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25 Citations
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Prediction of Surface Roughness in Functional Laser Surface Texturing Utilizing Machine Learning

  • Tobias Steege,
  • Gaëtan Bernard,
  • Paul Darm,
  • Tim Kunze and
  • Andrés Fabián Lasagni

Functional laser surface texturing (LST) arose in recent years as a very powerful tool for tailoring the surface properties of parts and components to their later application. As a result, self-cleaning surfaces with an improved wettability, efficien...

(This article belongs to the Section Data-Science Based Techniques in Photonics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,988 Views
25 Pages

A Method for Predicting the Surface Subsidence Duration and the Maximum Subsidence Velocity

  • Yanjun Zhang,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Yueguan Yan,
  • Yuanhao Zhu and ,
  • Linda Dai and
  • Jiayuan Kong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 November 2024

The surface subsidence duration and the maximum subsidence velocity are critical indicators to evaluate the stability and severity of surface damage. Precisely predicting them is important for guiding engineering design and protecting ground infrastr...

(This article belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
10,212 Views
26 Pages

19 December 2021

The aim of manufacturing can be described as achieving the predefined high quality product in a short delivery time and at a competitive cost. However, it is unfortunately quite challenging and often difficult to ensure that certain quality character...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Tool Life Prediction in Machining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,713 Views
13 Pages

28 September 2024

Surface texture parameters are a quantitative way of characterising surface topographical features and are closely related to tribological properties. In this paper, the correlation between surface topographic features and friction coefficient is inv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Modification Treatments of Metallic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,225 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2010

Functional elucidation of uncharacterized protein structures is an important task in bioinformatics. We report our new approach for structure-based function prediction which captures local surface features of ligand binding pockets. Function of prote...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Molecular Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,647 Views
23 Pages

High-Precision Surfacing Position Prediction for Underwater Gliders via Coordinate Transformation

  • Yaojian Zhou,
  • Mengjiao Kang,
  • Jiancheng Yu,
  • Jisong Bai and ,
  • Tong Xue and
  • Xiaoding Cheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The accurate prediction of the surfacing position of underwater gliders (UGs) is critical for mission success and cost-effective retrieval. However, current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods often rely on complex multi-model integrations or large volum...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,086 Views
23 Pages

On Evaluating the Predictability of Sea Surface Temperature Using Entropy

  • Chang Jin,
  • Han Peng,
  • Hanchen Yang,
  • Wengen Li and
  • Jihong Guan

7 April 2023

Sea surface temperature (SST) has important impacts on the global ecology, and having a good understanding of the predictability, i.e., the possibility of achieving accurate prediction, of SST can help us monitor the marine environment and climate ch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Climate and Ocean Warming—Recent Progress Using Remote Sensing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,257 Views
26 Pages

Prediction and Analysis of Airport Surface Taxi Time: Classification, Features, and Methodology

  • Jianan Yin,
  • Mingwei Zhang,
  • Yuanyuan Ma,
  • Wei Wu and ,
  • He Li and
  • Ping Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 February 2024

Airport arrival and departure movements are characterized by high dynamism, stochasticity, and uncertainty. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to predict and analyze surface taxi time accurately and scientifically. This paper conducts a compreh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Review Papers in ‘Transportation and Future Mobility’ Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,207 Views
18 Pages

Improved Particle Swarm Optimization for Sea Surface Temperature Prediction

  • Qi He,
  • Cheng Zha,
  • Wei Song,
  • Zengzhou Hao and ,
  • Yanling Du,
  • Antonio Liotta and
  • Cristian Perra
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 March 2020

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is one of the key factors affecting ocean climate change. Hence, Sea Surface Temperature Prediction (SSTP) is of great significance to the study of navigation and meteorology. However, SST data is well-known to suffe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT and Sensor Networks in Industry and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,492 Views
18 Pages

3 August 2020

PV (photovoltaic) systems are receiving the spotlight in Korea due to the Renewable Energy 3020 Implementation Plan (RE3020), which has the goal of reaching 20% for the proportion of renewable energy generation by 2030. Accordingly, the actual perfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Designing, Modeling and Optimizing Energy and Environmental Systems for Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,906 Views
16 Pages

4 November 2024

Surface heat source (SHS) is a crucial factor affecting local weather systems. Particularly SHS on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) significantly influences East Asian atmospheric circulation and global climate. Accurate prediction of summer SHS on the TP is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Effects on the Climate of the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,585 Views
14 Pages

Multivariate Sea Surface Prediction in the Bohai Sea Using a Data-Driven Model

  • Song Hu,
  • Qi Shao,
  • Wei Li,
  • Guijun Han and ,
  • Qingyu Zheng,
  • Ru Wang and
  • Hanyu Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 November 2023

Data-driven predictions of marine environmental variables are typically focused on single variables. However, in real marine environments, there are correlations among different oceanic variables. Additionally, sea–air interactions play a signi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sea Surface Temperature: From Observation to Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,366 Views
17 Pages

10 July 2023

The accurate calculation of mining-induced surface deformation has important guiding significance for efficient and safe production in mining areas. The probability integral method (PIM) is a main prediction method in China, and the selection of its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
907 Views
28 Pages

Simulation-Assisted Prediction of Surface Topography for Milling Strategy Selection in Freeform 3-Axis and 5-Axis Ball-End Milling

  • Alejandro Frechilla,
  • Yasser Zekalmi,
  • José Antonio Albajez,
  • María José Oliveros and
  • Sergio Aguado

Surface topography plays a critical role in the functional performance of machined freeform components, yet its assessment traditionally takes place only after manufacturing. This work presents a simulation-assisted framework for predicting the surfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,790 Views
25 Pages

27 May 2025

Grinding, as the most crucial finishing process for bearing rings, influences the surface integrity of bearings through the roughness of the ground surface. In order to improve the surface roughness of bearing ring grinding under multiple working con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Machine Tools and Precision Machining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,665 Views
9 Pages

Prediction of Ground Surfaces by Using the Actual Tool Topography

  • Rolf Hockauf,
  • Volker Böß,
  • Thilo Grove and
  • Berend Denkena

This paper presents a prediction model for ground surfaces that uses the actual grinding wheel topography to perform a grinding simulation. Precise knowledge of expected machined surfaces plays an important role in process planning. Here, the main cr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Integrity in Machining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,761 Views
23 Pages

Investigation of Surface Roughness and Predictive Modelling of Machining Stellite 6

  • Jan Valíček,
  • Jan Řehoř,
  • Marta Harničárová,
  • Miroslav Gombár and ,
  • Milena Kušnerová,
  • Jaroslava Fulemová and
  • Alena Vagaská
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 August 2019

The aim of the paper was to examine the influence of cutting conditions on the roughness of surfaces machined by longitudinal turning, namely of surfaces coated with Stellite 6 prepared by high-velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) technology and applied onto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,872 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2023

Sea surface temperature is an important physical parameter in marine research. Accurate prediction of sea surface temperature is important for coping with climate change, marine ecological protection, and marine economic development. In this study, t...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,714 Views
20 Pages

Physical and Statistical Links between Errors at the Surface, in the Boundary Layer, and in the Free Atmosphere in Medium-Range Numerical Weather Predictions

  • Stéphane Bélair,
  • Nasim Alavi,
  • Sylvie Leroyer,
  • Marco L. Carrera and ,
  • Maria Abrahamowicz,
  • Bernard Bilodeau,
  • Dragan Simjanovski,
  • Dorothée Charpentier and
  • Bakr Badawy
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2024

The adequate representation of interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere is of crucial importance in modern numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems. In this context, this study examines how errors in the planetary boundary layer (PB...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,148 Views
17 Pages

30 September 2021

It is difficult to accurately predict the surface roughness of belt grinding with superalloy materials due to the uneven material distribution and complex material processing. In this paper, a radial basis neural network is proposed to predict surfac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Processing Technology for High-Temperature Resistant Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
454 Views
20 Pages

CFD-Derived Regression Model to Predict Surface Velocity for a Continuous-Casting Round Billet Mold

  • Guangchao Guo,
  • Jiangshan Zhang,
  • Mengjing Zhao,
  • Shufeng Yang and ,
  • Xiaotan Zuo and
  • Qing Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 August 2026

In the continuous casting process, the flow velocity of molten steel at the surface of the mold directly influences the melting of the flux, slag entrainment behavior, and the uniformity of heat transfer. Fast and accurate prediction of the magnitude...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fundamental Metallurgy: From Impact Solutions to New Insight)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,925 Views
24 Pages

16 June 2025

Given the complex mechanism of surface settlement induced by shield tunneling, accurate prediction of surface settlement and rational design of tunneling parameters are critical for ensuring safe and efficient tunneling operations. To address the lim...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,644 Views
33 Pages

18 September 2023

Additive manufacturing has gained significant popularity from a manufacturing perspective due to its potential for improving production efficiency. However, ensuring consistent product quality within predetermined equipment, cost, and time constraint...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,309 Views
17 Pages

The Development and Experimental Validation of a Surface Roughness Prediction Model for the Vertical Vibratory Finishing of Blisks

  • Yan Zhang,
  • Yashuang Zhang,
  • Liaoyuan Zhang,
  • Wenhui Li and ,
  • Xiuhong Li and
  • Kun Shan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The surface roughness of blisks during vibratory finishing is a critical evaluation index for their processing effect. Establishing a surface roughness prediction model helps reveal the processing mechanism and guide the optimization of process param...

(This article belongs to the Section High-Energy Beam Surface Engineering and Coatings)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,663 Views
19 Pages

6 February 2023

As one of the critical indicators of the lake ecosystem, the lake surface water temperature is an important indicator for measuring lake ecological environment. However, there is a complex nonlinear relationship between lake surface water temperature...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Spatiotemporal Remote Sensing Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,979 Views
12 Pages

19 October 2021

Graphite/polymer composites are brittle materials that are prone to producing cracks and concavities on machined surfaces, and their surface quality shows greater randomness. This work aims to overcome the large fluctuations in the machined surface q...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,499 Views
17 Pages

15 June 2023

Accurately predicting the surface finish of fused deposition modeling (FDM) parts is an important task for the engineering application of FDM technology. So far, many prediction models have been proposed by establishing a mapping relationship between...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,075 Views
14 Pages

31 December 2021

In the metal cutting process of machine tools, the quality of the surface roughness of the product is very important to improve the friction performance, corrosion resistance, and aesthetics of the product. Therefore, low surface roughness is ideal f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from iTIKI IEEE ICASI 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,511 Views
12 Pages

Prediction of Tunnel Blasting Vibration Velocity Considering the Influence of Free Surface

  • Xiaohui Zeng,
  • Xuemin Zhang,
  • Xianshun Zhou,
  • Ya Duan and
  • Jin Chen

20 January 2023

The blast vibration attenuation will change as the tunnel cut hole is blasted to create a new free surface. To guarantee safe tunnel construction and optimize blast design parameters, it is crucial to understand the impact of the free surface on blas...

  • Article
  • Open Access

30 September 2015

The prediction of surface temperature induced by frictional heating is of significance for evaluating the serious thermal wear, erosion and lubrication failure for industrial application and design. Temperature prediction model was established with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,353 Views
25 Pages

14 July 2021

The surface residual stress after machining, especially for finishing, has a vital influence on the shape stability and fatigue life of components. The current study focuses on proposing an original empirical equation to predict turned surface residu...

(This article belongs to the Collection Machining and Manufacturing of Alloys and Steels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,365 Views
12 Pages

Prediction of Surface Roughness as a Function of Temperature for SiO2 Thin-Film in PECVD Process

  • Muhammad Rizwan Amirzada,
  • Yousuf Khan,
  • Muhammad Khurram Ehsan,
  • Atiq Ur Rehman and ,
  • Abdul Aleem Jamali and
  • Abdul Rafay Khatri
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 February 2022

An analytical model to predict the surface roughness for the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process over a large range of temperature values is still nonexistent. By using an existing prediction model, the surface roughness can dir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in MEMS Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,162 Views
17 Pages

17 August 2023

The common material of bearing rings is GCr15 bearing steel which is a typical difficult-to-machine material. As an important working surface of the bearing, the inner surface of the raceway plays a vital role in the performance of the bearing. As an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ultra-Precision Machining of Difficult-to-Machine Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,291 Views
17 Pages

Analytical and Simulation-Based Prediction of Surface Roughness for Micromilling Hardened HSS

  • Alexander Meijer,
  • Jim A. Bergmann,
  • Eugen Krebs,
  • Dirk Biermann and
  • Petra Wiederkehr

The high quality demand for machined functional surfaces of forming tools, entail extensive investigations for the adjustment of the manufacturing process. Since the surface quality depends on a multitude of influencing factors in face micromilling,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Integrity in Machining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,286 Views
19 Pages

17 November 2025

Lightning is a critical driver of natural wildfire ignition and ecosystem dynamics, but existing prediction models rely on upper-air predictors such as convective available potential energy (CAPE) that are absent from paleoclimate reconstructions. To...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,047 Views
25 Pages

20 April 2024

Predicting the mesoscale eddies in the ocean is crucial for advancing our understanding of the ocean and climate systems. Establishing spatio-temporal correlation among input data is a significant challenge in mesoscale eddy prediction tasks, especia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Platform and Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data Fusion with Advanced Deep Learning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,121 Views
14 Pages

This study investigates uncertainty quantification for field-level ship hull surface pressure predictions using a U-Net-based data-driven model. A speed-conditioned U-Net is trained on a large CFD dataset covering multiple ship types and velocity con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Dynamics and Reliability Analysis of Marine Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,222 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2023

This paper presents a novel mapping prediction method for surface solar radiation with linear regression models. The dataset for surface solar radiation prediction is the daily surface incoming shortwave radiation (SIS) product from CM SAF SARAH-E. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solar Radiation: Measurements and Model Studies—Progress and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,360 Views
13 Pages

The accurate prediction of sea surface temperature (SST) is the basis for our understanding of local and global climate characteristics. At present, the existing sea temperature prediction methods fail to take full advantage of the potential spatial...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Network Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
5,775 Views
15 Pages

Monthly and Quarterly Sea Surface Temperature Prediction Based on Gated Recurrent Unit Neural Network

  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Xinliang Pan,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Baikai Sui and ,
  • Chenxi Liu and
  • Weifu Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The sea surface temperature (SST) is an important parameter of the energy balance on the Earth’s surface. SST prediction is crucial to marine production, marine protection, and climate prediction. However, the current SST prediction model still...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,735 Views
23 Pages

3 March 2022

Monitoring surface quality during machining has considerable practical significance for the performance of high-value products, particularly for their assembly interfaces. Surface roughness is the most important metric of surface quality. Currently,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor-Based Frequency, Time-Frequency, and Higher Order Signal Processing for Condition Monitoring, Structural Health Monitoring, and Non-Destructive Testing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,731 Views
17 Pages

21 April 2023

As a green, safe, and efficient method of coal development, underground coal gasification (UCG) technology has gradually moved from the experimental stage to the industrial production stage. This technology plays one of the key roles in the sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,130 Views
21 Pages

28 January 2025

Small-batch workpieces in smart manufacturing demand process parameter modeling, but existing models lack analysis across varying sample sizes and runtime conditions. This study proposes a novel surface-roughness prediction method, Response Surface M...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
876 Views
18 Pages

Application of Machine Learning Techniques in the Prediction of Surface Geometry

  • Aneta Gądek-Moszczak,
  • Dominik Nowakowski and
  • Norbert Radek

9 February 2026

The article presents an attempt by the authors to generate a digital representation of the analyzed surface layer of WC-Co-Al2O3 coating deposited by the ESD method. The WC-Co-Al2O3 surface layer is superhard and abrasion-resistant, significantly inc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Surface Engineering: Functional Films and Coatings)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,719 Views
15 Pages

Additive manufacturing (AM) provides a promising method to fabricate advanced functional parts with different mechanical and material performances from their traditional counterparts. However, the poor surface quality makes the subsequent post-proces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Development in Post-processing for Additive Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,333 Views
14 Pages

Predictive Quality Analytics of Surface Roughness in Turning Operation Using Polynomial and Artificial Neural Network Models

  • Peter Bober,
  • Kristína Zgodavová,
  • Miroslav Čička,
  • Mária Mihaliková and
  • Jozef Brindza

18 January 2024

The variability of the material properties of steel from different suppliers causes problems in achieving the required surface quality after turning. Therefore, the manufacturer needs to estimate the resulting quality before starting production, espe...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,805 Views
21 Pages

Recursive Time Series Prediction Modeling of Long-Term Trends in Surface Settlement During Railway Tunnel Construction

  • Feilian Zhang,
  • Qicheng Wei,
  • Zhe Wu,
  • Jiawei Cao and ,
  • Danlin Jian and
  • Lantian Xiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The surface settlement of railroad tunnels is dynamically updated as the construction progresses, exhibiting complex nonlinear characteristics. The accuracy of the on-site nonlinear regression fitting prediction method needs to be improved. To preven...

(This article belongs to the Topic New Developments in Intelligent Construction and Operation of Infrastructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,578 Views
19 Pages

Short-Term Prediction of Global Sea Surface Temperature Using Deep Learning Networks

  • Tianliang Xu,
  • Zhiquan Zhou,
  • Yingchun Li,
  • Chenxu Wang and ,
  • Ying Liu and
  • Tian Rong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The trend of global Sea Surface Temperature (SST) has attracted widespread attention in several ocean-related fields such as global warming, marine environmental protection and marine biodiversity. Sea surface temperature is influenced by climate cha...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean and Global Climate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,398 Views
15 Pages

A Hybrid ARIMA-GABP Model for Predicting Sea Surface Temperature

  • Xiangyi Chen,
  • Qinrou Li,
  • Xianghai Zeng,
  • Chuyi Zhang and ,
  • Guangjun Xu and
  • Guancheng Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the most important parameters in air–sea interaction, and its accurate prediction is of great significance in the study of global climate change. However, SST is affected by heat flux, ocean dynamic proce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analog AI Circuits and Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
748 Views
23 Pages

16 April 2026

The paper explores the use of artificial neural networks for surface roughness parameter Ra prediction when milling the finishing of flat surfaces with toroidal milling on C45 steel. The experiments were conducted on a 5-axis CNC center, varying thre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Integrity and Engineering Optimization in Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Systems)

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