Design of Device for Capturing Conveyor Belts and Calculation Method of Basic Parameters for Catchers by A. V. Glebov, G. D. Karmaev

“…The paper presents a calculation methodology of main parameters for the proposed design of catcher conveyor belts that permits to determine a force catching a conveyor belt down and for every braking period distance which has been passed by the belt, value of its compression, value of braking force, braking time and acceleration of belt motion, time and length of the distance passed by the belt to its full stop, parameters of a catcher and supporting structures, and other parameters. …”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMS FOR CALCULATING THEORETICAL- NUMERICAL SIGNAL TRANSFORMATIONS WITH THE LEAST NUMBER OF MULTIPLICATIONS by M. I. Kalmykov, D. V. Yurdanov, I. A. Kalmykov, I. D. Efremenkov

“…When using a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to solve digital signal processing (DSP) problems, errors occur in rounding or truncating the results of operations to the word length used by specialized processors (SP). These errors occur in the paths for calculating the real and imaginary parts of the signal. …”
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Influence of Steam Reforming Catalyst Geometry on the Performance of Tubular Reformer – Simulation Calculations by Franczyk Ewelina, Gołębiowski Andrzej, Borowiecki Tadeusz, Kowalik Paweł, Wróbel Waldemar

“…A proper selection of steam reforming catalyst geometry has a direct effect on the efficiency and economy of hydrogen production from natural gas and is a very important technological and engineering issue in terms of process optimisation. …”
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Model Selection from Multiple Model Families in Species Distribution Modeling Using Minimum Message Length by Zihao Wen, David L. Dowe

“…To find the relevant features efficiently, we further develop a novel search algorithm that does not require calculating the message length for all possible subsets of features. …”
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Estimation of heritability coefficients for gestation length and calf birth weight in the population of Holstein cattle in the Republic of Serbia by Stanojević Dragan Ž., Đedović Radica R., Bogdanović Vladan T., Zeljić-Stojiljković Krstina R., Gligović Nikolija N., Beskorovajni Radmila B., Kučević Denis S.

“…The gestation length in cows and the birth weight of calves significantly influence the course and difficulty of parturition in dairy cows, thereby having a considerable impact on the economic efficiency of cattle production. …”
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Evaluation and Analysis Model of the Length of Added Displaced Left-Turn Lane Based on Entropy Evaluation Method by Binghong Pan, Jinfeng Ying, Shasha Luo, Yang Shao, Shangru Liu, Xiang Li, Zhenjiang Xie

“…After selecting four evaluation indicators, the model was applied to calculate and analyze the optimal length of the added DLT lanes under 45 different traffic volume combinations. …”
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Flexural Behavior and Design Calculation Method of Joints With Bar Details Connecting T-Shaped Beam by Zhengxing Chen, Jianbo Mao, Linhai Zhang

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Calculation parameter correction of steel truss nodal plate based on machine learning theory by Zhe Hu, Rui Rao, Hao Chen, Qinhe Li, Ronghui Wang

“…Finally, large-scale bridge engineering examples using steel trusses demonstrate that correcting the rigid arm length significantly improves the calculation accuracy of commonly used beam elements. …”
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Development of sensitivity calculation capability of Legendre moments of scattering angular distributions in NECP-MCX by Huang Jinlong, Cao Liangzhi, He Qingming, Wu Hongchun

“…The sensitivity calculation was based on Iterated Fission Probability (IFP) and Contributon-Linked eigenvalue sensitivity/Uncertainty estimation via Track-length importance Characterization (CLUTCH) method for k-eigenvalue sensitivity analysis and Generalized Adjoint Responses in Monte Carlo (GEAR-MC) method for generalized sensitivity analysis. …”
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A Review on Performance Calculation and Design Methodologies for Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine Blades by Rongyu Zha, Siyuan Wu, Chang Cai, Xiaohui Liu, Dian Wang, Chaoyi Peng, Xuebin Feng, Qiuhua Chen, Xiaohui Zhong, Qing’an Li

“…The efficient, low-cost, and large-scale development and utilization of offshore wind energy resources is an inevitable trend for future growth. …”
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An Iterative Calculation Method for Suspension Bridge’s Cable System Based on Exact Catenary Theory by Zhijun Chen, Hongyou Cao, Hongping Zhu

“…Based on form-finding analysis, the method is also proposed to calculate the main cable’s internal forces and displacements during the erection of stiffening girder; the reliability and efficiency of the method is demonstrated by two typical numerical examples. …”
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Implementation of track length estimator for flux distribution tallies using proper orthogonal decomposition in one-dimensional geometry by Kondo Ryoichi, Endo Tomohiro, Yamamoto Akio

“…In a recent study, we have developed an efficient flux distribution tallying method in the Monte Carlo calculation toward the high-fidelity, large scale multi-physics simulation. …”
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Multiple optical path length reflections enhancement based on balloon-type photoacoustic cell for trace gas sensing by Ruiming Wu, Wenjun Ni, Chunyong Yang, Bingze He, Ping Lu, Sixiang Ran, Zhongke Zhao, Perry Ping Shum

“…This path increases the gas absorption path length and improves the efficiency of the laser-gas interaction process. …”
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Lossy Infrared Image Compression Based on Wavelet Coefficient Probability Modeling and Run-Length-Enhanced Huffman Coding by Yaohua Zhu, Ya Liu, Yanghang Zhu, Mingsheng Huang, Jingyu Jiang, Yong Zhang

“…In particular, when encoding sparse quantized wavelet coefficients that contain a large number of consecutive zeros, the inaccuracy of the one-bit shortest code accumulates, reducing compression efficiency. To address this, this paper proposes Huf-RLC, a Huffman-based method enhanced with Run-Length Coding. …”
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Online Modelling and Calculation for Operating Temperature of Silicon-Based PV Modules Based on BP-ANN by Honglu Zhu, Weiwei Lian, Lingxing Lu, Peter Kamunyu, Cao Yu, Songyuan Dai, Yang Hu

“…It is difficult to measure all the needed variables to build the physics-based model for the calculation of operating temperature. Due to the above problem, the paper proposes an online method to calculate operating temperature, which adopts the back propagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN) algorithm. …”
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Prototype Mobile Vision System for Automatic Length Estimation of Olive Flounder (<i>Paralichthys olivaceus</i>) in Indoor Aquaculture by Inyeong Kwon, Hang Thi Phuong Nguyen, Paththige Waruni Prasadini Fernando, Hieyong Jeong, Sungju Jung, Taeho Kim

“…Pixel measurements from the images are converted into millimeters using a calibrated pixel-to-length relationship. The system calculates fish length by detecting contour extremities and applying Lagrange interpolation. …”
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Determination of the optimal row distance for double row piles and the calculation method for earth pressure between piles by Ke TANG, Hua ZHAO, Xuefeng TANG, Rusong CHENG

“…To better understand the stress characteristics of double-row piles and to efficiently calculate the inter-pile soil pressure, this study used the numerical simulation software GEO5 to investigate the impact of pile row spacing on the stress of piles. …”
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Energy Conversion Efficiency of the Bulk Photovoltaic Effect by Andreas Pusch, Udo Römer, Dimitrie Culcer, Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes

“…Finally, we calculate the energy conversion efficiency for an example two-dimensional (2D) material that has been suggested as a candidate material for high-efficiency BPVE-based solar cells and show that the efficiency is very similar to the efficiency of known 3D materials.…”
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Analytical Calculation for Time-varying Mesh Stiffness of Articulated Supported Rack-Gear Based on Potential Energy Principle by Tang Liang, Chen Zaigang, Yang Jizhong, Chen Zhihui

“…In addition, the effect of the vertical clearance, pressure angle and rack length on the time-varying mesh stiffness of gear-rack is analyzed using this analytical calculation model. …”
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COMPLEX VARIABLE FUNCTION SOLUTIONS OF MIXED-MODE STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS FOR TWO CRACKS OF ARBITRARY LENGTH EMANATING FROM AN ELLIPTICAL HOLE by ZHU QingYu, ZHOU Rui

“…Firstly, the conformal mapping function formed by the transcendental function is expanded into a series with finite terms, and then the stress function is derived by using the complex function theory, so as to solve the mixed-mode stress intensity factors for two cracks of arbitrary length from an elliptical hole. Compared with other methods, the presented method is more applicable and efficient, the results are reliable. …”
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