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Xiaochuan Jiang, Jun Wang, Ying Zhang and Shenxue Jiang
This paper reports on investigations of the air-coupled ultrasonic (ACU) method to detect common defects in solid timber panels made of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.). The ACU technology is a non-contact method for nondestructive tim...
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Daniel Preston, Ahmed Ashour, Julian Wright, James Watts, Daniel Sanmartin and Jacques Wood
Creation of statistically significant reference sample sets for validation, optimization, and demonstration of non-destructive testing techniques, particularly for the additive manufacturing sector.
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Guangya Zhu, Chongyu Wang, Wei Zhao, Yonghui Xie, Ding Guo and Di Zhang
The diagnosis of blade crack faults is critical to ensuring the safety of turbomachinery. Blade tip timing (BTT) is a non-contact vibration displacement measurement technique, which has been extensively studied for blade vibration condition monitoring re...
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James Marcus Griffin, Steven Jones, Bama Perumal and Carl Perrin
Welding inspection is a critical process that can be severely time-consuming, resulting in productivity delays, especially when destructive or invasive processes are required. This paper defines the novel approach to investigate the physical correlation ...
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Jingjing Fu, Zhichao Cui, Yongsheng Chen, Chunsong Guan, Mingjiang Chen and Biao Ma
The compression molding performance of a substrate block has a significant effect on the quality and stability of mechanical transplanting. The physical experiment and DEM simulation were combined to evaluate the compression molding behavior of substrate...
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George Xiroudakis, George Saratsis and Ilias Lazos
This paper uses the displacement discontinuity method, one of the boundary element methods, to solve two major engineering problems. The first one addresses the safe design of underground excavations in fractured rock masses. The implemented method was u...
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Bin Ma, Xinchao Ding and Xingzhou Chen
The excavation-unloading damage effects of western high-geostress slopes on rock were explored by testing the pre-peak confining pressure unloading sandstone reloading mechanical properties. The deformation and failure mechanisms were studied from a meso...
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André Luiz Ferreira Carvalho Melo, Marcelo Teixeira Carneiro, Alan Ícaro Sousa Morais, Bartolomeu Cruz Viana, Francisco Eroni Paz Santos, Josy Anteveli Osajima, Roosevelt D. S. Bezerra, Ramón Raudel Peña-Garcia, Luciano C. Almeida, Santiago Medina Carrasco and Edson C. Silva-Filho
Water pollution remains a global problem that urges researchers to develop new technologies aimed at environmental restoration. Here, this study aimed at obtaining an activated biochar from pequi almonds for dye removal. Before and after adsorption, the ...
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Chunyan Bao, Meng Zhou and Yuexiang Cai
Shale gas is a promising new energy source stored in shale. This research aims to study the laws of rock crack initiation and propagation under the low-temperature fracturing of liquid nitrogen, explore the influencing factors of the shale reservoir frac...
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Sizeng Zhao, Fei Kang and Junjie Li
Cracks are the main damages of concrete structures. Since cracks may occur in areas that are difficult to reach, non-contact measurement technology is required to accurately measure the width of cracks. This study presents an innovative computer vision s...
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