Mechanical Engineering

Physics-Guided Fatigue Life Prediction of Welds Achieves Sound Accuracy

Significance  Reference Liu, Yu‐Ke & Chen, Yu‐Hao & Lu, Wen-Qing & Zhu, Ming-Liang & Xuan, Fu-Zhen. (2025). Fatigue Life Prediction of GH4169 Alloy with Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Images, Average Strain, and Damage Fraction. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures. 48. 5064-5078. 10.1111/ffe.70082.

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Shell-Mold Additive Manufacturing with Injection-Filled Cores

Significance    Reference Zexin Wang, Shilin Wang, Jiawei Zhu, Xiang Cheng, Ranran Jian, Injection-based additive manufacturing by shell-mold printing and core filling: A hybrid printing-injection approach, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Volume 165, 2026, Pages 484-500.

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Dynamic Coupling Through the Rolling Deformation Zone in CSP Mills

Significance  Reference Zhang, Yifang & Wan, Yiwei & Yan, Huiwei & He, Cheng & Cui, Li & Ding, Xu & Chen, Tianyi & Wan, Pingye. (2025). Research on Vertical-Torsional Coupling Closed-Loop Dynamics Model of Compact Strip Production Rolling Mills. International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing. 26. 10.1007/s12541-025-01269-8.

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Configuration-dependent loading in liquid-filled tensioned membranes

Significance  Fig. 1. Configurations of the membrane–liquid interaction. (a) The classical model. (b) Membrane prevails type: The deformed liquid level is above the bottom. (c) Equipoise type: The deformed liquid level is flush with the bottom. (d) Liquid prevails type: The deformed liquid level is below the bottom.   Fig. 2. Experimental observations and the theoretical predictions of the classical …

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Controlled Oblique Cutting for 3D Blazed Nano-Gratings

Significance  Reference Changcheng Lin, Qinghou Cheng, Yingxue Yao, Yang Yang, Deterministic texturing of blazed nano-gratings with fully controlled 3D topography via oblique vibration-assisted diamond cutting, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Volume 346, 2025, 119123,

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Real-Time Vision Calibration for Industrial Robots

Significance    Reference Zhouxiang Jiang, Ruoheng Ding, Yuxuan Liu, Zhongjie Long, Bao Song, Vision-based and real-time calibration of industrial robot by using deep learning and dimension-reduced models, Precision Engineering, Volume 96, 2025, Pages 192-211,

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