Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
J. David Jimenez-Vicaria, M. Dolores Gomez-Pulido, Daniel Castro-Fresno
Summary: A finite element analysis was conducted on the stringer-floor beam connection of a 19th-century riveted railway bridge in Spain, leading to the development of an innovative strengthening system using CFRP angles to prevent fatigue crack initiation. Experimental and numerical evaluations confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed CFRP strengthening method in increasing the fatigue life of the connection.
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
John Leander
Summary: The replacement of an existing steel railway bridge in Sweden provided an opportunity to fatigue test connections with a long history of in-service loading. The gusset plates welded to the flange edge of I beams, which were deemed exhausted theoretically, were cut out from the bridge and tested. The compressive stresses were found to have an influence on the fatigue endurance, and a correction function was derived to increase the fatigue life for similar details in other existing steel structures.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Samira Ardani, Saeed Eftekhar Azam, Daniel G. G. Linzell
Summary: Transfer Learning (TL) is used in structural health monitoring to generalize trained knowledge for damage identification of similar structures, reducing computational cost. This study focuses on developing and examining the effectiveness of TL in transferring knowledge about damage states from one structure to another. Proper Orthogonal Modes (POMs) and Machine Learning (ML) are used for damage identification in structural systems.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Patrick H. Fleming
Summary: A full-scale field-testing program was conducted to investigate the stringer connections of a historical Model 1936 Swiss military bridge. The aim was to clarify modeling uncertainties and enable a standard fatigue analysis. The results showed that the stress range in the bridge's stringer connections complied with the prescribed fatigue limits, indicating the bridge's design and connections have good safety and performance.
JOURNAL OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jozef Gocal, Josef Vican, Jozef Jost
Summary: Steel girder bridges with member decks are commonly used and often suffer fatigue degradation. Fatigue cracks in the web of the stringer at the connection to the cross girder are typical on steel riveted bridges. This article analyzes the bending stiffness of the connection and the fatigue resistance in accordance with European standards.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Acoustics
L. V. Pereira, T. G. Ritto
Summary: This study combines POD and SOD to identify rub-impact faults in gas turbines, showing that both methods can effectively recognize pattern changes. The proposed methodology can monitor the evolution of modal component patterns and support engineers in decision-making.
JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Marine
Zihao Wang, Guiyong Zhang, Huakun Huang, Hao Xu, Tiezhi Sun
Summary: This paper proposes the use of Joint POD (JPOD) as a promising fluid mechanics analysis tool to extract multi-variable features of cavitation flow. JPOD increases the reconstruction error slightly but strengthens the correlations between multivariate variables in the flow field. The successful combination of joint representation and POD algorithm demonstrates its potential as an optimization and standardization method for traditional modal decomposition algorithms, with broad application prospects in the field of modal decomposition.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
A. B. Albidah, W. Brevis, V. Fedun, I. Ballai, D. B. Jess, M. Stangalini, J. Higham, G. Verth
Summary: The study demonstrates the successful identification of sausage and kink modes in a sunspot umbra using a combination of POD and DMD techniques, providing new insights into solar observations.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Acoustics
Michael A. Marshall
Summary: This study aims to clarify the conditions under which the POMs of a linear, undamped, and unforced mechanical system converge to the system's LVMs. It provides a rigorous proof of convergence that shows increasing both the sampling rate and the duration of the sampling is necessary, rather than just increasing the sampling rate.
JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION
(2023)
Article
Mechanics
Marc Olbrich, Markus Baer, Kilian Oberleithner, Sonja Schmelter
Summary: This study investigates different cases of slug flow in horizontal pipes to find statistical characteristics of the slugs in time and space, including slug frequencies, averaged slug body length, and an energy representation. The use of snapshot proper orthogonal decomposition with an additional mode coupling algorithm provides accurate and reliable characterization of the slug flow patterns.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Wei Zhou, Y. F. Xu
Summary: This study investigates the use of Proper Orthogonal Modes (POMs) of guided wavefields for damage identification in beam-like structures. The continuous wavelet transform is employed to enhance local anomalies and suppress global trends, and an adaptive truncation technique is used to determine significant POMs for damage identification. Numerical and experimental investigations verify the accuracy and noise-robustness of the proposed method for identifying the location and extent of damage in beam-like structures.
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Emmanuel Akintunde, Saeed Eftekhar Azam, Daniel G. Linzell
Summary: Metal fatigue is a significant concern in civil, mechanical, and offshore structures. This study investigates the use of a data-driven Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method for strain estimation on an operational railroad bridge, utilizing machine learning techniques to improve accuracy.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Akhil Nekkanti, Oliver T. Schmidt
Summary: An algorithm based on spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) is developed to reconstruct flow data in compromised or missing regions. The algorithm utilizes the temporal and spatial correlation of the SPOD modes to fill in the gaps. The method is demonstrated on two examples and achieves higher data recovery rates compared to established methods.
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Elizabeth H. Krath, Forrest L. Carpenter, Paul G. A. Cizmas, David A. Johnston
Summary: This study introduces a novel, more efficient reduced-order model for compressible flows based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). By using specific volume instead of density, the coefficients of the system of ODEs in the reduced-order model were pre-computed. Various methods were used to enhance ODE solver stability. Validation was done for two cases, showing a speedup exceeding four orders of magnitude compared to the full-order model.
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Hossein Heydarinouri, Alain Nussbaumer, Masoud Motavalli, Elyas Ghafoori
Summary: This study introduced a new retrofit system utilizing prestressed carbon fiber-reinforced polymer rods for strengthening the stringer-to-floor-beam connections in a riveted railway bridge, reducing stresses and deformation while minimizing interference with bridge traffic. The system showed significant reduction in stress levels and maintained prestress over a seven-month monitoring period, proving its effectiveness in improving the structural performance of the bridge connection.
JOURNAL OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Chuanbing ''Shawn'' Sun, Daniel G. Linzell, Jay A. Puckett, Emmanuel Akintunde, Ahmed Rageh
Summary: This article discusses the issues with some bridges in Louisiana built in the 1950s and 1960s, specifically the lateral torsional buckling of continuous beams in the negative moment region. The current load rating methods underestimate the flexural strength of bridges with noncomposite decks, leading to potentially unnecessary and costly rehabilitation or replacement. A new approach for rating continuous beams by accurately representing moment gradients is proposed based on experimental studies.
JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ahmed Rageh, C. Shawn Sun, Daniel G. Linzell, Jay A. Puckett
Summary: This article summarizes a series of large-scale tests on a grillage system and provides reduced data. The tests were conducted to study the behavior and limit states of steel bridge floor systems and improve load-rating calculations for longitudinal members (stringers). Various parameters, such as stringer unbraced lengths, bracing types, load locations, and support conditions, were investigated in the tests.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, Zihao Liu, Saeed Eftekhar Azam, Daniel Dias-da-Costa
Summary: This paper proposes a linear recursive Bayesian filter, named universal filter (UF), for joint input and state estimation of structural systems. The UF can estimate unknown inputs without assuming any fictitious input model or statistics, and is applicable to systems with and without direct feedthrough, including systems with a rank-deficient feedforward matrix. The UF outperforms the augmented Kalman filter (AKF) and does not require tuning of hyperparameters for inputs.
COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Samira Ardani, Saeed Eftekhar Azam, Daniel G. G. Linzell
Summary: Transfer Learning (TL) is used in structural health monitoring to generalize trained knowledge for damage identification of similar structures, reducing computational cost. This study focuses on developing and examining the effectiveness of TL in transferring knowledge about damage states from one structure to another. Proper Orthogonal Modes (POMs) and Machine Learning (ML) are used for damage identification in structural systems.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Tiago Vicentini Ferreira do Valle, Stefano Mariani, Aldo Ghisi, Biagio De Masi, Francesco Rizzini, Gabriele Gattere, Carlo Valzasina
Summary: This paper focuses on the out-of-plane tensile strength of columnar polysilicon and investigates it through a combination of on-chip testing and finite element analyses. The experiments utilize static loading to test the stopper, using electrostatic actuation to move a massive shuttle against it until failure. The observed failure mechanism is captured by numerical simulations, and the data is interpreted using the Weibull theory, leading to an estimated reference out-of-plane strength of polysilicon of approximately 2.8-3.0 GPa, consistent with other literature results.
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Matteo Torzoni, Andrea Manzoni, Stefano Mariani
Summary: This study proposes a non-intrusive surrogate modeling strategy for real-time structural health monitoring. By using a multi-fidelity framework, datasets characterized by different fidelity levels are blended to alleviate the computational burden of supervised training while ensuring accuracy. The resulting surrogate model provides remarkably accurate approximations.
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Zhandong Yuan, Shengyang Zhu, Stefano Mariani, Qinglai Zhang, Jiang Wu, Wanming Zhai
Summary: This study proposes a multi-strategy-based domain adaptation method for cross-domain damage detection and localization of steel-spring vibration isolators. The method incorporates domain adversarial training and feature distribution discrepancy regularization. The advantage of the proposed method is that it only requires labeled data from the source domain and does not need labeled data related to the real structure for model training. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated using an experimental dataset collected during field tests.
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Geological
Filippo Gatti, Luca Rosafalco, Giorgia Colombera, Stefano Mariani, Alberto Corigliano
Summary: This paper uses adversarial learning technique to generate the transient dynamic response of shear type multi-storey buildings under earthquake ground motion, starting from the relevant undamaged responses. The proposed methodology enables damage classification in shear-type multi-storey buildings and can successfully detect and assess different damage severity levels.
SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Gianluca Mezzanzanica, Olivier Francais, Stefano Mariani
Summary: Size sorting, line focusing, and isolation of microparticles or cells are essential for disease diagnostic tools in biology and biomedicine. This paper presents a finite element model of a microfluidic surface acoustic wave-based device for microparticle manipulation. Acoustic waves are used to create a standing surface acoustic wave in a microchannel, allowing for non-contact manipulation. The effects of microchannel size on microparticle actuation are discussed using sensitivity analysis and exemplary results.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Daniel Calegaro, Stefano Mariani
Summary: Periodic elastic metamaterials have the ability to block the transmission of elastic waves, creating band gaps. By using active materials, the band gaps can be actively adjusted in real-time, making use of piezoelectricity and instability-induced pattern transformation.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Emmanuel Akintunde, Saeed Eftekhar Azam, Daniel G. Linzell
Summary: Metal fatigue is a significant concern in civil, mechanical, and offshore structures. This study investigates the use of a data-driven Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method for strain estimation on an operational railroad bridge, utilizing machine learning techniques to improve accuracy.
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Civil
Alireza Entezami, Stefano Mariani, Hashem Shariatmadar
Summary: This paper proposes a multi-stage machine learning method using autoregressive spectra as damage-sensitive features for structural health monitoring. The method successfully addresses the technical and economic challenges of deploying sensor networks over civil structures, and shows promising results in early damage detection under environmental variability.
EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (EWSHM 2022), VOL 2
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Civil
Matteo Torzoni, Andrea Manzoni, Stefano Mariani
Summary: This paper presents a methodology for reliable real-time structural health monitoring using a multi-fidelity deep neural network. The proposed approach is able to accurately locate and quantify damage, and can effectively combine datasets with different fidelities without prior assumptions. It provides numerous advantages over single-fidelity based models for structural health monitoring purposes.
EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (EWSHM 2022), VOL 2
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Roberto Casadei, Stefano Mariani, Danilo Pianini, Mirko Viroli, Franco Zambonelli
Summary: The paper proposes a distributed coordination strategy for spatial estimation through collaborative adaptive sampling. It dynamically partitions space into regions that compete and adapt to pressure forces exerted by the underlying phenomenon, providing an accurate aggregate sampling.
COORDINATION MODELS AND LANGUAGES
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Biophysics
Jose Pablo Quesada-Molina, Stefano Mariani
Summary: This paper proposes a data-driven multiscale modeling framework for polysilicon micro electromechanical systems, where a tiny convolutional neural network learns the morphological features of the polycrystalline structural film to provide size-dependent solutions, and a neural network-based model learns the effects of microfabrication defects on the performance indices of the entire device.
2022 23RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMAL, MECHANICAL AND MULTI-PHYSICS SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTS IN MICROELECTRONICS AND MICROSYSTEMS (EUROSIME)
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Miloslav Kepka, Miloslav Kepka Jr, Radovan Minich
Summary: This paper focuses on the fatigue life evaluation of the bodywork of a new articulated electric (battery) bus. The findings resulted in recommendations to improve the operational reliability of a particular vehicle and provided challenges for future research.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
T. Dusautoir, B. Berthel, S. Fouvry, P. Matzen, K-D. Meck
Summary: This study investigates the impact of post-processing treatments on the fatigue limit of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V under stress gradients, with a focus on surface integrity.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Zhuofan Xia, Di Wu, Xiaochen Zhang, Jianqiu Wang, En -Hou Han
Summary: The study reveals the surface-initiated rolling contact fatigue (RCF) failure mechanism under heavy load and initial high roughness surface. The results indicate that precursor of collapsed morphology and nanocrystalline layer are the main factors causing lower RCF life with high roughness compared to low roughness surfaces. The spalling failure initiating from low roughness surface under heavy load is strongly dependent on surface plastic deformation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Daniel Gren, Knut Andreas Meyer
Summary: Rolling contact loading can cause plastic deformation and fatigue cracks. Current rail standards do not consider the effect of plasticity on mechanical behavior. This study proposes a new method for evaluating the fatigue life of deformed material and finds that superimposed compressive axial loads can increase fatigue life.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
R. Kumar, S. Sanyal, J. Bhagyaraj, E. Hari Krishna, S. Mukherjee, K. Prasad, S. Mandal
Summary: This study investigates the thermomechanical fatigue (TMF) behavior of Timetal 834 alloy under different loading conditions. The results show that the alloy exhibits different cyclic hardening and softening responses at different strain amplitudes. The strain amplitude and phase angle have significant effects on the TMF life.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Kai Donnerbauer, Tobias Bill, Peter Starke, Ruth Acosta, Bharath Yerrapa, Christian Boller, Klaus Heckmann, Frank Walther
Summary: Given the aging of nuclear power plants, it is important to develop methods for evaluating the integrity of components and structures in nuclear engineering. Suitable nondestructive testing methods can detect material degradation and determine its fatigue life. This study utilized various NDT parameters and scanning electron microscopic methods to explore the relationship between microstructure evolution and NDT data.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Liuyong He, Jiang Zheng, Tianjiao Li, Houkun Zhou, Lihong Xia, Bin Jiang
Summary: This study quantitatively analyzed the effects of precipitates on the deformation mode, cracking mode, and mechanical behavior of WE54 magnesium alloy during low-cycle fatigue. It was found that precipitates promoted the activation of dislocation slip and suppressed the activation of twinning, affecting the cracking mode and mechanical behavior.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Xiangkang Zeng, Conghui Zhang, Wenguang Zhu, Mingliang Zhu, Tongguang Zhai, Xiaomei He, Kangkai Song, Zhuohang Xie
Summary: The cyclic deformation behaviors and damage mechanisms of pure Zr were investigated. The cyclic stress response was mainly influenced by substructure evolutions. Prismatic < a > dislocation slip was identified as the dominant deformation mechanism. Fatigue damage was not only influenced by the initial texture, but also other factors.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Jingyu Yang, Bingbing Li, Yiming Zheng, Gang Chen, Xu Chen
Summary: Heat treatment is used to improve the low-cycle fatigue performance of additive manufactured 316LN stainless steel. The heat-treated material demonstrates initially cyclic hardening followed by softening behavior, and shows a stronger resistance to crack propagation compared to the as-built material, resulting in a longer fatigue life.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Lang Zou, Dongfang Zeng, Xiong Chen, Jun Li, Hai Zhao, Liantao Lu
Summary: This study investigates the competitive relationship between fretting fatigue and plain fatigue in press-fitted railway axles. By changing the depth of the stress relief groove, the plain fatigue limit and fretting fatigue strength were tested. Detailed information was gathered, and an evaluation methodology integrating finite element simulation and the Modified Wohler Curve Method was established. The study concludes that the optimal groove depth, which balances the anti-fatigue capabilities, depends on the number of test cycles.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Davide Leonetti, Koji Kinoshita, Yukina Takai, Alain Nussbaumer
Summary: This paper investigates the fatigue behavior of non-load-carrying transverse welded steel attachments, including fatigue crack monitoring and fracture surface analysis under constant and variable amplitude loading. A procedure is proposed to obtain a Markov transition matrix based on the measured strain signal and to randomly resample the stress history for variable amplitude fatigue tests.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Zhe Zhang, Bing Yang, Yuedong Wang, Shoune Xiao
Summary: This paper presents a method for designing fatigue life prediction models with small sample sizes by handling limited sample data. The method integrates the equivalent structural stress method with the maximum likelihood estimation method and adds reliability verification, resulting in enhanced goodness of fit, stability, and optimized sample quantity.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Cooper K. Hansen, Gary F. Whelan, Jacob D. Hochhalter
Summary: This paper presents a method to address the computational demand issue of computing FIPs using CPFEM by developing an interpretable machine learning model. Genetic programming is used to evolve interpretable expressions of FIPs from microstructure features, and these models can serve as efficient substitutes for CPFEM and be easily integrated into engineering workflows.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Luca Susmel
Summary: This paper discusses the problem of estimating notch fatigue limits using machine learning. The results show that machine learning is a promising approach for designing notched components against fatigue. The accuracy in estimating the fatigue limit can be increased by increasing the size and quality of the calibration dataset, as well as including additional input features.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Kefeng Gao, Guoqi Tan, Yanyan Liu, Qiang Wang, Qian Tang, Xuegang Wang, Qiqiang Duan, Zengqian Liu, Zhe Yi, Zhefeng Zhang
Summary: Bioinspired architectures have significant effects on material enhancement. This study investigates the fatigue properties of bioinspired ceramic-polymer composites and natural nacre, revealing the close relationship between architectural types, orientations, fatigue performance, and damage mechanisms.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
(2024)