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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Hao Wang, Yejiao Wang and Fujie Jin
The swelling-shrinkage behavior of expansive soils under climate changes will cause the crack development, which can be destructive of expansive soil slopes. This study investigated the effect of drying/wetting cycles on the stability of an expansive soi...
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Nuno Monteiro Azevedo, Maria Luísa Braga Farinha and Sérgio Oliveira
To obtain predictions closer to concrete behaviour, it is necessary to employ a particle model (PM) that considers contact softening. A bilinear softening contact model (BL) has been adopted in PM studies. Several limitations in PM predictions have been ...
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Weihan Huang, Ke Gao and Yu Feng
Predicting earthquakes through reasonable methods can significantly reduce the damage caused by secondary disasters such as tsunamis. Recently, machine learning (ML) approaches have been employed to predict laboratory earthquakes using stick-slip dynamic...
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Qimin Gao, Lei Cheng, Renbing Wang, Mingjiang Chen, Weisong Zhao, Jingjing Fu and Zhenwei Wang
The mechanical properties of tomato stalk, relevant to the harvesting and crushing of tomato vines, significantly impact its harvesting quality and efficiency. Establishing a simulation model, which accurately mirrors these properties, is foundational fo...
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Huinan Huang, Yan Zhang, Defu Wang, Zijiang Fu, Hui Tian, Junjuan Shang, Mahmoud Helal and Zhijun Lv
The hopper is an important piece of basic equipment used for storing and transporting materials in the agricultural, grain, chemical engineering, coal mine and pharmaceutical industries. The discharging performance of hoppers is mainly affected by materi...
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Zhihao Zhao, Mingliang Wu and Xiaohu Jiang
In agricultural engineering, the discrete element simulation of the operational structure, object of movement, and force has become a standard method of modern agricultural equipment design. The selection and development of an appropriate contact model a...
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Dongdong Li, Rongyang Wang, Yingpeng Zhu, Jianneng Chen, Guofeng Zhang and Chuanyu Wu
To address the problem of a lack of accurate parameters in the discrete element simulation study of the machine-picked fresh tea leaf mechanized-sorting process, this study used machine-picked fresh tea leaves as the research object, established discrete...
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Peiyu Wang, Huting Wang, Ruoyu Zhang, Rong Hu, Beibei Hao and Jie Huang
Cotton processing is the process of converting harvested seed cotton into lint by cleaning, ginning, and cleaning the lint. The real-time acquisition of lint parameters during processing is critical in improving cotton processing quality and efficiency. ...
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Peizhao Zhong, Weiqing Jia, Wenwu Yang, Jianfei He, Erli Zhang, Dongyang Yu, Yuhang Xu, Jianpeng Chen, Feihu Peng, Guoxiang Zeng, Chen Zhang, Shiqi Zeng, Bo Gao, Haihai Pei and Zaiman Wang
The parameters of the discrete element simulation model for rice field soils serve as valuable data references for investigating the dynamic characteristics of the walking wheel of high-speed precision seeding machinery in paddy fields. The research spec...
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