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View article: FlashVSR: Towards Real-Time Diffusion-Based Streaming Video Super-Resolution
FlashVSR: Towards Real-Time Diffusion-Based Streaming Video Super-Resolution Open
Diffusion models have recently advanced video restoration, but applying them to real-world video super-resolution (VSR) remains challenging due to high latency, prohibitive computation, and poor generalization to ultra-high resolutions. Ou…
View article: Dynamic Fracture Strength Prediction of HPFRC Using a Feature-Weighted Linear Ensemble Approach
Dynamic Fracture Strength Prediction of HPFRC Using a Feature-Weighted Linear Ensemble Approach Open
Owing to its excellent crack resistance and durability, High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) has been extensively applied in engineering structures exposed to extreme loading conditions. The Mode I dynamic fracture strength o…
View article: Dynamic Strength Prediction of Brittle Engineering Materials via Stacked Multi-Model Ensemble Learning and Interpretability-Driven Feature Analysis
Dynamic Strength Prediction of Brittle Engineering Materials via Stacked Multi-Model Ensemble Learning and Interpretability-Driven Feature Analysis Open
Accurate prediction of the dynamic compressive strength of brittle engineering materials is of significant theoretical and engineering importance for underground engineering design, safety assessment, and dynamic hazard prevention. To enha…
View article: Insight into the Creep Damage Evolution in Water-Immersed Coal Pillars: Experiment and Numerical Model Investigation
Insight into the Creep Damage Evolution in Water-Immersed Coal Pillars: Experiment and Numerical Model Investigation Open
Coal mine underground reservoirs play a significant role in energy utilization while also contributing to energy security. Prolonged immersion in mine water reduces the long-term strength of coal, subsequently leading to continuous creep d…
View article: Editorial: Advances in Mathematical, Numerical and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Rock Engineering Applications
Editorial: Advances in Mathematical, Numerical and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Rock Engineering Applications Open
This editorial presents 12 research articles published in the Special Issue entitled “Advances in Mathematical, Numerical and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Rock Engineering” of the MDPI Mathematics journal [...]
View article: Experimental study on the impact of viscosity index and contaminant concentration on the vibration characteristics of a Dual-Disc flexible rotor
Experimental study on the impact of viscosity index and contaminant concentration on the vibration characteristics of a Dual-Disc flexible rotor Open
The vibration of rotor systems is significantly affected by solid particle contaminants, leading to reduced system performance and, in some cases, failure. In this paper, the influence of lubricant viscosity index and solid particle contam…
View article: Teaching Large Language Models to Regress Accurate Image Quality Scores using Score Distribution
Teaching Large Language Models to Regress Accurate Image Quality Scores using Score Distribution Open
With the rapid advancement of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), MLLM-based Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods have shown promising performance in linguistic quality description. However, current methods still fall short in acc…
View article: Water-induced changes in mechanical response and fragmentation behavior of rocks exposed to conical pick indentation: Implications for rock cuttability improvement
Water-induced changes in mechanical response and fragmentation behavior of rocks exposed to conical pick indentation: Implications for rock cuttability improvement Open
Water-weakening presents a promising strategy for the in-situ improvement of rock cuttability. This study unveils the influences of water saturation on the mechanical response and fragmentation characteristics of rock samples. A series of …
View article: DetailGen3D: Generative 3D Geometry Enhancement via Data-Dependent Flow
DetailGen3D: Generative 3D Geometry Enhancement via Data-Dependent Flow Open
Modern 3D generation methods can rapidly create shapes from sparse or single views, but their outputs often lack geometric detail due to computational constraints. We present DetailGen3D, a generative approach specifically designed to enha…
View article: Study on the Performance of a Novel Double-Section Full-Open Absorption Heat Pump for Flue Gas Waste Heat Recovery
Study on the Performance of a Novel Double-Section Full-Open Absorption Heat Pump for Flue Gas Waste Heat Recovery Open
Open absorption heat pumps are considered one of the most promising methods for efficiently utilizing low-grade waste heat, reducing energy consumption, and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. However, traditional heat pumps have significan…
View article: Predicting the Compressive Strength of Sustainable Portland Cement–Fly Ash Mortar Using Explainable Boosting Machine Learning Techniques
Predicting the Compressive Strength of Sustainable Portland Cement–Fly Ash Mortar Using Explainable Boosting Machine Learning Techniques Open
Unconfined compressive strength (UCS) is a critical property for assessing the engineering performances of sustainable materials, such as cement–fly ash mortar (CFAM), in the design of construction engineering projects. The experimental de…
View article: Study on multi-field coupling characteristics of underground coal combustion and nitrogen injection parameter optimization
Study on multi-field coupling characteristics of underground coal combustion and nitrogen injection parameter optimization Open
Underground coal fires, which are widely distributed and cause serious resource waste and environmental hazards, have become a common concern of the international community. This paper aims to reveal the mechanism of coal spontaneous combu…
View article: Wireless sensor network coverage optimization based on novel multi‐strategy gold rush optimizer
Wireless sensor network coverage optimization based on novel multi‐strategy gold rush optimizer Open
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), there are three conflicting important issues, including extensive coverage, low node redundancy, and energy consumption for secondary deployment. To balance network coverage and longevity, a WSN coverage …
View article: Numerical study on fractal characteristic of blast-induced cracks in deep rock mass
Numerical study on fractal characteristic of blast-induced cracks in deep rock mass Open
The quantitative representation on the characteristics of blasting-induced cracks in rock mass is of great significance to guide the fine blasting design in practice. However, the quantitative relation between blasting-induced cracks of ro…
View article: Fatigue Behavior of Sandstone Exposed to Cyclic Point-Loading: Implications for Improving Mechanized Rock Breakage Efficiency
Fatigue Behavior of Sandstone Exposed to Cyclic Point-Loading: Implications for Improving Mechanized Rock Breakage Efficiency Open
During the process of mechanized excavation, rock is essentially subjected to cyclic point loading (CPL). To understand the CPL fatigue behavior of rock materials, a series of CPL tests are conducted on sandstone samples by using a self-de…
View article: Rock Thin Section Image Identification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks of Adaptive and Second-Order Pooling Methods
Rock Thin Section Image Identification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks of Adaptive and Second-Order Pooling Methods Open
In order to enhance the ability to represent rock feature information and finally improve the rock identification performance of convolution neural networks (CNN), a new pooling mode was proposed in this paper. According to whether the poo…
View article: Mathematical Problems in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
Mathematical Problems in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Open
With increasing requirements for energy, resources and space, rock engineering projects are being constructed more often and are operated in large-scale environments with complex geology. Meanwhile, rock failures and rock instabilities occ…
View article: Mathematical Problems in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
Mathematical Problems in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Open
With the increasing requirements for energy, resources and space, numerous rock engineering projects (e [...]
View article: Analytical, Numerical and Big-Data-Based Methods in Deep Rock Mechanics
Analytical, Numerical and Big-Data-Based Methods in Deep Rock Mechanics Open
With the increasing requirements for energy, resources and space, numerous rock engineering projects (e [...]
View article: Influence of interface morphology on dynamic behavior and energy dissipation of bi-material discs
Influence of interface morphology on dynamic behavior and energy dissipation of bi-material discs Open
To investigate the dynamic behavior and energy dissipation of the rock−concrete interface, dynamic splitting tests on bi-material discs were conducted by using the split Hopkinson pressure bar. The test results reveal that with the change …
View article: A novel robust AE/MS source location method using optimized M-estimate consensus sample
A novel robust AE/MS source location method using optimized M-estimate consensus sample Open
Due to the complexity of the real engineering environment, the arrival measurement inevitably contains outliers and leads to serious location errors. In order to eliminate the influence of the outliers effectively, this paper proposes a no…
View article: Mining Stress Evolution Law of Inclined Backfilled Stopes Considering the Brittle-Ductile Transition in Deep Mining
Mining Stress Evolution Law of Inclined Backfilled Stopes Considering the Brittle-Ductile Transition in Deep Mining Open
To study the mining stress evolution law of inclined backfilled stope in deep mining, this paper first proposes a method for determining the parameters of the brittle-ductile transition model corresponding to the Hoek–Brown criterion and M…
View article: Regressive and Big-Data-Based Analyses of Rock Drillability Based on Drilling Process Monitoring (DPM) Parameters
Regressive and Big-Data-Based Analyses of Rock Drillability Based on Drilling Process Monitoring (DPM) Parameters Open
Accurate, rapid and effective analysis of rock drillability is very important for mining, civil and petroleum engineering. In this study, a method of rock drillability evaluation based on drilling process monitoring (DPM) parameters is pro…
View article: The Permeability Alternation of Shale Fractures due to Sc-CO2 Soaking: Implications for Sc-CO2 Fracturing and Deep CO2 Sequestration in Shale Reservoirs
The Permeability Alternation of Shale Fractures due to Sc-CO2 Soaking: Implications for Sc-CO2 Fracturing and Deep CO2 Sequestration in Shale Reservoirs Open
The shale fracture permeability is critical in determining gas production and deep CO2 sequestration performance. Moreover, how shale fracture permeability evolves after interactions with supercritical carbon dioxide (Sc-CO2) should be und…