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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,990 Views
16 Pages

Feasibility Study of Real-Time Monitoring of Pin Connection Wear Using Acoustic Emission

  • Jingkai Wang,
  • Linsheng Huo,
  • Chunguang Liu,
  • Yuanchen Peng and
  • Gangbing Song

30 September 2018

Pin connections are one of the most important connecting forms and they have been widely used in engineering fields. In its service, pin connections are subject to wear, and it will be beneficial if the health condition of pin connections can be moni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,098 Views
23 Pages

Enhancing Machining Efficiency: Real-Time Monitoring of Tool Wear with Acoustic Emission and STFT Techniques

  • Luís Henrique Andrade Maia,
  • Alexandre Mendes Abrão,
  • Wander Luiz Vasconcelos,
  • Jánes Landre Júnior,
  • Gustavo Henrique Nazareno Fernandes and
  • Álisson Rocha Machado

31 October 2024

Tool wear in machining is inevitable, and determining the precise moment to change the tool is challenging, as the tool transitions from the steady wear phase to the rapid wear phase, where wear accelerates significantly. If the tool is not replaced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
6,575 Views
18 Pages

2 October 2019

To monitor the tool wear state of computerized numerical control (CNC) machining equipment in real time in a manufacturing workshop, this paper proposes a real-time monitoring method based on a fusion of a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a bid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,054 Views
14 Pages

Using Fitness Tracker Data to Overcome Pressure Insole Wear Time Challenges for Remote Musculoskeletal Monitoring

  • Cameron A. Nurse,
  • Katherine M. Rodzak,
  • Peter Volgyesi,
  • Brian Noehren and
  • Karl E. Zelik

3 December 2024

Tibia shaft fractures are common lower extremity fractures that can require surgery and rehabilitation. However, patient recovery is often poor, partly due to clinicians’ inability to monitor bone loading, which is critical to stimulating heali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,755 Views
19 Pages

Development of a Method and a Smart System for Tool Critical Life Real-Time Monitoring

  • Shih-Ming Wang,
  • Wan-Shing Tsou,
  • Jian-Wei Huang,
  • Shao-En Chen and
  • Chia-Che Wu

Tool wear management and real-time machining quality monitoring are pivotal components of realizing smart manufacturing objectives, as they directly influence machining precision and productivity. Traditionally, measuring and analyzing cutting force...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,283 Views
10 Pages

End-of-Life Prediction for Milling Cutters Based on an Online Vibro-Acoustic System

  • Michele Perrelli,
  • Romina Conte,
  • Gabriele Zangara and
  • Francesco Gagliardi

3 October 2024

Improving the capabilities of online condition monitoring systems, able to detect arising of catastrophic wear on cutting tools, has been an important target to be pursued for the metal cutting industry. Currently, different systems have been propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,424 Views
13 Pages

Putting Temperature into the Equation: Development and Validation of Algorithms to Distinguish Non-Wearing from Inactivity and Sleep in Wearable Sensors

  • Sara Pagnamenta,
  • Karoline Blix Grønvik,
  • Kamiar Aminian,
  • Beatrix Vereijken and
  • Anisoara Paraschiv-Ionescu

1 February 2022

Long-term monitoring of real-life physical activity (PA) using wearable devices is increasingly used in clinical and epidemiological studies. The quality of the recorded data is an important issue, as unreliable data may negatively affect the outcome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,252 Views
16 Pages

6 December 2024

This study presents a sound-based tool-wear monitoring system designed to overcome the limitations of conventional methods that focus solely on gradual and predictable wear patterns. The proposed system employs low-cost, high-frequency microphones an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,925 Views
25 Pages

29 November 2024

Class III malocclusions, a dentofacial deformity requiring early intervention, pose significant challenges due to the need for prolonged use of facemasks by young patients. The SuperPowerMe project aims to improve compliance with the orthodontic trea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,196 Views
9 Pages

How Many Hours of Device Wear Time Are Required to Accurately Measure Physical Activity Post Stroke?

  • Natalie A. Fini,
  • Anne E. Holland,
  • Julie Bernhardt and
  • Angela T. Burge

Background. Inadequate physical activity participation is a risk factor for secondary stroke. Before implementing appropriate management strategies, we need to accurately measure the physical activity of stroke survivors. We aimed to determine the du...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,411 Views
12 Pages

1 April 2022

In studies that have reported device-based measures of sedentary time (ST) in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we explored if the monitor type and monitor wear time moderated the estimate of this measure. Five electronic data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,014 Views
21 Pages

23 August 2023

Industry 4.0 has been an impactful and much-needed revolution that has not only influenced different aspects of life but has also changed the course of manufacturing processes. The main purpose of the manufacturing industry is to increase productivit...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,419 Views
15 Pages

Monitoring Metal Wear Particles of Friction Pairs in the Oil Systems of Gas Turbine Power Plants

  • Valentin Belopukhov,
  • Andrey Blinov,
  • Sergey Borovik,
  • Mariya Luchsheva,
  • Farit Muhutdinov,
  • Petr Podlipnov,
  • Aleksey Sazhenkov and
  • Yuriy Sekisov

4 July 2022

In the example of the aviation gas turbine engine the problem of monitoring metal wear particles of friction pairs in the oil systems of gas turbine power plants is considered. The solution based on using the multi-channel cluster single-coil eddy cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,161 Views
12 Pages

6 November 2021

Condition monitoring of the cutting process is a core function of autonomous machining and its success strongly relies on sensed data. Despite the enormous amount of research conducted so far into condition monitoring of the cutting process, there ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,665 Views
20 Pages

27 October 2020

Most online tool condition monitoring (TCM) methods easily cause machining interference. To solve this problem, we propose a method based on the analysis of the spindle motor current signal of a machine tool. Firstly, cutting experiments under multi-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,848 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2025

Monitoring orthosis compliance using patient diaries is subjective, as patients can overestimate their levels of device use. An objective way to monitor compliance is required because if an orthotic prescription is not followed, the orthosis will not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,981 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2023

As the core component of the automobile braking system, brake pads have a complex structure and high failure rate. Their accurate and effective state monitoring can help to evaluate the safety performance of brake pads and avoid accidents caused by b...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,347 Views
15 Pages

Research on On-Line Monitoring of Grinding Wheel Wear Based on Multi-Sensor Fusion

  • Jingsong Duan,
  • Guohua Cao,
  • Guoqing Ma,
  • Zhenglin Yu and
  • Changshun Shao

11 September 2024

The state of a grinding wheel directly affects the surface quality of the workpiece. The monitoring of grinding wheel wear state can allow one to efficiently identify grinding wheel wear information and to timely and effectively trim the grinding whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,923 Views
11 Pages

14 June 2022

Mechanistic cutting force model has the potential for monitoring micro-milling tool wear. However, the existing studies mainly consider the linear cutting force model, and they are incompetent to monitor the micro-milling tool wear which has a signif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,258 Views
22 Pages

Study on In-Situ Tool Wear Detection during Micro End Milling Based on Machine Vision

  • Xianghui Zhang,
  • Haoyang Yu,
  • Chengchao Li,
  • Zhanjiang Yu,
  • Jinkai Xu,
  • Yiquan Li and
  • Huadong Yu

30 December 2022

Most in situ tool wear monitoring methods during micro end milling rely on signals captured from the machining process to evaluate tool wear behavior; accurate positioning in the tool wear region and direct measurement of the level of wear are diffic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,893 Views
9 Pages

Surface Wear Monitoring System of Industrial Transformer Tap-Changer Contacts by Using Voice Signal

  • Xiangyu Tan,
  • Fangrong Zhou,
  • Wenyun Li,
  • Gang Ao,
  • Xiaowei Xu and
  • Le Yang

Surface wear of the tap-changer contacts of industrial transformers (due to frequent switching times) easily leads to operation failure of industrial transformers, which affects the safety and stability of the transmission network. In this paper, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,871 Views
10 Pages

Gear Wear Process Monitoring Using a Sideband Estimator Based on Modulation Signal Bispectrum

  • Ruiliang Zhang,
  • Xi Gu,
  • Fengshou Gu,
  • Tie Wang and
  • Andrew D. Ball

10 March 2017

As one of the most common gear failure modes, tooth wear can produce nonlinear modulation sidebands in the vibration frequency spectrum. However, limited research has been reported in monitoring the gear wear based on vibration due to the lack of too...

  • Article
  • Open Access
495 Views
26 Pages

16 November 2025

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the manufacturing industry, online monitoring of tool wear status is of great significance for enhancing the reliability and intelligence of CNC machine tools. This paper presents an intelligent tool w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,457 Views
14 Pages

Real-Time Ferrogram Segmentation of Wear Debris Using Multi-Level Feature Reused Unet

  • Jie You,
  • Shibo Fan,
  • Qinghai Yu,
  • Lianfu Wang,
  • Zhou Zhang and
  • Zheying Zong

11 April 2024

The real-time monitoring and fault diagnosis of modern machinery and equipment impose higher demands on equipment maintenance, with the extraction of morphological characteristics of wear debris in lubricating oil emerging as a critical approach for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,945 Views
14 Pages

Motor Vehicle Brake Pad Wear—A Review

  • Ştefan Voloacă,
  • Alexandro Badea-Romero,
  • Francisco Badea-Romero and
  • Marius Florin Toma

The paper offers an overview of the motor vehicle brake pad wear process. Considering the types of wear that occur between the pads and the disc, the study begins by presenting Archard’s fundamental wear law. It explains how the hardness and ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
5,094 Views
15 Pages

22 September 2019

The ability to effectively predict tool wear during machining is an extremely important part of diagnostics that results in changing the tool at the relevant time. Effective assessment of the rate of tool wear increases the efficiency of the process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,746 Views
16 Pages

25 June 2021

Lubricating oil monitoring technology is a commonly used method in aeroengine condition monitoring, which includes particle counting technology, as well as spectral and ferrography technology in offline monitoring. However, these technologies only an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,161 Views
12 Pages

29 September 2019

In view of the fact that the mature eddy current sensors on the market have a small measuring range and a certain requirement for the measured conductor area, which cannot meet the requirement of TBM disc cutter Wear monitoring, Ansoft Maxwell simula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,721 Views
20 Pages

12 April 2024

This paper designed and developed an online digital imaging excitation sensor for wind power gearbox wear condition monitoring based on an adaptive deep learning method. A digital imaging excitation sensing image information collection architecture f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,140 Views
22 Pages

5 April 2018

As bearings are critical components of a mechanical system, it is important to characterize their wear states and evaluate health conditions. In this paper, a novel approach for analyzing the relationship between online oil multi-parameter monitoring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,541 Views
25 Pages

27 August 2024

Aiming at the problems of grinding wheel wear during high-speed cylindrical grinding, communication delays, and slow response during data acquisition, processing, and system operation, an intelligent online monitoring technology frame for CNC manufac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,453 Views
24 Pages

17 December 2021

Tool wear monitoring is of great significance for the development of manufacturing systems and intelligent manufacturing. Online tool condition monitoring is a crucial technology for cost reduction, quality improvement, and manufacturing intelligence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,442 Views
13 Pages

Real-Time Estimation for Cutting Tool Wear Based on Modal Analysis of Monitored Signals

  • Yongjiao Chi,
  • Wei Dai,
  • Zhiyuan Lu,
  • Meiqing Wang and
  • Yu Zhao

There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of product safety and the quality problems during processing. The working status of cutting tools may lead to project delay and cost overrun if broken down accidentally, and tool we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,357 Views
23 Pages

Classification of Progressive Wear on a Multi-Directional Pin-on-Disc Tribometer Simulating Conditions in Human Joints-UHMWPE against CoCrMo Using Acoustic Emission and Machine Learning

  • Pushkar Deshpande,
  • Kilian Wasmer,
  • Thomas Imwinkelried,
  • Roman Heuberger,
  • Michael Dreyer,
  • Bernhard Weisse,
  • Rowena Crockett and
  • Vigneashwara Pandiyan

Human joint prostheses experience wear failure due to the complex interactions between Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) and Cobalt-Chromium-Molybdenum (CoCrMo). This study uses the wear classification to investigate the gradual and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,534 Views
15 Pages

Cutting Force Estimation Using Milling Spindle Vibration-Based Machine Learning

  • Je-Doo Ryu,
  • Hoon-Hee Lee,
  • Kyoung-Nam Ha,
  • Sung-Ryul Kim and
  • Min Cheol Lee

21 February 2025

In manufacturing automation, accurately determining the optimal tool replacement timing is critical yet challenging. Tool condition monitoring (TCM) has been widely studied to address this issue. Cutting force is a key parameter for evaluating tool w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,216 Views
25 Pages

A Machine Learning Approach for Wear Monitoring of End Mill by Self-Powering Wireless Sensor Nodes

  • Vytautas Ostasevicius,
  • Paulius Karpavicius,
  • Agne Paulauskaite-Taraseviciene,
  • Vytautas Jurenas,
  • Arkadiusz Mystkowski,
  • Ramunas Cesnavicius and
  • Laura Kizauskiene

30 April 2021

There are many tool condition monitoring solutions that use a variety of sensors. This paper presents a self-powering wireless sensor node for shank-type rotating tools and a method for real-time end mill wear monitoring. The novelty of the developed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,584 Views
19 Pages

17 October 2018

Pin connections are commonly used in many engineering fields, and continuous operation may cause severe wear on the pins and may lead to their eventual fracture, if undetected. However, a reliable nonintrusive real-time method to monitor the wear of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,535 Views
20 Pages

29 August 2023

The use of deep learning techniques in real-time monitoring can save a lot of manpower in various scenarios. For example, mask-wearing is an effective measure to prevent COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases, especially for vulnerable populations s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,309 Views
15 Pages

Tool Wear Monitoring in Milling Based on Fine-Grained Image Classification of Machined Surface Images

  • Jing Yang,
  • Jian Duan,
  • Tianxiang Li,
  • Cheng Hu,
  • Jianqiang Liang and
  • Tielin Shi

2 November 2022

Cutting tool wear state assessment during the manufacturing process is extremely significant. The primary purpose of this study is to monitor tool wear to ensure timely tool change and avoid excessive tool wear or sudden tool breakage, which causes w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,203 Views
17 Pages

21 January 2021

Gear wear is a common fault that occurs in a gear transmission system that degrades the operating efficiency and may cause other catastrophic failures such as tooth breakage and fatigue. The progressive wear of a helical gear and its influences on vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,337 Views
12 Pages

23 January 2025

Orthosis-wearing compliance is crucial for achieving positive treatment outcomes in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), for whom 23 h of daily wear is typically prescribed. However, self-reported compliance is subjective and often ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,558 Views
20 Pages

Tool Wear Monitoring for Complex Part Milling Based on Deep Learning

  • Xiaodong Zhang,
  • Ce Han,
  • Ming Luo and
  • Dinghua Zhang

2 October 2020

Tool wear monitoring is necessary for cost reduction and productivity improvement in the machining industry. Machine learning has been proven to be an effective means of tool wear monitoring. Feature engineering is the core of the machining learning...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,527 Views
15 Pages

Factors Influencing Appliance Wearing Time during Orthodontic Treatments: A Literature Review

  • Ferruccio Torsello,
  • Giorgia D’Amico,
  • Edoardo Staderini,
  • Luca Marigo,
  • Massimo Cordaro and
  • Raffaella Castagnola

3 August 2022

This review aims to analyze the multiple factors affecting patients’ level of compliance (how much they wear removable devices/clear aligners) during orthodontic treatments and to investigate the available methods and devices to monitor the app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,099 Views
27 Pages

29 August 2024

The inter-shaft bearing is the core component of a high-pressure rotor support system of a high-thrust aero engine. One of the most challenging tasks for a PHM is monitoring its working condition. However, considering that in the bearing rotor system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,142 Views
19 Pages

6 August 2023

The online monitoring and prediction of tool wear are important to maintain the stability of machining processes. In most cases, the tool wear condition can be evaluated by signals such as force, sound, vibration, and temperature, which are often pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,494 Views
23 Pages

Digital Twin-Driven Tool Wear Monitoring and Predicting Method for the Turning Process

  • Kejia Zhuang,
  • Zhenchuan Shi,
  • Yaobing Sun,
  • Zhongmei Gao and
  • Lei Wang

5 August 2021

Accurate monitoring and prediction of tool wear conditions have an important influence on the cutting performance, thereby improving the machining precision of the workpiece and reducing the production cost. However, traditional methods cannot easily...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,527 Views
15 Pages

Analyses of Tool Wear and Chip Type for Different Coated Carbide Inserts in Turning Hardened 1.6582 Steel

  • Karel Šramhauser,
  • Nataša Náprstková,
  • Jan Sviantek,
  • Dana Stančeková,
  • Nguyen Van Tuong and
  • Jan Novotný

This article deals with the comparative wear of CNMG-coated sintered carbide indexable cutting inserts by several manufacturers when turning 1.6582 steel hardened to 40–44 HRC. The main goal will be to demonstrate the different course of wear b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,711 Views
21 Pages

Real-Time Detection of Face Mask Usage Using Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Athanasios Kanavos,
  • Orestis Papadimitriou,
  • Khalil Al-Hussaeni,
  • Manolis Maragoudakis and
  • Ioannis Karamitsos

The widespread adoption of face masks has been a crucial strategy in mitigating the spread of infectious diseases, particularly in communal settings. However, ensuring compliance with mask-wearing directives remains a significant challenge due to inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,483 Views
14 Pages

5 August 2023

Plastic in the environment poses an increasing challenge. Microplastics, which include tire wear, enter the aquatic environment via different pathways, and increasing vehicle traffic leads to increased tire wear. This paper describes an approach for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,330 Views
27 Pages

Friction and Wear Monitoring Methods for Journal Bearings of Geared Turbofans Based on Acoustic Emission Signals and Machine Learning

  • Noushin Mokhtari,
  • Jonathan Gerald Pelham,
  • Sebastian Nowoisky,
  • José-Luis Bote-Garcia and
  • Clemens Gühmann

In this work, effective methods for monitoring friction and wear of journal bearings integrated in future UltraFan® jet engines containing a gearbox are presented. These methods are based on machine learning algorithms applied to Acoustic Emissio...

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