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17 Citations
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23 October 2017

The Radial Basis Function (RBF) method has been considered an important meshfree tool for numerical solutions of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). For various situations, RBF with infinitely differentiable functions can provide accurate results...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Operators of Fractional Calculus and Their Applications)
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3 Citations
1,489 Views
32 Pages

10 November 2025

Efficient and accurate prediction of transient temperature fields is critical for thermal management of electronic devices with multiple heat sources. In this study, a reduced-order surrogate modeling approach is developed based on proper orthogonal...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
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  • Open Access
493 Views
23 Pages

8 May 2026

This paper presents a hybrid numerical approach, termed the Radial Basis Function–Finite Difference Matrix Operator (RBF–FDMO) method, to enhance the accuracy and flexibility of the conventional FDMO technique for three-dimensional (3D) e...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,442 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2020

Radial basis function (RBF) is gaining popularity in function interpolation as well as in solving partial differential equations thanks to its accuracy and simplicity. Besides, RBF methods have almost a spectral accuracy. Furthermore, the implementat...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,900 Views
20 Pages

19 July 2022

In this paper, a new hybrid radial basis function collocation method (HRBF-CM) is proposed to help resolve two-dimensional elastostatic symmetric problems. In the new approach, the hybrid radial basis function (HRBF) combines the infinitely smooth RB...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
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  • Open Access
550 Views
20 Pages

1 January 2026

Ionospheric delay errors significantly reduce the positioning accuracy of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), whereas precise ionospheric modeling can effectively mitigate this issue. The ionosphere exhibits large-scale symmetry, and spheric...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
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8 Citations
5,054 Views
18 Pages

A New Radial Basis Function Approach Based on Hermite Expansion with Respect to the Shape Parameter

  • Saleh Abobakur Bawazeer,
  • Saleh Saeed Baakeem and
  • Abdulmajeed Mohamad

16 October 2019

Owing to its high accuracy, the radial basis function (RBF) is gaining popularity in function interpolation and for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The implementation of RBF methods is independent of the locations of the points and the...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,354 Views
15 Pages

Finite element data form an important basis for engineers to undertake analysis and research. In most cases, it is difficult to generate the internal sections of finite element data and professional operations are required. To display the internal da...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,558 Views
12 Pages

Investigation of Higher Order Localized Approximations for a Fractional Pricing Model in Finance

  • Malik Zaka Ullah,
  • Abdullah Khamis Alzahrani,
  • Hashim Mohammed Alshehri and
  • Stanford Shateyi

9 June 2023

In this work, by considering spatial uniform meshes and stencils having five adjacent discretization nodes, we furnish a numerical scheme to solve the time-fractional Black–Scholes (partial differential equation) PDE to price financial options...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis and Modeling)
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327 Views
26 Pages

4 July 2026

This paper develops a compact analytical framework for multiquadric radial basis function–Hermite finite difference (MQ RBF–HFD) approximations on nonuniform meshes. The main contributions are a unified local operator formulation, uniform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Mathematics and Its Applications in Numerical Analysis, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,221 Views
35 Pages

An Extrinsic Enriched Finite Element Method Based on RBFs for the Helmholtz Equation

  • Qingliang Liu,
  • Zhihong Zou,
  • Yingbin Chai,
  • Wei Li and
  • Wei Chu

5 January 2026

The traditional finite element method (FEM) usually exhibits significant numerical dispersion error for solving the Helmholtz equation in relatively high-frequency range, resulting in insufficiently accurate solutions. To address this problem, this p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,253 Views
25 Pages

5 August 2021

Polyharmonic spline (PHS) radial basis functions (RBFs) have been used in conjunction with polynomials to create RBF finite-difference (RBF-FD) methods. In 2D, these methods are usually implemented with Cartesian nodes, hexagonal nodes, or most commo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,468 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2023

The classification of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites (WHS) is essential for promoting sustainable tourism and ensuring the long-term conservation of cultural and natural heritage si...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,867 Views
26 Pages

25 July 2022

In this contribution, a scattered data approximation problem, chosen from the literature and using the Radial Basis Function (RBF) approach, is considered for the application of point cloud modelling. Three solutions are investigated for the approxim...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,643 Views
11 Pages

22 January 2019

An efficient technique is proposed to solve the one-dimensional Burgers’ equation based on multiquadric radial basis function (MQ-RBF) for space approximation and a Lie-Group scheme for time integration. The comparisons of the numerical results...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,213 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2014

This paper proposes a parallel fixed point radial basis function (RBF) artificial neural network (ANN), implemented in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) trained online with a least mean square (LMS) algorithm. The processing time and occupied ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,186 Views
13 Pages

8 April 2024

An effective strategy to enhance the convergence order of nodal approximations in interpolation or PDE problems is to increase the size of the stencil, albeit at the cost of increased computational burden. In this study, our goal is to improve the co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
979 Views
26 Pages

5 February 2026

Image-Based Visual Servoing (IBVS) systems often suffer from instability due to measurement noise, modeling errors, and external disturbances. To address these issues, this study proposes a Visual Predictive Control framework integrating Radial Basis...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,720 Views
24 Pages

29 September 2021

The paper shows the application of a flexible approach of partially-parametric modelling on the basis of radial basis functions (RBF) for the modification of an existing hull form (baseline). Different to other partially-parametric modelling approach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrodynamic Design of Ships)
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  • Open Access
116 Citations
12,876 Views
21 Pages

26 April 2012

This paper presents a hybrid control strategy, combining Radial Basis Function (RBF) network with conventional proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) controllers, for the greenhouse climate control. A model of nonlinear conservation laws of ent...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,603 Views
14 Pages

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an effective tool for ship resistance prediction and hull form optimization. A three-dimensional volume mesh is essential for CFD simulation, and mesh generation requires much time and effort. Mesh deformation ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CFD Simulations of Marine Hydrodynamics)
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379 Views
16 Pages

24 July 2026

The accurate representation of frontal zones—characterized by sharp scalar gradients—remains a critical challenge in regional objective analysis and data assimilation, particularly when utilizing sparse or stochastically distributed obser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Numerical Modeling Techniques in Meteorology: Exploring the Frontier of Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation)
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601 Views
17 Pages

15 March 2026

To establish the complex functional relationship between the stator bar end structure and the maximum electric field strength, and to optimize the anti-corona structure, an optimization model for the stator bar end based on the Seahorse Optimization...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,041 Views
42 Pages

Cross Layer Optimization Using AI/ML-Assisted Federated Edge Learning in 6G Networks

  • Spyridon Louvros,
  • AnupKumar Pandey,
  • Brijesh Shah and
  • Yashesh Buch

30 January 2026

This paper introduces a novel methodology that integrates 6G wireless Federated Edge Learning (FEEL) frameworks with MAC to PHY cross layer optimization strategies. In the context of mobile edge computing, typically ensuring robust channel estimation...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,481 Views
22 Pages

This paper presents the effect of wing elasticity on the efficiency of a nonintrusive reduced order model using a three-dimensional sweptback wing. For this purpose, a computationally low-cost but highly accurate nonintrusive reduced order method is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Aerodynamic Modeling)
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4,919 Views
19 Pages

A Localized Meshless Technique for Generating 3-D Wind Fields

  • Darrell W. Pepper and
  • Maria Ramos Gonzalez

A localized meshless method is used to simulate 3-D atmospheric wind fields for wind energy assessment and emergency response. The meshless (or mesh-free) method with radial basis functions (RBFs) alleviates the need to create a mesh required by fini...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods in Wind Engineering)
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566 Views
36 Pages

25 February 2026

The efficiency of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) highly depends on correctly detecting the anomalies hindering their processes. This study investigates the use of hybrid Artificial Neural Networks (A-NNs) for detecting mechanical faults injected...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Simulation, Control and Optimization in Engineering with Applications, 2nd Edition)
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124 Citations
17,223 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2018

The concentration of dissolved oxygen (DO) in the aeration tank(s) of an activated sludge system is one of the most important process control parameters. The DO concentration in the aeration tank(s) is maintained at a desired level by using a Proport...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technologies)
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2 Citations
2,497 Views
29 Pages

RBF-Based Camera Model Based on a Ray Constraint to Compensate for Refraction Error

  • Jaehyun Kim,
  • Chanyoung Kim,
  • Seongwook Yoon,
  • Taehyeon Choi and
  • Sanghoon Sull

12 October 2023

A camera equipped with a transparent shield can be modeled using the pinhole camera model and residual error vectors defined by the difference between the estimated ray from the pinhole camera model and the actual three-dimensional (3D) point. To cal...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
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32 Citations
4,798 Views
24 Pages

This paper proposes a new adaptive controller for three-wheeled mobile robots (3WMRs) called the ABHSMC controller. This ABHSMC controller is developed through a cooperative approach, combining a backstepping controller and a Radial Basis Function (R...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,266 Views
23 Pages

Comparative Study on Different Interpolation Methods and Source Analysis of Soil Toxic Element Pollution in Cangxi County, Guangyuan City, China

  • Jiajun Zhang,
  • Junsheng Peng,
  • Xingyi Chen,
  • Xinyi Shi,
  • Ziwei Feng,
  • Yichen Meng,
  • Wende Chen and
  • Yingping Liu

24 April 2024

Spatial interpolation is a crucial aspect of soil toxic element pollution research, serving as a vital foundation for pollution assessment, treatment, and sustainability efforts. The selection and adjustment of interpolation methods directly influenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Soil Pollution by Heavy Metals)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,294 Views
19 Pages

25 February 2021

Recently, land cover change detection has become a research focus of remote sensing. To obtain the change information from remote sensing images at fine spatial and temporal resolutions, subpixel change detection is widely studied and applied. In thi...

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22 Citations
8,368 Views
28 Pages

21 March 2019

Standard solutions for handling a large amount of measured data obtained from intelligent buildings are currently available as software tools in IoT platforms. These solutions optimize the operational and technical functions managing the quality of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 20th IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE HealthCom 2018))
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50 Citations
4,904 Views
15 Pages

24 June 2022

The aim of the study was to investigate the utility of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for the estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) on the Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece for two representative months of wintertime and summertime during...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Application on Soil Moisture)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,886 Views
22 Pages

6 May 2022

High-precision retrieval of rainfall over large areas is of great importance for the research of atmospheric detection and the social life. With the rapid development of communication satellite constellations and 5G communication networks, the use of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Precipitation Retrievals)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,457 Views
27 Pages

Evaluating Geostatistical and Statistical Merging Methods for Radar–Gauge Rainfall Integration: A Multi-Method Comparative Study

  • Xuan-Hien Le,
  • Naoki Koyama,
  • Kei Kikuchi,
  • Yoshihisa Yamanouchi,
  • Akiyoshi Fukaya and
  • Tadashi Yamada

28 July 2025

Accurate and spatially consistent rainfall estimation is essential for hydrological modeling and flood risk mitigation, especially in mountainous tropical regions with sparse observational networks and highly heterogeneous rainfall. This study presen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data in Hydrology and Geophysical Processes)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,343 Views
16 Pages

A Multidisciplinary Approach for Evaluating Spatial and Temporal Variations in Water Quality

  • Viet Thang Le,
  • Nguyen Hong Quan,
  • Ho Huu Loc,
  • Nguyen Thi Thanh Duyen,
  • Tran Duc Dung,
  • Hiep Duc Nguyen and
  • Quang Hung Do

24 April 2019

The primary goal of this study is to investigate the classification capability of several artificial intelligence techniques, including the decision tree (DT), multilayer perceptron (MLP) network, Naïve Bayes, radial basis function (RBF) network...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,505 Views
26 Pages

2 July 2025

Long-term sea level variations in the northern South China Sea (SCS) are known to significantly impact coastal ecosystems and socio-economic activities. To improve sea level prediction accuracy, four models—harmonic analysis and three artificia...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
702 Views
18 Pages

Real-Time Structural Stress Monitoring of Gantry Cranes Utilizing Digital Twin Technology

  • Min Liu,
  • Keming Chen,
  • Hanbin Xiao,
  • Ze Zhu,
  • Yushuang Yan,
  • Jiawei Zhang,
  • Yujin Han and
  • Feng Zhu

13 May 2026

To address the challenge of real-time and global monitoring of the structural stress state of large port gantry cranes in complex working environments, this paper proposes a digital twin system framework covering the physical layer, data layer, model...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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36 Citations
6,468 Views
15 Pages

RBF-Based Monocular Vision Navigation for Small Vehicles in Narrow Space below Maize Canopy

  • Lu Liu,
  • Tao Mei,
  • Runxin Niu,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Yongbo Liu and
  • Sen Chu

21 June 2016

Maize is one of the major food crops in China. Traditionally, field operations are done by manual labor, where the farmers are threatened by the harsh environment and pesticides. On the other hand, it is difficult for large machinery to maneuver in t...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,593 Views
14 Pages

Proximity Environmental Feature Based Tree Health Assessment Scheme Using Internet of Things and Machine Learning Algorithm

  • Yang Wei,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Kim Fung Tsang,
  • Yucheng Liu,
  • Chung Kit Wu,
  • Hongxu Zhu,
  • Yuk-Tak Chow and
  • Faan Hei Hung

15 July 2019

Improperly grown trees may cause huge hazards to the environment and to humans, through e.g., climate change, soil erosion, etc. A proximity environmental feature-based tree health assessment (PTA) scheme is proposed to prevent these hazards by provi...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,885 Views
21 Pages

Optimization of a Walker Constellation Using an RBF Surrogate Model for Space Target Awareness

  • You Fu,
  • Zhaojing Xu,
  • Youchen Fan,
  • Liu Yi,
  • Zhao Ma,
  • Yuhai Li and
  • Shengliang Fang

16 October 2025

Designing Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations for the continuous, collaborative observation of space objects in MEO/GEO is a complex optimization task, frequently limited by prohibitive computational costs. This study introduces an efficient surroga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Space Surveillance and Tracking)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,826 Views
35 Pages

13 December 2018

Consistent streamflow forecasts play a fundamental part in flood risk mitigation. Population increase and water cycle intensification are extending not only globally but also among Pakistan’s water resources. The frequency of floods has increased in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integration of Advanced Soft Computing Techniques in Hydrological Predictions)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,666 Views
18 Pages

5 August 2024

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a rapidly evolving technology that requires extensive knowledge and management for broader industrial adoption due to the complexity of phenomena involved. The selection of parameters and numerical analysis for the SL...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Printing Technologies and Additive Manufacturing: Recent Advances and Applications)
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  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,518 Views
21 Pages

29 May 2019

Tree heights are the principal variables for forest plantation inventory. The increasing availability of high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) point clouds derived from low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and modern photogrammetry offers an oppor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Point Clouds in Forests)
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20 Citations
5,060 Views
22 Pages

Convexity and Surface Quality Enhanced Curved Slicing for Support-Free Multi-Axis Fabrication

  • Don Pubudu Vishwana Joseph Jayakody,
  • Tak Yu Lau,
  • Ravindra Stephen Goonetilleke and
  • Kai Tang

In multi-axis fused deposition modeling (FDM) printing systems, support-free curved layer fabrication is realized by continuous transition of the printer nozzle orientation. However, the ability to print 3D models with complex geometric (e.g., high o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-Axis Machining)
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137 Citations
9,741 Views
20 Pages

Comparisons of Diverse Machine Learning Approaches for Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping

  • Khalil Gholamnia,
  • Thimmaiah Gudiyangada Nachappa,
  • Omid Ghorbanzadeh and
  • Thomas Blaschke

10 April 2020

Climate change has increased the probability of the occurrence of catastrophes like wildfires, floods, and storms across the globe in recent years. Weather conditions continue to grow more extreme, and wildfires are occurring quite frequently and are...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,408 Views
10 Pages

17 June 2023

Fractional differential equations (FDEs) arising in engineering and other sciences describe nature sufficiently in terms of symmetry properties. This paper proposes a numerical technique to approximate ordinary fractional initial value problems by ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Functional Equations: Methods, Applications and Mathematical Models)
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721 Views
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15 November 2025

This paper introduces a singular distance function rs in terms of a symmetric non-negative metric tensor S. If S satisfies a quadratic matrix equation involving a parameter β, then for the Laplace equation rsβ is a non-singular generalized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Numerical and Computational Methods for Engineering and Applied Mathematical Problems, 2nd Edition)
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19 Citations
2,758 Views
14 Pages

18 November 2023

Titanium alloys have become an indispensable material for all walks of life because of their excellent strength and corrosion resistance. However, grinding titanium alloy is exceedingly challenging due to its pronounced material characteristics. Ther...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cutting Processes for Materials in Manufacturing)

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