The characteristic parameters of fixed joint surfaces, such as stiffness and damping, play a dominant role in determining the overall performance of various mechanical structures, especially in high-performance machine tools. However, accurate charac...
Ubiquitiform is a new theory of finite-order self-similar physical structure and it is more reasonable to describe real engineering surfaces by ubiquitiform rather than fractal. In this paper, by introducing the frequency truncation criterion, a new...
The discharges of water columns and droplets between the sheds make the leakage distance not effectively used, which is one of the main reasons for flashover of composite post insulators under heavy rainfall. To study the influence of shed parameters...
ISO 25178 part 600:2019 and part 700:2022 introduce a calibration framework based on seven metrological characteristics (MCs) for calibrating optical areal surface measuring instruments. Among these, topography fidelity is a newly defined metrologica...
The quality of surface morphology can reflect the electrical performance of silver-based contacts. Existing research on the correlation of morphological–electrical performance is based solely on empirical models from traditional visual inspecti...
Effective control of the health operating condition of multi-support, ultra-long shaft system water-lubricated stern bearings is crucial for supporting the intelligent maintenance and health management of ships. This study investigates the failure mo...
In order to explore the time-varying mesh stiffness and dynamic parameters of bevel gears with different surface roughness, the fractal dimension and characteristic scale coefficient are calculated to determine the fractal dimension of tooth surfaces...
The parameters of hydrological models should be determined before applying those models to estimate or predict hydrological processes. The Xin’anjiang (XAJ) hydrological model is widely used throughout China. Since the prediction in ungauged ba...
The correlation between the service characteristics of the working surfaces of car parts belonging to the rotary body class, and quality parameters—in particular, the height-related roughness parameter Ra—was estimated. Low values of Ra w...
Land surface parameters are crucial in land surface process model simulations. Considering the complex land surface characteristics of the Loess Plateau, a parametric sensitivity analysis was conducted to determine the key parameters of its Noah Mult...
The optical reflection characteristics of asphalt pavement have an important influence on road-lighting design, and the macrotexture and microtexture of asphalt pavement significantly affect its reflection characteristics. To investigate the impact o...
Based on the basic mechanism and bionics principle that texture affects the dynamic pressure effect of lubricating medium, a V-shaped texture that converges along the sliding direction is designed. Through numerical simulation, the optimal geometric...
Mount Emei is located on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, on the transition zone between the main body of the Tibetan Plateau and the Sichuan Basin in China. It is not only the necessary place for the eastward movement of the plateau system b...
For the slicing of superhard silicon nitride ceramics, diamond wire sawing technology has great potential for application, and its slicing surface characteristics are an important indicator of cutting quality. In this paper, the sawing experiments of...
Modeling the statistical distribution of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is essential for sea target detection, which is an important aspect of marine SAR applications. The main goal of this study is to determine the effects of sea states and s...
Analysis of long-term, ground-based observation data on the Tibetan Plateau help to enhance our understanding of land-atmosphere interactions and their influence on weather and climate in this region. In this paper, the daily, monthly, and annual ave...
An observational data set of the year 2010 at a site in the northern marginal zone of the Taklimakan Desert (TD) was used to analyse the key surface parameters in land–atmospheric interactions in the desert climate of northwest China. We found...
Surface finish plays a critical role in the tribological performance of additively manufactured engineering components. In exploring part characteristics in laser powder-bed fusion (L-PBF), this study investigates the effect of contouring strategies...
This study investigates the dynamic characteristics of three-dimensional (3D) printed acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) cantilever beams using Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA). The effects of Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) process parameters&m...
Interconnects have become a major obstacle in chip scaling. Spoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) modes have gained attention for their ability to manipulate light beyond diffraction limits at a given frequency, leading to SSPP interconnects. This a...
In this article, a geometrical model of different microtextures is established for an axial piston pump valve plate. A finite differential method was used to solve the Reynolds equation for the oil film thickness and pressure, which were simulated un...
This study examined whether varying moisture availability and roughness length for the land surface under a simulated Tropical Cyclone (TC) could affect its production of precipitation. The TC moved over the heterogeneous land surface of the southeas...
The rusting of metals brings huge losses to the industry every year, and post-treatment of rusted metals to restore their properties to the initial state is a hot topic of current research. In particular, 20 steel, which is widely used in various str...
Aggregate geometrical features directly affect asphalt pavement surface properties, which further affect the resistance to skidding of a road surface. In order to establish a relationship between the aggregate geometrical features and pavement surfac...
Pyrolysis is an efficient method for utilizing tar residue as a resource, and the structural properties of tar residue from pyrolysis (TRP) significantly impact subsequent gasification. The study examines the changes in the microscopic morphology, su...
The fuel injection system heavily relies on the high-pressure fuel pump, which plays a critical role in its overall performance. The fuel pump plunger is subjected to high levels of stress and experiences irregular lubrication during dynamic loads, c...
Background: Fitting of parametric model surfaces to corneal tomographic measurement data is required in order to extract characteristic surface parameters. The purpose of this study was to develop a method for evaluating the uncertainties in characte...
Biomimetic superhydrophobic surfaces have become a focal point of recent research, driven by their promise in diverse applications. Among these, the lotus and rose effects are of particular interest due to their contrasting adhesion characteristics....
The paper presents the results of experimental research and surface characteristics after the process of roller burnishing of macro-asperities of the surface. As part of the work, the possibility of plastic shaping of the surface macrostructure with...
Surface texture parameters are a quantitative way of characterising surface topographical features and are closely related to tribological properties. In this paper, the correlation between surface topographic features and friction coefficient is inv...
In this paper, a stiffness model of contact surfaces based on a modified three-dimensional fractal contact model is built, which is in accordance with the experiment results. Additionally, the static, dynamic, and stable behaviors of the bolt joint b...
This work aims to identify the pattern for the major output parameters, material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (Ra) of different combinations of Al6061-based composites. Based on the verification carried out on these patterns using analysi...
The use of 3D roughness parameters is increasingly gaining ground in various areas of engineering, especially in academic research. In many cases, however, these studies primarily cover the illustration of the character of the surfaces, the interpret...
In this paper, a new parameterized surface, termed SQ-Coons surface, is proposed according to the build mode of Coons patch. The surface is always interpolated to the boundary curves, and its shape details could be controlled by the shape parameters...
In this study, inverse gas chromatography (IGC) was applied to characterize the key surface physicochemical properties of carbon–mineral composites and to clarify how these properties relate to removal efficiencies of selected antibiotics, with...
Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a non-conventional machining technique, capable of processing any kind of conductive material. Recently, it has been successfully utilized for producing hydrophobic characteristics in inherently hydrophilic met...
The present study determined the microplastic distributions in the surface water of the Southern Sea of Korea (SS01–SS09) in September 2019, depending on three groups (Groups A, B, and C) categorized via the principal component analysis and clu...
The surface generation mechanism of the Cu alloys in ultra-precision diamond turning is investigated by both simulation and experimental methods, where the effects of the cutting parameters on the surface characteristics are explored, including the w...
The surface texture parameter is a real reflection of the surface topography, which is closely related to the tribological properties of the surface, and the study of the correlation between the surface texture parameter and wear resistance is of gre...
In order to evaluate contact characteristics, a modified contact model was proposed considering the deformation characteristics of asperity bodies, and the variation rules of wear rate with fractal dimension, material property constant and debris pro...
Current studies are focused on the correlation between characteristic features extracted from the laser speckle pattern of machined surfaces and 2D surface roughness parameters. Since milled surfaces are 3D in nature, 3D surface roughness parameters...
The paper presents a method for estimating the value of equibiaxial stress in a surface layer of a material by using a modified hardness measurement procedure with a Vickers indenter. A certain characteristic parameter was defined and related to the...
In order to solve the problem of geometric design and architectural design of complex engineering surface, we introduce the parametric and geometric continuity constraints of generalized C-Bézier curves and surfaces with shape parameters. Firstly, ba...
Surface roughness parameters are an important factor affecting surface wear resistance, but the relevance between the wear resistance and the surface roughness parameters has not been well studied. This paper based on the finite element simulation te...
In this paper, optimization of the fabrication parameters of an aluminum surface composite with respect to tensile strength and tool wear rate is reported. The surface layer was reinforced with SiC particles to improve the tribological properties of...
This work deals with investigative methods used for evaluation of the surface quality of selected metallic materials’ cutting plane that was created by CO2 and fiber laser machining. The surface quality expressed by Rz and Ra roughness parameters is...
Zinc telluride thin films with different thicknesses were grown onto glass substrates by the rf magnetron sputtering technique, using time as a variable growth parameter. All other deposition process parameters were kept constant. The deposited thin...
Superhydrophobicity is closely linked to the chemical composition and geometric characteristics of surface roughness. Building on our structural studies on water and air–water interfaces, this work aims to elucidate the mechanism underlying the...
Due to their excellent synergistic properties, Aluminum Matrix Composites (AMC) have achieved a high degree of prominence in different industries. In addition to strength, the wear resistance of materials is also an important criterion for numerous a...
The contact stiffness of the mechanical joint usually becomes the weakest part of the stiffness for the whole machinery equipment, which is one of the important parameters affecting the dynamic characteristics of the engineering machinery. Based on t...
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