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11 November 2022

Persistence length is a significant criterion to characterize the semi-flexibility of DNA molecules. The mechanical constraints applied on DNA chains in new single-molecule experiments play a complex role in measuring DNA persistence length; however,...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,570 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2022

Mechanical behaviors at fatigue crack tips of cracked specimens under negative loading ratios are studied in detail by the finite element method in this paper. Three factors induced by specimen type and loading type on fatigue crack field are discuss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Studies on Fatigue Behavior of Engineering Material and Structures)
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15 June 2026

A novel hybrid ISSA-GWO (Improved Sparrow Search Algorithm–Grey Wolf Optimizer) is proposed for the path planning of Unmanned Wing-in-Ground-Effect Craft (UWIGC), integrating ground-effect constraints and island-reef environments into a unified...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Planning and Control for Drones)
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1 Citations
977 Views
33 Pages

In this paper, a biologically congruent parallel mechanism (PM) inspired by the masticatory system of human beings has been proposed to recreate complete chewing behaviours in three-dimensional space. The mechanism is featured by direct constraints f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Bioinspired Robot and Intelligent Systems)
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3 Citations
645 Views
22 Pages

Investigating the Coupling Deformation Mechanism of Asymmetric Deep Excavation Adjacent to a Shared-Wall Metro Station and Elevated Bridge Piles in Soft Soil

  • Yunkang Ma,
  • Mingyu Kang,
  • Hongtao Li,
  • Jie Zhen and ,
  • Xiangjian Yin,
  • Jinjin Hao,
  • Shenghan Hu,
  • Jibin Sun,
  • Xuesong Cheng and
  • Gang Zheng
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

23 January 2026

To investigate the complex interaction in multi-structure systems, this study establishes a refined 3D numerical model based on a transportation hub project in Tianjin to analyze the asymmetric coupling deformation mechanism of a deep excavation adja...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,808 Views
16 Pages

24 January 2019

Promoting the intelligent upgrades of small and medium-sized enterprises is one of the important tasks of implementing “Made in China 2025” in China. As a front runner of nation-level reform, Zhejiang Province has provided much room for i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transition from China-Made to China-Innovation )
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8 Citations
5,533 Views
19 Pages

22 December 2022

Polycarbonate is an engineering plastic used in a wide range of applications due to its excellent mechanical properties, which are closely related to its molecular structure. We performed coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) calculations to inves...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polymers)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,419 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Corner Constraint on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Alloy Using the CMT+P Deposition Process

  • Jie Su,
  • Yue Yang,
  • Yuanbo Bi,
  • Yixuan Zhang and ,
  • Jing Bi and
  • Zhen Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 August 2022

Wire arc additive manufacturing technology with cold metal transfer and pulse welding (CMT+P) is a promising technology for fabricating complex metal structures. In this paper, a lot of basic research was conducted on the corner-constrained and uncon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Technologies, Advanced Joining Technology and Study of Weld Joints)
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13 Citations
3,615 Views
16 Pages

10 November 2021

This paper presents an approach for the topological design of multi-material compliant mechanisms with global stress constraints. The element stacking method and the separable stress interpolation scheme are applied to calculate the element stiffness...

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4 Citations
2,448 Views
14 Pages

2 April 2020

Different strength mismatched laboratory specimens that contain the compact tension (CT), single edge-notched tensile (SENT), and central-cracked tension (CCT) specimens with various specimen geometries, loading configurations, and initial cracks wer...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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4 Citations
2,508 Views
32 Pages

Friction is an inevitable phenomenon in mechanical systems that affects the dynamic characteristics of systems. To reduce the modeling complexity of complex multi-rigid-body mechanisms, a novel explicit canonical dynamic modeling method considering j...

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390 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2026

The tracking control of servo mechanisms under physical constraints has consistently attracted research attention. This study focuses on developing an adaptive tracking control methodology for servo mechanisms subject to simultaneous state and input...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Design and Control of Electrical Machines)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,150 Views
12 Pages

25 December 2018

Material constraints are important factor effects on the fracture behavior of welded joints. The effect range of the material constraint is an important and interesting issue which needs to be clarified, including whether the effect range of a materi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Welding, Joining and Coating of Metallic Materials)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,997 Views
16 Pages

6 October 2022

This paper aims to clarify the influence of the wall constraint on the convection behavior of molten metal in a molten pool and improve the weld formation and mechanical property. In this paper, the flow behavior of molten metal under the action of w...

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33 Citations
6,220 Views
21 Pages

21 February 2023

Whether Fintech enabled by big data technology can improve the efficiency of credit allocation and how it would do has always been the focus in the capital market, especially the intermediary mechanism, which has not yet been convincingly explained....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Finance and Sustainability)
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644 Views
24 Pages

To address the challenge of limited communication resources in microgrid economic dispatch, this paper proposes an improved dynamic event-triggered mechanism built upon a distributed event-triggered consensus algorithm. Firstly, a dynamic variable is...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Strategies for Smart Grid Reliability and Energy Optimization)
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22 June 2026

The acceleration and deceleration of high-speed gas flow within a pipeline, induced by the action of flow-restriction devices, frequently result in the emergence of unsteady flow phenomena. Consequently, the generated excitation forces provoke intens...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,723 Views
25 Pages

Cooperative Task Allocation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Using Multi-Objective Multi-Population Self-Adaptive Ant Lion Optimizer

  • Chengze Li,
  • Gengsong Li,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Qibin Zheng and ,
  • Guoli Yang,
  • Kun Liu and
  • Xingchun Diao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2025

The rational allocation of tasks is a critical issue in enhancing the mission execution capability of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, which is difficult to solve exactly in polynomial time. Evolutionary-algorithm-based approaches are among the...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence in Drones (AID))
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,029 Views
25 Pages

28 August 2025

Under the pressure of global low-carbon transformation, the sustainable development initiative of the United Nations has gradually become an essential orientation of corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. Based on the inte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ESG Management, Performance, and Corporate Sustainability: Insights and Innovations)
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7 Citations
2,516 Views
15 Pages

Fruit is typically transported in stacked packaging units, where external packaging constraints play a critical role in influencing mechanical damage during transit. This study primarily investigated the effects of external packaging constraints on v...

(This article belongs to the Section Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,886 Views
19 Pages

26 October 2023

Air pollution poses a global challenge, prompting governments worldwide to implement environmental policies aimed at its mitigation. However, grassroots management is key to the effectiveness of pollution management. Traditional air monitoring, rangi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Sustainable Development of Remote Sensing Technology)
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903 Views
35 Pages

26 February 2026

To address the complexity of multi-constraint multi-objective optimization problems (mCMOPs), this paper proposes a novel multi-population evolutionary algorithm (MOEA). Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) are ubiquitous in scientific and en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization Theory, Algorithms and Applications)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,268 Views
31 Pages

4 November 2019

Role-based access control (RBAC) is one of the most popular access-control mechanisms because of its convenience for management and various security policies, such as cardinality constraints, mutually exclusive constraints, and user-capability constr...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
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5 Citations
4,892 Views
21 Pages

19 September 2019

Role-based access control (RBAC), which has been regarded as one of the most popular access-control mechanisms, is featured by the separation-of-duty constraints, mutually exclusive constraints, and the least-privileges principle. Role mining, a bott...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
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9 Citations
3,462 Views
28 Pages

27 September 2020

Recently, attribute-based access control (ABAC) has received increasingly more attention and has emerged as the desired access control mechanism for many organizations because of its flexibility and scalability for authorization management, as well a...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,939 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2022

The sequential pricing game model is an approach that can be effectively used to solve the problem with multi-oligopoly pricing mechanisms in raw material supply chains. However, the existing sequential pricing mechanism does not fully consider const...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
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5 Citations
3,377 Views
23 Pages

Structural Topology Optimization of Reflective Mirror Based on Objective of Wavefront Aberration

  • Wenli Li,
  • Yincheng Shi,
  • Chong Wang,
  • Yufeng Tang and ,
  • Yi Yu and
  • Zhenyu Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 November 2022

Due to the increasing requirements for the imaging quality of optical systems, the design method for optical–mechanical structures has become a research hotspot in recent decades. To improve the imaging performance of the reflective system, it...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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2 Citations
1,754 Views
14 Pages

Matching constraints in an analog integrated circuit (IC) are critical to optimizing layout performance. To extract these matching constraints accurately and efficiently from the netlist, we propose the heterogeneous matching constraint extraction gr...

(This article belongs to the Topic New Developments for Circuit Design: Synthesis, Modeling, Simulation, and Applications)
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2 Citations
2,483 Views
9 Pages

Intracranial aneurysms (IAs) are localized enlargements of cerebral blood vessels that cause substantial rates of mortality and morbidity in humans. The rupture possibility of these aneurysms is a critical medical challenge for physicians during trea...

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3 Citations
1,753 Views
28 Pages

Research on Operation Trajectory Tracking Control of Loader Working Mechanisms

  • Guodong Liang,
  • Yong Jiang,
  • Zeyu Gao,
  • Guoxing Bai and ,
  • Hengtong Li,
  • Xiaoyan Zhao,
  • Kai Wang and
  • Zhiyan Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 February 2025

Autonomous shovel digging of loaders is the key technology to realise automation and intelligent operation. The effective tracking control for the target operation trajectory is one of its core parts. Proportional–integral–derivative (PID...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
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27 Citations
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14 Pages

29 January 2018

I illustrate the effects of both contingency and constraints on the body-mass scaling of metabolic rate by analyzing the significantly different influences of ambient temperature (Ta) on metabolic scaling in ectothermic versus endothermic animals. In...

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688 Views
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As a major policy initiative, China’s Industry–Finance Cooperation (IFC) Pilot Program aims to address the enduring difficulties enterprises face in securing affordable financing. Despite its intent, the policy’s actual efficacy in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Financial Risk Management)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,637 Views
25 Pages

11 September 2024

A comprehensive framework for the layout optimisation of rigid-jointed frame structures is proposed, addressing multiple mechanical constraints while effectively managing geometric complexity. The constraints considered include displacement, stress,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Structural Optimization)
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2 Citations
1,767 Views
24 Pages

An Emergency Rescue Reconnaissance UAV Nest Site Selection Method Considering Regional Differentiated Coverage and Rescue Satisfaction

  • Xiwei Zeng,
  • Xinlan Chu,
  • Rundong Yao,
  • Jiayi Liu and ,
  • Yuezhou Yang and
  • Weili Zeng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 September 2025

Traditional emergency reconnaissance UAV nest deployment methods face limitations such as blind coverage, delayed response, single coverage targets, and undifferentiated regional priorities. This paper proposes an optimized deployment approach that m...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
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30 Citations
6,707 Views
26 Pages

UAV Path Planning Based on Multi-Stage Constraint Optimization

  • Yong Shen,
  • Yunlou Zhu,
  • Hongwei Kang,
  • Xingping Sun and ,
  • Qingyi Chen and
  • Da Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 December 2021

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planners have been extensively studied for their effectiveness and high concurrency. However, when there are many obstacles, the path can easily violate constraints during the evo...

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7 Citations
2,866 Views
25 Pages

21 April 2022

Targeted at the machining production line balancing problem, based on the precedence constraint relation of the present machining task, this article suggests adding practical constraints such as advanced station preparations, post-auxiliary tasks, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,827 Views
26 Pages

14 November 2025

Digital transformation represents a strategic imperative for enterprises pursuing high-performance growth. This study selects A-share listed enterprises from 2014 to 2023 as the research sample and empirically examines the impact of digital transform...

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3 Citations
4,623 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2020

The timing of an initial public offering (IPO) is a complex dynamic game in the stock market. Based on a dynamic game model with the real option, this paper investigates the relationship between pricing constraint and the complexity of IPO timing in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity in Economic and Social Systems)
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34 Citations
4,114 Views
16 Pages

The tightening of the financing environment and global climate change have become urgent problems for high-quality economic development all over the world. Facing these challenges, the Chinese government is committed to alleviating regional financing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecosystem Quality and Stability)
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7 Citations
4,037 Views
20 Pages

11 April 2024

Topology optimization is currently enjoying renewed interest thanks to the recent development of 3D printing techniques, which offer the possibility of producing these new complex designs. One of the difficulties encountered in manufacturing topologi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Optimization for Electromagnetic Problems)
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2 Citations
848 Views
23 Pages

21 November 2025

As a high-precision and high-stability engineering platform for aerospace missions, the dual-super spacecraft is subject to numerous environmental constraints and disturbances in increasingly complex space environments, posing significant challenges...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Adaptive Control Theory and Applications for Nonlinear Systems)
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9 Citations
4,559 Views
23 Pages

12 February 2025

This study investigates the relationship between corporate financialization and innovation investment in Chinese manufacturing firms under the backdrop of economic policy uncertainty (EPU). We systematically examine the dual mechanisms through which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Making in Uncertain Environments via Advanced Analytical Methods)
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1,611 Views
17 Pages

Mechanistic Analysis of Joint Reaction Forces to Lower-Limb Prosthesis Mass, Inertia, and Alignment

  • Donatas Daublys,
  • Joseph Janosky,
  • Linas Puodžiukynas and
  • Aurelijus Domeika

Background/Objectives: Prosthesis optimization after transfemoral amputation is often guided by clinical experience, yet quantitative evidence isolating how prosthesis mass, inertial properties, and alignment affect mechanical load transmission remai...

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10 Citations
3,086 Views
20 Pages

2 September 2022

This paper proposes two optimal design schemes for improving the kinematic and dynamic performance of the 3-PSS flexible parallel micromanipulator according to different application requirements and conditions. Firstly, the workspace, dexterity, freq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flexible Micromanipulators and Micromanipulation)
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219 Citations
12,134 Views
21 Pages

Green technology innovation is regarded as an important means to achieve sustainable development. Countries all over the world mainly implement green technology innovation policies from the aspects of environmental regulation and financing constraint...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Relationship between Manufacturing Enterprise Performance and Environmental Sustainability)
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4 Citations
3,092 Views
10 Pages

26 October 2018

The objective of this project is to take into account the mechanical constraints formed by diffusion of hydrogen or tritium in watertight palladium alloy cathode. To know the origin of these, it was necessary to discriminating the damaging effects en...

(This article belongs to the Section Corrosion)
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139 Views
33 Pages

23 October 2026

Integrity constraints form a fundamental mechanism for ensuring the correctness, consistency, and semantic validity of relational data. Conventional approaches, including domains, check constraints, assertions, and triggers, provide effective support...

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572 Views
33 Pages

The advancement of rural urbanization has led to a steady increase in construction and demolition waste (CDW) in rural areas; its dispersed nature complicates management efforts, yet existing research has not sufficiently explored the synergistic eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,255 Views
33 Pages

3 September 2025

Macro policy regulation centered on carbon emissions profoundly influences the path for enterprises to achieve low-carbon transformation. Using panel data from Chinese A-share listed companies over the period from 2014 to 2023, this study adopts the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Economy for Sustainable Development: Theoretical and Applied Research)
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1 Citations
788 Views
23 Pages

Hybrid Simulation Modeling of Underground Mining Processes Under Multidimensional Constraints: A Case Study of the Sanshandao Gold Mine

  • Qingbao Zou,
  • Yuanhui Li,
  • Yunsen Wang,
  • Guixuan Xiao and ,
  • Yong Liu and
  • Yijun An
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 May 2026

Underground mining is a complex dynamic system. Traditional static analytical methods are insufficient to characterize the operational behavior and efficiency variations in such systems under coupled multidimensional constraints. To address this limi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface and Underground Mining Technology and Sustainability)

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