual. In this study...

(This article belongs to the Section Aquatic Animals)
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  • Open Access
375 Views
20 Pages

18 September 2026

This paper proposes a physics-informed neural network (PINN)-based design optimization framework for a compact smart actuator motor in physical artificial intelligence (Physical AI) robotic systems, where artificial intelligence is integrated with se...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
15,728 Views
24 Pages

Online reviews have become an important source of information for consumers, significantly influencing their purchasing decisions. However, the abundance and variety of review formats, especially the mix of text, image, and video elements, can lead t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,570 Views
16 Pages

Comparison Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles Proximity Metrics

  • Sergii Babichev,
  • Lyudmyla Yasinska-Damri,
  • Igor Liakh and
  • Bohdan Durnyak

28 September 2021

The problems of gene regulatory network (GRN) reconstruction and the creation of disease diagnostic effective systems based on genes expression data are some of the current directions of modern bioinformatics. In this manuscript, we present the resul...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
680 Views
20 Pages

25 August 2026

Full three-dimensional gear-contact analysis resolves localized tensor fields that simplified models cannot recover, but repeated nonlinear finite element (FE) solutions are costly. This study develops a multi-fidelity physics-informed graph surrogat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Energy, Manufacturing and Automatic Control Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,415 Views
18 Pages

13 April 2021

Since bearing deterioration patterns are difficult to collect from real, long lifetime scenarios, data-driven research has been directed towards recovering them by imposing accelerated life tests. Consequently, insufficiently recovered features due t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Failure Diagnosis and Prognosis of Induction Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,736 Views
30 Pages

19 May 2021

Smart microgrids (SMGs), as cyber–physical systems, are essential parts of smart grids. The SMGs’ cyber networks facilitate efficient system operation. However, cyber failures and interferences might adversely affect the SMGs. The available studies a...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
188 Views
33 Pages

A Unified Reduced-Order Framework for Adaptive Reservoir Management in Hard-to-Recover Fields

  • Nikolay Markov,
  • Evgeny Yudin,
  • Svetlana Kraeva,
  • Nikita Trubnikov and ,
  • Sofia Permyakova and
  • Roman Bondorov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 September 2026

Operational management of hard-to-recover (HTR) reservoirs requires modelling tools that can be repeatedly updated and recalculated as new field data become available. This study presents a reduced-order framework that combines a source-based boundar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Smart Reservoir Management)

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