Slope failures in roadway embankments are common occurrences and can lead to traffic disruptions and large costs to repair damage. In areas with high-plasticity clays, special attention must be paid to characterizing both the stratigraphy and the pot...
C/SiC composites are widely used in aerospace thermal structures. Due to the high manufacturing complexity and cost of C/SiC composites, numerous hybrid joints are required to replace large and complex components. The intricate contact behavior withi...
The generalized Hoek–Brown criterion (GHB) is recognized as one of the standard failure criteria in rock engineering and its validity extends to a wide range of rock mass quality. A drawback of this criterion is the difficulty of transforming i...
Mechanical characterization is important to the design and analysis of cemented paste backfill (CPB) structures. Unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests have been widely used owing to their relative simplicity to characterize a material’s r...
The present work expands the application of Puck and Schürmann Inter-Fiber Fracture criterion to fiber reinforced thermoplastic 3D-printed composite materials. The effect of the ratio between the transverse compressive strength and the in-plane...
A natural slope undergoing recurrent movements caused by rainfall-induced groundwater table rises is studied using a novel method. The strength and displacement parameters are back-calculated using a force-equilibrium-based finite displacement method...
To manufacture a complicated hollow product without any assembly process, for example, the plastic intake manifold, is difficult by the traditional injection molding method. The fusible-core technique, which uses a low-melting-point alloy as a sacrif...
In offshore drilling and geological exploration, the stability of jack-up rigs is predominantly determined by the bearing capacities of spudcan foundations during seabed penetration. The penetration depth of spudcans is relatively shallow in hard cla...
This work improved upon an effective micromechanical method to analyze the mechanical properties of three-dimensional particle-reinforced composites (PRC) with consideration of the interfacial debonding. By incorporating the interfacial debonding mod...
The stratospheric airship, a long-term floating vehicle in near-space, has become a new hotspot in aerospace exploration. The airship’s envelope material is vulnerable to ozone exposure in near-space and degrades. This paper used typical Kevlar...
Early fault information of rolling bearings is weak and often submerged by background noise, easily leading to misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis. In order to solve this issue, the present paper puts forward a fault diagnosis method on the basis of ada...
In this paper, a new multi-part composite frangible cover (MCFC) was designed and fabricated. The frangible cover, manufactured with a traditional manual lay-up method, is designed to conduct a simulated missile launch test using a specially develope...
In order to find a suitable size of sheath duct and a reliable construction method for precast walls, a cast-in-place and five 1/2 scale precast drift-hardening concrete walls reinforced with weakly bonded ultra-high strength SBPDN rebars were fabric...
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in open-hole and filled-hole laminate failure analysis. The open and filled-hole laminate failure analysis is used in several important areas, especially in designing mechanically fastened compos...
In fisheries science research and farmed fish monitoring, acquiring individual fish echoes is the basis for the growth assessment, tracking, and target strength estimation of farmed fish. However, individual fish echo detection methods based on narro...
Bearing fault features are presented as repetitive transient impulses in vibration signals. Narrowband demodulation methods have been widely used to extract the repetitive transients in bearing fault diagnosis, for which the key factor is to accurate...
To estimate the hazard posed by rock slopes, it is essential to determine the overall stability and potential detachment volume. This is mostly solved using numerical methods together with the strength reduction method (SRM). Many calculation program...
Obtaining the echo of individual fish is an important prerequisite for fisheries acoustic applications, such as in situ measurement of fish target strength and assessment of fish abundance using the counting method. It is also the foundation for eval...
The following article presents comprehensive research results for the insulation material based on polystyrene wastes. The presented product has the form of plates to be applied for thermal insulation of external envelopes from the inside. The labora...
Discretionary models of data envelopment analysis (DEA) assume that all inputs and outputs are discretionary, i.e., controlled by the management of each decision making unit (DMU) and varied at its discretion. In any realistic situation, however, the...
This paper discusses the mixing of polylactide (PLA) and glass fiber which use injection molding to produce a functional composite material with glass fiber properties. The injection molding process explores the influence of glass fiber ratio, melt t...
The Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi (DCF) method is widely used to indirectly estimate the strength of magnetic fields in star-forming regions. However, recent developments in this method have primarily focused on improving the measurement of a...
This article focuses on the development of a carbon composite bicycle frame using various experimental methods of structural analysis. Two types of frame specimen were used. The complete frame specimen was tested in accordance with ISO test load case...
With the rapid advancement of new-generation information technology, the virtual–real fusion interaction has increasingly become a crucial technique for structural analysis to determine the strength envelope of hulls. A high-precision assembly...
Accurate prediction of the shear strength of rock discontinuities requires accounting for surface roughness, which is a factor neglected in the classical Mohr–Coulomb criterion. This study proposes a fractal-enhanced Mohr–Coulomb model th...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on hospitals and healthcare systems around the world. The cost of business disruption combined with lingering COVID-19 costs has placed many public hospitals on a course to insolvency. To quickly ret...
In pulse wave analysis, the changing curve of pulse wave strength with continuous increasing pressure, that is, the P-S (pressure-strength) curve, contains abundant human physiological information, but there is no accurate model to describe the forma...
The main aim of the study includes research concerning the strength of samples printed out of 316L steel in the form of laminates and the creation of reflective simulation models with regard to the results obtained during the research. In addition, t...
This modelling work concerns the effects of the interference between two partial subband condensates in a quasi-one-dimensional superconducting superlattice. The iterative under-relaxation with phase control method is used to solve Bogoliubov–d...
The study was devoted to the numerical modelling of concrete-to-concrete interfaces. Such an interface can be found in many modern composite structures, so proper characterisation of its behaviour is of great importance. A strategy for calibration of...
The purpose of this study is to review the surgical methods of enhancing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) graft maturation. Several methods of ACL maturation enhancement were identified through research of the literature available in the PubMed datab...
Vibration signal is often used in traditional gear fault diagnosis techniques. However, the working face of the scraper conveyor is narrow, harsh and easily explosive, so it is inconvenient to obtain vibration signals by installing sensors. Motor cur...
In any rock engineering project, the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) is one of the most relevant parameters to be determined as it is used for a variety of purposes. Traditionally, the UCS of a rock sample is obtained by carrying out a uniaxial t...
This paper employs the discrete element method (DEM) to study the mechanical properties of artificial crushed stone. Different grain shapes and gradations are considered, and three types of 3D artificial stone models are generated based on the statis...
This study presents a novel construction method for prefabricated wall elements by integrating a framework made of thin-walled sheet steel profiles into an optimized thermally insulating lightweight aggregate concrete (LAC) building envelope. The loa...
This paper aims to study the bearing capacity of a shallow foundation on rock mass, considering the most usual bridge footing width and adopting a Hoek–Brown material. The dimension of the foundation has been shown to be very significant in soils wit...
Due to Paleo-clay’s unique properties and widespread distribution throughout China, it is essential in geotechnical engineering. Rainfall frequently causes the deformation of Paleo-clay slopes, making slope instability prediction crucial for di...
The long-term periodicity and uncontrollable interface properties during the preparation process for silicon carbide fiber reinforced silicon carbide-based composites (SiCf/SiC CMC) make it difficult to thoroughly investigate their mechanical damage...
Lithium hydride (LiH) is one promising material for nuclear reactor shielding due to its high hydrogen content, but its poor mechanical strength and thermal conductivity pose challenges for fabricating large, crack-free ceramic components via convent...
This study investigates the mechanical behavior and failure mechanisms of SFHCPs under low-velocity impact and compression after impact (CAI) conditions. Symmetric foam-filled hat-stiffened composite panels (SFHCPs) are widely used in critical load-b...
To tackle the issue of detecting early, subtle faults in rolling bearings in the presence of noise interference, the SCSSA-VMD-MCKD method is suggested. This method optimizes the Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) and Maximum Correlated Kurtosis De...
In the present work, self-reacting friction stir welding of 6 mm thick Al 6061-T6 was processed considering two novel approaches as different temperatures of the water (1 °C and 30 °C), and methods of use (spraying and enveloping top surface)...
In order to establish a suitable restoring force correction model for enveloped steel jacket (ESJ)-confined seismic-damaged rectangular recycled aggregate concrete-filled steel tubular (RRACFST) columns, based on experimental research, a study of the...
Recent years have seen the global proliferation and integration of transportation systems in urban agglomeration (UA), suggesting that transportation networks have become more prominent in the sustainable development of UA. Core cities play a radiati...
Automatic music transcription (AMT) is a critical problem in the field of music information retrieval (MIR). When AMT is faced with deep neural networks, the variety of timbres of different instruments can be an issue that has not been studied in dep...
The study of energy evolution laws has been widely applied in the geotechnical analysis of soft rocks and coal seams. However, research on marine soft soil has primarily focused on consolidation behavior, shear properties, and microstructural evoluti...
Concrete structures such as bridge decks and road pavements are subjected to repetitive loading and are susceptible to fatigue failure. A simplified stress–strain analysis method that can simulate concrete behavior with a sound physical basis,...
This study investigated the application of an in envelope additive/subtractive (LPBF) manufacturing method (Matsuura LUMEX-Avance-25) to fabricate IN718 benchmarking coupons. The coupons were then examined comprehensively for surface finish both with...
We consider a method to estimate relative uncertainties of radiative transition rates in an atomic spectrum. Few of these many transitions have had their rates determined by more than two reference-quality sources. One could estimate uncertainties fo...
The probabilistic uncertainty assessment of geomechanical risk—specifically, caprock failure—attributable to CO2 injection, as presented in a simplified hypothetical geological model, was the focus of this study. Our approach amalgamates...
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