Abstract: Residual stress of a welding joint based on finite element simulation was predicted to gain popularity in the process equipment industry. As for the nuclear power industry, the weldment located in a primary coolant system ...

Abstract: After the Wenchuan earthquake, frequent debris-flow disasters caused catastrophic damage to the infrastructures and inhabitants in the downstream. It is very important to properly determine the runout distances of debris ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC) strategy for constrained continuoustime nonlinear systems coupled through their cost functions. In the proposed technique, all the subsystems receive ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a multistage suboptimal model predictive control (MPC) strategy which can reduce the prediction horizon without compromising the stability property. The proposed multistage MPC requires a precomputed ...

Abstract: Tubes with enhanced surfaces usually have high boiling heat transfer coefficients which can greatly improve the heat transfer performance under the condition of pool nucleate boiling. In this paper, the boiling heat transfer ...

Abstract: or sparse planting crops, soil surface plays an important role in energy balances processes within the soil-canopy-atmosphere continuum, thus it?s necessary to partition field energy fluxes into soil surface and canopy, ...

Abstract: Excessive ratcheting deformation is a typical failure mode of pressurized pipeline under repeated loads in practice. There are still very few studies regarding the analytical ratcheting limits of pressurized pipes subjected ...

Abstract: The analytical pretightening force range of flange joints in a pipeline was deduced based on the allowable gasket stress and flange rotation angle considering the nonlinear compression resilience behavior of gaskets. ...