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  • Open Access
12 Citations
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One-Dimensional Consolidation Properties of Soft Clay under Multi-Stage Loading

  • Jiangfeng Wang,
  • Wei Yuan,
  • Xuexuan Yin,
  • Wenjie Li and
  • Xinya Li

15 September 2023

The consolidation characteristics of soft clay under multi-stage loading and single-stage loading exhibit significant differences. In order to investigate the consolidation behavior of soft clay under multi-stage loading, one-dimensional oedometer te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,131 Views
14 Pages

1 December 2019

In this paper, we compare a multi-step method and a multi-stage method for stiff initial value problems. Traditionally, the multi-step method has been preferred than the multi-stage for a stiff problem, to avoid an enormous amount of computational co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,192 Views
17 Pages

MSA-MOT: Multi-Stage Association for 3D Multimodality Multi-Object Tracking

  • Ziming Zhu,
  • Jiahao Nie,
  • Han Wu,
  • Zhiwei He and
  • Mingyu Gao

9 November 2022

Three-dimensional multimodality multi-object tracking has attracted great attention due to the use of complementary information. However, such a framework generally adopts a one-stage association approach, which fails to perform precise matching betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,936 Views
26 Pages

Numerical Study of the Energy Flow Characteristics of Multi-Stage Pump as Turbines

  • Sikun Ye,
  • Xiaojun Li,
  • Zuchao Zhu,
  • Linmin Li and
  • Tong Lin

23 November 2022

Multi-stage pump as turbine (PAT) has a wider range of heads and application intervals compared to single-stage PAT. In our research, we have conducted experimental and numerical simulation studies on this issue. In this paper, based on experimental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,960 Views
16 Pages

Development of a Hadal Microbial In Situ Multi-Stage Filtering and Preserving Device

  • Dongrui Ruan,
  • Jiawang Chen,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Xiaoqing Peng,
  • Peng Zhou and
  • Weitao He

13 December 2021

The unique environment of the hadal zone has created material circulation patterns and biological gene characteristics. Microbes play an irreplaceable role in the ocean ecological environment and material circulation due to their pervasiveness, abund...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,640 Views
17 Pages

31 December 2022

Grasp detection takes on a critical significance for the robot. However, detecting object positions and corresponding grasp positions in a stacked environment can be quite difficult for a robot. Based on this practical problem, in order to achieve mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,959 Views
22 Pages

13 April 2025

The division of retrieval into multiple stages has evolved to balance efficiency and effectiveness among various ranking models. Faster but less accurate models are used to retrieve results from the entire corpus. Slower yet more precise models refin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,609 Views
19 Pages

24 July 2024

In rotating machinery with a multi-stage assembled rotor, such as is found in aero engines, any unbalance present will undergo unknown changes at each stage when rotating the assembly phases of the rotor. Repeated disassembly and adjustments are ofte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
624 Views
13 Pages

Displacement Calculation of a Multi-Stage Homogeneous Loess Slope Under Seismic Action

  • Jingbang Li,
  • Shuaihua Ye,
  • Xinzhuang Cui,
  • Biao Liu and
  • Nianxiang Li

27 April 2025

Slope instability often brings serious threats to human production and life, which causes huge economic losses. The slope displacement calculation under seismic action is very important to ensure the safety and stability of a slope. At present, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,351 Views
19 Pages

24 August 2022

At present, there are still some gaps in the theoretical calculation of the permanent displacement of the multi-stage loess slope under the action of earthquake. Therefore, this paper firstly uses the GEO-Studio finite element software to explore the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,420 Views
17 Pages

19 January 2021

For the assembly of a multi-stage rotor, such as an aero-engine or gas turbine, the parts need to be assembled optimally to avoid excessive unbalance. We propose a method to optimize the unbalance of a multi-stage rotor during assembly. First, we dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,666 Views
22 Pages

13 October 2021

The study of reliability, availability and control of industrial manufacturing machines is a constant challenge in the industrial environment. This paper compares the results offered by several maintenance strategies for multi-stage industrial manufa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,907 Views
36 Pages

Robust Multi-Stage Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Using Sigma Points

  • Sakthi Thangavel,
  • Radoslav Paulen and
  • Sebastian Engell

16 July 2020

We address the question of how to reduce the inevitable loss of performance that is incurred by robust multi-stage NMPC due to the lack of knowledge compared to the case where the exact plant model (no uncertainty) is available. Multi-stage NMPC in t...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,868 Views
19 Pages

Single-Stage vs. Multi-Stage Reconstruction in Multi-Ligament Knee Injuries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Outcomes and Complications

  • Monketh Jaibaji,
  • Omar Najim,
  • Hamza Alali,
  • Lisa Wood,
  • Louw Van Niekerk,
  • Tim Bonner and
  • Andrea Volpin

29 September 2025

Background/objectives: Multi-ligament knee injuries (MLKIs) present complex surgical challenges, and there remains no consensus on whether single-stage or staged reconstruction yields superior outcomes. This study aimed to assess differences in compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,110 Views
16 Pages

Exploring Multi-Stage GAN with Self-Attention for Speech Enhancement

  • Bismark Kweku Asiedu Asante,
  • Clifford Broni-Bediako and
  • Hiroki Imamura

14 August 2023

Multi-stage or multi-generator generative adversarial networks (GANs) have recently been demonstrated to be effective for speech enhancement. The existing multi-generator GANs for speech enhancement only use convolutional layers for synthesising clea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,931 Views
20 Pages

25 August 2021

To solve the problems that exist in the multi-stage forming of the straight wall parts, such as the sheet fracture, uneven thickness distribution, and the stepped feature sinking, a new forming toolpath planning and generation method for the multi-st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,535 Views
16 Pages

Aerodynamic Analysis and Three-Dimensional Redesign of a Multi-Stage Axial Flow Compressor

  • Tao Ning,
  • Chun-Wei Gu,
  • Wei-Dou Ni,
  • Xiao-Tang Li and
  • Tai-Qiu Liu

16 April 2016

This paper describes the introduction of three-dimension (3-D) blade designs into a 5-stage axial compressor with multi-stage computational fluid dynamic (CFD) methods. Prior to a redesign, a validation study is conducted for the overall performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,815 Views
24 Pages

10 March 2021

Flow leakage due to cavitation erosion occurred at the socket welding part downstream of the multi-stage orifice installed in the auxiliary feedwater (AFW) pump recirculation line of the domestic nuclear power plant (NPP). To assess the adequacy of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,959 Views
18 Pages

Imperfect Multi-Stage Lean Manufacturing System with Rework under Fuzzy Demand

  • Muhammad Tayyab,
  • Biswajit Sarkar and
  • Bernardo Nugroho Yahya

24 December 2018

Market conditions fluctuate abruptly in today’s competitive environment and leads to imprecise demand information. In particular, market demand data for freshly launched products is highly uncertain. Further, most of the products are generally...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,547 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Stage Transmission Network Planning Considering Transmission Congestion in the Power Market

  • Yixin Huang,
  • Xinyi Liu,
  • Zhi Zhang,
  • Li Yang,
  • Zhenzhi Lin,
  • Yangqing Dan,
  • Ke Sun,
  • Zhou Lan and
  • Keping Zhu

18 September 2020

The uncertainty of generation and load increases in the transmission network in the power market. Considering the transmission congestion risk caused by various uncertainties of the transmission network, the optimal operation strategies of the transm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
3,718 Views
22 Pages

26 January 2022

The intelligent detection of objects in remote sensing images has gradually become a research hotspot for experts from various countries, among which optical remote sensing images are considered to be the most important because of the rich feature in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,599 Views
14 Pages

3 October 2022

In this paper, we present the multi-stage attentive network (MSAN), an efficient and good generalization performance convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for motion deblurring. We build a multi-stage encoder–decoder network with self...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
4,124 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2020

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, ships are often arbitrary-oriented and densely arranged in complex backgrounds, posing enormous challenges for ship detection. However, most existing methods detect ships with horizontal bounding boxes, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,847 Views
17 Pages

Multi-Stage Screening Purification: A New and Effective Method for Cleaning Diatom Samples from Marine Sediments

  • Kong Deng,
  • Mianmo Meng,
  • Yangbo Lu,
  • Wenming Ji,
  • Guanxiong Tang,
  • Guanqiang Cai,
  • Qinyu Cui,
  • Yongchao Lu,
  • Feng Yang and
  • Zhanhong Liu
  • + 1 author

Diatoms are critical indicators in marine paleoecology and contemporary ecosystem studies, yet the accuracy of diatom analysis depends on effective purification methods. Current screening and purification techniques often yield low accuracy. This stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,519 Views
18 Pages

18 June 2024

The long-distance multi-stage pressurized pump station water delivery system involves numerous valve closure parameters, complicating the rapid identification of an optimal valve closure scheme that satisfies multiple transient flow oscillation prote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,076 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,583 Views
14 Pages

2 October 2019

In order to describe resistivity variation regularities during the process of damage evolution of loading coal mass more comprehensively and accurately, electrical resistivity and acoustic emission (AE) characteristics of coal mass were tested by 353...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,444 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Stage Rolling Grid Expansion Planning for Distribution Networks Considering Conditional Value at Risk

  • Junxiao Zhang,
  • Chengmin Wang,
  • Jing Zuo,
  • Chong Gao,
  • Shurong Zheng,
  • Ran Cheng,
  • Yao Duan and
  • Yawu Wang

16 October 2024

Existing single-stage planning and multi-stage non-rolling planning methods for distribution networks have problems such as low equipment utilization efficiency and poor investment benefits. In order to solve the above problems, this paper firstly pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,389 Views
27 Pages

Body Force Modelling of a Multi-Stage High-Pressure Compressor Under Inlet Distortion

  • Chiara Crea,
  • Julien Marty,
  • Raphaël Barrier,
  • Sébastien Cochon and
  • Guillaume Dufour

The present work aims to propose a new calibration strategy of the Hall–Thollet Body Force (BF) model to simulate the flow in multi-stage compressors and to capture inlet distortion effects within the machine. Both global (0D) and radial (1D) c...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,883 Views
15 Pages

Multi-Stage Flotation for the Removal of Ash from Fine Graphite Using Mechanical and Centrifugal Forces

  • Xiangning Bu,
  • Tuantuan Zhang,
  • Yaoli Peng,
  • Guangyuan Xie and
  • Erdong Wu

11 January 2018

Graphite ore collected from Hunan province, south China was characterized by chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction, and optical microscopy. Rougher and multi-stage flotation tests using a mechanical flotation cell and a flotation column containing an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
404 Views
20 Pages

Development and Performance Analysis of a Novel Multi-Stage Microchannel Separated Gravity Heat Pipe for Compressor Room Cooling

  • Zhihua Li,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Fanghua Ye,
  • Juan Zi,
  • Deji Sun,
  • Guanglie Liu,
  • Renqin Kuang,
  • Weiguo Jiang and
  • Hualiang Wu

7 November 2025

Traditional multi-stage separated heat pipes (SHPs) face limitations in independently setting operation parameters for each stage. To address this issue, this paper presents a novel independent multi-stage microchannel Separated Gravity Heat Pipe (SG...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,524 Views
14 Pages

22 February 2021

An absorption air-conditioning system is a good choice for green buildings. It has the superiority in the utilization of renewable energy and the refrigerant is environment-friendly. However, the performance of the traditional absorption system has b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,143 Views
17 Pages

6 June 2022

Multi-stage sampling designs are often used in household surveys because a sampling frame of elements may not be available or for cost considerations when data collection involves face-to-face interviews. In this context, variance estimation is a com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,287 Views
33 Pages

3 March 2025

To address the challenge of simulating force–thermal environmental loads on morphing wings during flight, this study proposes and validates a force–thermal simulation method based on servo loading. First, the aerodynamic loads on a multi-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,088 Views
28 Pages

19 December 2024

Early identification of concrete cracks and multi-class detection can help to avoid future deformation or collapse in concrete structures. Available traditional detection and methodologies require enormous effort and time. To overcome such difficulti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,936 Views
15 Pages

5 November 2024

After a traditional one-time rocket is launched, most of its parts will fall into the atmosphere and burn or fall into the ocean. The parts cannot be recycled, so the cost is relatively high. Multi-stage rockets can be recovered after launch, which g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,275 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2023

Inlet swirl distortion is generally considered as a type of velocity distortion, and inlet guide vanes (IGVs) are widely used in the multi-stage compressor of aero-engines to eliminate the tangential velocity of the swirl flow. However, few studies h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,470 Views
15 Pages

MSB R-CNN: A Multi-Stage Balanced Defect Detection Network

  • Zhihua Xu,
  • Shangwei Lan,
  • Zhijing Yang,
  • Jiangzhong Cao,
  • Zongze Wu and
  • Yongqiang Cheng

10 August 2021

Deep learning networks are applied for defect detection, among which Cascade R-CNN is a multi-stage object detection network and is state of the art in terms of accuracy and efficiency. However, it is still a challenge for Cascade R-CNN to deal with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,885 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2023

The multi-stage pulse competition of pressurized pulsed water jet becomes the initial pulse at the head tip, and hydraulic parameters are the key parameters that affect the characteristics of multiple pulses. Based on the ultra-high-speed imaging sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,795 Views
18 Pages

22 August 2023

The noise interference of side-scan sonar images is stronger than that of optical images, and the gray level is uneven. To solve this problem, we propose a side-scan sonar image enhancement method based on multi-stage repairing image fusion. Firstly,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,618 Views
36 Pages

22 January 2024

As urbanization accelerates, deep excavation projects have become increasingly vital in the construction of high-rise buildings and underground facilities. However, the potential risks to the surrounding environment and the inherent complexities invo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,961 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Stage ANN Model for Optimizing the Configuration of External Lightning Protection and Grounding Systems

  • Rohana Rohana,
  • Surya Hardi,
  • Nasaruddin Nasaruddin,
  • Yuwaldi Away and
  • Andri Novandri

20 September 2024

This paper proposes an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model using a Multi-Stage method to optimize the configuration of an External Lightning Protection System (ELPS) and grounding system. ELPS is a system designed to protect an area from damage cau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,570 Views
22 Pages

We propose a memory-enhanced multi-stage goal-driven network (ME-MGNet) for egocentric trajectory prediction in dynamic scenes. Our key idea is to build a scene layout memory inspired by human perception in order to transfer knowledge from prior expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
554 Views
37 Pages

15 November 2025

Defect-rate uncertainty creates cascading operational challenges in multi-stage production, often driving inefficiency and misallocation of labor, materials, and capacity. To confront this, we develop a multi-stage Production Integrated Decision (MsP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,108 Views
12 Pages

4 February 2022

V2X is used for communication between the surrounding pedestrians, vehicles, and roadside units. In the Forward Collision Warning (FCW) of Phase One scenarios in V2X, multimodal modalities and multiple warning stages are the two main warning strategi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,290 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2022

This paper studies a multi-stage multi-product production and inventory planning problem with random yield derived from the cold rolling process in the steel industry. The cold rolling process has multiple stages, and intermediate inventory buffers a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,231 Views
19 Pages

The integrity of the cement sheath is susceptible to failure during multi-stage fracturing. In this study, the failure mechanisms of cement sheath integrity during multi-stage fracturing in the A offshore tight oil reservoir wells were investigated....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,968 Views
21 Pages

8 March 2025

Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) operates by continuously monitoring regions of interest to produce sequences of SAR imagery. The detection and tracking of ground-moving targets, through the analysis of their radiation properties and temporal v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,399 Views
28 Pages

5 October 2023

The loss given default (LGD) is an important credit risk parameter in the regulatory system for financial institutions. Due to the complex structure of the LGD distribution, we propose a new approach, called the hybrid algorithms multi-stage (HMS) mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
191 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Modal Multi-Stage Multi-Task Learning for Occlusion-Aware Facial Landmark Localisation

  • Yean Chun Ng,
  • Alexander G. Belyaev,
  • Florence Choong,
  • Shahrel Azmin Suandi,
  • Joon Huang Chuah and
  • Bhuvendhraa Rudrusamy

15 January 2026

Thermal facial imaging enables non-contact measurements of face heat patterns that are valuable for healthcare and affective computing, but common occluders (glasses, masks, scarves) and the single-channel, texture-poor nature of thermal frames make...

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