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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,456 Views
24 Pages

Bifurcation and Stability Analyses on Stick-Slip Vibrations of Deep Hole Drilling with State-Dependent Delay

  • Jianwei Huang,
  • Ao Zhang,
  • Hongyuan Sun,
  • Shengwen Shi,
  • He Li and
  • Bangchun Wen

10 May 2018

To avoid stick-slip vibration, one of the most important forms of self-excited vibrations in deep hole drilling, this paper studies the stability and bifurcation characteristics of a drilling system based on a two-degree-of-freedom discrete model. It...

  • Article
  • Open Access
570 Views
22 Pages

15 April 2025

This work continues the study of a mathematical model for the motion of a mass–spring–damper system with friction. There, a two-mass model was constructed, its solvability established, the steady states investigated, and numerical simulat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,303 Views
10 Pages

(1) Background: Dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are still underdiagnosed in the general population. Impaired odor identification has been identified as an early marker of MCI and dementia. We aimed to compare the additional diagnostic va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,392 Views
10 Pages

Benford Behavior in Stick Fragmentation Problems

  • Bruce Fang,
  • Ava Irons,
  • Ella Lippelman and
  • Steven J. Miller

8 October 2025

Benford’s law states that in many real-world datasets, the probability that the leading digit is d equals log10((d+1)/d) for all 1≤d≤9. We call this weak Benford behavior. A dataset is said to follow strong Benford behavior if the probabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,463 Views
15 Pages

24 March 2016

Real-time detection of contact states, such as stick-slip interaction between a robot and an object on its end effector, is crucial for the robot to grasp and manipulate the object steadily. This paper presents a novel tactile sensor based on electro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,012 Views
16 Pages

11 August 2023

Friction has long been an important issue in multibody dynamics. Static friction models apply appropriate regularization techniques to convert the stick inequality and the non-smooth stick–slip transition of Coulomb’s approach into a cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,106 Views
16 Pages

Field Test and Numerical Simulation Study on Pipe Sticking of Pipe Jacking in Composite Stratum

  • Shilei Zhang,
  • Xiaodong Xu,
  • Feilun Luo,
  • Tao Shi,
  • Tianshuo Xu and
  • Peng Zhang

16 December 2024

In this study, the jacking force of a stuck pipe was explored under various contact conditions in long-distance composite strata. The Jiaoliu River jacking project in Yichao, Inner Mongolia, was selected for study, and the precise location of the pip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,906 Views
18 Pages

A Simple Angle-Resolved Thermal Molecular Beam Reactor: Applied to CO Oxidation on Pt{110}

  • Michael Bowker,
  • Björn Udo Klink,
  • Kristian Lass and
  • Roger A. Bennett

23 October 2020

We developed a simple form of thermal molecular beam catalytic reactor system which is capable of measuring sticking probabilities and reaction probabilities, together with angle-resolved scattering of molecules and products during catalytic reaction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,221 Views
18 Pages

Numerical Study on Fretting Wear of DZ125/FGH99 Tenon/Mortise Joint Structure

  • Laicong Song,
  • Zhenyu Shi,
  • Chengpeng Zhang and
  • Yong Li

19 July 2024

Fretting wear in the contact area between the aero-engine blade tenon and turbine disk mortise has an important influence on the performance of the aero-engine. In this paper, the tenon joint structure of the DZ125/FGH99 superalloy material is taken...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,724 Views
17 Pages

6 July 2018

In this research, Australian fine iron ore was reduced by combining pressurized and energy-bearing waste plastics in a fluidized bed. This research aims to obtain preferable operating parameters by synthetically researching the effect of temperature,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,981 Views
15 Pages

Estimation Method of Relative Slip in Fretting Fatigue Contact by Digital Image Correlation

  • Yue Su,
  • Shao-Shi Rui,
  • Qi-Nan Han,
  • Zhi-Hao Shang,
  • Li-Sha Niu,
  • Hao Li,
  • Hiroshi Ishikawa and
  • Hui-Ji Shi

30 June 2022

An experimental method that can quantify relative slip was developed using digital image correlation (DIC) in order to evaluate the sliding portion. The bridge-type test setup was designed to establish the fretting contact condition. The relative dis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,376 Views
15 Pages

6 April 2022

This review focuses on the usability of iron ore ultra-fines for hydrogen-based direct reduction. Such technology is driven by the need to lower CO2 emissions and energy consumption for the iron and steel industry. In addition, low operational and ca...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,051 Views
11 Pages

Experimental Evaluation of Coefficient of Friction for Fretting Regimes

  • Shumaila Fatima,
  • Shahid Mehmood,
  • Muhammad Awais Hamza,
  • Atta Ur Rahman,
  • Hafiz Samama Sumair,
  • Soban Ullah,
  • Muhammad Ammar Nasir,
  • Muhammad Ehtisham and
  • Husnain Zulfiqar Ali

This study investigates the coefficient of friction (COF) and wear behavior in fretting regimes—stick, stick–slip, and gross sliding—under dry and oil-lubricated conditions. Fretting tests were conducted by increasing oscillation amplitude from a few...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,955 Views
13 Pages

Chemobrain, Olfactory and Lifestyle Assessment in Onco-Geriatrics: Sex-Mediated Differences between Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy

  • Sara Invitto,
  • Mariangela Leucci,
  • Giuseppe Accogli,
  • Andrea Schito,
  • Claudia Nestola,
  • Vincenzo Ciccarese,
  • Ross Rinaldi,
  • Paolo Boscolo Rizzo,
  • Giacomo Spinato and
  • Silvana Leo

14 October 2022

A possible link between chemotherapy and cognitive impairment has been identified. In the literature, this condition is usually called chemobrain and can mostly affect some memory domain but can lead also to other cognitive impairments. Olfaction, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,149 Views
20 Pages

Predicting earthquakes through reasonable methods can significantly reduce the damage caused by secondary disasters such as tsunamis. Recently, machine learning (ML) approaches have been employed to predict laboratory earthquakes using stick-slip dyn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,601 Views
21 Pages

A General Framework to Simulate Soil–Structure Interface Behaviour Using Advanced Constitutive Models

  • Michael Niebler,
  • Stylianos Chrisopoulos,
  • Roberto Cudmani and
  • Daniel Rebstock

5 February 2025

The importance of using sophisticated interface models to obtain realistic numerical solutions of soil–structure interaction (SSI) problems has been recognised in recent decades. With this aim, various advanced interface models have been develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,121 Views
17 Pages

1 June 2022

This mathematical evaluation focuses on iron ore ultra-fines for their use in a novel hydrogen-based fluidized bed direct reduction process. The benefits of such a process include reduced CO2 emissions and energy consumption per ton of product, lower...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,753 Views
19 Pages

7 June 2022

The change in contact state between the rolling elements and raceway of a cageless bearing with a variable diameter raceway affect the wear of the bearing, which leads to discrete motion failure of the rolling elements. For this purpose, the contact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,638 Views
18 Pages

20 December 2021

Magic angle intensity decay and dynamic fluorescence anisotropy measurements were made on the binary solvent system composed of ethylammonium nitrate ([N2,0,0,0+][NO3−], EAN) + methanol (MeOH) across the complete EAN mole fraction range (xIL =...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,707 Views
16 Pages

1 February 2025

We examine the Rosencrantz coin that can “stick” in states for extended periods. Non-ergodic dynamics is highlighted by logarithmically growing block lengths in sequences. Traditional entropy decomposition into predictable and unpredictab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
406 Views
24 Pages

14 December 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive and hybrid control framework for the real-time regulation of drillstring systems that are subject to complex nonlinear dynamics, including torsional stick–slip oscillations, coupled axial vibrations, and intr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
311 Views
24 Pages

31 December 2025

Radially bolted cylindrical–cylindrical shell joints are critical load-bearing components in aerospace vehicles. These joints experience complex thermo–mechanical environments during flight, where aerodynamic heating and mechanical loads...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,962 Views
14 Pages

Short-Term Efficacy and Safety of Oral and Nasal Corticosteroids in COVID-19 Patients with Olfactory Dysfunction: A European Multicenter Study

  • Sven Saussez,
  • Luigi Angelo Vaira,
  • Carlos M. Chiesa-Estomba,
  • Serge Daniel Le Bon,
  • Mihaela Horoi,
  • Giovanna Deiana,
  • Marzia Petrocelli,
  • Philippe Boelpaep,
  • Giovanni Salzano and
  • Jerome R. Lechien
  • + 4 authors

Background: The objective of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of early administration of oral corticosteroids (OC) or nasal corticosteroids (NC) as an add-on to olfactory training (OT) versus OT alone in patients with olfactory d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,217 Views
15 Pages

23 February 2024

Defining an accurate friction model without having the mesh distortion in an optimized computational time has always been a significant challenge for modelling solid-state natural processes. The presented paper proposes an Eulerian frictional-based s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,802 Views
13 Pages

Improvement of Image Sticking in Liquid Crystal Display Doped with γ-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles

  • Wenjiang Ye,
  • Rui Yuan,
  • Yayu Dai,
  • Lin Gao,
  • Ze Pang,
  • Jiliang Zhu,
  • Xiangshen Meng,
  • Zhenghong He,
  • Jian Li and
  • Hongyu Xing
  • + 2 authors

24 December 2017

Image sticking in thin film transistor-liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD) is related to the dielectric property of liquid crystal (LC) material. Low threshold value TFT LC materials have a weak stability and the free ions in them will be increased bec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,884 Views
14 Pages

Object and Event Detection Pipeline for Rink Hockey Games

  • Jorge Miguel Lopes,
  • Luis Paulo Mota,
  • Samuel Marques Mota,
  • José Manuel Torres,
  • Rui Silva Moreira,
  • Christophe Soares,
  • Ivo Pereira,
  • Feliz Ribeiro Gouveia and
  • Pedro Sobral

All types of sports are potential application scenarios for automatic and real-time visual object and event detection. In rink hockey, the popular roller skate variant of team hockey, it is of great interest to automatically track player movements, p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,173 Views
28 Pages

30 August 2020

Many human activities and states are related to the facial muscles’ actions: from the expression of emotions, stress, and non-verbal communication through health-related actions, such as coughing and sneezing to nutrition and drinking. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,645 Views
21 Pages

Study on Vibration Characteristics of Multi-Beam Structures with Stick and Slip at Joints

  • Xian Zhang,
  • Yingchun Xie,
  • Peng Lyu,
  • Donghong Ning and
  • Zhixiong Li

23 January 2025

Stick–slip phenomena may manifest at the joints during cyclic vibrations in beam structures connected by some forms of joint. This work incorporates the sticking–slip effect of joint connections into the dynamic analysis framework of mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,779 Views
22 Pages

Development of Novel Microcomposite Materials from Coal Fly Ash and Incense Sticks Ash Waste and Their Application for Remediation of Malachite Green Dye from Aqueous Solutions

  • Virendra Kumar Yadav,
  • Bijendra Singh,
  • Amel Gacem,
  • Krishna Kumar Yadav,
  • Govindhan Gnanamoorthy,
  • Taghreed Alsufyani,
  • Hany S. Hussein,
  • Nasser S. Awwad,
  • Rajesh Verma and
  • Nisha Choudhary
  • + 2 authors

27 November 2022

Coal fly ash (CFA) is one of the major pollutants around the whole world. At the same time, incense stick ash (ISA) is another waste that is generated in huge amounts in Southeast Asia. Both of these wastes are rich in different types of minerals; fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,995 Views
13 Pages

Enhancement of Image Quality in LCD by Doping γ-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles and Reducing Friction Torque Difference

  • Lin Gao,
  • Yayu Dai,
  • Tong Li,
  • Zongyuan Tang,
  • Xueqian Zhao,
  • Zhenjie Li,
  • Xiangshen Meng,
  • Zhenghong He,
  • Jian Li and
  • Wenjiang Ye
  • + 4 authors

6 November 2018

Improving image sticking in liquid crystal display (LCD) has attracted tremendous interest because of its potential to enhance the quality of the display image. Here, we proposed a method to evaluate the residual direct current (DC) voltage by varyin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
2,953 Views
12 Pages

Implementation of Predictive Models in Industrial Machines with Proposed Automatic Adaptation Algorithm

  • Ivan Kuric,
  • Ivana Klačková,
  • Kseniia Domnina,
  • Vladimír Stenchlák and
  • Milan Sága

11 February 2022

This article describes in more detail the issue of using predictive models of NAR neural networks to predict the course of certain quantities, which may indicate a problem with the industrial machines or their major failures. It is very important to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,635 Views
12 Pages

2 January 2016

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are rapidly penetrating e-health and assisted living domains, and an increasing proportion among them goes on the account of computationally-weak devices, where security and privacy provisioning alone are demanding ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,446 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Static Icing on Flashover Characteristics of High-Speed Train Roof Insulators

  • Zhibin Qi,
  • Ruiping Zhang,
  • Jianqiao Ma,
  • Xiangfei Wang,
  • Lei Ma,
  • Zongyu Zhao and
  • Youqiang Wu

To study the icing flashover characteristics displayed by insulators on the roof of a high-speed train at a low-speed or static state, an environment with a low temperature and high humidity is established in the artificial climate chamber to carry o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,537 Views
25 Pages

14 September 2010

Cooperation between networked mobile sensors, wearable and sycophant sensor networks with parasitically sticking agents, and also having human beings involved in the loop is the “Avatarization” within the robotic research community, where all network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,175 Views
27 Pages

13 April 2024

Many complicated dynamical events may be broken down into simpler pieces and efficiently described by a system that shifts among a variety of conditionally dynamical modes. Building on switching linear dynamical systems, we develop a new model that e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,709 Views
11 Pages

24 June 2019

Paradoxes of dry friction were discovered by Painlevé in 1895 and caused a controversy on whether the Coulomb–Amontons laws of dry friction are compatible with the Newtonian mechanics of the rigid bodies. Various resolutions of the parad...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,010 Views
12 Pages

Systematic Review of AI-Driven Personalization in Serious Games for Teaching at the Right Level in Morocco

  • Najlae Abarghache,
  • Younès Alaoui Soulimani,
  • Lotfi Elaachak and
  • Abderrahim Ghadi

Digitalization has shaped every part of our world, from education to healthcare, from finance to entertainment, and from manufacturing to social interactions. This digital transformation has put tremendous power in the hands of individuals and delive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,470 Views
19 Pages

Numerical Simulation and Field Test Research on Vibration Reduction of PDC Cutting of Pebbled Sandstone under Composite Impact Load

  • Heng Zhang,
  • Hongjian Ni,
  • Henglin Yang,
  • Li Fu,
  • Yuan Wang,
  • Shubin Liu,
  • Bin Huang,
  • Zixin Wang and
  • Gang Chen

22 February 2023

Downhole vibrations caused by rock breaking when drilling through pebbled sandstone formations negatively affect the rate of penetration (ROP) and the safety of downhole tools. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the cutting characteristi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,965 Views
15 Pages

9 October 2019

This paper investigates friction-induced self-excited vibration in a bi-stable compliant mechanism. A single-degree-of-freedom oscillator, hanged vertically, vibrates on a belt moving horizontally with a constant velocity. The oscillator is excited t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,757 Views
13 Pages

15 April 2024

An understanding of fault reactivation induced by water injection is of great significance for geothermal energy development and utilization. We conducted a series of water injection shear tests on low-permeability granite samples that each contained...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,080 Views
29 Pages

Novel Apex Connection for Light Wood Frame Panelized Roof

  • Md Saiful Islam,
  • Ying Hei Chui and
  • Zengtao Chen

24 October 2022

Panelized fabrication of light-frame wood buildings has higher productivity than the traditional stick-built method. However, the roof production process is not very efficient due to the structural system and construction method. This study proposes...

  • Review
  • Open Access
138 Citations
19,315 Views
35 Pages

6 February 2017

Piezoelectric inertia motors—also known as stick-slip motors or (smooth) impact drives—use the inertia of a body to drive it in small steps by means of an uninterrupted friction contact. In addition to the typical advantages of piezoelectric motors,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,222 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Nitrogen Fertilisation and Inoculation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum on the Fatty Acid Profile of Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) Seeds

  • Ewa Szpunar-Krok,
  • Anna Wondołowska-Grabowska,
  • Dorota Bobrecka-Jamro,
  • Marta Jańczak-Pieniążek,
  • Andrzej Kotecki and
  • Marcin Kozak

Soybean is a valuable protein and oilseed crop ranked among the most significant of the major crops. Field experiments were carried out in 2016–2019 in South-East Poland. The influence of soybean cultivars (Aldana, Annushka), nitrogen fertilizer (0,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,682 Views
13 Pages

14 February 2014

To gain biological insights, investigators sometimes compare sequences of gene expression measurements under two scenarios (such as two drugs or species). For this situation, we developed an algorithm to fit, identify, and compare biologically releva...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,064 Views
15 Pages

Influence of Silicodactyly in the Preparation of Hybrid Materials

  • Chiara Ivaldi,
  • Ivana Miletto,
  • Geo Paul,
  • Giovanni B. Giovenzana,
  • Alberto Fraccarollo,
  • Maurizio Cossi,
  • Leonardo Marchese and
  • Enrica Gianotti

28 February 2019

The organic–inorganic hybrid materials have attracted great attention due to their improved or unusual properties that open promising applications in different areas such as optics, electronics, energy, environment, biology, medicine and hetero...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,299 Views
15 Pages

13 February 2023

Blast furnace ironmaking is one of the most serious carbon dioxide emission processes. To reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, fluidized bed ironmaking technology with hydrogen as a reducing agent has attracted more and more attention. An inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,195 Views
22 Pages

The Impact Modeling and Experimental Verification of a Launch Vehicle with Crushing-Type Landing Gear

  • Yingchao Wang,
  • Haitao Yu,
  • Jianghui Xie,
  • Zhen Yan,
  • Baolin Tian and
  • Haibo Gao

26 July 2023

In order to investigate the landing process of a vertical landing reusable vehicle, a dynamic model with a complex nonlinear dissipative element is established based on the discrete impulse step approach, which includes a three-dimensional multi-impa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,440 Views
17 Pages

20 September 2021

In general, the biomass raw materials burned by biomass power plants generally have the characteristics of variable fuel types, high moisture content, and high volatile content. In this paper, a 130 t/h biomass circulating fluidized bed (BCFB) model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,612 Views
27 Pages

19 April 2022

Automobile windshields are typically curved, creating an oblique angle of attack between the wiper blade and the windshield. This attack angle means that the wiper may jump off the windshield while wiping, causing a chattering noise and preventing th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,399 Views
31 Pages

1 August 2019

In the serial hybrid electric propulsion system of a small propeller aircraft the battery state of charge is fluctuating due to the diversity of possible power flows. Overwhelming visual information on the cockpit displays, besides requiring visual p...

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