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António Carlos Pinheiro Fernandes, Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes, Daniela Patrícia Salgado Terêncio, Rui Manuel Vitor Cortes and Fernando António Leal Pacheco
Interactions between pollution sources, water contamination, and ecological integrity are complex phenomena and hard to access. To comprehend this subject of study, it is crucial to use advanced statistical tools, which can unveil cause-effect relationsh...
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Miao Li, Hao Li and Yang Wen
A new type of spherical node was used to design a laboratory-scale prototype of a six-leg lattice of steel tubes and concrete for application as a wind turbine tower. Repeated load tests were performed on the prototype tower for several weeks to evaluate...
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Sebastian Ramm, Hans Heinrich Voßhenrich, Mario Hasler, Yves Reckleben and Eberhard Hartung
The European corn borer is a major pest of corn that overwinters in corn stubble and stalks. Shredding these residues disrupts the larvae?s habitat or directly harms them. A corn header has been engineered with a new type of cutting tool on its horizonta...
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Yinghao Sun and Frank Cheng
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of steel pipelines in high-pressure gaseous environments is a potential threat to the pipeline integrity. The occurrence of gaseous HE is subjected to associative adsorption of hydrogen molecules (H2) at specific ?active sites...
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Zhiyi Leng, Shengfang Zhang, Wenzhe Wang, Hongtao Gu, Jian Yin, Ziguang Wang and Yu Liu
Hydrogen permeation reduces a material?s properties and increases the risk of brittle fracture, which causes a potential safety hazard. A workpiece?s hydrogen permeation resistance could be improved by improving its surface integrity through surface proc...
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Shengfang Zhang, Zhiyi Leng, Wenzhe Wang, Hongtao Gu, Jian Yin, Ziguang Wang and Yu Liu
Corrosion can hurt the quality and service life of a workpiece, which could create potential safety hazards. However, improving the workpiece?s surface integrity through surface treatment could improve the effect of corrosion resistance. To study the eff...
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Jordan Maximov and Galya Duncheva
This review paper analyses and summarises the results found while studying the slide burnishing (SB) of metal components refracted through a prism during the surface engineering (SE) process, over the period of January 2019 to January 2023. According to ...
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Ugne Orinaite, Vilte Karaliute, Mayur Pal and Minvydas Ragulskis
This paper presents the development of an underwater crack detection system for structural integrity assessment of submerged structures, such as offshore oil and gas installations, underwater pipelines, underwater foundations for bridges, dams, etc. Our ...
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Ki-Beom Choo, Hyunjoon Cho, Jung-Hyeun Park, Jiafeng Huang, Dongwook Jung, Jihyeong Lee, Sang-Ki Jeong, Jongsu Yoon, Jinhun Choo and Hyeung-Sik Choi
This study focuses on faults in the thrusters of unmanned surface vehicles, which are fatal to the integrity of their missions. As for the fault conditions, the breakage of the thruster blade and the entanglement of floating objects were selected, and a ...
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Davide Di Pasquale and Simon Prince
Since modern transport aircraft cruise at transonic speeds, shock buffet alleviation is one indispensable challenge that civil transport research needs to be addressed. Indeed, in the transonic flow regime shock-induced separation and transonic buffet co...
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