The surface layer determines the physical properties of aviation materials and, based on these properties, the calculation of surface energy anisotropy can be implemented. Moreover, the value of the surface energy determines the service time and the...
In industrial applications, a starved lubrication condition may occur, leading to a reduction in film thickness; by modifying the surface geometry, the tribological performance of the contact is enhanced. In this paper, the influence of surface textu...
With a low surface recombination velocity, it is possible to increase the efficiency of solar cells as the thickness is decreased. A maximum appearing in the efficiency versus thickness curve is mostly due to the same trend in the short-circuit curre...
This paper describes a method to determine the thickness of a nonconductive coating by identifying the transition of material by a change in electrical properties. A slide-hold-slide test was conducted with a worn specimen including an electrodeposit...
In this paper, a three-dimensional vector field model is proposed, whose dimensions are the Hansen Solubility Parameters: dispersion parameter (δD), polarity parameter (δP), and hydrogen bonding parameter (δH). The vector space that...
The surface roughness and surface residual stresses are affected by the coating thickness of physical vapor deposition (PVD) TiAlN tools, which could alter the service performance of machined components. However, the relationships among the tool coat...
The formation of surface texture in milling is a complex process affected by numerous factors. This paper focuses on the surface roughness of X37CrMoV51 steel machined by shoulder milling. The aim of the study was to develop a mathematical model to p...
In micro injection molding, the cavity thickness and surface roughness are the main effects factors of polymer flow in the die designing and affect the quality of molded products significantly. In this study, the effects of cavity thickness and rough...
Au-Au surface activated bonding (SAB) using ultrathin Au films is effective for room-temperature pressureless wafer bonding. This paper reports the effect of the film thickness (15–500 nm) and surface roughness (0.3–1.6 nm) on room-temper...
Bark is vital for woody plants, providing protection, transporting nutrients and water, and storing essential resources. For fire-prone ecosystems, bark thickness is a key adaptive trait conferring fire resistance. Few studies have been conducted on...
The residual stress significantly affects the operational safety of oil and gas pipelines. Traditional ultrasonic stress measurement methods require pipeline surface pretreatment, which reduces detection efficiency. EMAT, as a non-contact measurement...
Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) became an effective method to design porous scaffolds in recent years due to their superior mechanical and other engineering properties. Since the advent of additive manufacturing (AM), different TPMS-based sca...
The Mt.Tomur glaciers, in the Tian Shan mountains of Western China, are usually debris-covered, and due to climate change, glacial hazards are becoming more frequent in this region. However, no changes in the long-time series of glacier surface veloc...
Surface-checking is a significant quality issue of veneer and sliced lamellae-based wood products. This study explores how surface-checking in sliced lamellae-based engineered wood Flooring (EWF) is influenced by two key structure parameters: core ty...
Fused deposition modeling (FDM)-based three-dimensional (3D) fabrication offers a viable approach to manufacturing highly customized carbon fiber-reinforced polyether ether ketone (CFR-PEEK) components with complex geometries. However, the mechanical...
One of the key sources of uncertainties in sea ice freeboard and thickness estimates derived from satellite radar altimetry results from changes in sea ice surface properties. In this study, we analyse this effect, comparing upward-looking sonar (ULS...
Under hard operating conditions such as high load, low speed and a lack of a sufficient quantity of lubricant, the sliding pairs could suffer serious damage. One of the methods that improves the tribological performance of sliding elements in hard op...
Surface solar irradiance (SSI) is a critical factor influencing the power generation capacity of photovoltaic (PV) power plants. Dynamic changes in cloud cover pose significant challenges to the accurate nowcasting of SSI, which in turn directly affe...
As an advanced non-contact dynamic sealing technology, compliant foil seals offer notable advantages, including a simple structure, light weight, ease of installation, and strong self-adaptability. However, in most designs, the foil stiffness is unif...
Several studies have evaluated the accuracy of ice thickness model inversions, but the effects of surface velocity and topographic factors have not been fully studied. Because of the important potential of models for estimating regional and global ic...
In order to apply laser cladding technology to the complex surface processing of hot-working dies, this study developed a numerical model for curved surface laser cladding along various scanning trajectories under multi-physics coupling considering t...
The mining of shallow buried and thick coal seams may cause ground settlement, loss of surface water, and even soil desertification in arid–semi-arid climate zones. The key to protecting surface water resources through the technology of separated str...
Geometrical parameters, such as the thickness and the sidewall etch angle of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) thin films, are important information for device design and simulation, material property extraction, and quality control in a fabricat...
Li dendrite growth, which causes potential internal short circuit and reduces battery cycle life, is the main hazard to lithium metal batteries. Separators have the potential to suppress dendrite growth by regulating Li+ distribution without increasi...
A solid-state cold-spray technique was employed for depositing the copper-coated graphite reinforced copper-based composite coatings on aluminum alloy 6061 T6 substrate under different process parameters. The optimum process parameters of the cold-sp...
Background: Surface treatment of the intaglio surface of zirconia is important for bonding. However, it could affect the strength of the materials. The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of laser, etching, and air abrasion surface treatme...
The aim of this study is to obtain the stress intensity factor (SIF) along the crack front of elliptical cracks located in finite-thickness plates subjected to imposed displacement or applied tensile load, for different crack geometries (relative dep...
This study presents a mathematical investigation into the phenomena of radiative heat with an unsteady MHD electrically conducting boundary layer of chemically reactive Casson nanofluid flow due to a pored stretchable sheet immersed in a porous mediu...
This study investigated the different thicknesses of TiO2 photoanode films and the effect of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of Ag-TiO2 nanocomposites on the current-voltage (I–V) performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The TiO2 layer...
A hot-working die steel thick-walled tube Pilger rolling test was carried out using an LG40 Pilger mill, and the morphology and roughness evolution of the inner surface were examined using a white-light interferometer. The experimental results showed...
The damage of overlying strata and ground surface caused by the one-time mining space is relatively severe in steeply inclined extra-thick coal seams. The unique law of surface subsidence at these conditions is still missing. Taking Huating Dongxia C...
This paper presents an experimental study on the influence of surface texturing on friction and film thickness in the hydrodynamic lubrication regime. Using a pin-on-disk tribometer equipped with light-induced fluorescence microscopy, simultaneous me...
This study investigates the influence of shallow water-bearing sand layers on surface subsidence characteristics in coal mining areas with thick loose strata, with the ultimate goal of contributing to sustainable environmental protection. Firstly, a...
The longevity of prosthetic hip implants is significantly influenced by wear. Surface textures of various length scales can reduce the friction coefficient and wear of lubricated bearing surfaces. The optimization of multiscale texture parameters, ai...
This paper describes a case study of surface subsidence in the Hongling Lead-Zinc Mine. Hongling Lead-Zinc Mine is located in Inner Mongolia, China, about 240 km away from the border between China and Mongolia. There is a batch of outcrops of the nea...
With the increase in mining depth and the deterioration of mining conditions, thick and hard overburden movement frequently induces mine earthquakes and rock bursts. Some mines are expected to prevent and control super thick hard rock mine earthquake...
Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) technology represents an unconventional but vital manufacturing technology in many different industrial branches. The automotive industry and its many significant requirements bring the need to manufacture i...
Drag reduction (DR) using superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) has received intensive interest due to the emergence of SH coating technology. The air layer (plastron “δ”) trapped between the SHS and the water controls the flow slip over...
Electrical breakdown is an important physical phenomenon in power equipment and electronic devices. Recently, the mechanism of AC and DC breakdown has been preliminarily revealed as electrode–dielectric interface breakdown and bulk breakdown, r...
High-power impulse magnetron-sputtering thick metal/carbon–nitride-doped metal-matrix multilayer nano-composite coating can be applied to cutting-tool holder components to improve cutting insert’s life. One of the challenges of such an ad...
Aiming at solving the problem of manually measuring the fabric surface thickness, this paper proposes a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction method based on the tangential two-dimensional (2D) sequence images. Firstly, the characteristic region of t...
The electrospreading behavior of a liquid drop on a solid surface is of fundamental interest in many technological processes. Here we study the effect of the solid topography as well as the dielectric thickness on the dynamics of electrostatically-in...
This paper proposes a novel magnetic abrasive finishing (MAF) process that uses an auxiliary magnetic machining tool for the internal surface finishing of a thick-walled tube. The auxiliary magnetic machining tool and external poles form a closed mag...
Surface treatment technologies are pivotal across diverse industrial sectors such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and the automotive industry. Continuous advancements in manufacturing processes are geared towards bolstering efficie...
During the mining of highly gassy and low-permeability coalbed groups, massive pressure-relieved desorbed coal bed methane (CBM) is stored in the fracture zone and in the gob under the impact of mining activities. Surface wells can cross the fracture...
This work demonstrates the dependence between magnetic properties and the thickness of NiFe thin films. More importantly, a quantitative study of the surface composition of NiFe thin film exposed to atmospheric conditions has been carried out employi...
The article deals with the approximation of the results of experimental measurement of coating of the inner surface of slim pipes with special oil, using a dispersion oil fraction. The reason for such treatment of the inner surface of the tubes is th...
The influence of wall thickness and specimen surface on the creep behavior of the single-crystal nickel-based superalloy MAR M247LC is studied. Specimens with wall thicknesses of 0.4, 0.8, 1 and 2 mm, with and without casting surface, are compared to...
In this study, Co40Fe40B10Dy10 thin films were deposited using a direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering technique. The films were deposited on glass substrates with thicknesses of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 nm, and heat-treated in a vacuum annealing fu...
Surface strain measurements on carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) structures using bonded strain gauges are often systematically underestimated due to strain transfer effects associated with the surface resin-rich layer. To investigate this issue...
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