Surface plastic deformation has a high productivity and allows for products with unique operational properties, namely: a high quality of the surface layer, increased support stability of the profile of the treated surface, a strengthened surface lay...
Bulk metallic glasses exhibit unique viscoplastic flow behavior within their supercooled liquid region. Their high-temperature deformation mechanisms diverge markedly from the highly localized deformation at room temperature. This contrast offers a c...
As a special road-building material widely distributed in desert areas, critical state soil mechanics is used to study the mechanical properties of sand and make up for the lack of research on its engineering characteristics. A series of drained and...
With the rapid development of social economy in China, the contradiction between the wide distribution of abandoned goaf and the shortage of land for engineering construction is becoming increasingly prominent. The effective utilization of coal minin...
Excessive exploitation of the groundwater has resulted in obvious three-dimensional (3D) deformation features on the surface of the Beijing Plain. This paper, by combining Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System...
Residual surface deformation resulting from abandoned mined-out areas can lead to severe damage to ground structures (e.g., buildings and infrastructure in mining areas) and the local ecological environment. Long-term monitoring and analyses of surfa...
The repeated extraction of coal seams in the Loess Plateau mining region has greatly increased the severity of surface deformation and associated damage. Accurately characterizing the spatio-temporal evolution of subsidence and the underlying mechani...
The Sichuan-Tibet grid connection project is a national key project implemented in accordance with the developmental needs of Tibet and the living requirements of 700 thousand local residents. It is the first grid project with special high voltage th...
The Central Yunnan Water Diversion Project (CYWDP) is currently under construction and represents China’s most extensive and geologically challenging water transfer infrastructure, facing significant geohazard risks induced by intensive engineering a...
The marine water-lubricated bearing’s (WLBs) dynamic properties are essential for ensuring the shaft system’s operational dependability. The coupled model of mixed lubrication and turbulence under the impact of bidirectional misalignment...
Abnormal surface subsidence has become a widespread geological problem being faced by cities. As a first-tier city in the world, there are problems such as unclear analysis of subsidence mechanism. Therefore, the monitoring of the Shanghai surface is...
While surface deformations and their impact on buildings have been observed in the city of Lanzhou, it is difficult to find studies of surface deformation and the influential factors in the recent decades. This study was designed to detect the spatia...
The resurrection of landslides often occurs in complex strata, where there are often multiple water-resisting zones and weak interlayers. The groundwater level has a significant influence on landslide stability and can lead to the formation of compos...
Since the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, Old Beichuan County-town has experienced significant subsidence due to the disruption of the geological environment and the concurrent increase in precipitation. The ongoing land surface deformation poses a thre...
The surface topography of substrates is a crucial factor that determines the interaction with biological materials in bioengineering research. Therefore, it is important to appropriately modify the surface topography according to the research purpose...
The Xinmo landslide occurred on 24 June 2017 and caused huge casualties and property losses. As characteristics of spatiotemporal pre-collapse deformation are a prerequisite for further understanding the collapse mechanism, in this study we applied t...
To address the problem that surface deformation causes in urban areas by affecting urban security and threatening human life and property, this study first measured the surface deformation in Shanghai from 2016 to 2020 using the time series InSAR met...
This paper examines possible industrial applications of high manganese steel and the feasibility of its inoculation with a new ferroalloy, vanadium nitride. The abrasive and impact-abrasion surface wear experienced by castings has a classical pattern...
As a type of road distress in cold areas, longitudinal cracks have a high incidence and cause serious damage. The occurrence of longitudinal cracks is related to the conditions of the subgrade, pavement structure, material properties, and water tempe...
The purpose of this paper is to develop a new technology for controlling the quenching deformation of light cast aluminum alloy wheels. First, based on the existing wheel heat treatment process, a gas–liquid–solid multi-phase flow couplin...
The Buzhaoba open-pit mine is an important lignite production base in Yunnan Province, China. As mining activities have continued to progress, varying degrees of deformation have occurred in different areas of the Buzhaoba open-pit mine, threatening...
Ankang Airport is constructed on an expansive soil-fill platform in Shaanxi Province, Central China. Since its completion in 2020, it has suffered surface deformation caused by the consolidation and settlement of the fill layer and instability of the...
With economic development and coal resource exploitation, the area of mined-out zones is expanding continuously. The traditional waste disposal methods no longer meet the current demands, making it urgent to evaluate and reuse the surface stability o...
A change in the structure of an amorphous Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5 alloy under deformation by high-pressure torsion (HPT) was studied by X-ray diffraction, high-resolution electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy. It was...
The movement and deformation of rock strata and the ground surface is a dynamic deformation process that occurs as underground mining progresses. Therefore, the dynamic prediction of three-dimensional surface deformation caused by underground mining...
Soil–rock mixtures (SRM) have the characteristics of distinct heterogeneity and an obvious structural effect, which make their physical and mechanical properties very complex. This study aimed to investigate the deformation properties and failu...
Austenitic stainless steel inevitably undergoes deformation during application, and it is necessary to study the properties of deformed steel. This article investigates the evolution of microstructure, mechanical properties, and corrosion resistance...
Underground structures are subject to deterioration conditions in which water leakage occurs through cracks due to the long-term influence of soil and groundwater. Therefore, composite waterproofing sheets can play an important role in securing the l...
When a tunnel crosses a landslide orthogonally, this interaction can easily lead to instability in both the landslide and tunnel structures. Based on the relative positional relationship between a landslide and a tunnel, we studied the stress mode an...
Southern California, USA, has been suffering severe surface deformation due to its active crustal movement under the north–south compression of the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. Meanwhile, affected by groundwater extraction and rechar...
The transition from open-pit to underground mining entails significant risks associated with rock mass deformation and surface subsidence, which pose critical challenges in mining engineering practice. To investigate and control the deformation behav...
The anisotropic microstructure of bone tissue is crucial for appropriate mechanical and biological functions of bone. We recently revealed that the construction of oriented bone matrix is established by osteoblast alignment; there is a quite unique c...
Coal mining inevitably brings some negative impacts, such as surface subsidence, aquifer breakage, and land degradation, to the eco-geological environment in the mining area. Among these impacts, coal mining-induced ground deformation is the most ser...
The surface rolling process is important for the forming property of titanium alloy bolts. This study systematically investigated the evolution of the surface microstructure and property of Ti6Al4V threads induced by surface rolling processes with di...
Loess tunnels often undergo large-scale deformation with complex spatial and temporal distribution. Mastering the characteristics of spatial and temporal deformation is conducive to precise policy implementation and the control of large deformation o...
Ground-based synthetic aperture radar interferometry (GB-InSAR) is a valuable tool for deformation monitoring. The 2D interferograms obtained by GB-InSAR can be integrated with a 3D terrain model to visually and accurately locate deformed areas. The...
Induced seismicity is one of the negative phenomena caused by anthropogenic activities that include mining of minerals. This phenomenon manifests itself as sudden and unpredictable shocks of rock mass, which can cause surface deformation and damage t...
Land subsidence caused by human engineering activities is a serious problem worldwide. We selected Qian’an County as the study area to explore the evolution of land subsidence and predict its deformation trend. This study utilized synthetic ape...
Considering the importance of calculating surface deformation based on monitoring data, this paper proposes a method for calculating horizontal deformation based on horizontal displacement monitoring data. This study first analyzes the characteristic...
This paper presents an extraction method for large gradient three-dimensional (3-D) displacements of mining areas using single-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), Boltzmann function, and subsidence characteristics. This is mainly...
The Arctic is the fastest-warming region on Earth, exhibiting a pronounced “amplifying effect”, which has triggered widespread permafrost thaw and increased the risk of surface deformation. In the Arctic coastal lowlands, permafrost is al...
The influence of trailing edge deformation on the aerodynamic characteristics of camber morphing wings is an important topic in the aviation field. In this paper, a new memory alloy actuator is proposed to realize trailing edge deformation, and compu...
A complete picture of the deformation characteristics (distribution and evolution) of the geotechnical infrastructures serves as superior information for understanding their potential instability mechanism. How to monitor more completely and accurate...
As mining progresses, complexities arise, leading to potential coal-rock gas dynamic disasters triggered by mining disturbances. These dynamic phenomena are influenced by factors such as loading mode, coal properties, and the presence of gas. To gain...
Three-dimensional coseismic surface deformation fields are important for quantifying the geometric and kinematic characteristics of earthquake rupture faults. However, traditional geodetic techniques are constrained by intrinsic limitations: Interfer...
Soft soil has the characteristics of high compressibility, large void ratio, and strong structure. Therefore, it is more likely to cause surface subsidence or even surface cracking and collapse when laying oil and gas pipelines in soft soil areas thr...
Land surface deformation, including subsidence and uplift, has significant impacts on human life and the natural environment. In recent years, the city of Wuxi, China has experienced large-scale surface deformation following the implementation of a g...
Ultrasonic vibration superimposed face milling enables the generation of predefined surface microstructures by an appropriate setting of the process parameters. The geometrical reproducibility of the surface characteristics depends strongly on the pl...
Rockslides along a stepped failure surface have characteristics of stepped deformation characteristic and it is difficult to predict the failure time. In this study, the deformation characteristics and disaster prediction model of the Fengning granit...
Surface and underground stretched deformation is one of the most important physical measurement quantities for geological-disaster monitoring. In this study, a parallel helical sensing cable (PHSC) based on the time–domain reflectometry (TDR)...
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