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In this paper, the potential for obtaining such high performing nanocrystals from low-cost lignocellulosic by-products or raw materials is proved by a comparison study on CNCs obtained both from cotton linters and kraft pulp, by means of the ammonium persulfate (APS) process. Morphological and chemical characterization of the nanocrystals obtained, as well as the main functional properties of the poly(ethylene terephthalate) coated films, showed quite similar characteristics and performances of CNCs obtained from pure cellulose raw material (cotton linters) and the nanoparticles produced from a potential discard of paper making processes (kraft pulp). In particular, the gas barrier properties of the coating produced with CNCs obtained from kraft pulp were very promising, providing oxygen and carbon dioxide permeability values hundreds of times lower than those of equal thickness in comparison with common barrier synthetic polymers, over a broad range of temperatures. The results obtained are relevant not only for the outstanding performances achieved, but also because they evoke a possible positive example of industrial symbiosis in the packaging field, merging together the requirements and needs of the paper and plastic industries and addressing the way towards a better management of waste and materials. 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Three types of clustered particles were designed to represent irregular particles featuring various sphericities. The extreme porosities of granular materials composed of various clustered particles were affected by particle sphericity. Moreover, five specimens consisting of differently oriented particles were prepared to study the effect of initial fabric. A series of interface shear tests featuring varying interface roughnesses were carried out using three-dimensional (3D) DEM simulations. The macro-response showed that the shear strength of the interface increased as particle sphericity decreased, while stress softening and dilatancy were easily observed during the shearing. From the particle-scale analysis, it was found that the thickness of the localized band was affected by the interface roughness, the normal stress and the initial fabric while independent of the particle sphericity. The thickness generally ranged between 4 and 6 times that of the median particle equivalent diameter. A thicker localized band was formed in the case of rougher interface and in soil composed of inclined placed and randomly placed particles. The coordination number measured in the interface zone and upper zone suggested that the dilation mostly occurs inside the ud interface zone. Anisotropy was induced by the interface shearing of the initial isotropic specimens. The direction of shearinduced anisotropy correlates with the shearing direction. The evolutions of anisotropies for the anisotropic specimens depend on the initial fabric.", "keywords": ["Interface roughness", "Soil-structural interface", "TA", "0203 mechanical engineering", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Initial fabric", "02 engineering and technology", "Particle sphericity effect", "Discrete element method"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/149220/7/WRAP-Effects-particle-sphericity-initial-fabric-shearing-behavior-soil2-rough-structural-2021.pdf"}, {"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11440-019-00781-2.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-019-00781-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Acta%20Geotechnica", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11440-019-00781-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11440-019-00781-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11440-019-00781-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-02-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s40091-018-0199-8", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:15:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-05", "title": "Exact finite element formulation in generalized beam theory", "description": "This paper presents the formulation of exact stiffness matrices applied in linear generalized beam theory (GBT) under constant and/or linear loading distribution in the longitudinal direction. Also, the assortment of the correct exact stiffness matrix and the corresponding shape function are presented based on main transversal deformation mode, which can be divided into: (1) dominant distortion mode; (2) dominant torsion mode; (3) and critical distortion\u2013torsion mode. Special attention is given to the hyperbolic\u2013trigonometric shape functions, which are organized in a system of vector in function of longitudinal direction and a coefficient matrix obtained from the completeness requirement. This approach has the benefit of compacting the terms of the stiffness matrix and systematizing the boundary conditions of an element by applying the completeness coefficient matrix as a transformation matrix. As a result, in linear analysis, a single element can represent the stress and displacement fields. Moreover, due to the higher-order continuous derivatives properties of hyperbolic\u2013trigonometric shape functions, the generalized internal shear is obtained without the typical discontinuity of Hermitian shape functions. A full and detailed example, applied in a thin-walled circular hollow cross section, provides not only an illustration of the presented approach, but also a quick introduction point in GBT.", "keywords": ["0203 mechanical engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "0201 civil engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40091-018-0199-8.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s40091-018-0199-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/International%20Journal%20of%20Advanced%20Structural%20Engineering", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s40091-018-0199-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s40091-018-0199-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s40091-018-0199-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s40962-016-0099-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:15:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-10-21", "title": "Development of Lead-Free Bronze with Sulfide Dispersion for Sliding Applications", "description": "Cu alloys such as bronze have long been used as bearing materials because of their good run-in properties for steels used as mating materials. These Cu alloys are also suitable for various applications: High-strength brass castings and phosphorus bronze castings are used for their ability to obtain higher strengths, whereas Pb\u2013bronze castings are used for anti-seizure applications. To prevent scoring and seizure, base materials such as Cu alloys were often combined with a solid lubricant. In this study, the tribological properties of sulfide-dispersed bronze were investigated. Friction tests were conducted under dry conditions for bronze with/without sulfides. It was found that seizure was prevented in sulfide\u2013bronze systems only under certain test conditions. It was estimated that the dispersed sulfide restricted the transfer of the Cu alloy elements to the mating steel surface. Moreover, the addition of Si to a Cu\u2013Fe\u2013S system and to sulfide-dispersed bronze resulted in crystallization of Fe\u2013Si compounds. The hardness and anti-wear properties of the compounds were also improved.", "keywords": ["0203 mechanical engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "0210 nano-technology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s40962-016-0099-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/International%20Journal%20of%20Metalcasting", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s40962-016-0099-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s40962-016-0099-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s40962-016-0099-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-10-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/0021-8928(86)90019-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:15:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-03-15", "title": "The use of the method of averaging to study non-linear oscillations of the celtic stone", "description": "The approximate solution of the equations of the perturbed motion of a celtic stone near its position of equilibrium is used for a qualitative and quantitative explanation of the following effect established by numerical integration of the complete equations. If the celtic stone is rotated about the vertical axis in a specified direction, then after a fairly short time it ceases to rotate, begins to oscillate about the horizontal axis, and then resumes its rotation in the opposite direction. For some of the models of the celtic stone the change in the direction of rotation may occur more than once.", "keywords": ["0203 mechanical engineering", "0103 physical sciences", "Motion of the gyroscope", "numerical integration", "celtic stone", "02 engineering and technology", "Kinematics of mechanisms and robots", "perturbed motion", "equilibrium", "01 natural sciences", "approximate solution"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Paskal, M.", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8928(86)90019-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Applied%20Mathematics%20and%20Mechanics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/0021-8928(86)90019-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/0021-8928(86)90019-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/0021-8928(86)90019-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1986-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.07.046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:15:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-08-21", "title": "Experimental study of moisture content effects on the transient gas and particle emissions from peat fires", "description": "Abstract   Peat fires are a global-scale source of carbon emissions and a leading cause of regional air quality deterioration, especially in Southeast Asia. The ignition and spread of peat fires are strongly affected by moisture, which acts as an energy sink. However, moisture effects on peat fire emissions are poorly understood in the literature. Here we present the first experimental work to investigate transient gas and particle emissions for a wide range of peat moisture contents (MCs). We include drying, ignition, smouldering spread, and even flaming stages. Peat samples conditioned to different MCs were burnt in the laboratory where a suite of diagnostics simultaneously measured mass loss rate, temperature profiles, real-time concentration of 20 gas species, and size-fractioned particle mass. It was found that MC affects emissions, in addition to peat burning dynamics. An increase in MC below a smouldering threshold of 160% in dry basis leads to a decrease in NH3 and greenhouse gas emissions, including CO2 and CH4. The burning of wet peat emits more coarse particles (between 1 and 10\u00a0\u00b5m) than dry peat, especially during the ignition stage. In contrast, flaming stage emits mostly soot particles less than 1\u00a0\u00b5m, and releases 100% more fully oxidised gas species including CO2, NO2 and SO2 than smouldering. The examination of the resulting modified combustion efficiency (MCE) reveals that it fails to recongnise smouldering combustion with sufficient accuracy, especially for wet peat with MC\u00a0>\u00a0120%. MCE confuses drying and flaming, and has significant variations during the ignition stage. As a result, MCE is not valid as a universal fire mode indicator used in the field. This work fills the knowledge gap between moisture and emissions, and provides a better understanding which can help mitigate peat fires.", "keywords": ["Energy", "biomass", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "624", "Wildfire", "15. 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Fundamental understanding of smouldering fire spread is essential for the development of mitigating technologies. In this paper, we have systematically conducted 63 experiments studying the individual and combined influence of two key factors affecting multidimensional smouldering spread in organic soils: moisture content (MC) and inorganic content (IC). Both lateral and in-depth smouldering spread were investigated using a novel shallow reactor. This shallow depth allows a greater number of experiments to be performed in a short period of time compared to deeper samples. Lateral spread was found to decrease linearly with moisture content (R2 > 90%); while in-depth spread rate increased linearly up to 300% from moisture content of 0% to 140%. Increased inorganic content linearly decreased the lateral spread rate but had little influence on in-depth spread in drier samples. Interestingly, in wetter samples, in-depth spread was in fact sensitive to inorganic content. A novel approach combining lateral and in-depth spread rates as vector components, revealed that the global spread is independent of moisture content, with an average spread rate of 8.7 and 8.4\u00a0cm/h for 2.5 and 40% IC, with changes in direction according to moisture content; going in-depth for wet soils, and laterally for dry soils. Similarly, increasing the IC encouraged downward spread for wet samples. We also report observations of a bifurcation of lateral spread, where spread would locally extinguish where the in-depth spread was greater than the lateral spread. These findings provide previously unknown insight into the relationship between lateral and in-depth spread in smouldering fires, ultimately improving the fundamental understanding of such fires.", "keywords": ["Technology", "Engineering", " Chemical", "Energy & Fuels", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "Engineering", " Multidisciplinary", "TRANSIENT GAS", "Chemical", "02 engineering and technology", "Wildfire", "MOISTURE", "0902 Automotive Engineering", "01 natural sciences", "0201 civil engineering", "Engineering", "Smouldering", "Heat transfer", "Biomass", "PEAT FIRES", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Multidisciplinary", "Science & Technology", "Energy", "CONSUMPTION", "15. Life on land", "Mechanical", "Fire", "Engineering", " Mechanical", "IGNITION", "13. 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Despite their importance, smouldering fires are poorly understood. An experimental study was carried out here to measure the spread rate of peat fire in detail, using infrared (IR) imaging. Peat samples with different moisture contents were prepared and burned in an open reactor of 20\u00a0\u00d7\u00a020\u00a0cm2 cross section and 10\u00a0cm depth, under laboratory-controlled conditions. In total, twelve experiments were studied, each lasting for 8\u00a0h on average. Infrared and visual cameras were synchronised, and images were acquired at a frequency of 1/min, for the duration of the experiment. Profiles of smouldering spread on the free surface of peat were tracked using an image intensity threshold and then used to calculate the horizontal spread rate. Temporally and spatially resolved spread rates are presented and analysed. Increasing the moisture content of the peat resulted in a decrease in spread rate and the smouldering front became increasingly irregular. At high moisture contents, spread at the lower layers of peat is faster compared to top surfaces which leads to formation of overhang, and IR is able to measure the formation of the overhang and its collapse as a step increase in horizontal spread. The overhang becomes more prominent when moisture content is increased. The new tool allows the study of unprecedented details in the spread of peat fires and can be adopted in future experimental studies.", "keywords": ["Energy", "550", "13. Climate action", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "0204 chemical engineering", "15. 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Self-heating ignition has been a hazard and safety concern in raw materials production, transportation, and storage facilities for centuries. Hot plate and oven-basket experiments are the two most used lab-scale experiments to assess the hazard of self-heating ignition. While extensive experiments have been done to study this phenomenon, modelling of the experiments is substantially lagging behind. A computational model that can accurately simulate self-heating ignition under the two experimental configurations has not been developed yet. In this study, we build such a model by coupling heat transfer, mass transfer, and chemistry using the open-source code Gpyro. Due to the accessibility of large amount of experimental data, coal is chosen as the material for model validation. A literature review of the kinetic parameters for coal samples from different origins reveals that there is a compensation effect between the activation energy and exponential factor. Combining the compensation effect with our model, we simulate 6 different experimental studies covering the two experimental configurations, a wide range of sample sizes (heights ranging from 5\u202fmm to 126\u202fmm), and various coal origins (6 countries). The model accurately predicts critical ignition temperature (Tig) for all 24 experiments with an error below 7\u202f\u00b0C. This computational model unifies for the first time the two most used self-heating ignition experiments and provides theoretical insights to understand self-ignition for different fuels under different conditions.", "keywords": ["Technology", "Engineering", " Chemical", "Energy & Fuels", "LOW-TEMPERATURE OXIDATION", "0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "Chemical", "7. 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It is shown that these instabilities (including Hopf bifurcation, flutter, divergence, and destabilizing effects connected to dissipation phenomena) can be obtained in structural systems loaded by conservative forces, as a consequence of the application of non-holonomic constraints. These constraints may be realized through a `perfect skate' (or a non-sliding wheel), or, more in general, through the slipless contact between two circular rigid cylinders, one of which is free of rotating about its axis. The motion of the structure produced by these dynamic instabilities may reach a limit cycle, a feature that can be exploited for soft robotics applications, especially for the realization of limbless locomotion.", "keywords": ["0203 mechanical engineering", "Hopf bifurcation; Non-holonomic constraint; Non-linear structural mechanics", "Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)", "FOS: Physical sciences", "Physics - Classical Physics", "Mathematical Physics (math-ph)", "02 engineering and technology", "0101 mathematics", "01 natural sciences", "Mathematical Physics"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Cazzolli A., Dal Corso F., Bigoni D.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unitn.it/bitstream/11572/255258/1/1-s2.0-S0022509620301551-main%281%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103919"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20the%20Mechanics%20and%20Physics%20of%20Solids", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103919", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103919", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103919"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116599", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:16:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-11-11", "title": "Rayleigh wave propagation in nonlinear metasurfaces", "description": "We investigate the propagation of Rayleigh waves in a half-space coupled to a nonlinear metasurface. The metasurface consists of an array of nonlinear oscillators attached to the free surface of a homogeneous substrate. We describe, analytically and numerically, the effects of nonlinear interaction force and energy loss on the dispersion of Rayleigh waves. We develop closed-form expressions to predict the dispersive characteristics of nonlinear Rayleigh waves by adopting a leading-order effective medium description. In particular, we demonstrate how hardening nonlinearity reduces and eventually eliminates the linear filtering bandwidth of the metasurface. Softening nonlinearity, in contrast, induces lower and broader spectral gaps for weak to moderate strengths of nonlinearity, and narrows and eventually closes the gaps at high strengths of nonlinearity. We also observe the emergence of a spatial gap (in wavenumber) in the in-phase branch of the dispersion curves for softening nonlinearity. Finally, we investigate the interplay between nonlinearity and energy loss and discuss their combined effects on the dispersive properties of the metasurface. Our analytical results, supported by finite element simulations, demonstrate the mechanisms for achieving tunable dispersion characteristics in nonlinear metasurfaces.", "keywords": ["Nonlinear metasurfaces", "0203 mechanical engineering", "FOS: Physical sciences", "Damped waves propagation", "Physics - Applied Physics", "Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)", "02 engineering and technology", "Nonlinear dispersion", "Damped waves propagation; Elastic metamaterials; Nonlinear dispersion; Nonlinear metasurfaces; Rayleigh waves", "Rayleigh waves", "0210 nano-technology", "Elastic metamaterials"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/844088/6/Rayleigh%20wave%20propagation%20in%20nonlinear%20metasurfaces.pdf"}, {"href": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/110071/3/1-s2.0-S0022460X2100612X-main.pdf"}, {"href": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/110071/1/2107.06930.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116599"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Sound%20and%20Vibration", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116599", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116599", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116599"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jterra.2017.01.002", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:16:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-02-02", "title": "DEM simulation of soil-tool interaction under extraterrestrial environmental effects", "description": "In contrast to terrestrial environment, the harsh lunar environment conditions include lower gravity acceleration, ultra-high vacuum and high (low) temperature in the daytime (night-time). This paper focuses on the effects of those mentioned features on soil cutting tests, a simplified excavation test, to reduce the risk of lunar excavation missions. Soil behavior and blade performance were analyzed under different environmental conditions. The results show that: (1) the cutting resistance and the energy consumption increase linearly with the gravity. The bending moment has a bigger increasing rate in low gravity fields due to a decreasing moment arm; (2) the cutting resistance,energy consumption and bending moment increase significantly because of the raised soil strength on the lunar environment, especially in low gravity fields. Under the lunar environment, the proportions of cutting resistance, bending moment and energy consumption due to the effect of the van der Waals forces are significant. Thus, they should be taken into consideration when planning excavations on the Moon. Therefore, considering that the maximum frictional force between the excavator and the lunar surface is proportional to the gravity acceleration, the same excavator that works efficiently on the Earth may not be able to work properly on the Moon.", "keywords": ["\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geot\u00e8cnia::Mec\u00e0nica de s\u00f2ls", "Soil cutting test", "Van der Waals force", "Lunar regolith", "FOS: Physical sciences", "Cutting resistance", "Gravity effect", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter", "7. Clean energy", "620", "Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)", "Physics - Geophysics", "0203 mechanical engineering", "13. 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A common ignition source of smouldering fires in tropical peatlands are intentional flaming fires used to clear surface vegetation. To capture the behaviour of these fires, it is necessary to consider the interaction between flaming vegetation and smouldering peat. However, doing so is infeasible with the state-of-the-art wildfire models, as they do not consider the transition from flaming to smouldering and are computationally too expensive at the field-scale hundreds of hectares. In this work, we overcome these limitations and model both flaming and smouldering at the field-scale using cellular automata: that is a discrete mathematical model that uses simple rules to capture complex behaviour while remaining computationally light. The model was calibrated against existing experiments in the literature and used to predict the effect of peat moisture content on the behaviour of peatland wildfires. The model shows how flaming creates smouldering hotspots and how these hotspots merge \u2013 flaming spreads rapidly, consuming surface vegetation, leaving behind hotspots of smouldering peat which consumes most of the peat. The model was then applied to study a real prescribed fire of 573\u202fha peatland in Borneo in 2015, observed by drone footage. The model captured the spread patterns of the fire and predicted that 2.9\u202fha of peatland burnt after 3 months with 70% peat moisture content (dry-based). This ioutcome could have been reduced to 0.02\u202fha if the peat moisture content had been above 100%. This work improves the fundamental understanding of how peat wildfires spread at the field scale which has received little attention until now.", "keywords": ["Cellular automata", "Technology", "Engineering", " Chemical", "Energy & Fuels", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "Chemical", "0902 Automotive Engineering", "Prescribed fire", "FIRE", "01 natural sciences", "630", "Modelling", "Engineering", "Smouldering", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Science & Technology", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "624", "Peat fire", "15. Life on land", "Mechanical", "Engineering", " Mechanical", "MODEL", "13. Climate action", "Physical Sciences", "Thermodynamics", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "SPREAD", "0913 Mechanical Engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2020.08.052"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20Combustion%20Institute", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.proci.2020.08.052", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.proci.2020.08.052", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.proci.2020.08.052"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.powtec.2020.09.046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:16:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-03-11", "title": "A surface mesh represented discrete element method (SMR-DEM) for particles of arbitrary shape", "description": "<p>A surface mesh represented discrete element method (SMR-DEM) for granular systems with arbitrarily shaped particles is presented. The particle surfaces are approximated using contact nodes obtained from surface mesh. A hybrid contact method which combines the benefits of the sphere-to-sphere and shpere-to-surface approaches is proposed for contact detection and force computation. The simple formulation and implementation render SMR-DEM suitable for threedimensional simulations. Furthermore, GPU parallelization is employed to achieve higher efficiency. Several numerical examples are presented to show the performance of SMR-DEM. It is found that on the particle level the method is accurate and convergent, while on the system level SMR-DEM can effiectively model particle assemblies of various regular and complex irregular shapes.</p>", "keywords": ["Engineering", "engrXiv|Engineering", "0203 mechanical engineering", "bepress|Engineering", "bepress|Engineering|Computational Engineering", "Engineering Science and Materials", "engrXiv|Engineering|Computational Engineering", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Computational Engineering", "engrXiv|Engineering|Engineering Science and Materials", "02 engineering and technology", "bepress|Engineering|Engineering Science and Materials"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2020.09.046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Powder%20Technology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.powtec.2020.09.046", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.powtec.2020.09.046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.powtec.2020.09.046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:16:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-06-21", "title": "Upward-and-downward spread of smoldering peat fire", "description": "Abstract   Smoldering is the dominant combustion process in peat fire, releasing a large amount of carbon and smoke into the atmosphere. The spread of smoldering in peatland is a multi-dimensional process, which is slow, low-temperature, persistent, and difficult to detect. In this work, we investigate the upward spread of peat fire from the underground to the surface after forced ignition which is a relevant configuration but rarely studied. In the experiment, ignition is not possible if the igniter is deeper than 15\u202fcm below the free surface, regardless of moisture content or density. Once ignited, the 1st-stage upward fire spread is initiated towards the free surface (opposed smoldering) with a peak temperature of 300\u202f\u00b0C, leaving behind a char structure that does not collapse. Then, a 2nd-stage downward spread (forward smoldering) is activated with a peak temperature of 600\u202f\u00b0C and regression of free surface. The upward spread is faster than the downward spread. The rates of both upward and downward spread decrease as the peat density or depth is increased. These experimental observations are successfully captured by a 1D computational model of heat and mass transfer with 5-step kinetics. Modelling results further suggest that (1) the oxygen diffusion controls the entire upward-to-downward spread of peat fire, (2) the oxidation of peat sustains the 1st-stage upward spread, and (3) the oxidation of char sustains the 2nd-stage downward spread. This is the first study investigating the upward spread of peat fire, which helps understand the persistence of peat fire and guide the fire prevention and suppression strategies.", "keywords": ["570", "Technology", "Engineering", " Chemical", "Energy & Fuels", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "Density", "Chemical", "02 engineering and technology", "MOISTURE", "0902 Automotive Engineering", "530", "Modelling", "OXYGEN", "0201 civil engineering", "COMBUSTION", "Engineering", "0204 chemical engineering", "Science & Technology", "Critical depth", "ROLES", "Opposed and forward smoldering", "BURN", "Mechanical", "Engineering", " Mechanical", "SOIL", "DENSITY", "Physical Sciences", "DEPTH", "Thermodynamics", "Wildland fire", "0913 Mechanical Engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20Combustion%20Institute", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.proci.2018.06.008", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:16:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-06-22", "title": "Transient gas and particle emissions from smouldering combustion of peat", "description": "Abstract   Smouldering combustion of peat drives the largest fires on Earth, and their emissions play an important role in global carbon balance and regional air quality. Here we report a series of controlled laboratory experiments of peat fires. Peat samples of 100% moisture content in dry basis were burnt in an open-top reactor with dimensions of 20 \u00d7 20 \u00d7 10 cm. The diagnostics are a unique set of simultaneous measurements consisting of real-time mass loss, up to 20 different gas species concentration, size-fractioned particle mass (PM10, PM2.5 and PM1), temperature profile, and visual and infrared imaging. This comprehensive framework of measurements reveals that the evolution of the emissions varies in time with four observed stages (ignition, growth, steady and burn out) which are characterised by different combustion dynamics. Mass flux measurements show that CO2, CO, CH4 and NH3 are the four most predominant gas species emitted in the steady stage. Incorporating the mass loss rate, the transient emission factors (EFm) of both gas and particle species are calculated and reported here for the first time. Averaging the steady stage, the EFm of PM2.5 reached 23.12 g kg\u22121, which accounts for 87.2% of the total particle mass, and PM1 EFm was reported to be 15.04 g kg\u22121. The EFm of alkane species (CH4, C2H6, C3H8, C4H10) were found to peak within the ignition stage, whereas the EFm of CO2, CO and NH3 kept increasing during the steady stage. Because of these measurements, for the first time we were able to validate the EF calculated by assuming averaged values and a carbon balance, which is the preferred method used in remote sensing and atmospheric sciences. This work contributes to a better understanding of peat fire emissions and could help develop strategies tackling regional haze.", "keywords": ["Technology", "Engineering", " Chemical", "550", "Energy & Fuels", "Pollutions", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "Chemical", "Wildfire", "0902 Automotive Engineering", "01 natural sciences", "7. 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Here we study the influence of wind direction (forward, perpendicular, and opposed) and slope (uphill, side hill, and downhill) on multidimensional smouldering spread, using a shallow open reactor. These conditions are known to be controlling variables in spread dynamics of flaming wildfires; however, wind and slope are rarely studied for smouldering wildfires. We conducted 21 experiments and compared the data to an additional 15 experiments from the literature. Where airflow was concurrent with spread (forward wind and uphill), both wind and slope increased the horizontal and in-depth spread rates by up to 101% and 32%, respectively, from quiescent and flat conditions. When airflow was perpendicular to spread (perpendicular wind and side hill), horizontal spread rate was increased by wind (up to 21%), but was negligibly influenced by slope. Airflow opposite to the spread direction (opposed wind and downhill) resulted in a negligible change in horizontal spread with wind, but a decrease in horizontal spread of up to 40% due to slope. We also found that spread in any direction on a slope can be evaluated as a function of the angle of the spread relative to the horizontal plane, regardless of the slope of the terrain. Our findings provide new insight into important field conditions affecting smouldering wildfires and provide a better understanding of their spread.", "keywords": ["550", "13. Climate action", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "0204 chemical engineering", "15. 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Self-heating ignition of coal is driven by two exothermic processes which are chemically and thermodynamically different: adsorption of oxygen and heterogeneous combustion (smouldering). In classical self-heating theory and previous computational studies, a lumped one-step reaction was used. However, this scheme does not differentiate the aforementioned two processes. This study develops a computational model that incorporates a 4-step reaction scheme, encompassing both adsorption and smouldering, to simulate self-heating ignition. The kinetic parameters for a bituminous coal are first obtained through inverse-modelling of thermogravimetric experimental data from the literature. Based on the 4-step reaction scheme and kinetic parameters, we simulate two sets of hot plate experiments from the literature and predict the critical ignition temperature of different sample thicknesses. These predictions are compared with the predictions using a 1-step reaction scheme. Predictions based on both schemes show a good agreement with experiments when sample thickness(L) is less than 20\u202fmm. However, the accuracy of the model with1-step scheme decreases as the sample thickness increases. The critical ignition temperatures predicted by the 1-step scheme become significantly higher than the 4-step scheme when L\u00a0>\u00a020\u202fmm and at L\u202f=\u202f127\u202fmm the difference is over 12%. According to the simulation results of the 4-step scheme, at the large-scale scenarios, adsorption is the dominant reaction before ignition and the acceleration of smouldering occurs afterwards. As 1-step reaction scheme does not differentiate adsorption and smouldering, a 4-step scheme is more suitable for realistic and large scale scenarios.", "keywords": ["13. 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Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) with Bayesian hyperparameters calibration is proposed to obtain a surrogate from input random variables to output DELs in the blades and towers of the up-wind and wake-affected wind turbines. A sensitivity analysis based on the hyperparameters of the GPR and Kullback-Leibler divergence is conducted to assess the effect of different input on the obtained DELs. We provide qualitative recommendations for a minimal set of necessary and sufficient input random variables to minimize the error in the DEL predictions on the wake-affected wind turbine. Extensive simulations are performed comprising different random variables, including wind speed, turbulence intensity, shear exponent and inflow horizontal skewness. Furthermore, we include random variables related to the blades lift and drag coefficients with direct impact on the rotor aerodynamic induction, which governs the evolution and transport of the meandering wake. In addition, different spacing between the wind turbines and W\u00f6hler exponents for calculation of DELs are considered. The maximum prediction normalized mean squared error, obtained in the tower base DELs in the fore-aft direction of the wake affected wind turbine, is less than 4%. In the case of the blade root DELs, the overall prediction error is less than 1%. The proposed scheme promotes utilization of sparse structural monitoring (loads) measurements for improving diagnostics on wake-affected turbines.</p>", "keywords": ["bepress|Physical Sciences and Mathematics|Physics|Engineering Physics", "engrXiv|Engineering|Risk Analysis", "engrXiv|Engineering|Other Engineering", "bepress|Engineering", "engrXiv|Engineering|Mechanical Engineering|Fluid Mechanics", "bepress|Engineering|Mechanical Engineering", "engrXiv|Engineering|Mechanical Engineering", "bepress|Engineering|Mechanical Engineering|Applied Mechanics", "Gaussian Process Regression", "02 engineering and technology", "7. 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We test this assumption by making the first comparison between Viking 1 and InSight surface pressure data, which were recorded 40\uffc2\uffa0years apart. Such a comparison also allows us to determine changes in the dynamics of the seasonal ice caps between these two periods. To do so, we first had to recalibrate the InSight pressure data because of their unexpected sensitivity to the sensor temperature. Then, we had to design a procedure to compare distant pressure measurements. We propose two surface pressure interpolation methods at the local and global scale to do the comparison. The comparison of Viking and InSight seasonal surface pressure variations does not show changes larger than \uffc2\uffb18\uffc2\uffa0Pa in the CO2 cycle. Such conclusions are supported by an analysis of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) pressure data. Further comparisons with images of the south seasonal cap taken by the Viking 2 orbiter and MARCI camera do not display significant changes in the dynamics of this cap over a 40\uffc2\uffa0year period. Only a possible larger extension of the North Cap after the global storm of MY 34 is observed, but the physical mechanisms behind this anomaly are not well determined. Finally, the first comparison of MSL and InSight pressure data suggests a pressure deficit at Gale crater during southern summer, possibly resulting from a large presence of dust suspended within the crater.</p>", "keywords": ["Atmospheric sciences", "550", "Astronomy", "Atmosphere (unit)", "FOS: Mechanical engineering", "Library science", "Oceanography", "01 natural sciences", "CO<SUB>2</SUB> ice", "pressure", "Mars Exploration Program", "Engineering", "Surface pressure", "Storm", "Martian Climate", "Space Suit Design and Ergonomics for EVA", "Martian Atmosphere", "Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)", "Climatology", "Global and Planetary Change", "Geography", "Martian Surface", "Physics", "Geology", "Impact crater", "Condensed matter physics", "Anomaly (physics)", "World Wide Web", "Algorithm", "Satellite Observations", "Residual", "Physical Sciences", "Exploration and Study of Mars", "Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics", "Research Article", "FOS: Physical sciences", "Mars", "Aerospace Engineering", "Pressure gradient", "Environmental science", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "atmospheric mass", "Meteorology", "Orbiter", "0103 physical sciences", "Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)", "Formation and Evolution of the Solar System", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Pressure system", "CO 2 ice", "Astronomy and Astrophysics", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "Astrobiology", "Computer science", "Physics and Astronomy", "[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "13. 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A structural analysis, which can fully evaluate these transversal and local effects, can currently be carried out only using shell or solid finite-element models. However, the complete finite-shell element model of a long-distance pipeline system requires a significant amount of time to be modeled and solved. In contrast, generalized beam theory (GBT) has attracted attention as an alternative modeling technique, and it can easily model a pipeline system using beam-finite elements, but with all transversal and local effects. In order to obtain a feasible application of GBT for above-ground pipeline systems, this study presents an extension of GBT with semi-continued arbitrary support to hollow circular cross-sections. The numerical formulation is an alternative recursive approach based on the master-slave method to create a multi-freedom constraint among the high modes of GBT and the springs, which represent the support conditions. An example of its application illustrates the proposed approach and is compared with a complete finite-shell element models.", "keywords": ["0203 mechanical engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "0201 civil engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2019.106439"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Thin-Walled%20Structures", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.tws.2019.106439", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.tws.2019.106439", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.tws.2019.106439"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1061/(asce)as.1943-5525.0000721", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:17:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-02-10", "title": "Influence of Mineral Composition on Sintering Lunar Regolith", "description": "AbstractThe authors investigate mechanical properties of sintered lunar regolith. 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The later is often an arid environment characterized by high wind velocity and intense turbulence with large quantities of sand and dust that could affect solar components, especially, reflectors. The contact of sand particles with solar reflectors can produce erosion defects that could seriously reduce the optical properties of these components. For a better understanding of erosion mechanisms, a horizontal test bench was designed to conduct erosion tests on solar reflectors using sand particles. It was calibrated assessing different parameters to simulate the real conditions observed while solar reflectors are in service. Several tests were conducted to adjust the air flow homogeneity, the impingement angle, the wind velocity values and the concentration of sand particles. Tests on solar mirrors were carried out to check the reliability and the repeatability of the test bench results with all the parameters used.", "keywords": ["0203 mechanical engineering", "13. 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The study of seed dispersal mechanisms, with the related structural and functional characteristics, is an active research topic for ecology, plant diversity, climate change, as well as for its relevance for material science and engineering. The natural mechanisms of seed dispersal show a rich source of robust, highly adaptive, mass and energy efficient mechanisms for optimized passive flying, landing, crawling and drilling. The secret of seeds mobility is embodied in the structural features and anatomical characteristics of their tissues, which are designed to be selectively responsive to changes in the environmental conditions, and which make seeds one of the most fascinating examples of morphological computation in Nature. Particularly clever for their spatial mobility performance, are those seeds that use their morphology and structural characteristics to be carried by the wind and dispersed over great distances (i.e. \uffe2\uff80\uff9cwinged\uffe2\uff80\uff9d and \uffe2\uff80\uff9cparachute\uffe2\uff80\uff9d seeds), and seeds able to move and penetrate in soil with a self-burial mechanism driven by their hygromorphic properties and morphological features. By looking at their motion mechanisms, new design principles can be extracted and used as inspiration for smart artificial systems endowed with embodied intelligence. This mini-review systematically collects, for the first time together, the morphological, structural, biomechanical and aerodynamic information from selected plant seeds relevant to take inspiration for engineering design of soft robots, and discusses potential future developments in the field across material science, plant biology, robotics and embodied intelligence.</p>", "keywords": ["soft robotics", "plant biology", "Robotics and AI", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "bioinspired robotics", " soft robotics", " embodied intelligence", " plant biology", " smart materials", " plant biomechanics", " seeds dispersal", "embodied intelligence", "QA75.5-76.95", "15. Life on land", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "smart materials", "plant biomechanics", "Electronic computers. Computer science", "TJ1-1570", "bioinspired robotics", "Mechanical engineering and machinery"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.797556"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Robotics%20and%20AI", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/frobt.2021.797556", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/frobt.2021.797556", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/frobt.2021.797556"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-11-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1515/ijmr-1985-760805", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:19:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-27", "title": "A d Band Bonding Model of the Enthalpy of Formation of Ternary Transition Metal Alloys", "keywords": ["0203 mechanical engineering", "0103 physical sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Catherine Colinet, Alain Pasturel, Pierre Hicter,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1515/ijmr-1985-760805"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/International%20Journal%20of%20Materials%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1515/ijmr-1985-760805", "name": "item", "description": "10.1515/ijmr-1985-760805", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1515/ijmr-1985-760805"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1985-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1557/adv.2017.45", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:19:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-01-24", "title": "Some Recent Findings On Marble Conservation By Aqueous Solutions Of Diammonium Hydrogen Phosphate", "description": "Given the lack of satisfying treatments for consolidating marble affected by thermally induced grain detachment (the so-called 'sugaring'), the use of aqueous solutions of diammonium hydrogen phosphate (DAP) has recently been proposed. The idea is to form a new binding mineral (hydroxyapatite, HAP) as the reaction product between the DAP solution and the calcitic substrate. In this study, we investigated the effects of adding small quantities of ethanol (EtOH) to the DAP solution, with the aim of favoring HAP formation. The results of the study indicate that, when a 0.1 M DAP and 0.1 mM CaCl2 solution in 10 vol% EtOH is used, complete coverage of marble surface with a crack-free coating with reduced porosity is achieved (whereas no coating is formed without EtOH addition). This is thought to be a consequence of the weakening of hydration shells of phosphate ions in the DAP solution, thanks to the presence of ethanol molecules. When used to restore mechanical properties of weathered marble, the treatment with 10 vol% EtOH was found to significantly improve the dynamic elastic modulus after a single application and to completely restore it after a second application.", "keywords": ["02 engineering and technology", "ING-IND/22 Scienza e tecnologia dei materiali", "0210 nano-technology", "Marble; Hydroxyapatite; Ethanol; Alcohol; Microstructure; Consolidation; Protection", "adhesion; coating; ethanol; Mechanical Engineering; Mechanics of Materials; Materials Science (all); Condensed Matter Physics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/628342/5/MRS2016_Copertina.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2017.45"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/MRS%20Advances", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1557/adv.2017.45", "name": "item", "description": "10.1557/adv.2017.45", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1557/adv.2017.45"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.20944/preprints202404.0289.v1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:19:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-04-04", "title": "A Novel Microfluidics Droplet-Based Interdigitated Ring-Shaped Electrode Sensor for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Droplet-based microfluidics has revolutionized numerous fields such as biomedical research, pharmaceuticals, drug discovery, food engineering, flow chemistry, and cosmetics. This paper presents a comprehensive study focusing on the detection and characterization of droplets with volumes in the nanoliter range. Leveraging the precise control of minute liquid volumes, we introduced a novel spectroscopic On-Chip microsensor equipped with integrated microfluidic channels for droplet generation, characterization, and sensing, simultaneously. The microsensor, designed with Interdigitated-Ring-Shaped Electrodes (IRSE) and seamlessly integrated with microfluidic channels, offers enhanced capacitance and impedance signal amplitudes, reproducibility, and reliability in droplet analysis. We were able to make analyses of droplets length in the range 1.0-6.0 mm, velocity 0.66-2.51 mm/s, droplet volume 1.07nL-113.46nL. Experimental results demonstrated that the microsensor&amp;#039;s has a great performance in terms of droplet size, velocity, and length, with a significant signal amplitude of capacitance and impedance, and real-time detection capabilities, thereby highlighting its potential for facilitating microcapsule reactions and enabling on-site real-time detection for chemical and biosensor analyses on-chip.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "lab-on-a-chip sensor", "03 medical and health sciences", "spectroscopic sensing", "droplet-based microfluidics", "TJ1-1570", "real-time", "microfluidics device", "Mechanical engineering and machinery", "interdigitated electrode", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "0104 chemical sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0289.v1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Micromachines", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.20944/preprints202404.0289.v1", "name": "item", "description": "10.20944/preprints202404.0289.v1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.20944/preprints202404.0289.v1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-04-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/app12126194", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-17", "title": "Natural Time Series Parameters Forecasting: Validation of the Pattern-Sequence-Based Forecasting (PSF) Algorithm; A New Python Package", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Climate change has contributed substantially to the weather and land characteristic phenomena. Accurate time series forecasting for climate and land parameters is highly essential in the modern era for climatologists. This paper provides a brief introduction to the algorithm and its implementation in Python. The pattern-sequence-based forecasting (PSF) algorithm aims to forecast future values of a univariate time series. The algorithm is divided into two major processes: the clustering of data and prediction. The clustering part includes the selection of an optimum value for the number of clusters and labeling the time series data. The prediction part consists of the selection of a window size and the prediction of future values with reference to past patterns. The package aims to ease the use and implementation of PSF for python users. It provides results similar to the PSF package available in R. Finally, the results of the proposed Python package are compared with results of the PSF and ARIMA methods in R. One of the issues with PSF is that the performance of forecasting result degrades if the time series has positive or negative trends. To overcome this problem difference pattern-sequence-based forecasting (DPSF) was proposed. The Python package also implements the DPSF method. In this method, the time series data are first differenced. Then, the PSF algorithm is applied to this differenced time series. Finally, the original and predicted values are restored by applying the reverse method of the differencing process. The proposed methodology is tested on several complex climate and land processes and its potential is evidenced.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "330", "QH301-705.5", "univariate", "T", "Physics", "QC1-999", "forecasting", "02 engineering and technology", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "forecasting; univariate; time series; Python; PSF", "Chemistry", "0203 mechanical engineering", "13. Climate action", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "time series", "TA1-2040", "Biology (General)", "QD1-999", "PSF", "Python"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/6194/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/6194/pdf"}, {"href": "https://research.usq.edu.au/download/a41f7e6afaf72d3aab08e4fbf5850ce9baed364db9cd274b284e7956b4aa1a6e/1339682/applsci-12-06194-v3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/app12126194"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/app12126194", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/app12126194", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/app12126194"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-06-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/mi15121487", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:20:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-12-11", "title": "EchoTilt: An Acoustofluidic Method for the Capture and Enrichment of Nanoplastics Directed Toward Drinking Water Monitoring", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Micro- and nanoplastics have become increasingly relevant as contaminants to be monitored due to their potential health effects and environmental impact. Nanoplastics, in particular, have been shown to be difficult to detect in drinking water, requiring new capture technologies. In this work, we applied the acoustofluidic seed particle method to capture nanoplastics in an optimized, tilted grid of silica clusters even at the high flow rate of 5 mL/min. Moreover, we achieved, using this technique, the enrichment of nanoparticles ranging from 500 nm to 25 nm as a first in the field. We employed fluorescence to observe the enrichment profiles according to size, using a washing buffer flow at 0.5 mL/min, highlighting the size-dependent nature of the silica seed particle release of various sizes of nanoparticles. These results highlight the versatility of acoustic trapping for a wide range of nanoplastic particles and allow further study into the complex dynamics of the seed particle method at these size ranges. Moreover, with reproducible size-dependent washing curves, we provide a new window into the rate of nanoplastic escape in high-capacity acoustic traps, relevant to both environmental and biomedical applications.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "microplastics", "acoustofluidics", "seed particle method", "TJ1-1570", "Mechanical engineering and machinery", "silica-enhanced seed particle method", "Article", "nanoplastics", "acoustic trap"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/mi15121487"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Micromachines", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/mi15121487", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/mi15121487", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/mi15121487"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-12-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs9111155", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:20:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-11-10", "title": "Disaggregation of SMOS Soil Moisture to 100 m Resolution Using MODIS Optical/Thermal and Sentinel-1 Radar Data: Evaluation over a Bare Soil Site in Morocco", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The 40 km resolution SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) soil moisture, previously disaggregated at a 1 km resolution using the DISPATCH (DISaggregation based on Physical And Theoretical scale CHange) method based on MODIS optical/thermal data, is further disaggregated to 100 m resolution using Sentinel-1 backscattering coefficient (\u03c3\u00b0). For this purpose, three distinct radar-based disaggregation methods are tested by linking the spatio-temporal variability of \u03c3\u00b0 and soil moisture data at the 1 km and 100 m resolution. The three methods are: (1) the weight method, which estimates soil moisture at 100 m resolution at a certain time as a function of \u03c3\u00b0 ratio (100 m to 1 km resolution) and the 1 km DISPATCH products of the same time; (2) the regression method which estimates soil moisture as a function of \u03c3\u00b0 where the regression parameters (e.g., intercept and slope) vary in space and time; and (3) the Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) method, which estimates 100 m resolution soil moisture from the cumulative probability of 100 m resolution backscatter and the maximum to minimum 1 km resolution (DISPATCH) soil moisture difference. In each case, disaggregation results are evaluated against in situ measurements collected between 1 January 2016 and 11 October 2016 over a bare soil site in central Morocco. The determination coefficient (R2) between 1 km resolution DISPATCH and localized in situ soil moisture is 0.31. The regression and CDF methods have marginal effect on improving the DISPATCH accuracy at the station scale with a R2 between remotely sensed and in situ soil moisture of 0.29 and 0.34, respectively. By contrast, the weight method significantly improves the correlation between remotely sensed and in situ soil moisture with a R2 of 0.52. Likewise, the soil moisture estimates show low root mean square difference with in situ measurements (RMSD= 0.032 m3 m\u22123).</p></article>", "keywords": ["soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite (SMOS)", "Atmospheric Science", "Artificial intelligence", "Environmental Engineering", "550", "Science", "Soil Moisture", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Aerospace Engineering", "FOS: Mechanical engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "Engineering", "Meteorology", "DISPATCH", "Image resolution", "Arctic Permafrost Dynamics and Climate Change", "14. 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The kinetics of pyrolysis is usually studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), which is based on measuring the mass loss of a microscale sample and measuring the temperature of the surrounding fluid during controlled heating. The literature is rich in TGA measurements, which are often assumed to be governed solely by chemical kinetics. Heat and mass transfer effects, however, can occur when the sample mass is too large. Only a few studies in the literature quantify the threshold for the initial mass, above which heat transfer effects are significant. Here, we systematically analyse the role of heat transfer in TGA measurements, review existing formulations, and provide a novel threshold for the maximum sample mass. We focus on the natural polymer cellulose, a surrogate for biomass, and split the problem into heat transfer within the sample (intraparticle) and between the sample and the fluid (interparticle). Using dimensional analysis we derive two upper bound thresholds for the initial sample mass as a function of heating. One threshold is calculated based on interparticle heat transfer and depends on flow and heating conditions as well as material and fluid properties. The other is calculated based on intraparticle heat transfer and depends on heating conditions and material properties. Both thresholds were validated with measurements and previous studies from the literature. Comparing both thresholds shows that the maximum sample mass in a TGA is dictated by interparticle heat transfer and rapidly reduces with heating rate from 1.8 mg at 10 K/min to 0.15 mg at 50 K/min. These results enable the selection of appropriate sample masses and heating conditions in TGA measurements, which in turn will lead to a better understanding of polymer pyrolysis.", "keywords": ["TGA", "thermal lag", "Mechanical Engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering", "chemistry", "7. Clean energy", "Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering", "cellulose", "Computer Science Applications", "0201 civil engineering", "12. Responsible consumption", "kinetics", "13. Climate action", "transport", "TJ1-1570", "General Materials Science", "Mechanical engineering and machinery", "0204 chemical engineering", "0913 Mechanical Engineering"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Richter, F, Rein, G,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2018.00018"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Mechanical%20Engineering", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmech.2018.00018", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmech.2018.00018", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmech.2018.00018"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-11-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/geotechnics2020020", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:20:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-31", "title": "Meta-Material Layout for the Protection of Buried Steel Pipes against Surface Explosion", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>This paper reports on preliminary yet consistent studies and results around the concept of meta-material applied to the protection of buried gas transmission pipelines. The capacity of the proposed meta-material layout in attenuating and dissipating the energy induced by a surface explosion is described in general terms, and then it is examined for a set of nine realistic cases. The formulation of the band gaps, which are considered zones of mitigation for the incident waves of certain frequencies, composes the core of the analysis. For the calculation of the band gaps that target a specific range of frequencies, the 1D periodic structures\u2019 theory is adopted, and the results have been verified numerically via COMSOL. The layout is tested for nine cases of surface explosions via finite element analyses in ABAQUS, using the CONWEP model for simulating the surface explosions. Extremely satisfying results are demonstrated regarding the reduction in the vertical and horizontal displacements of the buried steel pipe. The outer goal of the present study is to spotlight the implementation of meta-material concepts for the efficient blast protection of underground structures, addressing a major hazard for this type of structure and a gap in the current literature.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Dynamic and structural geology", "band gaps", "0203 mechanical engineering", "blast waves", "periodic layering", "meta-material", "surface explosion", "QE500-639.5", "02 engineering and technology", "buried steel pipes", "meta-material; buried steel pipes; surface explosion; blast waves; band gaps; periodic layering"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2673-7094/2/2/20/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7094/2/2/20/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics2020020"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geotechnics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/geotechnics2020020", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/geotechnics2020020", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/geotechnics2020020"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/geotechnics3030032", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:20:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-07-03", "title": "Meta-Material Layout for the Blast Protection of Above-Ground Steel Pipes", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The current study investigates the capacity of the proposed meta-material layout for the blast protection of above-ground steel pipes against explosions. The philosophy of the meta-material layout\u2019s design is described adequately, and the 1D periodic structures\u2019 theory is adopted for the analytical prediction of the layout\u2019s band-gaps. The special characteristics of the blast loading are explained, and specific time-related parameters are calculated. The layout is tested numerically for nine explosion scenarios of various magnitude via the finite element program ABAQUS, and the CONWEP model is selected for the simulation of the explosions. The results demonstrate a significant reduction in the maximum displacements developed on the pipe\u2019s spring line and crown within a blast loading. This study composes an extension of the author\u2019s previous research on buried steel pipes and surface explosion, advancing now the applicability of the meta-material layouts for the cases of above-ground steel pipes towards explosions and blast hazards. The outer goal is the investigation and the further spreading of the beneficial exploitation of meta-materials concepts for the scope of the pipelines\u2019 effective blast protection, readdressing that this way is a major hazard for this type of structure and a gap in the current literature.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Dynamic and structural geology", "0203 mechanical engineering", "meta-material; pipelines; explosion; blast loading; band-gaps; periodic layering", "periodic layering", "meta-material", "band-gaps", "QE500-639.5", "02 engineering and technology", "explosion", "blast loading", "pipelines", "0201 civil engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2673-7094/3/3/32/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics3030032"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geotechnics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/geotechnics3030032", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/geotechnics3030032", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/geotechnics3030032"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/mi13030402", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-26T16:20:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-03-01", "title": "Bioengineering Outlook on Cultivated Meat Production", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Cultured meat (also referred to as cultivated meat or cell-based meat)\u2014CM\u2014is fabricated through the process of cellular agriculture (CA), which entails application of bioengineering, i.e., tissue engineering (TE) principles to the production of food. The main TE principles include usage of cells, grown in a controlled environment provided by bioreactors and cultivation media supplemented with growth factors and other needed nutrients and signaling molecules, and seeded onto the immobilization elements\u2014microcarriers and scaffolds that provide the adhesion surfaces necessary for anchor-dependent cells and offer 3D organization for multiple cell types. Theoretically, many solutions from regenerative medicine and biomedical engineering can be applied in CM-TE, i.e., CA. However, in practice, there are a number of specificities regarding fabrication of a CM product that needs to fulfill not only the majority of functional criteria of muscle and fat TE, but also has to possess the sensory and nutritional qualities of a traditional food component, i.e., the meat it aims to replace. This is the reason that bioengineering aimed at CM production needs to be regarded as a specific scientific discipline of a multidisciplinary nature, integrating principles from biomedical engineering as well as from food manufacturing, design and development, i.e., food engineering. An important requirement is also the need to use as little as possible of animal-derived components in the whole CM bioprocess. In this review, we aim to present the current knowledge on different bioengineering aspects, pertinent to different current scientific disciplines but all relevant for CM engineering, relevant for muscle TE, including different cell sources, bioreactor types, media requirements, bioprocess monitoring and kinetics and their modifications for use in CA, all in view of their potential for efficient CM bioprocess scale-up. 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A better understanding of the hydrological functioning of irrigated crops using remote sensing observations is of prime importance in the semi-arid areas where the water resources are limited. Radar observations, available at high resolution and revisit time since the launch of Sentinel-1 in 2014, have shown great potential for the monitoring of the water content of the upper soil and of the canopy. In this paper, a complete set of data for radar signal analysis is shared to the scientific community for the first time to our knowledge. The data set is composed of Sentinel-1 products and in situ measurements of soil and vegetation variables collected during three agricultural seasons over drip-irrigated winter wheat in the Haouz plain in Morocco. 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This database, which is the first of its kind made available in open access, is described here comprehensively in order to help the scientific community to evaluate and to develop new or existing remote sensing algorithms for monitoring wheat canopy under semi-arid conditions. The data set is particularly relevant for the development of radar applications including surface soil moisture and vegetation parameters retrieval using either physically based or empirical approaches such as machine and deep learning algorithms. 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