In this work, we investigated the compensation of strain deviation in the machine direction of a web in the roll-to-roll process. As flexible devices have become popular, many researchers have begun to study roll-to-roll processes for the mass-produc...
The fatigue damage assessment of laser-repaired components is critical to their service safety. However, since laser repairing is an advanced green remanufacturing technology, the current research on its fatigue mechanical behavior and fatigue damage...
Although the mechanical behaviors and flow aspects of sandstone have been previously investigated, studies of the effect of the intermediate principal stress (σ2) on the strength, deformation, and permeability of sandstone are lacking. In this...
Weathered granite has been widely used as an emerging foundation filler for constructing transportation infrastructure. However, various softened rocks weathered due to exposure to water have special properties. Thus, it is necessary to gain a thorou...
The roll-to-roll manufacturing system is extensively used for mass producing products made of plastic, paper, and fabric in several traditional industries. When flexible substrates, also known as webs, are heated and transported inside the dryer, an...
Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale is one of the most important bacterial agents of respiratory diseases in poultry. For correct identification and characterization of this fastidious bacterium, reliable diagnostic tools are essential. Still, phenotypic...
Creep behaviors of methane hydrate-bearing frozen specimens are important to predict the long-term stability of the hydrate-bearing layers in Arctic and permafrost regions. In this study, a series of creep tests were conducted, and the results indica...
Considering the relationship between inhomogeneous plastic deformation and fatigue damage, deformation inhomogeneity evolution and fatigue failure of superalloy GH4169 under temperature 500 °C and macro tension compression cyclic loading are studied,...
The relationship between strain fatigue life and evolution of meso-deformation inhomogeneity was studied, through the cyclic process of numerical simulation of crystal plasticity compared with the fatigue test of steel hot-rolled ribbed-steel bar 400...
The flexible strain sensor’s measuring range is usually over 5000 με, while the conventional variable section cantilever calibration model has a measuring range within 1000 με. In order to satisfy the calibration requireme...
To study the influencing factors of process parameters on the wall thickness deviation and internal warpage deviation of the workpiece in magnesium alloy wheel hub spin molding, a two-pass heterogeneous spin molding model is proposed. To ensure the a...
In this paper, the characterization of the main techniques and transducers employed to measure local and global strains induced by uniaxial loading of murine tibiae is presented. Micro strain gauges and digital image correlation (DIC) were tested to...
Unpredictable web temperature distributions in the dryer and strain deviations in the cross-machine (CMD) and machine (MD) directions could hamper the manufacture of smooth functional layers on polymer-based webs through the roll-to-roll (R2R) contin...
The geometric burning law of gun propellants is widely used in computer codes used for the simulations of the internal ballistics of guns. However, the results of closed vessel tests prove that the burning process of some propellants deviates from th...
Stereolithography (SLA) is an additive manufacturing process based on the photocuring of resins with the use of UV light. The printed samples can be used not only for the visualization of structures, but also to develop elements of real constructions...
The Yellow River alluvial silt has unique engineering properties and is unstable when encountering moisture. The mechanical properties of silt subgrade can be impaired by the increase in moisture content due to rainwater infiltration, which has a neg...
Staphylococcus aureus is a causative agent of nosocomial infections and its antibiotic-resistant strains give cause for concern. Solutions are being explored to improve treatment for these infections, including repositioning drugs such as statins and...
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease and a major public health in the most countries. Leishmania major is the most common cause of cutaneous leishmaniasis. In the Leishmania parasites, sterol 14α-demethylase (CYP51), which is invol...
The crystal plasticity finite element method, modeled on a realistic microstructure image, was developed to investigate the evolution of slip systems in grains of α/β titanium alloys during quasi-static tensile testing. By analyzing the da...
In this study, a new fibre combination for an interlayer hybrid fibre-reinforced polymer laminate was investigated to achieve pseudo-ductile behaviour in tensile tests. The chosen high-strain fibre for this purpose was S-Glass, and the low-strain fib...
Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty can attain highly accurate implantation. However, the target for optimal positioning of the components remains debatable. One of the proposed targets is to recreate the functional status of the pre-diseased kn...
Lattice relaxation on wurtzite GaN microdisks grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy was systematically studied. The lattice constants of GaN microdisks were evaluated from high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, and the anisotropi...
This study aimed to evaluate the use of bioengineering tools, finite element analysis, strain gauge analysis, photoelastic analysis, and digital image correlation, in computational studies with greater validity and reproducibility. A bibliographic se...
To address the challenge of identifying damage in the hangers and bridge deck systems of long-span suspension bridges, this paper proposes a non-contact monitoring method based on video image recognition. This method extracts structural vibration dis...
In this article, a non-contact laser Doppler strain sensor designed for fatigue testing with the resonance-testing machine is presented. The compact sensor measures in-plane displacements simultaneously from two adjacent points using the principle of...
The accuracy of the monitoring information is particularly important for exploring fractured rock mass deformation and failure mechanisms and precursor characteristics. Appropriate monitoring methods can not only timely and effectively reflect the fa...
Triaxial compressive creep tests were conducted on red sandstones after different thermal treatments. Subsequently, the thermal influence on the axial, lateral and volumetric creep curves under various stress levels was analyzed. The results show tha...
The objective of the study was to determine the minimum thickness of a thin wall for milling at a maximized axial depth of cut, considering the effect of cutting speed on residual stress and post-machining distortion. Test samples were made of alumin...
In this study, a distributed optical fiber sensor was used for strain monitoring and installation adjustment of a satellite–rocket connection device under a preload. The distributed optical fiber sensor was installed on both the tape and the sa...
The free-form single-layer reticulated shell structure has the characteristics of complex shape, a high degree of static indeterminacy, and difficult node positioning in the construction process, and the nodal deviations that may occur in the constru...
Neutron diffraction is a noncontact method that can measure the rebar strain inside concrete. In this method, rebar strain and stress are calculated using the diffraction profile of neutrons irradiated during a specific time period. In general, measu...
Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) is a high-priority environmental pollutant due to its strong oxidizing properties, which cause DNA damage and other severe health effects. Conventional detection methods are often costly and lack real-time monitoring capa...
The engineering behaviour of ballast is an important factor to determine the stability and safety of railway tracks. This paper examines the stress–strain, shear strength, peak deflection stress and reinforcement strength ratio of different reinforce...
During hot deformation of GH4706 alloy forgings, to achieve effective control over the uniformity of its microstructure, it is first necessary to establish a quantitative relationship between the microstructural characteristics of an entire hot-forme...
In this study, the evolutions of Cube and {115}<161> orientations of a cold-rolled ultra-thin non-oriented silicon steel were investigated using a combination of experimental investigation and the crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM...
This paper presents a method for determining the standard deviation and variation coefficient for both the predicted and measured values of horizontal strain that were caused by underground mining operations. The solution was based on a discrete mode...
The aim of the presented study is to determine the relationship between mechanical parameters of selected wood species (Carya sp., Fagus sylvatica L., Acer platanoides L., Fraxinus excelsior L., Ulmus minor Mill.) used for the production of hand tool...
Probiotics are universally recognized for their health benefits, despite the fact that their effects depend on the strain. Identification and enumeration of probiotic strains are required prior to evaluating their effectiveness. Lacticaseibacillus rh...
Uniaxial strain was applied to aging Fe–Cr alloys to study the morphological orientation and kinetics of the nanoscale α′ phase by utilizing phase-field simulation. The effects of applied uniaxial compressive and tensile strain on t...
Strains of the food-borne pathogen Listeria (L.) monocytogenes have diverse virulence potential. This study focused on the virulence of three outbreak strains: the CC1 strain PF49 (serovar 4b) from a cheese-associated outbreak in Switzerland, the cli...
It has been both theoretically predicted and experimentally demonstrated that strain can effectively modulate the electronic states of graphene sheets through the creation of a pseudomagnetic field (PMF). Pressurizing graphene sheets into bubble-like...
In this study, the texture formation mechanism of a TA15 titanium alloy under different plane strain compression conditions was investigated by analyzing the slipping, dynamic recrystallization (DRX) and phase transformation behaviors. The results in...
Axial compression tests were conducted on four groups of C-shaped steel tube-confined concrete specimens. The results demonstrate that the C-shaped steel tube effectively confines the core concrete, significantly enhancing the peak compressive stress...
The reliability and safety of power transmission depends first and foremost on the state of the power grid, and mainly on the state of the high-voltage power line towers. The steel structures of existing power line supports (towers) have been in use...
Well deviation is a prevalent problem in deep oil and gas exploration, leading to a significant increase in drilling costs. The conventional bottom-hole assembly (BHA) anti-deviation design method does not consider the impact of the BHA structure on...
Automotive parts are usually subjected to random loads with large mean tensile/compressive stresses under working conditions. It is important for automotive parts to have a long fatigue life under mean stress in practical engineering applications. An...
This work reports on the hysteresis behavior and an initial baseline drift of printed strain gauges embedded in organic coating layers on sheet steel that we recently introduced. We subsequently investigated the performance over an extended period of...
We present a simple-structured strain sensor based on a low-cost ionic liquid. The ionic liquid was made of sodium chloride/propylene glycol solution and was embedded in a linear microfluidic channel fabricated using Ecoflex. The proposed sensor is c...
To investigate the effect of hot working parameters on the flow behavior of 300M steel under tension, hot uniaxial tensile tests were implemented under different temperatures (950 °C, 1000 °C, 1050 °C, 1100 °C, 1150 °C) and strain...
Multiaxial forging (MAF) is one of the appealing methods of severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques to fabricate ultrafine-grained (UFG) materials. In this study; the influence of process parameters such as strain rate; friction; and initial temp...
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