Micro-surfacing is a widely used pavement preventive maintenance technology used all over the world, due to its advantages of fast construction, low maintenance cost, good waterproofness, and skid-resistance performance. This study evaluated the fine...
This study examines the mechanical performance, deformability properties and rheological properties of a newly developed waterborne epoxy resin (WER)-modified emulsified asphalt (WE/A) binder for micro-surfacing. Two types of WER, semi-flexible and r...
With the updates and differences in the usage of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) separation technology, the production of fine-particle RAP exceeds their usage, resulting in an excess of fine-particle RAP. How to apply this excess RAP on a large sca...
Recycled micro-surfacing is a sustainable pavement maintenance technique, yet using fine Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) is challenging due to aged asphalt and particle agglomeration. This study aimed to develop cold recycled micro-surfacing with wa...
This article develops algorithms for the characterization and the visualization of micro-scale features using a small number of sample points, with the goal of mitigating the measurement shortcomings, which are often destructive or time consuming. Th...
Conventional micro-surfacing materials often delaminate, crack, or peel. These defects shorten pavement life. High-performance polymer-modified mixtures are essential for rapid pavement maintenance. We added waterborne epoxy resin (WER) at different...
To address the issue of air pollution caused by automobile exhaust in China, a titanium dioxide/graphite carbon nitride (TiO2/g-C3N4) composite photocatalyst capable of degrading automobile exhaust was prepared in this study. It was used as an additi...
There is still a lack of suitable methods for evaluating pavement functional performance according to the characteristics of real-world environment and traffic. This study developed an acceleration test method based on the Driving Wheel Pavement Anal...
Micro-surfacing is considered as an effective and economical preventive maintenance technique for asphalt pavement. Its performance largely depends on the material compositions of emulsified asphalt binders. To overcome the deficiencies of ordinary m...
Micro-surface crack detection is important for the health monitoring of civil structures. The present literature review shows that micro-surface cracks can be detected by the Brillouin scattering process in optical fibers. However, the existing repor...
Performance-based mixture design of microsurfacing offers a promising solution to the best application of asphalt emulsions. The presented study investigated a novel approach to evaluate the spalling resistance and high and low-temperature resistance...
Microsurfacing asphalt mixtures are a preventive maintenance technology comprising the application of a slurry (produced with a modified asphalt emulsion), aggregate, filler, and water on top of an existing pavement at ambient temperature. Although i...
The road surface texture is responsible for controlling several quality/safety road indicators, such as friction, noise, and fuel consumption. Road texture can be classified into different wavelengths, and it is dependent on the material used in the...
Advanced non-destructive techniques play an important role in detecting surface defects in the context of additive manufacturing, with non-destructive technologies providing surface data for the recognition of surface defects. In this line, it is nec...
The present work investigates the friction reduction capability of two types of micro-textures (grooves and dimples) created on steel surfaces using a vertical milling machine. The wear studies were conducted using a pin-on-disc tribometer, with the...
In finishing simulations, achieving accurate results can be challenging due to the minimal amount of material removal and the limited measurement range of surface micro-topography instruments. To overcome these limitations, a novel high-fidelity mode...
This review presents a series of measurements of the surface and interfacial tensions we have been able to make using the micropipette technique. These include: equilibrium tensions at the air-water surface and oil-water interface, as well as equilib...
Micro-milling is an emerging processing technology for machining micro- and high-precision three dimensional parts that require the use of various materials (with sizes ranging from tens of micrometers to a few millimeters) in the field of advanced m...
With the increasing micro-scale manufacturing industry, the micro-scale spherical and cylindrical surface modeling has become an important factor in the manufacturing process. Thus, the micro-scale manufacturing processes require efficient micro-scal...
The surface integrity of a micro electrical discharge machining (micro EDM) surface represents the surface quality of workpiece. The surface quality of micro EDM can be further improved by clarifying the machining mechanism and optimizing processing...
Industry 4.0 represents high-level methodologies to make intelligent, autonomous, and self-adaptable manufacturing systems. Additionally, the surface modeling technology has become a great tool in industry 4.0 for representing the surface point cloud...
Micro-drilled aluminum surfaces containing micro-holes were anodized to produce nanopores over the machined and lapped surfaces. The anodized nanopores had an approximate diameter of 30–40 nm and a depth distribution of 20–30 μm from t...
The surface-electrode ion trap is one of the most promising devices to realize large-scale and integrated quantum information processing. However, a series of problems are faced in the micro-nano fabrication of surface-electrode ion traps. A prominen...
Surface roughness is one of the main factors that affect the ultrasonic testing of micro-cracks. This article theoretically analyzes the relationship between the changes in the energy intensity of crack echo waves and roughness-modified transmission...
This paper investigates the propagation of Rayleigh surface waves in structures with randomly distributed surface micro-cracks using numerical simulations. The results revealed a significant ultrasonic nonlinear effect caused by the surface micro-cra...
To improve the wear resistance of the surface of the cotton picker spindle, a Ni-Co-ZrO2 composite coating with different ZrO2 nanoparticle concentrations was prepared using electrodeposition technology on the micro surface of spindle hook teeth, and...
Nowadays, micro engine miniaturization is one of the most challenging issues, especially for the design and fabrication of the high-power-density micro Wankel engine. With the decrease of the size of the micro engine, the problem of the heat deformat...
Cells are the smallest living units of a human body’s structure and function, and their behaviors should not be ignored in human physiological and pathological metabolic activities. Each cell has a different scale, and presents distinct respons...
This study aimed to analyze the enamel remineralization efficacy of a novel fluoridated bioactive glass (F-BG) toothpaste compared to a standard fluoride toothpaste. Seventy-two enamel blocks (N = 72) were divided into groups of twenty-four blocks ac...
Blood-contacting titanium-based implants such as endovascular stents and heart valve casings are prone to blood clotting due to improper interactions at the surface level. In complement, the current clinical demand for cardiovascular implants is at a...
Zirconia ceramics are promising materials for restoration and are widely used in the field of artificial teeth. However, wear resistance affects the longevity of artificial teeth. In this study, peacock tail feather micro-textures and groove micro-te...
The surface topography of dental implants and micro-nano surface characterization have gained particular interest for the improvement of the osseointegration phases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the surface micro-nanomorphology and bioactivi...
In micro-milling, the periodically varying chip thickness, which varies with tool rotation, leads to varying degrees of minimum chip thickness effect and ploughing effect during surface generation. This results in a change of roughness in the cross-s...
The problem of bacterial resistance has become more and more common with improvements in health care. Worryingly, the misuse of antibiotics leads to an increase in bacterial multidrug resistance and the development of new antibiotics has virtually st...
The low adhesion of water drops on superhydrophobic surfaces is a prerequisite for their widespread potential industrial applications. The wetting transition between different wetting states significantly influences the dynamic behavior of water drop...
The trochoidal milling mode is widely used in high-speed machining, and due to good adaptability and flexible posture adjustment, ball-end milling cutters are conducive to complex surface machining with this mode. However, the processes of material r...
When serving in extremely high-power laser conditions, KH2PO4 (KDP) surfaces are susceptible to incur laser damage points (also known as defects). Using micro-ball end milling cutters to repair and remove the pre-existing damage points on the flawed...
The superhydrophobic surface has a great advantage of self-cleaning, inhibiting bacterial adhesion, and enhancing anticoagulant properties in the field of biomedical materials. In this paper, a superhydrophobic surface was successfully prepared on ti...
Vibration-assisted micro milling is a promising technique for fabricating engineered mi-cro-scaled surface textures. This paper presents a novel approach for theoretical modeling of three-dimensional (3D) surface textures produced by vibration-assist...
Background: The physicochemical changes of the surface aim to improve cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation, that is, better biological interaction with the cells and, consequently, with the peri-implant tissues. In the present study, imp...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of brushing with two whitening dentifrices (Colgate Optic White (COW) and Colgate Optic White Charcoal (COC)) on surface gloss, micro-roughness, and micro-hardness of nanostructured hybrid conve...
The surface quality of the sidewall in waveguide antennae is important, especially surface roughness, which directly affects the electrical performance of the slotted waveguide antenna. Micro-milling is a potentially effective processing technique fo...
Micro-coordinate measuring machines (micro-CMMs) for measuring microcomponents require a probe system with a probe tip diameter of several tens to several hundreds of micrometers. Scale effects work for such a small probe tip, i.e., the probe tip ten...
The machining of micro/nano periodic surface structures using a femtosecond laser has been an academic frontier and hotspot in recent years. With an ultrahigh laser fluence and an ultrashort pulse duration, femtosecond laser machining shows unique ad...
Processing certain kinds of micro-textures onto the surface of tools can improve their wear resistance, reduce the friction between them and machined surfaces, prolong their service life and improve their processing efficiency. When milling titanium...
Nonlinear composite materials serve to homogenize electric fields and can effectively improve the local concentration of the electric field in power systems. In order to study the nonlinear surface conductivity properties of micro-nano epoxy composit...
The surface topography of medical implants plays an important role in the regulation of cellular responses. Microstructure and nanostructure surfaces have been proved to enhance cell spreading and proliferation with respect to smooth surfaces. In thi...
This study constructed a two-dimensional alkaline water electrolyzer model based on the two-phase flow Euler–Euler model. In the model, the micro-nano surface electrodes with different structure types and graphic parameters (distance, height, a...
Optimization of cutting parameters in micro-milling is an important measure to improve surface quality and machining efficiency of the workpiece. Investigation of micro-milling forces prediction plays a positive role in improving machining capacity....
This paper comprehensively discusses the fabrication of bionic-based ultrafast laser micro–nano-multiscale surface structures and their performance analysis. It explores the functionality of biological surface structures and the high adaptabili...
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