Showing papers in "Advances in Mechanical Engineering in 2019"
TL;DR: A rapid customization design prototype system has been developed and applied to the design of a high-speed train’s bogie to illustrate how to construct a product meta-model and how to conduct configuration design on different layers and variant design for generating new products.
Abstract: In order to effectively reuse the design knowledge of product family life cycle development and support holistic and rapid individual product design, this article presents a new meta-model-based sy...
436 citations
TL;DR: Additive manufacturing is a recent trend in production processes owing to its many benefits as discussed by the authors, which can be defined as the process of producing parts through the deposition of material in a layer-by-lay process.
Abstract: Additive manufacturing is a recent trend in production processes owing to its many benefits. It can be defined as the process of producing parts through the deposition of material in a layer-by-lay...
268 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of influence on the fatigue life prediction of materials is considered in engineering design, and a mean or median S-N curve approximation is used to model the influence.
Abstract: Fatigue life prediction of materials can be modeled by deterministic relations, via mean or median S-N curve approximation. However, in engineering design, it is essential to consider the influence...
74 citations
TL;DR: A review of research status in hand rehabilitation robotic technology, evaluating a number of devices, is given in this article, where the main scope is to explore the current state of art to he...
Abstract: This article aims to give an overall review of research status in hand rehabilitation robotic technology, evaluating a number of devices. The main scope is to explore the current state of art to he...
64 citations
TL;DR: The results of the existing studies show that entropy measures are powerful predictors for stochastic processes with uncertainties, and this review surveys the general formulations of the uncertainty quantification based on entropy as well as their various applications.
Abstract: Entropy is originally introduced to explain the inclination of intensity of heat, pressure, and density to gradually disappear over time. Based on the concept of entropy, the Second Law of Thermody...
60 citations
TL;DR: The most favorable gift of modern science is nanofluid as mentioned in this paper, which can move freely through micro channels with the spreading of nanoparticles, due to improved convection between the base...
Abstract: The most favorable gift of modern science is nanofluid. The nanofluid can able to move freely through micro channels with the spreading of nanoparticles. Due to improved convection between the base...
48 citations
TL;DR: The proposed method models and identifies determinable error sources, for instance, geometric errors and joint deflection errors, and uses an artificial neural network for compensating for the robot position errors, which are caused by these non-geometric error sources.
Abstract: Robot position accuracy plays a very important role in advanced industrial applications. This article proposes a new method for enhancing robot position accuracy. In order to increase robot accurac...
35 citations
TL;DR: A deep transfer learning method is proposed for rolling bearings fault diagnosis under variable operating conditions that can learn features adaptively from noisy data and increase the accuracy rate by 2%–8% comparing with other models.
Abstract: Rolling bearings are the vital components of rotary machines. The collected data of rolling bearing have strong noise interference, massive unlabeled samples, and different fault features. Thus, a ...
34 citations
TL;DR: The low thermal efficiency of base liquids is the main issue among the researchers and to resolve this issue, scientists use the small-sized (1-100nm) metal solid particles in the base liquids.
Abstract: The low thermal efficiency of the base liquids is the main issue among the researchers and to resolve this issue, scientists use the small-sized (1–100 nm) metal solid particles in the base liquids...
34 citations
TL;DR: This work proposes a novel multi-objective signal timing optimization model with goals of per capita delay, vehicle emissions, and intersection capacity, and shows that the optimized signal timing scheme obtained by the proposed algorithm is better than the realistic one.
Abstract: Currently, signal control mode is the main control method of urban road intersections. Given that the traffic efficiency of road intersections is mainly affected by signal timing schemes, it is imp...
33 citations
TL;DR: The multiphase pump has achieved great success as one of the most popular medium technology for deep sea exploration as discussed by the authors, however, it requires urgent development, and the multi-phase medium technology requires urgent research.
Abstract: Deep sea oil resources worldwide possess great potential for exploration; however, multiphase medium technology requires urgent development. The multiphase pump has achieved great success as one of...
TL;DR: The rolling element bearing is one of the most critical components in a machine as mentioned in this paper, and the vibration signals resulting from these bearings imply important bearing defect information related to the machinery performance.
Abstract: The rolling element bearing is one of the most critical components in a machine. Vibration signals resulting from these bearings imply important bearing defect information related to the machinery ...
TL;DR: In this paper, an efficient algorithm based on residual power series was proposed to approximate the solution of a class of partial differential equations of time-fractional Fokker-Planck model.
Abstract: This article describes an efficient algorithm based on residual power series to approximate the solution of a class of partial differential equations of time-fractional Fokker–Planck model. The fra...
TL;DR: In this paper, molecular dynamics simulation is used to investigate the flow characteristics of Cu-Ar nanofluids considering the influence of nanoparticle size and nanoparticle aggregation, and the viscosity of nanoparticles is analyzed.
Abstract: Molecular dynamics simulation is used to investigate the flow characteristics of Cu–Ar nanofluids considering the influence of nanoparticle size and nanoparticle aggregation. Nanofluids viscosity i...
TL;DR: A novel methodology for the inspection scheduling of gas turbine welded structures, based on reliability calculations and overhaul findings, alleviated the computational cost of stochastic crack propagation analysis, with accuracy.
Abstract: This article presents a novel methodology for the inspection scheduling of gas turbine welded structures, based on reliability calculations and overhaul findings. The model was based on a probabili...
TL;DR: The Provincial Hospital Station of Guiyang Metro Line No. 2 in China is located on the upper-soft lower-hard stratum and the primary support arch cover method for t... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Provincial Hospital Station of Guiyang Metro Line No. 2 in China is located on the upper-soft lower-hard stratum. In order to analyze the adaptability of primary support arch cover method for t...
TL;DR: A pipeline operation optimization model with minimum energy consumption as the objective function was established based on the dynamic programming method and applied to a 3840 km gas pipeline, confirming the validity and feasibility of the optimization model.
Abstract: A pipeline operation optimization model with minimum energy consumption as the objective function was established based on the dynamic programming method. The model was applied to a 3840 km gas pip...
TL;DR: The study found that intensity and coverage are two critical control parameters recommended to be constraints for optimisation of shot peening, and also found that developed heuristic algorithms, such as genetic algorithms have recently showed their advantages for searching optimal combinations of peening parameters.
Abstract: This work provides a comprehensive review of numerical simulation and optimisation of the shot peening found in the existing literature over the past 10 years. The review found that the developed n...
TL;DR: A pitch–roll-interconnected hydro-pneumatic suspension system which can achieve the resistance control for pitch, roll, and bounce modes of ambulances to improve the stability and attenuate the vibration for the lying patients is proposed.
Abstract: Instability caused by emergency braking and steering during ambulance operation would easily lead to a sharp rise of blood pressure in patient’s head, which would further cause a secondary injury t...
TL;DR: In this paper, bending, buckling, and vibration analysis in viscoelastic functionally graded curved nanobeam embedded in an elastic medium under different boundary conditions is investigated. But the authors focus on the analysis of bending and buckling.
Abstract: This article investigates bending, buckling, and vibration analysis in viscoelastic functionally graded curved nanobeam embedded in an elastic medium under different boundary conditions. The stress...
TL;DR: A dual planetary gear hybrid electric vehicle is introduced in the paper and the proposed optimal energy management strategy can optimize the operation points of the engine.
Abstract: A dual planetary gear hybrid electric vehicle is introduced in the paper. The speed and torque relations between different components of the power split hybrid system are systematically established...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the three-dimensional flow of heat and mass transport of carbon nanotube-based nanoliquid over a rotating stretchable disk, where a uniform magnetic field B0 was applied.
Abstract: In this article, we have examined the three-dimensional flow of heat and mass transport of carbon nanotube–based nanoliquid over a rotating stretchable disk. A uniform magnetic field B0 is applied ...
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of a magnetic field on a generalized viscous fluid model with double convection was studied, due to simultaneous effects of heat and mass transfer induced by temperatu...
Abstract: In this article, the influence of a magnetic field is studied on a generalized viscous fluid model with double convection, due to simultaneous effects of heat and mass transfer induced by temperatu...
TL;DR: The findings imply that for the female soccer players, the risk of injury can be higher in the non-dominant than in the dominant leg during unilateral dynamic movements.
Abstract: This study aims to determine the effects of asymmetry on kinematics, kinetics, and changes in the center of pressure of the dominant and non-dominant legs during single-leg landings in female athle...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed to attach a winglet at the tip of the turbine blade to reduce the effect of vortex flow at torsion point of the wind turbine.
Abstract: One of the recent methods to improve the performance of horizontal axis wind turbine is to attach a winglet at the tip of the blade of these turbines. Winglets reduce the effect of vortex flow at t...
TL;DR: The two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic unsteady movement and transmission of energy confined to finite domain layer of the second-grade nanofluid embedded with graphene nanoparticles on an expandable manifold is described in this paper.
Abstract: The two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic unsteady movement and transmission of energy confined to finite domain layer of the second-grade nanofluid embedded with graphene nanoparticles on an expandi...
TL;DR: A smart design performance measurement approach can support design team members in improving their collaborative design performance and can potentially support a smart product design project management via its performance management.
Abstract: Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, focuses on intelligent and smart manufacturing. This article investigates a smart design performance measurement approach, which can be utilized to s...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic steady incompressible viscous power law nanofluid comprising gyrotactic microorganisms adjacent to a vertical stretching sheet.
Abstract: This article, describes two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic steady incompressible viscous power law nanofluid comprising gyrotactic microorganisms adjacent to a vertical stretching sheet. The gover...
TL;DR: The results show that the accident site, accident type and presence of a median divider are important factors that affect the severity of night-time vehicle accidents under low illumination conditions.
Abstract: Night-time vehicle accidents under low illumination conditions are frequent and serious, and they have attracted widespread attention The objective of this study was to explore how various factors
TL;DR: In this paper, the dynamics of the bacterial disease tuberculosis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, through a mathematical model was addressed. In this work, the latent compartment is divided into slow an...
Abstract: This article addresses the dynamics of the bacterial disease tuberculosis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, through a mathematical model. In this work, the latent compartment is divided into slow an...