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4 Citations
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A Three-Dimensional Transition Interface Model for Bolt Joint

  • Sheng Lei,
  • Kuanmin Mao,
  • Wei Tian and
  • Li Li

24 June 2022

Bolt connection is an important component in mechanical structure which significantly affects the dynamic property of the whole structure. In this paper, a three-dimensional transition interface model which contains geometric and physical parameters...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanisms and Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,331 Views
26 Pages

23 December 2021

The energy transition from inefficient fossil-based to sustainable energy systems can face various lock-ins. There are no pathways that are free of stress. However, many routes are possible. A good understanding of the dynamic behavior of systems is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Making in Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,054 Views
21 Pages

13 December 2025

Externally bonded carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) can increase the flexural capacity of steel beams, but the benefit is often limited by the performance of the adhesive interface. This study develops and validates a three-dimensional finite-el...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Fiber Composites, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,698 Views
12 Pages

16 April 2024

The transition zone (TZ) of hydrocarbon reservoirs is an integral part of the hydrocarbon pool which contains a substantial fraction of the deposit, particularly in carbonate petroleum systems. Consequently, knowledge of its thickness and petrophysic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,965 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2018

In light of climate change and security concerns, decarbonisation has become a priority for industrialised countries. In the European Union (EU), decarbonisation scenarios used to support decision-making predict a steady decrease in greenhouse gas (G...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,263 Views
21 Pages

A General Framework to Simulate Soil–Structure Interface Behaviour Using Advanced Constitutive Models

  • Michael Niebler,
  • Stylianos Chrisopoulos,
  • Roberto Cudmani and
  • Daniel Rebstock

5 February 2025

The importance of using sophisticated interface models to obtain realistic numerical solutions of soil–structure interaction (SSI) problems has been recognised in recent decades. With this aim, various advanced interface models have been develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,965 Views
15 Pages

6 January 2021

Polymeric optical sheets are significant components in large-scale display devices and are difficult to fabricate due to small size and high accuracy of large-area microstructures. As a newly developed molding technique, injection-rolling is capable...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Processing and Engineering)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,869 Views
11 Pages

Simulation of the Peritectic Phase Transition in Fe-C Alloys

  • Hui Fang,
  • Qianyu Tang,
  • Qingyu Zhang,
  • Yiming Fan and ,
  • Shiyan Pan,
  • Markus Rettenmayr and
  • Mingfang Zhu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 January 2022

In this work, a multi-phase cellular automaton (CA) model is extended for the quantitative simulation of peritectic phase transition. First, the effects of cooling rate/supersaturation and temperature on the peritectic transformation kinetics in Fe-C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical and Metallurgical Characterizations of Advanced Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,333 Views
21 Pages

12 August 2025

Understanding solute transport across interfaces between different porous materials is crucial for subsurface applications. Column tracer experiments have suggested solute accumulation at these interfaces. This effect cannot be explained by standard...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Groundwater Science and Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Citations
10,694 Views
27 Pages

19 July 2020

Understanding and modeling of a surface-plasmon phenomenon on lossy metals interfaces based on simplified models of dielectric function lead to problems when confronted with reality. For a realistic description of lossy metals, such as gold and silve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Modeling and Simulation for Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology, and Nanoscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,332 Views
26 Pages

30 April 2021

As in any other phase transition, hydrate phase transition kinetics involves an implicit coupling of phase transition thermodynamic control and the associated dynamics of mass and heat transport. This work provides a brief overview of certain selecte...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,684 Views
13 Pages

22 April 2022

Thermal-sprayed ceramic coatings are widely used in industry due to their favorable mechanical properties. However, traditional ceramic coatings are prone to failure due to the differences in physical properties between the bonding coating and the ce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,141 Views
13 Pages

Cellular Automaton Modeling of the Transition of Multi-Crystalline Silicon from a Planar Faceted Front to Equiaxed Growth

  • Yingxin Zhang,
  • Ri Li,
  • Jia Wang,
  • Longxuan Wang and ,
  • Wenbo Yan,
  • Caichi Liu and
  • Hongjian Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 December 2017

A modeling approach combining the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method and the cellular automaton (CA) technique are developed to simulate the faceted front to equiaxed structure transition (FET) of directional solidification of multi-crystalline silicon. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Views
32 Pages

Interface–Architecture Synergy in Hybrid Architected Materials: From Patent Landscape to Interface-by-Design

  • Devarajan Balaji,
  • Vijayarangan Jayakumar,
  • Margabandu Vignesh and
  • Mathiyazhagan Sathishkumar
Inventions2026, 11(6), 119;https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions11060119 
(registering DOI)

6 November 2026

Hybrid architected materials synthesize material heterogeneity and tailored structure to potentially realize mechanical, thermal, transport, and multifunctional properties otherwise unavailable from single constituent approaches. Innovation is often...

(This article belongs to the Section Inventions and Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,377 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents a thermo-mechanical model with phase transition considering changes in the mechanical properties of the medium. The proposed thermo-mechanical model is described by a system of partial differential equations for temperature and di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Finite Element Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,464 Views
22 Pages

15 August 2014

The hydrophobic thickness of membranes, which is manly defined by fatty acids, influences the packing of transmembrane domains of proteins and thus can modulate the activity of these proteins. We analyzed the dynamics of the dimerization of Glycophor...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
524 Views
19 Pages

9 February 2026

We study the pinning transition in a (1+1)-dimensional lattice model of a fluctuating interface interacting with a corrugated impenetrable wall. The interface is modeled as an N-step directed one-dimensional random walk on the half-line x≥0. Its i...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,191 Views
19 Pages

For concrete structures in offshore areas, chloride ion erosion is one of the main factors affecting durability. It is crucial to evaluate the chloride ion permeability resistance of concrete structures. In this paper, a finite element simulation of...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,405 Views
11 Pages

Magnetoelectric (ME) laminated composites with strong ME coupling are becoming increasingly prevalent in the electron device field. In this paper, an enhancement of the ME coupling effect via transition-layer implantation for co-fired lead-free lamin...

(This article belongs to the Section Magnetic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,540 Views
12 Pages

24 February 2023

Traditional experiments are difficult to accurately and quantitatively measure the interfacial properties of composites, such as interfacial bonding strength, interfacial microelectronic structure, and other information. It is particularly necessary...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Surface Modification on Microstructure and Properties of Metals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,288 Views
27 Pages

Triphasic 3D In Vitro Model of Bone-Tendon-Muscle Interfaces to Study Their Regeneration

  • Wendy Balestri,
  • Graham J. Hickman,
  • Robert H. Morris,
  • John A. Hunt and
  • Yvonne Reinwald

13 January 2023

The transition areas between different tissues, known as tissue interfaces, have limited ability to regenerate after damage, which can lead to incomplete healing. Previous studies focussed on single interfaces, most commonly bone-tendon and bone-cart...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tissue Engineered Models of Musculoskeletal Regeneration and Pathologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
510 Views
32 Pages

28 May 2026

Shock-induced gas/water interfacial instability is important in multiphase flow processes involving rapid deformation, mixing, and breakup. In this study, the evolution of shock-impacted gas/water interfaces was investigated using high-speed images f...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,806 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Transverse Crack on Composite Structure Using Cohesive Element

  • Heri Heriana,
  • Rebecca Mae Merida Catalya Marbun,
  • Bambang Kismono Hadi,
  • Djarot Widagdo and
  • Muhammad Kusni

Due to their anisotropic behavior, composite structures are weak in transverse direction loading. produces transverse cracks, which for a laminated composite, may lead to delamination and total failure. The transition from transverse crack to delamin...

(This article belongs to the Section Composites Modelling and Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,704 Views
25 Pages

Thermodynamic Modeling of the Amorphous Solid Dispersion-Water Interfacial Layer and Its Impact on the Release Mechanism

  • Stefanie Dohrn,
  • Samuel O. Kyeremateng,
  • Esther Bochmann,
  • Ekaterina Sobich and ,
  • Andrea Wahl,
  • Bernd Liepold,
  • Gabriele Sadowski and
  • Matthias Degenhardt
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

During the dissolution of amorphous solid dispersion (ASD) formulations, the gel layer that forms at the ASD/water interface strongly dictates the release of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and, hence, the dissolution performance. Several...

(This article belongs to the Section Drug Delivery and Controlled Release)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,318 Views
12 Pages

4 April 2018

We derive in a new way that the intensive properties of a fluid-fluid Gibbs interface are independent of the location of the dividing surface. When the system is out of global equilibrium, this finding is not trivial: In a one-component fluid, it can...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mesoscopic Thermodynamics and Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,013 Views
13 Pages

26 August 2024

We study the nested topological band-gap structure of one-dimensional (1D) photonic super-lattices. One cell of the super-lattice is composed of two kinds of photonic crystals (PhCs) with different topologies so that there is a domain wall (DW) state...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Crystalline Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,180 Views
22 Pages

Effects of Total Thermal Balance on the Thermal Energy Absorbed or Released by a High-Temperature Phase Change Material

  • Suset Rodríguez-Alemán,
  • Ernesto M. Hernández-Cooper,
  • Rolando Pérez-Álvarez and
  • José A. Otero

12 January 2021

Front tracking and enthalpy methods used to study phase change processes are based on a local thermal energy balance at the liquid–solid interface where mass accommodation methods are also used to account for the density change during the phase...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phase Change Materials 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,162 Views
16 Pages

6 February 2023

The plastic deformation mechanisms of Ni/Al2O3 interface systems under tensile loading at high strain rates were investigated by the classical molecular dynamics (MD) method. A Rahman–Stillinger–Lemberg potential was used for modeling the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical Calculation and Molecular Modeling of Nanomaterials)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
824 Views
10 Pages

Interfacial Microstructural Evaluation of Additively Manufactured Al-Si-Mg Alloy on a Pre-Machined Aluminum Alloy Substrate

  • Mpinda Bob Mampuya,
  • Ngeleshi Michel Kibambe,
  • Mutombo Christian Umba,
  • Timilehin Adekunle Omotoyinbo and ,
  • Olusoji Oluremi Ayodele and
  • Peter Apata Olubambi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Hybrid additive manufacturing (HAM) offers a viable solution to the size and cost limitations of conventional additive manufacturing of aluminum alloys. This study investigates the interfacial microstructural behavior of an AlSi7Mg alloy fabricated b...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Applied Research and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,363 Views
13 Pages

25 June 2024

Carbon steel materials are widely used in mechanical transmission. Under different temperature and pressure service conditions, the microscopic changes of stress and strain that are difficult to detect and analyze by experimental means will lead to f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
511 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Modeling and Characteristics of a Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Friction-Induced Slider Moving on an Oscillating Belt Based on Stick-Slip Motion

  • Bingbing He,
  • Shibo Pan,
  • Zeqi Zhang,
  • Shangwen He and ,
  • Yongfeng Yang and
  • Chao Fu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 July 2026

The belt velocity is not strictly constant but exhibits periodic oscillations in certain industrial applications. A lumped mass model of a two-dimensional nonlinear friction-induced slider moving on an oscillating belt is established in this paper. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,706 Views
13 Pages

Photochemistry of the α-Al2O3-PETN Interface

  • Roman V. Tsyshevsky,
  • Anton Zverev,
  • Anatoly Mitrofanov,
  • Sergey N. Rashkeev and
  • Maija M. Kuklja

29 February 2016

Optical absorption measurements are combined with electronic structure calculations to explore photochemistry of an α-Al2O3-PETN interface formed by a nitroester (pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN, C5H8N4O12) and a wide band gap aluminum oxide (α-Al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photoactive Molecules)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
5,507 Views
18 Pages

The Evolution of Interfaces for Underwater Supersonic Gas Jets

  • Xiaoyuan Zhang,
  • Shipeng Li,
  • Dian Yu,
  • Baoyu Yang and
  • Ningfei Wang

11 February 2020

The evolution of interfaces for underwater gas jets is the main morphological manifestation of two-phase unstable interaction. The high-speed transient photographic recording and image post-processing methods are used to obtain the interfacial change...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,814 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2018

Compared with the single-component metal plate, there is a special transition layer on the joint interface between two kinds of materials in the stainless steel-carbon steel laminated plate (SCLP). In order to describe the finite element model of las...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intense Optical Pulse Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,527 Views
20 Pages

27 July 2024

The internal pore structural characteristics and microbubble distribution features of concrete have a significant impact on its frost resistance, but their size is relatively small compared to aggregates, making them difficult to visually represent i...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanics of Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,494 Views
14 Pages

1 March 2022

We study the proposed statistical kinetic model for describing the pre- and consciousness structures based on the cognitive neural networks. The method of statistics of the growth graph systems and a possible transition to symmetric structures (a kin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mechanics and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,556 Views
22 Pages

30 July 2023

Building sustainable communities is always related to the occupants’ physical and psychological safety, environmental security and human settlements inclusivity, etc. The interfaces of Chinese urban villages have shown features that are irregul...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,907 Views
15 Pages

28 December 2023

The interface friction mechanics of reinforcement material with filler is an essential issue for the engineering design of reinforced soil structure. The interface friction mechanics is closely associated with the properties of filler and reinforceme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Geomaterials and Reinforced Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
551 Views
26 Pages

Molecular Dynamics Investigation of CSH/SiO2 Interface Degradation in High-Temperature and Water-Rich Environments

  • Lianzhen Zhang,
  • Yiwei Hu,
  • Qingsong Zhang,
  • Changxin Huang and ,
  • Liangchao Zou,
  • Zhipeng Li,
  • Runan Wang,
  • Congjian Feng,
  • Mingchen Li and
  • Zongjian Yang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

28 May 2026

As the critical weak link in grouting reinforcement systems, the interfacial adhesion between cementitious grout and rock minerals is highly susceptible to performance degradation under high-temperature and water-rich conditions. In this paper, molec...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,198 Views
31 Pages

State-Transition Modeling of Human–Robot Interaction for Easy Crowdsourced Robot Control

  • Masaya Iwasaki,
  • Mizuki Ikeda,
  • Tatsuyuki Kawamura and
  • Hideyuki Nakanishi

15 November 2020

Robotic salespeople are often ignored by people due to their weak social presence, and thus have difficulty facilitating sales autonomously. However, for robots that are remotely controlled by humans, there is a need for experienced and trained opera...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,807 Views
17 Pages

22 January 2019

The dissemination of decentralized renewable energy generation, storage and smart metering devices has led to the need for new business models and coordination mechanisms in the energy sector. At the same time, the emerging sharing economy focuses on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,209 Views
23 Pages

18 April 2025

An accurate analysis of the dynamic process of ice melting in an optical fiber composite overhead ground wire (OPGW) is of great reference significance for the selection of an ice melting current and the formulation of an ice melting strategy. Existi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Diagnostic Analysis, Strategic Management, and Proactive Maintenance of Electrical Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,518 Views
28 Pages

28 May 2020

In this paper, the effect of stochastic loading on tensile damage and fracture of fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) is investigated. A micromechanical constitutive model is developed considering multiple damage mechanisms under tensil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Views
26 Pages

30 October 2026

3D concrete printing (3DCP) creates interlayer interfaces that often govern structural performance under tensile and shear loading. Despite extensive research on manufacturing parameters, the field lacks a unified framework for interfacial stress tra...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,856 Views
23 Pages

27 October 2023

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites are widely used in the rehabilitation, repair, and strengthening of civil, marine, and naval infrastructure and structural systems. In these applications, they are exposed to a range of exposure conditions,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Journal of Composites Science in 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,741 Views
25 Pages

In this paper, auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) time-series data forecast models are evaluated to ascertain their feasibility in predicting human–machine interface (HMI) state transitions, which are modeled as multivariate time...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,917 Views
24 Pages

15 October 2024

This study addresses the United Nations 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals 4, 8, 10, and 12 by developing a resource-efficient tool that promotes equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities, supports decent work and economi...

(This article belongs to the Section Development Goals towards Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,683 Views
16 Pages

Mechanical Properties and Uniaxial Failure Behavior of Concrete with Different Solid Waste Coarse Aggregates

  • Mei Zhou,
  • Jinting Bai,
  • Shaowei Li,
  • Kai Zhang and ,
  • Chao Li and
  • Xinyi Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 September 2022

To reveal the differences between the mechanical properties of solid waste coarse aggregate concrete and natural coarse aggregate concrete (NCAC) under equal strength, the basic mechanical properties of coarse aggregate concrete with seven different...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,572 Views
11 Pages

We study the spatio-temporal formation and spreading of the low-spin state (LS) during the thermal spin transition and the cooperative relaxation of the photo-induced metastable high spin (HS) state at low temperature, in the presence of a structural...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spin Crossover (SCO) Research)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,474 Views
24 Pages

20 October 2023

The utilization rate of reclaimed asphalt pavement is significantly low in the sustainable design process of asphalt roads. Numerous researchers have extensively investigated the recycling and utilization of reclaimed asphalt pavements from various p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Granular Materials in Industry and Environmental Contexts)

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