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  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,162 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2018

Multi-clearance is the main cause for the performance and reliability decline of complicated mechanical systems. The increased clearance could induce contacts and impacts in joints, and consequently affect control accuracy. A nonlinear dynamic model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Nonlinear Dynamics on Energy Conversion Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,104 Views
25 Pages

4 February 2021

Dynamic pointing and tracking accuracy are the most relevant indicators of dynamic performance for the satellite antenna driving mechanism. Multi-clearance coupling in the joints will incur high-frequency vibration and dynamic errors of the system. J...

  • Article
  • Open Access
719 Views
26 Pages

Brake-induced steering wheel shimmy is a critical nonlinear dynamic phenomenon that severely compromises vehicle handling stability and driving safety. While clearances in steering mechanism kinematic pairs are widely recognized as a primary cause of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Vibration: Modeling, Analysis, Optimization and Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,769 Views
20 Pages

Accuracy Analysis of a Multi-Closed-Loop Truss Antenna with Clearance

  • Di Wu,
  • Jiang Zhao,
  • Xiaofei Ma,
  • Jinbao Chen and
  • Chuanzhi Chen

10 December 2024

Surface accuracy is one of the most crucial indicators for evaluating the performance of a large deployable antenna. It depends on the accuracy of the truss structure of the truss antenna. This paper presents a novel method for accurate analysis of a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Space Mechanisms and Robots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,915 Views
16 Pages

25 October 2023

The existence of joint clearances in the nose landing gear (NLG) is inevitable and significantly affects shimmy. It was found that the interaction of each joint clearance is closely related to the analysis of shimmy stability. In this study, the shim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,400 Views
35 Pages

Dynamics Study of Multi-Supports Rotor Systems with Bearing Clearance Considering Angular Deflections

  • Qiyao Dai,
  • Zhefu Yang,
  • Cun Wang,
  • Yanhong Ma,
  • Yongfeng Wang,
  • Zhihong Song and
  • Jie Hong

29 August 2025

Bearing clearance, prevalent in multi-supports rotor systems of aero engines, exerts a significant influence on the dynamics of rotor systems, actuators, and aero engines. The essence of it lies in the complex mechanical effects between the bearing a...

(This article belongs to the Section High Torque/Power Density Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,949 Views
37 Pages

Clearance Analysis of Rotor–Stator Coupled Structures Under Maneuver Flight Conditions Considering Multi-Physical Fields

  • Dongxu Du,
  • Shihao Ma,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Kunpeng Xu,
  • Junzhe Lin,
  • Shang Lv,
  • Xuedong Sun and
  • Wei Sun

20 August 2025

In the previous studies on the clearance between rotors and stators, only a single physical field or part of the physical fields are considered. In fact, multi-physical fields (inertial moment, temperature, centrifugal, and aerodynamic load) signific...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,557 Views
19 Pages

24 July 2023

Transcritical carbon dioxide waste heat recovery systems and the construction of scroll expanders have recently been hot topics. The flank clearance, located between the orbiting and fixed scroll, has a vital impact on the scroll expander performance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-Energy Systems and Smart Grids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,548 Views
26 Pages

Dynamic Precision and Reliability of Multi-Link Linkages with Translational Pair Clearance

  • Quanzhi Zuo,
  • Mingyang Cai,
  • Yuyang Lian,
  • Jianuo Zhu and
  • Shuai Jiang

This study investigates the dynamic behavior and reliability of planar multi-link linkages with clearance in translational pairs. Using the Lagrange multiplier method, a dynamic model that accounts for clearance effects is developed. Furthermore, a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,485 Views
32 Pages

Traditional revolute clearance joints assume that the shape of the contact surface of the joint is regular and ignores the effects of wear, which reduces the prediction accuracy of dynamics models. To accurately describe the collision behavior of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,446 Views
21 Pages

A New Integrated Model for Simulating Adaptive Cycle Engine Performance Considering Variations in Tip Clearance

  • Jie Wei,
  • Wangzhi Zou,
  • Zhaoyun Song,
  • Baotong Wang,
  • Jiaan Li and
  • Xinqian Zheng

30 August 2023

The low-fidelity simulation method cannot meet the requirements for predicting the performance of an adaptive cycle engine (ACE), especially when considering tip clearance variations in the compression and expansion systems. The tip clearances of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
353 Views
27 Pages

Joint clearances inevitably deteriorate kinematic accuracy and operational stability of heavy-load mechanical presses. Most existing studies focus on single-type clearances or uniform contact states, failing to reveal the coupled dynamic behavior of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Tribology and Lubrication for Bearing Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,111 Views
12 Pages

18 March 2017

In this work, a wind turbine shrink disk is used as the research object to investigate load-carrying performance of a multi-layer interference fit, and the theoretical model and finite element model are constructed. According to those models, a MW-le...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,082 Views
38 Pages

24 January 2026

Parametric tiered-seating design can be framed as a constrained multi-objective optimization problem in which a low-dimensional decision vector is evaluated by a deterministic operator with sequential feasibility rejection and visibility constraints....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven or AI-Driven Optimization Algorithms and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,220 Views
24 Pages

24 October 2022

Regarding the problem of the valve gap health status being difficult to assess due to the complex composition of the condition monitoring signal during the operation of the diesel engine, this paper proposes an adaptive noise reduction and multi-chan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Condition Monitoring of Mechanical Transmission Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
471 Views
44 Pages

31 May 2026

Extreme orbital thermal cycling and temperature-dependent clearance nonlinearity make it difficult to predict contact–impact, stick–slip, and bifurcation responses of flexible deployable space structures with sufficient stability, accurac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,544 Views
23 Pages

13 January 2021

This research investigates the effect of machining parameters on material removal rate, electrode wear ratio, and gap clearance of macro deep holes with a depth-to-diameter ratio over four. The experiments were carried out using electrical discharge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,033 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Investigations on the Blade Tip Clearance Excitation Forces in an Unshrouded Turbine

  • Yang Pan,
  • Qi Yuan,
  • Gongge Huang,
  • Jiawei Gu,
  • Pu Li and
  • Guangyu Zhu

24 February 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of the blade tip excitation forces represented as the rotordynamic coefficients (stiffness and damping coefficients) in an unshrouded turbine using the three-dimensional computational f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,492 Views
27 Pages

Large high-clearance sprayers are widely used in the field of plant protection due to their high work efficiency. Influenced by the characteristics of a large ground clearance, fast driving speed and constantly changing sprung mass, how to solve the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations and Practices of Agricultural Green Mechanized Production Technology: Series II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,179 Views
34 Pages

A Machine Learning Framework for Predicting and Resolving Complex Tactical Air Traffic Events Using Historical Data

  • Anthony De Bortoli,
  • Cynthia Koopman,
  • Leander Grech,
  • Remi Zaidan,
  • Didier Berling and
  • Jason Gauci

One of the key functions of Air Traffic Management (ATM) is to balance airspace capacity and demand. Despite measures that are taken during the strategic and pre-tactical phases of flight, demand–capacity imbalances still occur in flight, often...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,705 Views
16 Pages

Research on Loaded Contact Analysis and Tooth Wear Calculation Method of Cycloid–Pin Gear Reducer

  • Yongqiang Wang,
  • Bingyang Wei,
  • Zhen Wang,
  • Jianjun Yang and
  • Jiake Xu

13 October 2023

This study establishes the geometric model of cycloid–pin gear meshing transmission based on the multi-tooth meshing characteristics of the cycloid speed reducer. The calculation and analysis of meshing motion parameters of the cycloid speed re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wear Mechanism Identification and State Prediction of Tribo-Parts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,073 Views
14 Pages

29 June 2021

Internal gear mechanism is widely used in micro-nano satellites due to its compact structure and high precision transmission. However, the vibration coupling caused by the small clearance coupling is more obvious and cannot be ignored under low speed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,461 Views
23 Pages

16 August 2022

With the development of high-speed and lightweight mechanisms, and the continuous improvement of manufacturing accuracy requirements in industrial production, clearance joints have increasingly become one of the key factors affecting dynamics perform...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
825 Views
31 Pages

With the rapid advancement of exoskeletons and rehabilitation robotics, modern healthcare increasingly demands high dynamic accuracy and reliability from medical devices. However, the dynamic response and durability of mechanical systems are greatly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Tribology and Lubrication for Bearing Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,720 Views
17 Pages

The Multi-Faceted Effect of Curcumin in Glioblastoma from Rescuing Cell Clearance to Autophagy-Independent Effects

  • Larisa Ryskalin,
  • Francesca Biagioni,
  • Carla L. Busceti,
  • Gloria Lazzeri,
  • Alessandro Frati and
  • Francesco Fornai

20 October 2020

The present review focuses on the multi-faceted effects of curcumin on the neurobiology glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), with a special emphasis on autophagy (ATG)-dependent molecular pathways activated by such a natural polyphenol. This is consistent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Progress in Health Benefits from Curcumin)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,682 Views
20 Pages

In practice, gear backlash and bearing clearance usually exist together in a gear system. They may induce complicated dynamic responses and degrade transmission performance. Up to now, although each of them has been researched, little attention has b...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,500 Views
17 Pages

Study on Collision Dynamics Model and Multi-Body Contact Forces of Ball Cage Flexible Joint Considering Clearance

  • Xiuxing Zhu,
  • Fei Zhao,
  • Xiaowei Yang,
  • Yingpeng Xu,
  • Peng Jia,
  • Bo Zhou and
  • Shifeng Xue

8 April 2023

Flexible joints are widely used in ‘soft’ touching and holding, and they represent the main component of ultra-short radius drilling tools. The analysis of contact and motion characteristics is an essential issue in the design and develop...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
327 Views
14 Pages

29 August 2026

Background/Objectives: Insulin clearance is a key determinant of circulating insulin availability, but its diurnal variation and relationship with circadian metabolic programs in metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) remain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD))
  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,908 Views
14 Pages

Determinants of Acquisition, Persistence, and Clearance of Oncogenic Cervical Human Papillomavirus Infection in the Philippines Using a Multi-Omics Approach: DEFEAT HPV Study Protocol

  • Sheriah Laine M. de Paz-Silava,
  • Ian Kim B. Tabios,
  • Ourlad Alzeus G. Tantengco,
  • Fresthel Monica M. Climacosa,
  • Clarissa L. Velayo,
  • Ryan C. V. Lintao,
  • Leslie Faye T. Cando,
  • Glenmarie Angelica S. Perias,
  • Maria Isabel C. Idolor and
  • Leslie Michele M. Dalmacio
  • + 3 authors

23 February 2023

HPV infection is one of the most studied risk factors in cervical cancer—the second most common cancer site and cause of death due to cancer in the Philippines. However, there is a lack of population-based epidemiological data on cervical HPV i...

(This article belongs to the Section Women’s and Children’s Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,857 Views
20 Pages

21 September 2020

Subway structure safety detection is an important method to ensure the safe operation of trains. Efficient, high-precision, and automatic tunnel clearance detection is the key to ensure safe operations. This study introduces a mobile tunnel scanning...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,443 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2015

Torsional systems with gear pairs such as the gearbox of wind turbines or vehicle driveline systems inherently show impact phenomena due to clearance-type nonlinearities when the system experiences sinusoidal excitation. This research investigates th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Wind Turbines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,517 Views
17 Pages

22 July 2022

In the context of the One Country–Two Systems policy, Shenzhen and Hong Kong have rapidly grown into a dual-core international metropolis. However, a huge barrier is the commuting cost incurred by the tariff policy, which blocks the road to the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Territory Spatial Planning toward High-Quality Development in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,000 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2022

The flight control effects and flight quality of the aircraft are influenced by the flap actuation system directly. The main motivation of this research is to develop a rigid-flexible model of the flap actuation system with clearance and to explore t...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
960 Views
29 Pages

9 May 2025

The dynamic response of symmetrical press mechanisms is severely affected by revolute clearance, translational clearance, and the elasticity of the components. Therefore, the coupling effects of disturbance factors were studied in this paper, includi...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,351 Views
12 Pages

Design of Multi-Stage Roll Die Forming Process for Drum Clutch with Artificial Neural Network

  • Jae-Hong Kim,
  • Jae-Chang Ryu,
  • Woo-Sik Jang,
  • Joon-Hong Park,
  • Young-Hoon Moon and
  • Dae-Cheol Ko

25 December 2020

The multi-stage roll die forming (RDF) process is a plastic forming process that can manufacture a transmission part with a complex shape, such as a drum clutch, by using a die set with rotational rolls. However, it is difficult to satisfy dimensiona...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal Forming: Fundamentals, Simulation and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,863 Views
11 Pages

Investigation of the Effect of Casing-to-Wellbore Clearance on Equivalent Circulating Density During Casing Running

  • Chen Hao,
  • Yucong Wang,
  • Yuqiang Xu,
  • Lubin Zhuo,
  • Weifeng Chen,
  • Ping Li and
  • Ming Ren

18 December 2024

As drilling depth increases, the demand for a multi-layer wellbore structure grows. However, with the upper wellbore diameter fixed, reducing the casing-to-wellbore clearance becomes necessary to increase the number of casing strings. This poses a si...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
236 Views
14 Pages

Characterization of In Vitro Performance and Hemocompatibility of a Novel Hemofilter for Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy

  • Adam M. Zawada,
  • Lukas Theis,
  • Robert Nitschel,
  • Karlee Emal,
  • Robert Pohlmeier,
  • Skyler Boyington and
  • Ansgar Erlenkoetter

12 October 2026

Performance and hemocompatibility are the main focus areas in the development of new hemofilters for continuous kidney replacement therapy. The novel multiFlux hemofilter features a polysulfone membrane with increased hydrophilicity to improve perfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Polymeric Membranes—Preparation and Applications (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,611 Views
16 Pages

21 November 2021

For planar closed-loop structures with clearances, the angular and positional error uncertainties are studied. By using the vector translation method and geometric method, the boundaries of the errors are analyzed. The joint clearance is considered a...

(This article belongs to the Section Computation and Simulation on Metals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,920 Views
27 Pages

An Evaluation of Passive Wall Treatment with Circumferential Grooves at the Casing of the First and Second Blade Rotor Rows of a High-Performance Multi-Stage Axial Compressor

  • Ruben Bruno Diaz,
  • Jesuino Takachi Tomita,
  • Cleverson Bringhenti,
  • Franco Jefferds dos Santos Silva and
  • Diogo Ferraz Cavalca

12 August 2024

The internal losses in the tip clearance region strongly influence the compressor performance and its operational range. Previous research proved that passive wall treatments with circumferential grooves in axial compressors effectively increase the...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,903 Views
17 Pages

Multibody Dynamics Simulation and Vibration Test for High Clearance Orchard Sprayer

  • Hong Chen,
  • Shiqun Dai,
  • Mingxiong Ou,
  • Shengfang Li,
  • Chenyang Wang,
  • Ziyu Li,
  • Guanqun Wang,
  • Yu Chen and
  • Weidong Jia

11 August 2022

High clearance sprayer is a high-efficiency pesticide application machine in orchard management. In this paper, operational safety of high clearance sprayers is validated by using finite element simulation and vibration testing. The 3D model of the f...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,376 Views
21 Pages

Creep-Based Reliability Evaluation of Turbine Blade-Tip Clearance with Novel Neural Network Regression

  • Chun-Yi Zhang,
  • Jing-Shan Wei,
  • Ze Wang,
  • Zhe-Shan Yuan,
  • Cheng-Wei Fei and
  • Cheng Lu

29 October 2019

To reveal the effect of high-temperature creep on the blade-tip radial running clearance of aeroengine high-pressure turbines, a distributed collaborative generalized regression extremum neural network is proposed by absorbing the heuristic thoughts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Computer Methods in Materials, Mechanics and Engineering )
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,488 Views
22 Pages

With the increasing speed of aviation gear, windage loss has been the main component of power loss. Reducing windage is of great significance to improving the transmission efficiency of aviation spiral bevel gear. Firstly, the calculation model of en...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,011 Views
12 Pages

15 December 2020

The Doppler effect of frequency-swept interferometry (FSI) is often seen as an obstacle to the dynamic ranging accuracy. However, the potential of this obstacle is rarely noticed and used. In this paper, by combining the periodical characteristics of...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
10,343 Views
21 Pages

14 April 2015

Railway tunnel 3D clearance inspection is critical to guaranteeing railway operation safety. However, it is a challenge to inspect railway tunnel 3D clearance using a vision system, because both the spatial range and field of view (FOV) of such measu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Sensors for Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
918 Views
27 Pages

Over the course of long-term operation, wear to moving parts can significantly affect the dynamic behavior, reliability and service life of landing gear retraction and extension systems. The primary innovation of this paper is the proposal of a multi...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,036 Views
22 Pages

29 March 2024

In order to solve the problem of an uneven load distribution in a double-input and double-output gearbox, based on the small-displacement Jacobi spin theory and considering the manufacturing and assembly errors of the gearbox, a Jacobi spin analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
457 Views
23 Pages

A 7224C high-speed angular contact ball bearing used in a multi-wire sawing machine is selected as the research object to investigate the cage dynamic characteristics under oil-lubricated operating conditions. First, in order to determine the oil-pha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tribological Behavior and Corrosion Resistance Characterization of Advanced Materials and Coatings)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,458 Views
20 Pages

10 June 2025

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health burden, with uremic toxins (UTs) playing a central role in its pathophysiology. In this review, we systematically examined the evolution of UT classification from the 2003 European Uremic Toxin Work Gro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary and Emerging Modalities of Kidney Assistance Therapy for Patients with Kidney Dysfunction Requiring Dialysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
631 Views
31 Pages

To clarify the nonlinear degradation of volumetric performance caused by piston–cylinder wear in axial piston pumps under multiple operating conditions, this study develops an integrated framework linking local wear-induced leakage to whole-pum...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
572 Views
33 Pages

The Influence of Mechanical Impact on the Dynamic Response of Multibody Systems

  • Sorin Dumitru,
  • Cristian Copiluși,
  • Ionuț Geonea,
  • Adrian Marius Calangiu,
  • Gabriel Marinescu,
  • Nicolae Dumitru and
  • Diana Catalu

23 April 2026

Contact–impact phenomena caused by joint clearances can significantly alter the dynamic response of high-speed mechanical systems, yet fewer studies combine analytical impact-force modeling, virtual prototyping, and experimental observations fo...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)

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