07/04/2015 -
Bridges are essential components of transportation systems. The bidding process is the main determinant of whether a contractor is commissioned to complete a construction project. Therefore,...
26/11/2008 -
The ability over the course of a construction project to make reliable predictions regarding cash flows enhances project cost management. This paper uses artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to...
15/12/2022 -
In recent years, the energy industry based on energy resources has achieved rapid development, but under the background of green development strategy, traditional energy companies are also in...
24/05/2020 -
Experts from industry and academics have highlighted Additive Manufacturing (AM) as a technology that is revolutionizing manufacturing. AM is a process that consists of creating a...
07/07/2021 -
Within the last years, digital light processing (DLP) became a viable solution for the manufacturing of end-use parts in various industries among other additive manufacturing (AM) processes. As...
17/05/2020 -
Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is a fusion- and wire-based additive manufacturing technology which has gained industrial interest for the production of medium-to-large components with high...
01/11/2019 -
The paper presents a cost model to evaluate the economic impact of defects and process instability in metal Additive Manufacturing (AM). The proposed model formulation adopts the main framework of...
11/06/2021 -
The energy sector currently faces growing challenges related to increasing demand, efficiency, a lack of analytics required for optimal management, and changing supply and demand patterns....
01/10/2021 -
The growing Artificial Intelligence (AI) age has been flooded with several innovations in algorithmic machine learning that may bring significant impacts to industries such as healthcare,...
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Energy shortage, greenhouse effect and environmental pollution are the three major crises faced by mankind. How to solve these three problems effectively has become the focus of all countries....
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Large-scale polymeric additive manufacturing (AM) is emerging as a method for producing prototype tooling in the aerospace industry. However, material options for oven/autoclave-capable tooling are...
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3D printing of hydrogels is currently limited to triaxial printers that have inherent disadvantages like being optimized for planar print substrates, limitations in surface quality, and the need for...
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Extrusion-based 3D printing is often performed using a single ink or switching between two or more inks. The ability to create compositional variation in-situ by rapid mixing of two different inks...
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During sintering two solids bond together and reduce the total surface to minimize their interfacial energy. It is an important phenomenon in many processes, including 3D printing, where the...
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The thermomechanical properties of particle-reinforced metal matrix composites (MMCs) are attractive for many structural applications, but fabrication of MMC parts with conventional methods is...
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While the potential application of 3D-printed polymers is remarkable because of the favorable mechanical properties of these materials and their feasibility for producing customized structural...
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Electrochemical additive manufacturing (ECAM) based on electrochemical deposition (ECD) has been increasingly used, owing to its inspiring capacities of fabricating void-free and crack-free...
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It is widely known that the coarse columnar grains and grain boundary α phases are inevitably formed during the wire-based additive manufacturing (AM) process, which usually lead to the performance...
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Electron beam powder bed fusion (EB-PBF) uses electron beams as the heat source to melt the powder layer by layer and produces parts with complex shapes. The power of the electron beam, which is...
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Wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) was used to fabricate 304 L stainless steel plates for the purpose of characterizing texture and anisotropic behavior in the as-built parts, followed by...
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The segmentation of concrete aggregates in sedimentation images plays a significant role in evaluating the particle distribution and stability properties. To address the limitations of traditional...