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  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
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A Review of Cross-Scale Theoretical Contact Models for Bolted Joints Interfaces

  • Yilong Liu,
  • Min Zhu,
  • Xiaohan Lu,
  • Shengao Wang and
  • Ziwei Li

26 April 2024

Bolted joints structures are critical fastening components widely used in mechanical equipment. Under long-term loading conditions, the bolted joints interface generates strong nonlinearities within the system. The nonlinear stiffness inside the bolt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,497 Views
19 Pages

3 April 2024

In the micro-tube gas-assisted extrusion process, flow theories ignoring cross-scale viscoelastic variations fail to effectively characterize the rheological state of the melt. To investigate the impact of cross-scale viscoelastic variation on the qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,689 Views
14 Pages

Cross-Scale Modeling of MnS Precipitation for Steel Solidification

  • Xiangning Meng,
  • Xiaohan Gao,
  • Shuo Huang and
  • Miaoyong Zhu

7 July 2018

One of the advantages of numerical simulations over traditional experimental methodologies is that they can synchronize nucleation, growth and coarsening during solidification from the point of view of microstructural analysis. However, the computati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
583 Views
26 Pages

19 November 2025

Accurate forecasting in heterogeneous spatiotemporal environments requires models that are both generalizable and interpretable, while also preserving cross-scale symmetry between temporal and spatial patterns. Existing deep learning approaches often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
880 Views
25 Pages

5 October 2025

Composite pressure vessels have attracted significant attention in recent years owing to their lightweight characteristics and superior mechanical performance. However, analyzing composite layers remains challenging due to complex filament-winding (F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,157 Views
27 Pages

18 September 2025

This study, grounded in traveling wave theory, develops a cross-scale reaction-diffusion model to describe nutrient-dependent bacterial growth on agar surfaces and applies it to in silico investigations of microbial population dynamics. The approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,090 Views
21 Pages

A shallow water equations-based model with an improved local time-stepping (LTS) scheme is developed for modeling coastal hydrodynamics across multiple scales, from large areas to detailed local regions. To enhance the stability of the shallow water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
778 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Scale Parallel Enhancement Module with Cross-Hierarchy Interaction for Video Emotion Recognition

  • Lianqi Zhang,
  • Yuan Sun,
  • Jiansheng Guan,
  • Shaobo Kang,
  • Jiangyin Huang and
  • Xungao Zhong

Video emotion recognition faces significant challenges due to the strong spatiotemporal coupling of dynamic expressions and the substantial variations in cross-scale motion patterns (e.g., subtle facial micro-expressions versus large-scale body gestu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,052 Views
19 Pages

FDD-YOLO: A Novel Detection Model for Detecting Surface Defects in Wood

  • Bo Wang,
  • Rijun Wang,
  • Yesheng Chen,
  • Chunhui Yang,
  • Xianglong Teng and
  • Peng Sun

10 February 2025

Wood surface defect detection is a critical step in wood processing and manufacturing. To address the performance degradation caused by small targets and multi-scale features in wood surface defect detection, a novel deep learning model is proposed i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,187 Views
22 Pages

19 May 2023

Long fibre-reinforced metal matrix composite materials, which are widely used in industry, have complex and diverse damage modes due to their structural characteristics. In this study, the progressive damage process and failure mode analysis of the S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,587 Views
10 Pages

Air-entraining agents have the function of optimizing pores and improving the performance of backfill. In this study, we used tailings and cement as the main raw materials and added different amounts of air-entraining agents to make backfill samples....

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,008 Views
28 Pages

Cross-Scale Biological Models of Species for Future Biomimetic Composite Design: A Review

  • Wenda Song,
  • Zhengzhi Mu,
  • Zhiyan Zhang,
  • Yufei Wang,
  • Handong Hu,
  • Zhe Ma,
  • Liewei Huang,
  • Ze Wang,
  • Binjie Zhang and
  • Luquan Ren
  • + 6 authors

26 October 2021

The rise in structural performance requirements in engineering is driving the research and development of stronger, stiffer, and lighter materials. However, most traditional artificial materials are unable to meet the needs of modern industrial and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,376 Views
24 Pages

25 July 2024

Aiming at the problem that existing emotion recognition methods fail to make full use of the information in the time, frequency, and spatial domains in the EEG signals, which leads to the low accuracy of EEG emotion classification, this paper propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,705 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2016

Performing a multiscale assessment of water resource vulnerability on the basis of political boundaries and watersheds is necessary for adaptive water resources management. Using the Risk-Exposure-Sensitivity-Adaptability model (RESC model), the wate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,510 Views
18 Pages

16 August 2023

At microwave frequencies, radar cross-section (RCS) measurements are usually performed by placing the target in the far-field region of the antenna. The wavefront of the radiating field from the antenna can be approximated as planar, ensuring that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,047 Views
24 Pages

12 April 2024

Geothermal resources are efficient, clean, and renewable energy sources. Using high-resolution images captured by remote sensing satellites for temperature retrieval and searching for geothermal anomaly areas is an efficient method. However, obtainin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,949 Views
21 Pages

5 February 2019

A fundamental problem regarding the storm–jet stream interaction in the extratropical atmosphere is how energy and information are exchanged between scales. While energy transfer has been extensively investigated, the latter has been mostly ove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,551 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2022

Water and chloride ions within pores of cementitious materials plays a crucial role in the damage processes of cement pastes, particularly in the binding material comprising calcium-silicate-hydrates (C-S-H). The migration mechanism of water and chlo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,603 Views
17 Pages

12 August 2025

Multivariate time series forecasting requires modeling complex and evolving spatio-temporal dependencies as well as frequency-domain patterns; however, the existing Transformer-based approaches often struggle to effectively capture dynamic inter-seri...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,639 Views
16 Pages

A Literature Review of Hybrid System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modeling in a Produced Water Management Context

  • Saeed P. Langarudi,
  • Robert P. Sabie,
  • Babak Bahaddin and
  • Alexander G. Fernald

9 April 2021

This paper explores the possibility and plausibility of developing a hybrid simulation method combining agent-based (AB) and system dynamics (SD) modeling to address the case study of produced water management (PWM). In southeastern New Mexico, the o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,549 Views
31 Pages

11 November 2025

This review systematically examined the transformative role of machine learning in predicting polymer aging lifetime, addressing critical limitations of conventional methods such as the Arrhenius model, time–temperature superposition principle,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,756 Views
18 Pages

12 January 2023

The filling quality of micro-feature structures has a significant impact on the forming quality of micro-channels. The electrical-assisted forming technology can effectively improve the formability of difficult-to-deform materials. In this research,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,811 Views
16 Pages

10 September 2024

This study addresses the limitations of and the common challenges faced by one-dimensional river-routing methods in hydrological models, including the National Water Model (NWM), in accurately representing coastal regions. We developed a two-way coup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
955 Views
28 Pages

19 September 2025

Against the background of the “dual carbon” goal and the construction of a new power system, the intelligent operation and maintenance of insulators for ultra-high voltage transmission lines face challenges such as difficulty in detecting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
139 Citations
15,997 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2016

Experiments were performed with a large laboratory-scale high solidity cross-flow turbine to investigate Reynolds number effects on performance and wake characteristics and to establish scale thresholds for physical and numerical modeling of individu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
218 Views
28 Pages

30 December 2025

This paper introduces Graph-Propagated Multi-Scale Hashing with Contrastive Learning (GPMCL), a novel unsupervised cross-modal hashing framework designed to address the semantic deficiency in large-scale unlabeled multimodal data. GPMCL first constru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,255 Views
14 Pages

2 March 2025

Pre-trained self-supervised speech models can extract general acoustic features, providing feature inputs for various speech downstream tasks. Spoofing speech detection, which is a pressing issue in the age of generative AI, requires both global info...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,694 Views
22 Pages

NGD-YOLO: An Improved Real-Time Steel Surface Defect Detection Algorithm

  • Bingyi Li,
  • Andong Xiao,
  • Xing Hu,
  • Sisi Zhu,
  • Gang Wan,
  • Kunlun Qi and
  • Pengfei Shi

Steel surface defect detection is a crucial step in ensuring industrial production quality. However, due to significant variations in scale and irregular geometric morphology of steel surface defects, existing detection algorithms show notable defici...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,417 Views
29 Pages

A Review of Cross-Modal Image–Text Retrieval in Remote Sensing

  • Lingxin Xu,
  • Luyao Wang,
  • Jinzhi Zhang,
  • Da Ha and
  • Haisu Zhang

11 December 2025

With the emergence of large-scale vision-language pre-training (VLP) models, remote sensing (RS) image–text retrieval is shifting from global representation learning to fine-grained semantic alignment. This review systematically examines two ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,873 Views
19 Pages

Developing a Microbial Consortium for Enhanced Metabolite Production from Simulated Food Waste

  • Nathan D. Schwalm,
  • Wais Mojadedi,
  • Elliot S. Gerlach,
  • Marcus Benyamin,
  • Matthew A. Perisin and
  • Katherine L. Akingbade

Food waste disposal and transportation of commodity chemicals to the point-of-need are substantial challenges in military environments. Here, we propose addressing these challenges via the design of a microbial consortium for the fermentation of food...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,913 Views
26 Pages

17 January 2022

This paper examines the impact of ocean surface swell waves on near-coastal L-band high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
935 Views
29 Pages

5 August 2025

Among the approximately 60,000 bone stick fragments unearthed from the Weiyang Palace site of the Han Dynasty, about 57,000 bear inscriptions. Most of these fragments exhibit vertical fractures, leading to a separation between the upper and lower fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,044 Views
20 Pages

S-LIGHT: Synthetic Dataset for the Separation of Diffuse and Specular Reflection Images

  • Sangho Jo,
  • Ohtae Jang,
  • Chaitali Bhattacharyya,
  • Minjun Kim,
  • Taeseok Lee,
  • Yewon Jang,
  • Haekang Song,
  • Hyukmin Kwon,
  • Saebyeol Do and
  • Sungho Kim

3 April 2024

Several studies in computer vision have examined specular removal, which is crucial for object detection and recognition. This research has traditionally been divided into two tasks: specular highlight removal, which focuses on removing specular high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,410 Views
24 Pages

Transdisciplinary Application of Cross-Scale Resilience

  • Shana M. Sundstrom,
  • David G. Angeler,
  • Ahjond S. Garmestani,
  • Jorge H. García and
  • Craig R. Allen

2 October 2014

The cross-scale resilience model was developed in ecology to explain the emergence of resilience from the distribution of ecological functions within and across scales, and as a tool to assess resilience. We propose that the model and the underlying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,221 Views
21 Pages

ZoomInNet: A Novel Small Object Detector in Drone Images with Cross-Scale Knowledge Distillation

  • Bi-Yuan Liu,
  • Huai-Xin Chen,
  • Zhou Huang,
  • Xing Liu and
  • Yun-Zhi Yang

21 March 2021

Drone-based object detection has been widely applied in ground object surveillance, urban patrol, and some other fields. However, the dramatic scale changes and complex backgrounds of drone images usually result in weak feature representation of smal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,588 Views
21 Pages

Multiple Hierarchical Cross-Scale Transformer for Remote Sensing Scene Classification

  • Dan Zhang,
  • Wenping Ma,
  • Licheng Jiao,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Yuting Yang and
  • Fang Liu

26 December 2024

The Transformer model can capture global contextual information but does not have an inherent inductive bias. In contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are highly praised in computer vision due to their strong inductive bias and local spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
661 Views
23 Pages

Aiming at the problems that the semantic representation of information extracted by the shallow layer of the current remote sensing image scene classification network is insufficient, and that the utilization rate of primary visual features decreases...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,520 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2025

The super-sized pore-throat network model can reflect both microscopic pore characteristics and macroscopic heterogeneity and is excellent in describing cross-scale flow fields. At present, there is no algorithm that can generate a micro pore-throat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
320 Views
29 Pages

24 December 2025

Detecting small infrared targets in vehicle-mounted systems remains challenging due to weak thermal radiation, cross-scale feature loss, and dynamic background interference. To address these issues, this paper proposes MSLCP-DETR, an enhanced RT-DETR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,584 Views
17 Pages

11 February 2023

The reasonable design of biomimetic non-smooth surfaces is a novel and effective way to solve problems such as the poor lubricity and serious friction and wear of friction pairs of seawater axial piston pumps. Inspired by cross-scale, second-order co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,198 Views
25 Pages

19 September 2025

The integrated assessment of watershed ecosystems is increasingly critical for sustainable water resource management amid global environmental change. Multi-source data integration—encompassing in situ monitoring, remote sensing, and model-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
428 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2025

Strip steel surface defect detection remains a challenging task due to the diverse scales and uneven spatial distribution of defects, which often lead to incomplete feature representation and missed detections in sparsely distributed regions. To addr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,314 Views
29 Pages

Overview of Multi-Scale Simulation Techniques for Three Typical Steel Manufacturing Processes

  • Cheng-Hui Xia,
  • Kaiyang Wang,
  • Xuexia Song,
  • Weiming Pan,
  • Wei Li,
  • Hong-Hui Wu,
  • Kun Dou,
  • Yuantao Xu,
  • Zelin Tong and
  • Xinping Mao
  • + 5 authors

28 June 2024

Steel products typically undergo intricate manufacturing processes, commencing from the liquid phase, with casting, hot rolling, and laminar cooling being among the most crucial processes. In the background of carbon neutrality, thin-slab casting and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,407 Views
29 Pages

Cross-Scale Mechanical Contact Analysis from Asperities to Rough Surfaces: A Critical Review

  • Ziwei Li,
  • Ming Guo,
  • Yilong Liu,
  • Shengao Wang,
  • Xiaohan Lu and
  • Zijian Xu

14 March 2025

Engineering equipment is an important material foundation for supporting national defense security and promoting the development of the national economy. Large and complex mechanical equipment has a complex structural composition and a large number o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,263 Views
26 Pages

One of the early manifestations of systemic atherosclerosis, which leads to blood circulation issues, is the enhanced arterial light reflex (EALR). Fundus images are commonly used for regular screening purposes to intervene and assess the severity of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,504 Views
22 Pages

CSINet: A Cross-Scale Interaction Network for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution

  • Gang Ke,
  • Sio-Long Lo,
  • Hua Zou,
  • Yi-Feng Liu,
  • Zhen-Qiang Chen and
  • Jing-Kai Wang

9 February 2024

In recent years, advancements in deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have brought about a paradigm shift in the realm of image super-resolution (SR). While augmenting the depth and breadth of CNNs can indeed enhance network performance, it ofte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,481 Views
18 Pages

The availability of high-precision population distribution data is crucial for urban planning and the optimal allocation of resources. To address the limitations of the random forest model in addressing spatial heterogeneity during population spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
819 Views
21 Pages

10 July 2025

The delineation of aquatic features from satellite remote sensing data is vital for environmental monitoring and disaster early warning. However, existing water body detection models struggle with cross-scale feature extraction, often failing to reso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,596 Views
15 Pages

The classification of urban functional areas is important for understanding the characteristics of urban areas and optimizing the utilization of urban land resources. Existing related methods have improved accuracy. However, they neglect cognitive di...

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