In this study, a coal mine water flocculation system was established. A series of flocculation tests were carried out at different structural parameters (cylinder height, cone-plate insertion depth and cone-plate spacing) to better investigate the ef...
Currently, the most important structural design aims are weight reduction, corrosion resistance, high stiffness and vibration damping in several industrial applications, which can be provided by the application of advanced fiber-reinforced plastic (F...
The fast charge and discharge of a battery will significantly increase the overall temperature and thermal difference of the battery, which will further affect the working performance and safety of the battery. Therefore, a heat–fluid coupling...
The box-plate steel structure residence is a box structure with stiffened steel plates directly used as load-bearing walls and floors. In practical engineering, due to the functional requirements of the building, it is necessary to open door or windo...
To enhance the bearing capacity of cable–pylon anchorage zones in cable-stayed bridges, this paper proposes the integral steel wall plate (IWP) structure and investigates the structural performance of its application in anchorage zones with a s...
The nickel powder brush plate is a core component of the direct contact between the cleaning machine and cathode plate of an electrolyzer, and its movement in the electrolytic cell will affect the energy consumption of the electrolyzer. In order to o...
With the improvement of building technical requirements and the updating of standards, the demand for the reinforcement of existing buildings is increasing. In order to solve the problem regarding the low economic applicability of the traditional sei...
To provide a favorable temperature for a power battery liquid cooling system, a bionic blood vessel structure of the power battery liquid cooling plate is designed based on the knowledge of bionics and the human blood vessel model. For three differen...
This study examines the response of a composite material protection plate with an asymmetrical sandwich structure under low-velocity impact. The protection plate with an asymmetrical sandwich structure is constructed with materials such as polypropyl...
There are many excitation sources and complex vibration environments in combine harvesters. The coupling and superposition of different vibration signals on the plate and shell seriously affect the working parts of the body. This also reduces the rel...
Thermal stress is one of the most important factors damaging the temperature-dependent performance of MEMS gyroscopes. To reduce thermal stress and improve their performance, this paper deduced the production and effects of thermal stress on a high-p...
On the basis of the existing dust collector structure, this study designed a fan-shaped new structure microporous membrane filter plate (NSMMFP). The pressure distribution law of the NSMMFP can be obtained by measuring the wall surface peak pressure...
To cater to the problems of a poor working environment, a large amount of rebound, and the high energy consumption of sprayed concrete in tunnel engineering, this paper proposes a new support scheme with a steel corrugated plate combined with mold ba...
In the plate-type permanent magnet electrodynamic suspension (PMEDS) vehicle, expansion joints in discrete conductive plates trigger the eddy current truncation effect, thereby causing an attenuation in the levitation force. To address this issue, a...
Based on the enormous application potential of GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) in high-frequency and high-power scenarios, this article focuses mainly on the study of the Gunn oscillation effect of GaN-based HEMT devices. From the...
To study the potential application of metasurfaces in lens technology, we propose a dendritic meta-molecule surface (also referred to as a dendritic metasurface) and realize the focusing effect in the visible spectrum through simulations and experime...
The engines of electric and hybrid vehicles cause vibration and noise with complex frequency spectra. This tendency is observed especially for mid-frequency components. Therefore, there are limitations in achieving vibration attenuation using only st...
A hydrogen depressurization system is required to supply the hydrogen to the fuel cell stack from the storage. In this study, a Tesla-type depressurization construction is proposed. Parallel Tesla-type channels are integrated with the traditional ori...
This study presents a bionic structure-based liquid cooling plate designed to address the heat generation characteristics of prismatic lithium-ion batteries. The size of the lithium-ion battery is 148 mm × 26 mm × 97 mm, the positive pole...
Temperature stratification between outgoing hot water and incoming cold water is a key factor in diminishing energy loss during the discharging process and maximizing the useful hot water delivered from the tank or enhancing the thermal efficiency of...
Piezoelectric energy harvesters can scavenge energy from their ambient environment in order to power low-consumption electronic devices. The last two decades have seen a growing interest towards vortex-induced vibration harvesters; most harvesters co...
MXene is a promising candidate for the next generation of lightweight electromagnetic interference (EMI) materials owing to its low density, excellent conductivity, hydrophilic properties, and adjustable component structure. However, MXene lacks inte...
Recent advances in timber construction have led to the realization of complex timber plate structures assembled with wood-wood connections. Although advanced numerical modelling tools have been developed to perform their structural analysis, limited...
This study is predominantly about the differences in shale pore structure and the controlling factors of shale gas content between Lower Silurian and Lower Cambrian from the upper Yangtze plate, which are of great significance to the occurrence mecha...
Background/Objectives: Long-standing groin pain is a severe issue for athletes, often associated with the cleft sign on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, yet its underlying causes are poorly understood. The purpose of this study is to histologi...
The structural health monitoring (SHM) of critical structures is a complex task that involves the use of different sensors that are also aimed at the identification of the location of the impact point using ultrasonic sensors. For the evaluation of t...
Due to its high axial bearing capacity and good ductility, the embedded steel plate composite shear wall structure has become one of the most widely used lateral force-resisting structural members in building construction. However, bending failure is...
The similarity principle serves as the theoretical foundation for experimental research on scaled ship structures. While extensive studies have been conducted on global longitudinal responses using scaled hydroelastic segmented ship models, there is...
To meet the transportation requirements of heavy-haul trains, it is necessary to consider the use of prestressed reinforced concrete ballastless tracks. Therefore, the CRTSIII SBT (China Railway Track System III-type slab ballastless track) has been...
To address the support problem of large-diameter drilling shafts in the west area of Zhangji coal mine, a thinner shaft lining structure composed of double layers of steel plate and high-performance concrete is proposed herein. Firstly, a series of t...
The steel–concrete composite structure is widely used in civil engineering for large-span bridges. Orthotropic steel bridge decks (OSDs) have particularly gained popularity due to their excellent mechanical performance. To address cracking issu...
The double-layer plate structure in passive sound insulation systems can improve the high-frequency sound insulation performance, but it is still not ideal in the low-frequency region. The actuator of the active sound insulation system can adjust the...
For plate structures, their random parameters can be regarded as a two-dimensional random field in the plane. To solve the plate theory considering a two-dimensional random field, an efficient strategy for the stochastic finite element method was ado...
This paper investigates the structural performance of novel steel-plate concrete containment structures, focusing on third-generation nuclear power plants. To address the challenges of increased complexities and costs associated with double-layer con...
Flywheels play a critical role as core components in satellite attitude control systems. However, their high-speed rotation inevitably generates vibrations that have a detrimental impact on the in-orbit imaging capabilities of high-precision remote s...
The structural vibration problem in ships and marine structures is one of the core issues in this field. The typical flat plate is a basic structural unit that constitutes the main structures of the hull, such as the cabin, bow and stern, double bott...
As a multi-source vibration machine, the complex vibration of the combine harvester has caused many effects on various components. In this paper, the dynamic response of the plate and shell on the combine harvester is studied, and the influence of va...
Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have been extensively used in airframes, train bodies, and engine blades for their properties of high strength, low weight, and good stability. The in-service structural performance of CFRP composites...
Shell structures with built-in plates are widely used in engineering. This paper presents a unified analytical method for the dynamic stiffness model of coupled plate–shell structures, considering the effect of internal plates on the vibration...
Non-structural members, such as roofs and ceilings, become affixed to main beams that are known as structural members. When such main beams experience bending or compressive forces that lead to lateral buckling, non-structural members may act to rest...
Localized resonance phononic crystals (LRPCs) are increasingly attracting scientists’ attention in the field of low-frequency noise reduction because of the excellent subwavelength band gap characteristics in the low-frequency band. However, th...
For impedance-based damage detection practices, the sensing range of piezoelectric devices is an important parameter that should be determined before real implementations. This study presents numerical and experimental analyses for characterizing the...
Coupled plate structures composed of stiffened plates and sub-plates have been widely used in marine engineering practice. Meanwhile, the low-frequency multi-linear spectrum vibration control of the coupled stiffened plate structures has become neces...
The strength capacity of modular buildings is determined by the weakest part, and connections between modular units are often weaker than the modular units themselves. Thus, to verify the safety of modular structures, the structural performance of co...
This paper proposes a novel structural damage quantification approach using a sparse regularization based electromechanical impedance (EMI) technique. Minor structural damage in plate structures by using the measurement of only a single surface bonde...
The aim of this study is to prove that it is possible to control the static behavior of tensegrity plate-like structures. This possibility is very important, particularly in the case of deployable structures. Here, we analyze the impact the support c...
A novel methodology is presented for performing sensitivity analyses of assembled plate structures using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). The main novelty of this work is that the exact implicit derivatives of the BEM formulations for assembled pla...
Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) effects may significantly influence the dynamic response of blast-loaded structures, particularly in lightweight configurations where the structural motion modifies the pressure loading. Despite their relevance...
Pillow-plate heat exchangers (PPHEs) represent a suitable alternative to conventional shell-and-tube and plate heat exchangers. The inherent waviness of their channels promotes fluid mixing in the boundary layers and facilitates heat transfer. The ov...
Hybrid corrugated sandwich (HCS) plates have become a promising candidate for novel thermal protection systems (TPS) due to their multi-functionality of load bearing and thermal protection. For hypersonic vehicles, the novel TPS that performs some st...
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