Reactive materials can be employed to realize the integration of damage element kinetic energy and chemical energy damage, as well as strengthen the destruction ability of warheads. Among them, Al/Ni material has become a research hotspot because of...
In order to provide a reference for the gradation design of dense skeleton asphalt mixtures (DSAM), this study conducts a thorough analysis of the gradual meso-structural response behaviour of characteristics of the asphalt mixture main skeleton subj...
Biological structures have excellent mechanical performances including lightweight, high stiffness, etc. However, these are difficult to apply directly to some given complex structures, such as automobile frame, control arm, etc. In this study, a nov...
In this study, polyacrylic acid functionalized N-doped porous carbon derived from shaddock peels (PAA/N-SPCs) was fabricated and used as a solid-phase microextraction (SPME) coating for capturing and determining volatile halogenated hydrocarbons (VHC...
The performance of a multi-layer honeycomb skeleton can be significantly enhanced through tandem connection, while the structure’s properties can be tailored by altering the layer stacking method of the honeycomb skeleton. To investigate the im...
Background: The purpose of this article is to provide a new evaluation tool based on skeleton maps to assess the tumoral and non-tumoral regions of the 2D MRI in PD-weighted (proton density) and T2w (T2-weighted type) brain images. Methods: The propo...
Various modeling approaches simplify and parametrize the complex network structure of nanoporous gold (NPG) for studying the structure–property relationship based on artificially generated structures. This paper presents a computational efficie...
In asphalt mixture, aggregates account for up to 90% of the total volume and play an important role in the mechanical characteristics of asphalt mixture. The proportions of fine and coarse aggregates in gradation, as well as the function of aggregate...
Generating non-standard fonts, such as running script (e.g., XingShu), poses significant challenges due to their high stroke continuity, structural flexibility, and stylistic diversity, which traditional component-based prior knowledge methods strugg...
This work presents novel pattern recognition techniques applied on bathymetric data from two large areas in Eastern Mediterranean. Our objectives are as follows: (a) to demonstrate the efficiency of this methodology, (b) to highlight the quick and ac...
This work aims to enhance and validate a systematic approach for the structural finite element (FE) analysis of thermoplastic impregnated 3D filament winding structures (fiber skeletons). The idealized modeling of geometrically complex fiber skeleton...
Skeleton-based human action recognition is attractive for practical vision systems because it represents motion compactly, but occlusion and pose-estimation failures can remove spatially adjacent joints for extended periods and degrade graph-based re...
Identification of small-scale auroral structures is key to searching for auroral events. However, it is impracticable for humans to manually select sufficient aurora events for statistical analysis, and it is also challenging for computers because of...
The article presents the possibility of using a mass collector-storage wall (CSW), integrated into the structure of a building with a light skeleton structure. The considered system is a proposal for an energy-saving solution that can be used in buil...
To avoid cumbersome casting procedures in the production of pervious concrete, a new type of casting method through coating cementitious paste onto the preplaced aggregate skeleton is developed. To optimize the key performances and reveal their gover...
Asphalt mixtures are multi-phase composites composed of aggregates, bitumen, mineral powders, and voids, and various structures are intertwined during the compaction process. Most of the traditional research focuses on the macro-scale domain, and it...
The detection of citrus separation lines is a crucial step in the citrus processing industry. Inspired by the achievements of line-structured light technology in surface defect detection, this paper proposes a method for detecting citrus separation l...
The mechanoluminescent (ML) technology that is being developed as a new and substitutive technology for structural health monitoring systems (SHMS) comprises stress/strain sensing micro-/nanoparticles embedded in a suitable binder, digital imaging sy...
Fruit tree pruning improves orchard ventilation and light interception, thereby enhancing fruit quality and yield. Accurate measurement of pear tree branch parameters, such as branch length, growth angle, and spacing between growth points, is essenti...
The cyclic performance of structural steels after exposure to various elevated temperatures and cooling-down methods was experimentally investigated in this paper. Four types of frequently used structural steels were tested including Chinese mild ste...
With the rapid growth of the world population and the further industrialization of modern society, the demand for energy continues to rise sharply. Hence, the development of alternative, renewable, and clean energy sources is urgently needed to addre...
Focusing on solving the adverse laser-inducing damage problem, high-power laser-resistant strategies have attracted more attention. In order to improve the laser-resistant property, a novel dynamic porous structure generation idea for laser irradiati...
Seepage erosion is one of the main reasons for the local collapse or instability of embankments. To investigate the characteristics and mechanism of seepage erosion for cohesionless soils, model tests using an independently developed seepage erosion...
In response to the challenges faced by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in cluttered environments such as forests, ruins, and pipelines, this study introduces a ground–air amphibious UAV specifically designed for personnel search and rescue in co...
A large amount of silt may be produced in river and lake regulation. It not only occupies land but also pollutes the environment. Therefore, it is urgent to seek effective disposal and utilization methods. Based on the problems of poor stability of s...
CoO–ZnO-based composites have attracted considerable attention for the development of energy storage devices because of their multifunctional characterization and ease of integration with existing components. This paper reports the synthesis of...
This paper presents the mechanical design and simulation-based validation of a novel compact and low-cost 3-DOF dual-arm robotic system tailored for space-constrained applications such as rescue robotics. The proposed design achieves a fully folded f...
Premature skid resistance deterioration is a critical issue limiting the long-term performance of thin asphalt overlays. To elucidate the meso-scale degradation mechanisms, this study employs the Discrete Element Method (DEM) implemented in Particle...
The existing large inflatable membrane structure is complex in structure and takes a long time to be extended. In this paper, an air-ribbed skeleton membrane structure is proposed to meet the requirement of camp and emergency tents needing to be set...
Skeleton and Infill (SI) housing system is considered as a significant path of sustainably prolonging building life by improving structural durability and infill variability for its nature that the skeleton system is fixed, while the infill system co...
From the aerial parts of Salvia occidentalis (Labiatae) a new diterpenoid with a rearranged neo-clerodane skeleton was isolated. This new compound was named salvioccidentalin and its structure was established by spectroscopic means. A probable biogen...
Porous asphalt pavements have a skeletal structure with a large number of interconnecting pores, which can improve drainage, ensure traffic safety, and reduce tire noise. However, it can weaken the mechanical properties of the pavement. One of the ke...
This paper presents an automated, skeletonization-based feature recognition system designed for use with biomimetic structural optimization results. It enables importing optimization results back to the CAD system as a set of parameterized geometries...
The bottleneck in plant breeding programs is to have cost-effective high-throughput phenotyping methodologies to efficiently describe the new lines and hybrids developed. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic approach to overcome not only the i...
UAV-based visual inspection has become an effective approach for acquiring surface information from three-dimensional building structures. However, existing coverage path planning methods usually treat viewpoint planning and path sequencing as two se...
In this study, a compound with a novel chemical skeleton was isolated and purified from the fermentation broth of Streptomyces canarius SN0246. Its structure was elucidated using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and high-resolution mass...
The recognition of human activities is usually considered to be a simple procedure. Problems occur in complex scenes involving high speeds. Activity prediction using Artificial Intelligence (AI) by numerical analysis has attracted the attention of se...
Lupeol, a naturally occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid widely distributed in various medicinal plants, has attracted significant attention due to its diverse pharmacological properties. In this study, we report the synthesis and structural modificati...
Current understanding of the load-transfer mechanism in the skeletal contact state of asphalt mixtures and its influence on macroscopic mechanical properties remains insufficient. This knowledge gap leads to difficulties in accurately predicting the...
In this article, we introduce a new approach to human movement by defining the movement as a static super object represented by a single two-dimensional image. The described method is applicable in remote healthcare applications, such as physiotherap...
In recent years, Marine Natural Products (MNPs) have emerged as a significant source for anticancer drug discovery, as many natural products can offer structural diversity, unique mechanisms of action, and relatively low toxicity. This article provid...
Skeleton-based human action recognition is a pivotal research area in computer vision. While conventional methods predominantly model human actions as rigid displacements strictly adhering to structural symmetry, the essence of authentic action is ac...
Skeleton-based action recognition has attracted considerable research interest because skeleton data are inherently robust to illumination changes, viewpoint variation, background clutter, and camera motion. Nevertheless, extracting informative repre...
Identifying the associations between non-coding RNAs and drug resistance (RDRAs) is crucial for uncovering resistance mechanisms and screening effective biomarkers. However, existing graph-based methods typically rely on purely data-driven learning a...
Structured-light scanning is a fast and efficient technique for the acquisition of 3D point clouds. However, the extensive and daily application of this class of scanners can be challenging because of the technical know-how necessary to validate the...
Increasing the energy density of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can broaden their applications in energy storage but remains a formidable challenge. Herein, with polyacrylic acid (PAA) as phase separation agent, macroporous Co2SnO4 with hollow skeleton...
To remove the pollutant methylene blue (MB) from water, a sheet-like skeleton carbon derived from shaddock peels (SPACs) was prepared by NaOH activation followed by a calcination procedure under nitrogen protection in this study. Characterization res...
A terrain skeleton determines the overall structure and characteristics of the terrain and indicates the presence of significant terrain features, such as ridges and valleys. It plays an important role in terrain representation and reconstruction, hy...
Extracting 3D skeletons from point clouds is a challenging task in computer vision. Most existing deep learning methods rely heavily on supervised data requiring extensive manual annotation. Consequently, re-labeling is often necessary for cross-cate...
In this work, copper–tungsten (Cu-W) composites with a cubic and rhombic dodecahedron W-skeleton were fabricated by the infiltration of Cu melt into a three-dimensionally printed W scaffold. The effects of the skeleton structure on the mechanic...
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