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18 July 2024

Heterogeneous phase combined flooding (HPCF) has been a promising technology used for enhancing oil recovery in heterogeneous mature reservoirs. However, the injectivity and propagation behavior of preformed particle gel (PPG) in low–medium-per...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
703 Views
14 Pages

31 July 2025

When emergency incidents, such as bridge damage, abruptly occur on highways and lead to traffic disruptions, the multidimensionality and complexity of driver behaviors present significant challenges to the design of effective emergency response mecha...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,939 Views
12 Pages

20 August 2021

By optimizing the distribution of steel fibers in fiber-reinforced cementitious mortar (FRCM) through the layered structure, the role of fibers can be fully utilized, thus improving the flexural behavior. In this study, the flexural behavior of layer...

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17 January 2025

The resistance to near-threshold fatigue crack growth and its correlation with the microstructure of the Ti-5Al-3Mo-3V-2Zr-2Cr-1Nb-1Fe alloy were investigated. K-decreasing fatigue crack propagation rate tests were conducted on compact tension sample...

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3 Citations
1,777 Views
22 Pages

Unsafe behaviors among construction workers are a leading cause of safety accidents in the construction industry, and studying the mechanism of unsafe behavior propagation among construction workers is essential for reducing the occurrence of safety...

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  • Open Access
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17 Pages

Regret Psychology-Driven Information Propagation and Behavioral Adoption in Complex Social Networks

  • Nana Li,
  • Yajuan Cui,
  • Yang Tian,
  • Chenxi Hu,
  • Xuzhen Zhu and
  • Simin Hu

20 November 2025

In recent years, information propagation on social networks has attracted extensive attention, with psychological characteristics of individuals exerting a significant influence on the diffusion process. Our study investigates the role of regret psyc...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,488 Views
26 Pages

9 October 2019

Generally, metro emergencies could lead to delays and seriously affect passengers’ trips. The dynamic congestion propagation process under metro emergency-caused delays could be regarded as the aggregation of passengers’ individual travel...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,068 Views
15 Pages

22 October 2012

To reveal the inner mechanism of gas explosion dynamic behavior affected by gas equivalent concentration, a high speed Schlieren image system and flow field measurement technology was applied to record the gas explosion flame propagation and flame st...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,895 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Disturbance Propagation Model of Pedestrian Panic Behaviors and Lyapunov-Based Crowd Stability Analysis

  • Cuiling Li,
  • Rongyong Zhao,
  • Chuanfeng Han,
  • Rahman Arifur,
  • Yunlong Ma and
  • Qiong Liu

27 October 2023

In public places, pedestrian panic behaviors have received increasing attention due to their dangerous impact on normal pedestrian flow. To address this issue, this study considered crowd panic behaviors as two-dimensional Gaussian disturbances quant...

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5 Citations
2,662 Views
15 Pages

16 February 2024

White etching layers (WELs) and brown etching layers (BELs), formed on the upper layer of bearing raceways generally lead to surface crack initiation and propagation and significantly affect the stable operation of precision bearings. In this study,...

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15 Pages

Propagation Behavior of P1-Wave Passing through Fluid-Saturated Porous Continuous Barrier in Layered Saturated Soil

  • Xunqian Xu,
  • Yu Li,
  • Fengyi Kang,
  • Shue Li,
  • Guozhi Wan,
  • Qi Li,
  • Tao Wu and
  • Siwen Wang

16 February 2024

The fluid-saturated porous continuous barrier has a better vibration isolation effect than the single-phase solid continuous barrier, and layer-forming saturated soils will have an impact on the vibration isolation effect of the barriers due to their...

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19 Pages

19 August 2025

The influence of stress state multiaxiality on the propagation velocity of Rayleigh waves is explored through a detailed numerical study. The study uses the Murnaghan model to capture nonlinear elastodynamics in the material behavior, necessitating c...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,304 Views
14 Pages

Revealing Crack Propagation and Mechanical Behavior of Corroded Aluminum Alloys

  • Yong Zhang,
  • Andong Wang,
  • Qihong Fang,
  • Wenfei Yang,
  • Weijie Fan and
  • Jia Li

3 April 2024

The mechanical properties and crack propagation behavior of aluminum alloys, both with and without corroded surfaces, were thoroughly investigated through molecular dynamic (MD) simulations. The study delved into the effects of corrosion depth and wi...

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24 Pages

Study on Fatigue Crack Propagation Behavior of Fiber/Al-Li Laminates Under Typical Overload

  • Weiying Meng,
  • Jiayi Tan,
  • Sihui Li,
  • Xiao Huang and
  • Jiaying Wang

14 August 2025

Fiber metal laminates are applied in aerospace equipment due to their excellent crack propagation performance. However, during the service process of fiber metal laminates, the coupling between overload effect and fiber bridging effect makes the crac...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,358 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2023

This paper addresses the role of multilevel microstructures on the fatigue crack propagation behavior and the tensile properties of lath martensite with different substructure sizes. Microstructure characterization of the alloy was carried out by tra...

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2 Citations
2,527 Views
13 Pages

Influence on Elastic Wave Propagation Behavior in Polymers Composites: An Analysis of Inflection Phenomena

  • Guoqiang Luo,
  • Pu Cheng,
  • Yin Yu,
  • Xiangwei Geng,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Yulong Xia,
  • Ruizhi Zhang and
  • Qiang Shen

28 March 2023

Particulate polymer composites (PPCs) are widely applied under different elastic wave loading conditions in the automobile, aviation, and armor protection industries. This study investigates the elastic wave propagation behavior of a typical PPC, spe...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,468 Views
12 Pages

Influence of Sample Wetting Method on ESC-Behavior of PMMA under Dynamic Fatigue Crack Propagation

  • Tobias Bubmann,
  • Simon Shi,
  • Alexander Brueckner,
  • Teresa Menzel,
  • Holger Ruckdäschel,
  • Alois K. Schlarb and
  • Volker Altstädt

9 June 2022

Environmental stress cracking (ESC) is one of the most prominent failure mechanisms for polymer components. The high sensitivity of plastics in regard to environmental influences has always meant that plastics as materials have been viewed very criti...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,799 Views
16 Pages

23 July 2020

The initiation and propagation of cracks are crucial to the reliability and stability of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). It is important and necessary to develop an effective method for the prediction of the crack propagation behavior of TBCs. In th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,690 Views
11 Pages

Fatigue Crack Propagation Behavior and Life Prediction of Welded Joints of SMA490BW Steel for Bogies

  • Xingyuan Xu,
  • Liyang Xie,
  • Song Zhou,
  • Jinlan An,
  • Yanqing Huang and
  • Dongxia Li

30 June 2023

In this paper, the precrack propagation behavior of an SMA490BW welded joint in the core zone and heat-affected zone was analyzed through experiments based on the FRANC 3D and ABAQUS cosimulation method, and life prediction of these cracks was also i...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,805 Views
10 Pages

2 August 2021

Novel β-solidifying TiAl alloys have great potential for engineering applications in the aerospace and automotive industries. The introduction of the β0 phase will inevitably affect crack propagation. However, the related mechanism is unclear. In thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,610 Views
20 Pages

Study on the Vertical Propagation Behavior of Hydraulic Fractures in Thin Interbedded Tight Sandstone

  • Liangliang Zhao,
  • Anshun Zhang,
  • Guangai Wu,
  • Zhengrong Chen,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Jinghe Wang

29 October 2024

Hydraulic fracturing technology is vital for the efficient extraction of oil and gas from low-permeability tight sandstone reservoirs.Taking the central Bohai oilfield in China as an example, these fields are typically composed of thinly interbedded...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,150 Views
16 Pages

On the Microcrack Propagation and Mechanical Behavior of Granite Induced by Thermal Cycling Treatments

  • Xiao-Wu Zhang,
  • Jin-Hai Xu,
  • Yue Cao,
  • Ding Liu,
  • Lei Sun and
  • Faiz Shaikh

7 August 2022

Deep geothermal energy is a renewable and environmentally friendly resource, and the hot dry rock in a geothermal reservoir is subjected to thermal cycling treatment. Thermal cycling treatment can cause thermal stresses in the rock matrix and result...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,492 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2021

The robustness and stability of the system depend on structural integrity. This stability is, however, compromised by aging, wear and tear, overloads, and environmental factors. A study of vibration and fatigue cracking for structural health monitori...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,749 Views
14 Pages

RETRACTED: Characterizing the Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Behavior in Deep Fractured Formations Based on DDM and FVM

  • Bin Wang,
  • Jingfeng Dong,
  • Peiyao Zhou,
  • Hui Kong,
  • Kaixin Liu,
  • Kebao Ding and
  • Heng Zheng

7 November 2024

Hydraulic fracturing is the predominant technology for the development of unconventional resources, and understanding multi-fracture propagation behavior is the foundation for hydraulic fracturing optimization. To deeply understand multi-fracture pro...

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3 Citations
2,419 Views
12 Pages

The soliton propagation of the fractional-in-space nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) is much more complicated than that of the corresponding integer NLSE. The aim of this paper is to discover some novel fractal soliton propagation behaviors (FSPB...

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1 Citations
2,235 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2023

The welding residual stress re-distribution behavior during fatigue crack propagation in butt-welded high-strength steel plates for ship construction is investigated based on experimental test results and numerical analyses. The specimens’ init...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,769 Views
11 Pages

31 July 2020

Through investigating the effect of parameters on the fatigue properties and crack propagation behavior of friction stir crack repaired 2024 aluminum alloy, we demonstrated that the fatigue strength of friction stir repaired Al2024 was sensitive to t...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,966 Views
15 Pages

As the synthesis, modularization, and integration of avionics systems increase, the interconnections between systems and equipment within subsystems become increasingly complex, posing risks to the safety and reliability of the integrated avionics sy...

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10 Citations
2,247 Views
18 Pages

Multiscale Pore Structure Characteristics and Crack Propagation Behavior of Coal Samples from High Gas Seam

  • Jie Zhu,
  • Tangsha Shao,
  • Guiyou Li,
  • Yuhang Yang,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Tianxiang Lan,
  • Jinge Wang,
  • Yuhan Zhao and
  • Shuangqing Liu

26 June 2022

Investigation on the pore-fracture features and crack propagation behavior of coal is necessary to prevent coal mine disasters. The pore structure features of coal samples taken from high gas seam were obtained by mercury injection porosimetry (MIP)...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,001 Views
12 Pages

Crack Propagation Behavior of a Ni-Based Single-Crystal Superalloy during In Situ SEM Tensile Test at 1000 °C

  • Wenxiang Jiang,
  • Xiaoyi Ren,
  • Jinghao Zhao,
  • Jianli Zhou,
  • Jinyao Ma,
  • Wenjing Zhang,
  • Yuefei Zhang and
  • Ze Zhang

17 November 2020

An in situ scanning electron microscope (SEM) tensile test for Ni-based single-crystal superalloy was carried out at 1000 °C. The stress displacement was obtained, and the yield strength and tensile strength of the superalloy were 699 MPa and 826...

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1,751 Views
12 Pages

16 April 2025

The preservation of historical heritage requires a deep understanding of the interactions between physical and structural phenomena. This study investigates the influence of bells acoustic waves propagation on the dynamic behavior for the historical...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,493 Views
20 Pages

9 December 2024

Tight sandstone gas reservoirs are rich in reserves and are an important part of unconventional oil and gas resources. However, natural fractures’ impact on hydraulic fracture propagation behavior and network formation mechanisms remain unclear...

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1 Citations
1,003 Views
21 Pages

Wood, steel, and concrete constitute the three predominant structural materials employed in contemporary commercial and residential construction. In composite applications, bond interfaces between these materials represent critical structural junctur...

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3 Citations
2,041 Views
14 Pages

20 October 2022

This paper analyzes the management system of safety partnership in coal mining enterprises through the methods of evolutionary game and optimized behavioral propagation of SEIR, considering the miners’ benefits and losses, as well as the influe...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,205 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2020

In this paper, the guided wave propagation behavior in damaged 30CrMo steel curved plates was investigated experimentally and numerically. The effects of the notch orientation, depth in the curved plate, as well as its radius, on the wave propagation...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,119 Views
17 Pages

The fractional Brownian field is often used to reproduce the fractal properties of complex heterogeneous media, which closely represent real-world geological materials. Studying elastic wave transport in this type of heterogeneous media is essential...

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19 Citations
3,607 Views
13 Pages

Explosion Characteristics and Flame Propagation Behavior of Mixed Dust Cloud of Coal Dust and Oil Shale Dust

  • Junfeng Wang,
  • Yansong Zhang,
  • Huifeng Su,
  • Jinshe Chen,
  • Bo Liu and
  • Yuyuan Zhang

9 October 2019

Coal and oil shale are often mined and utilized together, and mixed dust is easily formed in these processes. In order to ensure safe production in these processes, the explosion characteristics of mixed dust were studied. Using a Godbert-Greenwold (...

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8 Citations
2,627 Views
17 Pages

The current research endeavors to explore the mechanical properties of recycled concrete cubic specimens, predominantly concentrating on macroscopic attributes such as compressive strength and splitting tensile strength. However, at the mesoscopic sc...

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1 Citations
2,426 Views
12 Pages

10 June 2022

Previous studies have shown that a thermomechanical treatment (TMT) consisting of cyclic plastic deformation in the temperature range of dynamic strain aging can increase the fatigue limit of quenched and tempered steels by strengthening the microstr...

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28 October 2025

To address the complexity of tensile mechanical behavior in fissured rock masses, this study conducted Brazilian splitting tests and numerical simulations on yellow sandstone containing randomly distributed fissures. Based on secondary development of...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,405 Views
8 Pages

Role of LPSO Phase in Crack Propagation Behavior of an As-Cast Mg-Y-Zn Alloy Subjected to Dynamic Loadings

  • Xuezhi Shi,
  • Yunqian Long,
  • Huiqiu Zhang,
  • Liqiao Chen,
  • Yingtang Zhou,
  • Xiaoming Yu,
  • Xuan Yu,
  • Lu Cai and
  • Zhe Leng

6 February 2019

In this work, the role of long period stacking ordered (LPSO) phase in the crack propagation behavior of an as-cast Mg95.5Y3Zn1.5 alloy was investigated by dynamic four-point bent tests. The as-cast Mg95.5Y3Zn1.5 alloy is mainly composed of Mg matrix...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,671 Views
13 Pages

29 September 2020

During the crack propagation process, the crack-branching behavior makes fracture more unpredictable. However, compared with the crack-branching behavior that occurs in brittle materials or ductile materials under dynamic loading, the branching behav...

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13 February 2025

To explore the coupling relationship between information propagation behaviors and evolution dynamics in swarm systems, this paper establishes the SEBAR model based on mean field theory with a macroscopic view of information dissemination. Then, the...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,491 Views
13 Pages

10 April 2022

Temporary plugging and diverting fracturing (TPDF) is widely used to improve the stimulation effectiveness in coal seam. To study the fracture propagation behavior during TPDF in coal formation, a series of laboratory hydraulic fracturing experiments...

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14 Citations
4,849 Views
24 Pages

19 July 2024

Deploying 5G networks in mountainous rural regions can be challenging due to its unique and challenging characteristics. Attaching a transmitter to a UAV to enable connectivity requires a selection of suitable propagation models in such conditions. T...

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3 Citations
2,549 Views
14 Pages

12 September 2019

This study aims to numerically analyze the near-field propagation behavior of hazardous and noxious substances (HNSs) and to develop a new metamodel for HNS propagation. Extensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were conducted using th...

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3 Citations
2,103 Views
15 Pages

6 March 2023

The same people exhibit various adoption behaviors for the same information on various networks. Previous studies, however, did not examine the variety of adoption behaviors on multi-layer networks or take into consideration this phenomenon. Therefor...

  • Retraction
  • Open Access
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6 February 2025

The journal retracts the article titled “Characterizing the Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Behavior in Deep Fractured Formations Based on DDM and FVM” [...]

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5 Citations
4,020 Views
21 Pages

Thermal Fatigue Crack Propagation Process and Mechanism of Multicomponent Al-7Si-0.3Mg Alloy

  • Zhengjun Wang,
  • Xinyang Liu,
  • Chen Dong,
  • Jie Chen and
  • Lianxiang Liu

7 July 2023

The thermal fatigue behavior of multicomponent Al-7Si-0.3Mg alloys in four different treatment states at typical temperature amplitudes 20 °C→350 °C was studied. The morphology of the second phase particles and crack propagation, and dis...

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1 Citations
1,136 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Post-Weld Heat Treatment on Residual Stress and Fatigue Crack Propagation Behavior in Linear Friction Welded Ti-6Al-4V Alloy

  • Sungkyoung Lee,
  • Hyunsung Choi,
  • Yunji Cho,
  • Min Jae Baek,
  • Hyeonil Park,
  • Moo-Young Seok,
  • Yong Nam Kwon,
  • Namhyun Kang and
  • Dong Jun Lee

11 July 2025

In this study, the effects of post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) on residual stress distribution and fatigue crack propagation (FCP) behavior in linear friction welded (LFW) Ti-6Al-4V joints were investigated. Microstructural evolution in the weld cente...

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