Dual-motor Electric Drive Tracked Vehicles (DDTVs) have attracted increasing attention due to their high transmission efficiency and economical fuel consumption. A test bench for the development and validation of new DDTV technologies is necessary an...
Among several design methods of tunnel supporting structure, the load-structure method is widely used in different countries, but the determination of load is essential in this design method. The problem of rockburst is becoming more prominent as tun...
Artificial intelligence algorithms (AIAs) have gained widespread adoption in air conditioning load prediction. However, their prediction accuracy is substantially influenced by the quality of training samples. To improve the prediction accuracy of ai...
As a pivotal technological foundation for smart home implementation, non-intrusive load monitoring is emerging as a widely recognized and popular technology to replace the sensors or sockets networks for the detailed household appliance monitoring. I...
By employing the hyperbolic tangent model of load transfer (LT), this paper establishes the thermo-mechanical (TM) coupling load transfer analysis approach for an energy pile (EP). By incorporating the control condition of the unbalance force at the...
An electrification revolution in the Chinese building energy field has been promoted by China’s carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. An accurate electricity load prediction was essential to resolve the conflict between substations which was...
Wake steering control can significantly improve the overall power production of wind farms. However, it also increases fatigue damage on downstream wind turbines. Therefore, optimizing fatigue loads in wake steering control has become a hot research...
Distribution grids are essential to power systems, as they ensure the safe and reliable operation of power systems. It is important to forecast the operational status of each distribution transformer. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop...
Daily electricity peak load forecasting is important for electricity generation capacity planning. Accurate forecasting leads to saving on excessive electricity generating capacity, while maintaining the stability of the power system. The main challe...
In order to consider the impact of source-load uncertainty on traditional power system planning methods, a medium- and long-term optimization planning method based on source-load uncertainty modeling and time-series production simulation is proposed....
This paper proposes a meta-modeling workflow to forecast the cooling and heating loads of buildings at individual and district levels in the early design stage. Seven input variables, with large impacts on building loads, are selected for designing m...
Time-varying driving loads and uncertain structural parameters affect the transmission accuracy of chain transmission mechanisms. To enhance the transmission accuracy and placement consistency of these mechanisms, a robust optimization design method...
In a ball screw feed system of high-speed/high-acceleration machine tools, large frictional and inertial forces may change the real contact state of the kinematic joints, resulting in changes in the contact and transmission stiffnesses and, hence, ch...
Piezoelectric-actuated nanopositioning stages commonly employ flexure amplification mechanisms to enlarge output displacement and are widely used in optical measurement, micro and nano manufacturing, and other precision engineering fields. However, e...
This paper presents an improved earth pressure method that considers the capacity of a wall toe to carry an earth load to predict the connection loads of GRS segmental walls constructed with cohesionless backfills on competent foundations. In this me...
As surface wear is one of the major failure mechanisms in many applications that include polymer gears, lifetime prediction of polymer gears often requires time-consuming and expensive experimental testing. This study introduces a contact mechanics m...
As a new type of retaining structure, lattice beams with tie-back anchor cables have been increasingly used in slope reinforcement and have achieved improved prevention effects. However, the simplified load distribution method (SLDM) at the node, whi...
By aiming at the common distributed random dynamic loads in engineering practice, an equivalent identification method that is based on K–L decomposition and sparse representation is proposed. Considering that the establishment of a probability...
Wind turbine towers experience complex dynamic loads during actual operation, and these loads are difficult to accurately predict in advance, which may lead to inaccurate structural fatigue and strength assessment during the structural design phase,...
Energy pile technology integrates geothermal energy exploitation with pile foundation bearing, yet accurately evaluating its thermo-mechanical performance remains theoretically challenging. To address the limitations of traditional load-transfer meth...
Steel-wire rope is a mechanical component that has versatile uses and on which human lives depend. One of the basic parameters that serve to describe the rope is its load-bearing capacity. The static load-bearing capacity is a mechanical property cha...
Short-Term Load Forecasting is critical for reliable power system operation, and the search for enhanced methodologies has been a constant field of investigation, particularly in an increasingly competitive environment where the market operator and i...
The simulation model is one of the key points affecting the optimal planning and operation of energy hubs (EHs). Since treating the efficiencies of generation units as constants would significantly simplify the calculation, only a simplified model is...
The On-Load Tap Changer (OLTC), as a critical component of transformers, undergoes frequent switching operations that can lead to faults such as contact wear and arc discharge, which are often difficult to detect at an early stage using traditional m...
The widespread deployment of distributed energy resources including volatile renewable generation raises the need for detailed distribution network analysis. In many cases, the vast system sizes make the joint analysis of multiple voltage levels comp...
With the increasing development of civil engineering in large cities, more and more excavations and surcharge loadings are being constructed or planned adjacent to existing building piles in crowded urban areas. Previous study on pile deformation has...
The polyvinyl-alcohol-engineered cementitious composite (PVA-ECC) is a superior cementitious material when used for tension and flexural loading. The utilization of PVA-ECC in the tension zone can prevent the development of wide cracks and increase t...
A moored spar platform, equipped with various instruments, serves as a crucial tool in hydrological monitoring. However, conducting dynamic analyses of a single spar that endures wind and current requires significant amount of computational time. To...
A reasonable and efficient loading scheme is needed to guarantee the success of large-scale bridge tests. In this study, an array-type, self-balancing pulley-group loading system was designed based on the world’s largest spanning arch bridge us...
Energy piles are an emerging energy technology for both structural and thermal purposes. To support structure load, piles are always used in groups with raft; however, the cost and complexity of field tests and numerical modelling limits the research...
With the advancement of battery technology and the promotion of the “dual carbon” policy, electric vehicles (EVs) have been widely used in industrial, commercial, and civil fields, and the charging infrastructure of highway service areas...
This paper presents a proposal for the use of energy indicators to evaluate the load modelling methods on the dynamics of a mobile crane. Three different variants of mathematical models of a load carried were examined and compared: as a lumped mass o...
Many masonry buildings exist worldwide. Safety assessments are crucial for renovation and upgrading. On-site testing reveals material properties and historic loads, enabling updates to structural resistance models for more accurate evaluations. (1) T...
Recently, the cooling load forecasting for the short-term has received increasing attention in the field of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), which is conducive to the HVAC system operation control. The load forecasting based on weath...
With the large-scale integration of distributed photovoltaic generation (PV) into modern distribution networks, the inherent stochasticity and volatility of renewable energy outputs have imposed non-negligible impacts on the secure and economic opera...
Under cyclic loading, anchorage interfaces in anti-floating anchors may degrade, weakening bond strength and reducing bearing capacity, thereby compromising structural safety. Accordingly, understanding the mechanical behavior of anti-floating anchor...
Demand response (DR) has become an effective and critical method for obtaining better savings on energy consumption and cost. Buildings are the potential demand response resource since they contribute nearly 50% of the electricity usage. Currently, m...
Theoretical tire models are often used in tire dynamics analysis and tire design. In the past, scholars have carried out a lot of research on theoretical model modeling; however, little progress has been made on its solution. This paper focuses on th...
The spatiotemporal distribution of critical source areas (CSAs) will change with hydrological conditions. In this study, the CSAs of nitrogen load under different hydrological conditions in the Chaohe River watershed were identified using the cumulat...
Many concrete structures, such as bridges and wind turbine towers, fail mostly due to the fatigue rapture and bending, where the cracks are initiated and propagate under cyclic loading. Modeling the fracture process zone (FPZ) is essential to underst...
This paper presents the results of laboratory tensile testing of segmentally-installed glue-in roof bolting. We studied roof bolting of the type Olkusz-16A (Boltech Sp. z o.o., ZGH Bolesław S.A., Bukowno, Poland), additionally equipped with a steel r...
The dynamic response of complex equipment under mixed-mode loading is significant for structural design. Bolted joints are the primary connection mode of subsystem assembly, and the degradation of bolted joints may reduce the safety and reliability o...
The active distribution network has been fully developed because it can achieve efficient energy utilization through the effective control of distributed generation, electrical energy storage, and active loads. However, the research on the reliabilit...
Hydraulic fracturing technologies introduce deformation, damage, and fractures into tight oil reservoirs, which facilitates the production of hydrocarbons for the economic development of such fields. In addition to typical plug-and-perf fracturing te...
In this paper, the topology optimization of continuum structures with design-dependent loads is studied with a gradient-free topology optimization method in combination with adaptive body-fitted finite element mesh. The material-field series-expansio...
This study is devoted to the modeling and simulation of uncertainties in the constitutive elastic properties of material constituting a circular column under axial compression. To this aim, a probabilistic model dedicated to the construction of posit...
In this paper, a finite element model (FEM) is developed based on a set of circular steel tube reinforced concrete (CTRC) columns with axial compression and eccentric compression tests. The stressing state characteristics of the FEM are modeled in th...
With an increasing emphasis on energy conservation, emission reduction, and power consumption management, port enterprises are focusing on enhancing their electricity load forecasting capabilities. Accurate electricity load forecasting is crucial for...
This study aims to investigate the one-way cyclic lateral responses of piles in sloping ground by means of experimental and theoretical analyses. For this purpose, a series of laboratory model experiments were performed for different cases of cycle n...
A three-dimensional (3D) fully-coupled fluid-structure model has been developed in this study to calculate the impact force of tsunamis on a flexible structure considering fluid-structure interactions. The propagation of a tsunami is simulated by sol...
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