Studies on durability of cementitious materials have focused on harsh environments, but less attention has been paid to low thermal loading situations. In this paper, with the aim of exploring the evolution of internal pore pressure and microcrack ex...
Urbanization causes alteration of the thermal regime (surface, air, and water) of the environment. Heated stormwater runoff flows into lakes, streams, bays, and estuaries, which potentially increases the base temperature of the surface water. The amo...
PS/NiFe2O4 nanocomposites containing 2.5 wt.% NiFe2O4 were melt-blended in a twin-screw micro-compounder for 6 and 12 min (PS-NF-6 and PS-NF-12) and compared with neat PS processed for 6 min to examine whether mixing duration at a fixed low loading a...
Electromagnetic coils are a key component in a variety of systems and are widely used in many industries. Because their insulation usually fails suddenly and can have catastrophic effects, degradation monitoring of coil insulation systems plays a vit...
A hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) framework centered on metamodeling, integrating simulation data with hybrid data-driven techniques, was implemented to enhance the predictive accuracy and optimization of thermal load projections in three distinc...
A fuel efficiency of a ship engine increases with cooling inlet air. This might be performed by the chillers, which transform the heat of engine exhaust gas and scavenge air for refrigeration. The effect gained due to cooling depends on the intake ai...
Supercritical once-through utility boilers are increasingly common in flexible operations in China. In this study, the tube temperature changes at a vertical water-cooled wall are analyzed during a fluctuating flexible operation. There are considerab...
Industrial isolated power systems are highly sensitive to load disturbances due to their limited inertia and absence of large-grid support. This article analyzes the dynamic stability of an isolated system with a current available generation contribu...
High-strength low-alloy steels (HSLA) are gaining popularity in structural applications in which weight reduction is of interest, such as heavy duty machinery, bridges, and offshore structures. Since the fatigue behavior of welds appears to be almost...
Spain’s high winter weather-associated death count, the second largest in Europe, can be attributed primarily to the low construction standards of its social housing, particularly the stock built prior to the entry into effect of the earliest s...
This work proposed a novel necking heat pipe with double-end heating for thermal management of the overload operation. The addition of another heat load was adopted to obtain a higher threshold critical power for the heat pipe system. The thermal per...
Graphene-thermopolyurethane (G-TPU) composite films were fabricated and the effects of the TPU initial concentration, characteristics of TPU, and graphene loading on the electrical, mechanical, thermal, infrared thermal response and near-infrared-lig...
Low-loss gears are an interesting design approach for increasing the efficiency and thermal load limits of gearboxes. The loss-optimized gear geometry concentrates sliding around the pitch point, which results in low load-dependent gear power losses....
Drastic changes in the random load of an electromechanical system bring about a reliability problem for the proportional solenoid valve based on a thermal effect. In order to accurately and effectively express the thermal load of a proportional solen...
This study investigates the energy consumption characteristics of individual and clustered thermal storage electric heating systems, focusing on their sustainability implications for regional load distribution and user energy consumption patterns. Si...
In this paper, a pulsed laser is applied to realize these complicated thermal cycles experimentally, coupling with the constant mechanical loading with the self-designed sample holder. A numerical simulation model is proposed to calculate the tempera...
Poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL)/hydroxyapatite (HAP) composites represent a novel material with desired properties for various applications. In this work, PCL/HAP composites at low loadings were developed through melt-extrusion processing. The ef...
Professional UAV thermal imaging systems are widely used for inspection, environmental monitoring, search and rescue, agriculture, and technical diagnostics. However, their cost limits their use in education, preliminary field screening, rapid protot...
The escalating thermal power density in electronic devices necessitates advanced thermal management technologies. Polymer-based materials, prized for their electrical insulation, flexibility, light weight, and strength, are extensively used in this f...
The use of a Kalina cycle (KC) with a superheater to recover waste heat from an internal combustion engine (ICE) is described in this paper. The thermodynamic and economic analyses are performed for KC. The results indicate that using KC with a super...
Energy transition demands cleaner and more efficient marine engines, accelerating the development of reactivity-controlled compression ignition (RCCI) concepts with multi-fuel capability. However, the coupling between combustion behavior and thermal...
Thermal interface materials with high thermal conductivity and low hardness are crucial to the heat dissipation of high-power electronics. In this study, a high magnetic field was used to align the milled carbon fibers (CFs, 150 μm) in silicone ru...
Home-built equipment will be presented able to measure the thermal expansion (with a flat indenter) and indentation depth (with a pointed indenter) up to 1100 °C. In dilatometer mode, the allotropic phase transformations can be studied. For hardn...
Low-enthalpy geothermal installations for heating, air conditioning, and domestic hot water are gaining traction due to efforts towards energy decarbonization. This article is part of a broader research project aimed at employing artificial intellige...
Thermally driven heat pump systems play important roles in the utilization of low-grade thermal energy. In order to evaluate and compare the performances of three different constructions of thermally driven heat pump and heat transformer, the low-dis...
This paper investigates the impact of load shedding strategies on a block of multiple buildings. It particularly deals with the quantification of the factors i.e., peak shaving, occupants’ thermal comfort or CO
This study presents an experimental engine map investigation of waste swine oil biodiesel (WSO B100) in a single-cylinder, four-stroke variable compression ratio compression ignition engine, quantifying the coupled effects of compression ratio and lo...
Since energy efficiency has become the main priority in the design of buildings, load-bearing walls in modern masonry constructions nowadays include thermal break elements at the floor–wall junction to mitigate thermal bridges. The structural stabili...
Accurate temperature prediction is critical for ensuring mechanical stability and operational safety during complex operating conditions and long-term operation of rolling bearings. This study proposes a digital twin (DT) system for bearing thermal a...
Oil was employed as an ‘entrance door’ for loading rubber with carbon-based fillers of different size and dimensionalities: 1D carbon nanotubes (CNTs), 2D graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs), and 3D graphite. This approach was explored, as a proof of conce...
Transparent building envelopes significantly increase energy demands due to low thermal resistance and solar heat gain, while conventional double-skin facades may lead to overheating and high cooling loads in the summer. This study proposes a novel e...
The increasing power density of high-performance electronic devices poses significant thermal management challenges. Vapor chambers (VCs) offer efficient heat dissipation, but traditional manufacturing methods limit their structural precision and per...
Thermal interface materials are critical components for ensuring efficient heat dissipation in thermal management systems. The current research focus is to fabricate thermal interface materials (TIMs) that demonstrate high thermal conductivity while...
Solar thermal techniques provide a promising method for the direct conversion of solar energy to thermal energy for applications, such as water desalination. To effectively realize the optimal potential of solar thermal conversion, it is desirable to...
This study aims to develop and experimentally evaluate an artificial neural network-based temperature control strategy for hot-air carrot drying within an IoT-enabled cyber-physical system. The experimental setup employs an Arduino Mega 2560 equipped...
Beam-type structures used in aerospace applications may experience simultaneous broadband dynamic excitation and thermal loads. Design sensitivity, as a powerful tool for structural optimization and reliability analysis, is investigated in this work....
This study investigated the effect of graphite nanoplatelet (GNP) size and dispersion on the thermal conductivities and tensile strengths of epoxy-based composites. GNPs of four different platelet sizes, ranging from 1.6 to 3 µm, were derived b...
Background: Menthol is a naturally occurring volatile terpene alcohol, widely used in food, pharmaceutical, and tobacco products; however, its high volatility leads to significant flavor loss during storage and handling. Methods: Herein, bimodal meso...
This paper deals with joining dissimilar materials using thermal drilling technology as well as the combination of thermal drilling and adhesive bonding. The base materials for the experimental work were deep-drawn low-carbon steel DC04, HSLA steel T...
This study investigates the soil thermal imbalance of ground-source heat pump (GSHP) systems in residential buildings in cold regions and evaluates their economic and low-carbon performance. A case study is presented of a two-star green-certified res...
Passive solar shading is an effective strategy for reducing building energy demand, but its performance varies with climate, façade orientation, and thermal inertia. This study develops a sequentially coupled framework that links geometric sha...
Sustainable building materials development is essential for improving energy efficiency, addressing environmental concerns and optimizing resources use. This study investigates the development and characterization of sorghum stalk fiber-reinforced ce...
Enhancing the operational flexibility and environmental performance of coal-fired boilers under wide-load conditions presents a critical challenge in China’s low-carbon transition, particularly for low-quality coals (LQCs) with abundant reserve...
In cold-region industrial parks, prolonged heating seasons and intensive hot water demands trigger severe temporal mismatches between stochastic renewable generation and rigid thermal requirements. To address this, a multidimensional synergistic opti...
Low thermal conductivity is the main drawback of phase change materials (PCMs) that is yet to be fully addressed. This paper studies several efficient, cost-effective, and easy-to-use experimental techniques to enhance thermal conductivity of an orga...
The thermal conductivity of epoxy resin composites filled with combustion-synthesized hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) particles was investigated. The mixing of the composite constituents was carried out by either a dry method (involving no use of solv...
Thermal energy storage technology has evolved as one of the prominent methods of storing thermal energy when it is available and utilized as per the requirements. In recent years, thermal energy storage has found a variety of applications for thermal...
Improving the thermal conductivity of polymer/carbonaceous nanocomposites is still an interesting topic and is affected by a number of factors, such as polymer/nanofiller interaction, dispersion quality and agglomerate formation. In the present work,...
This study proposes a new micro-scale damage assessment method of laminated carbon fiber-reinforced plastics based on the thermal diffusivity measurement. This measurement was conducted by the laser-spot-periodic-heating method using lock-in thermogr...
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of on-chip thermal gradients on the accuracy of a monolithic low-dropout regulator (LDO). Measurements from a silicon prototype show that load-induced temperature gradients introduce systematic, load-...
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