Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2022.958963
Reza Nazari, A. Ansari, M. Herrmann, R. Adrian, R. Kirian
Gas-dynamic virtual nozzles (GDVNs) play a vital role in delivering biomolecular samples during diffraction measurements at X-ray free-electron laser facilities. Recently, submicrometer resolution capabilities of two-photon polymerization 3D printing techniques opened the possibility to quickly fabricate gas-dynamic virtual nozzles with practically any geometry. In our previous work, we exploited this capability to print asymmetric gas-dynamic virtual nozzles that outperformed conventional symmetric designs, which naturally leads to the question of how to identify the optimal gas-dynamic virtual nozzle geometry. In this work, we develop a 3D computational fluid dynamics pipeline to investigate how the characteristics of microjets are affected by gas-dynamic virtual nozzle geometry, which will allow for further geometry optimizations and explorations. We used open-source software (OpenFOAM) and an efficient geometric volume-of-fluid method (isoAdvector) to affordably and accurately predict jet properties for different nozzle geometries. Computational resources were minimized by utilizing adaptive mesh refinement. The numerical simulation results showed acceptable agreement with the experimental data, with a relative error of about 10% for our test cases that compared bell- and cone-shaped sheath-gas cavities. In these test cases, we used a relatively low sheath gas flow rate (6 mg/min), but future work including the implementation of compressible flows will enable the investigation of higher flow rates and the study of asymmetric drip-to-jet transitions.
{"title":"Numerical and experimental investigation of gas flow field variations in three-dimensional printed gas-dynamic virtual nozzles","authors":"Reza Nazari, A. Ansari, M. Herrmann, R. Adrian, R. Kirian","doi":"10.3389/fmech.2022.958963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2022.958963","url":null,"abstract":"Gas-dynamic virtual nozzles (GDVNs) play a vital role in delivering biomolecular samples during diffraction measurements at X-ray free-electron laser facilities. Recently, submicrometer resolution capabilities of two-photon polymerization 3D printing techniques opened the possibility to quickly fabricate gas-dynamic virtual nozzles with practically any geometry. In our previous work, we exploited this capability to print asymmetric gas-dynamic virtual nozzles that outperformed conventional symmetric designs, which naturally leads to the question of how to identify the optimal gas-dynamic virtual nozzle geometry. In this work, we develop a 3D computational fluid dynamics pipeline to investigate how the characteristics of microjets are affected by gas-dynamic virtual nozzle geometry, which will allow for further geometry optimizations and explorations. We used open-source software (OpenFOAM) and an efficient geometric volume-of-fluid method (isoAdvector) to affordably and accurately predict jet properties for different nozzle geometries. Computational resources were minimized by utilizing adaptive mesh refinement. The numerical simulation results showed acceptable agreement with the experimental data, with a relative error of about 10% for our test cases that compared bell- and cone-shaped sheath-gas cavities. In these test cases, we used a relatively low sheath gas flow rate (6 mg/min), but future work including the implementation of compressible flows will enable the investigation of higher flow rates and the study of asymmetric drip-to-jet transitions.","PeriodicalId":48635,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44245426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2023.1049659
L. van Haasterecht, C. Dsouza, Y. Ma, H. I. Korkmaz, Y. de Jong, J. Ket, P. V. van Zuijlen, M. Groot, S. Komarova
In vitro research in the field of mechanotransducive regulation of dermal fibroblasts is characterized by highly variable methodology and contradictory results. The primary objective of this systematic review was to establish how in vitro mechanical stretch affects human dermal fibroblast function, by means of a quantitative synthesis of all available evidence. The secondary objectives were to examine the effects of covariates related to donor age, fibroblast origin, experimental treatments, and mechanical stimulation parameters on dermal fibroblast responsiveness to mechanical strain. Summary outcomes for fibroblast proliferation and collagen production were combined using a fixed-effects meta-analytical model. Subgroup analysis and meta-regression were used to investigate the effects of different conditions on the summary outcomes. Mechanical strain was found to not affect fibroblast proliferation in neonatal fibroblasts, while adult fibroblasts proliferation was significantly increased. Collagen production was significantly increased in response to mechanical stimulation, with Vitamin C stimulation as the most important covariate. Stretching frequency emerged as positively associated with fibroblast proliferation and negatively associated with collagen production. We conclude from this study that distinct differences exist in the effects of mechanical stretching between dermal fibroblasts from neonatal and adult donors, which will help to further elucidate the pathophysiological mechanism behind tension-induced scarring.
{"title":"In vitro responses of human dermal fibroblasts to mechanical strain: A systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"L. van Haasterecht, C. Dsouza, Y. Ma, H. I. Korkmaz, Y. de Jong, J. Ket, P. V. van Zuijlen, M. Groot, S. Komarova","doi":"10.3389/fmech.2023.1049659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2023.1049659","url":null,"abstract":"In vitro research in the field of mechanotransducive regulation of dermal fibroblasts is characterized by highly variable methodology and contradictory results. The primary objective of this systematic review was to establish how in vitro mechanical stretch affects human dermal fibroblast function, by means of a quantitative synthesis of all available evidence. The secondary objectives were to examine the effects of covariates related to donor age, fibroblast origin, experimental treatments, and mechanical stimulation parameters on dermal fibroblast responsiveness to mechanical strain. Summary outcomes for fibroblast proliferation and collagen production were combined using a fixed-effects meta-analytical model. Subgroup analysis and meta-regression were used to investigate the effects of different conditions on the summary outcomes. Mechanical strain was found to not affect fibroblast proliferation in neonatal fibroblasts, while adult fibroblasts proliferation was significantly increased. Collagen production was significantly increased in response to mechanical stimulation, with Vitamin C stimulation as the most important covariate. Stretching frequency emerged as positively associated with fibroblast proliferation and negatively associated with collagen production. We conclude from this study that distinct differences exist in the effects of mechanical stretching between dermal fibroblasts from neonatal and adult donors, which will help to further elucidate the pathophysiological mechanism behind tension-induced scarring.","PeriodicalId":48635,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45131328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2023.1120042
S. Apte, S. Sandbhor, Rushikesh Kulkarni, Humera Khanum
Asia’s coastlines are choking in waste. The region is now home to many of the world’s most polluted beaches. The populous Indian Cities are growing economically but in an unsustainable manner. With Mumbai counted among topmost polluted beaches in the world, it is the need of the hour to take necessary steps for effective waste management by systematic data analysis for deriving useful information from waste generation patterns. The major objective of the study is pattern recognition and beach waste quantum prediction based on 5 years data, with a frequency of daily waste collection. The size of the training data set is 1,661 days and the validation data set is 335 days. The influence of population trend, waste generation during festivals, special days, weekends, and seasonal variations form the basis for the analysis. Using machine learning algorithms, the study identifies and investigates data patterns for the case study of Dadar-Mahim beach. Data frequency and weights are correlated with occurrence of events, festivals, weekends, and seasons. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is employed for data preprocessing and wrangling, followed by a Random Forest algorithm-based model for the prediction of waste generated at Dadar-Mahim beach. The major challenges in data prediction are limited data availability and variation in the dates of festivals and holidays as well as lack of waste segregation information. Despite the above-mentioned challenges, the observations indicate the model’s average accuracy for making predictions of around 60%. The Graphic User Interface (GUI) developed based on the model provides a user-friendly application for predicting the total daily generation of beach waste with reasonable precision. On the basis of the model’s outcome and applicability, a schematic approach for efficient beach waste management is proposed. The recommendations would serve as guidelines for Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to automate the collection, transport, and disposal of beach waste.
{"title":"Machine learning approach for automated beach waste prediction and management system: A case study of Mumbai","authors":"S. Apte, S. Sandbhor, Rushikesh Kulkarni, Humera Khanum","doi":"10.3389/fmech.2023.1120042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2023.1120042","url":null,"abstract":"Asia’s coastlines are choking in waste. The region is now home to many of the world’s most polluted beaches. The populous Indian Cities are growing economically but in an unsustainable manner. With Mumbai counted among topmost polluted beaches in the world, it is the need of the hour to take necessary steps for effective waste management by systematic data analysis for deriving useful information from waste generation patterns. The major objective of the study is pattern recognition and beach waste quantum prediction based on 5 years data, with a frequency of daily waste collection. The size of the training data set is 1,661 days and the validation data set is 335 days. The influence of population trend, waste generation during festivals, special days, weekends, and seasonal variations form the basis for the analysis. Using machine learning algorithms, the study identifies and investigates data patterns for the case study of Dadar-Mahim beach. Data frequency and weights are correlated with occurrence of events, festivals, weekends, and seasons. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is employed for data preprocessing and wrangling, followed by a Random Forest algorithm-based model for the prediction of waste generated at Dadar-Mahim beach. The major challenges in data prediction are limited data availability and variation in the dates of festivals and holidays as well as lack of waste segregation information. Despite the above-mentioned challenges, the observations indicate the model’s average accuracy for making predictions of around 60%. The Graphic User Interface (GUI) developed based on the model provides a user-friendly application for predicting the total daily generation of beach waste with reasonable precision. On the basis of the model’s outcome and applicability, a schematic approach for efficient beach waste management is proposed. The recommendations would serve as guidelines for Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to automate the collection, transport, and disposal of beach waste.","PeriodicalId":48635,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41896891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2023.1130407
Aruntapan Dash, L. Squires, Jose D. Avila, S. Bose, A. Bandyopadhyay
Additive manufacturing (AM) of metals attracts attention because it can produce complex structures in a single step without part-specific tooling. Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), a welding-based method that deposits metal layer by layer, is gaining popularity due to its low cost of operation, feasibility for large-scale part fabrication, and ease of operation. This article presents the fabrication of cylindricalshaped mild steel (ER70S-6) samples with a gas metal arc (MIG)—based hybrid WAAM system. A mechanism for actively cooling the substrate is implemented. Deposition parameters are held constant to evaluate the impact of active cooling on deposition quality, inter-pass cooling time, and internal defects. Surface and volume defects can be seen on the cylindrical sample fabricated without an active cooling setup. Defect quantification and phase analysis are performed. The primary phase formed was α-iron in all samples. Actively cooled deposition cross section showed a 99% decrease of incomplete fusion or porosity, with temperature measured 60 s after deposition averaging 235°C less than non-cooled. Microstructural analysis revealed uniformity along the build direction for actively cooled deposition but non-uniform microstructures without cooling. Hardness decreased by approximately 22HV from the first layer to the final layer in all cases. Property variation can be attributed to the respective processing strategies. The current study has demonstrated that active cooling can reduce production time and porosity while maintaining uniform microstructure along the build direction. Such an approach is expected to enhance the reliability of WAAM-processed parts in the coming days.
{"title":"Influence of active cooling on microstructure and mechanical properties of wire arc additively manufactured mild steel","authors":"Aruntapan Dash, L. Squires, Jose D. Avila, S. Bose, A. Bandyopadhyay","doi":"10.3389/fmech.2023.1130407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2023.1130407","url":null,"abstract":"Additive manufacturing (AM) of metals attracts attention because it can produce complex structures in a single step without part-specific tooling. Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), a welding-based method that deposits metal layer by layer, is gaining popularity due to its low cost of operation, feasibility for large-scale part fabrication, and ease of operation. This article presents the fabrication of cylindricalshaped mild steel (ER70S-6) samples with a gas metal arc (MIG)—based hybrid WAAM system. A mechanism for actively cooling the substrate is implemented. Deposition parameters are held constant to evaluate the impact of active cooling on deposition quality, inter-pass cooling time, and internal defects. Surface and volume defects can be seen on the cylindrical sample fabricated without an active cooling setup. Defect quantification and phase analysis are performed. The primary phase formed was α-iron in all samples. Actively cooled deposition cross section showed a 99% decrease of incomplete fusion or porosity, with temperature measured 60 s after deposition averaging 235°C less than non-cooled. Microstructural analysis revealed uniformity along the build direction for actively cooled deposition but non-uniform microstructures without cooling. Hardness decreased by approximately 22HV from the first layer to the final layer in all cases. Property variation can be attributed to the respective processing strategies. The current study has demonstrated that active cooling can reduce production time and porosity while maintaining uniform microstructure along the build direction. Such an approach is expected to enhance the reliability of WAAM-processed parts in the coming days.","PeriodicalId":48635,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45706010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2023.1049571
Manish Kumar, R. Gautam, N. Ansari
The primary aim of this experiment was to use response surface methodology (RSM) to optimize engine operating parameters for optimal performance and emission characteristics of a common rail direct injection (CRDI) diesel engine fuelled with sesame oil methyl ester (SOME)/diesel blends. The experiments were carried out on a water-cooled common rail direct injection engine with a 4-stroke, single-cylinder connected to an eddy current dynamometer. As input variables, the SOME% (0%–20%), fuel injection pressure (FIP) (500–600 bar), EGR rates (0%–14%), and engine load (0–12 kg) were used. The optimization method is utilized to maximize brake thermal efficiency (BTE) while minimizing BSFC, CO, HC, and NOx emissions. Experimental research data were used to create the RSM model through DoE (Design of experiments). The most relevant factors impacting the responses were identified using an ANOVA analysis. According to the optimization findings, the engine’s optimum working parameters were found to be a 20% SOME ratio, 577.5 bar FIP, 5.26% EGR rates, and 5.12 kg engine load. Under these operating circumstances, the optimal responses were determined to be 18.92% BTE, 0.3705 kg/kWh BSFC, 0.03190% vol. CO, 13 ppm HC, and 447.5 ppm NOx emission. At the same time, R 2 values were 96.35%, 87.54%, 91.57%, 95.87%, and 93.73% for BTE, BSFC, CO, HC, and NOx respectively. Graphical Abstract
{"title":"Performance characteristics optimization of CRDI engine fuelled with a blend of sesame oil methyl ester and diesel fuel using response surface methodology approach","authors":"Manish Kumar, R. Gautam, N. Ansari","doi":"10.3389/fmech.2023.1049571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2023.1049571","url":null,"abstract":"The primary aim of this experiment was to use response surface methodology (RSM) to optimize engine operating parameters for optimal performance and emission characteristics of a common rail direct injection (CRDI) diesel engine fuelled with sesame oil methyl ester (SOME)/diesel blends. The experiments were carried out on a water-cooled common rail direct injection engine with a 4-stroke, single-cylinder connected to an eddy current dynamometer. As input variables, the SOME% (0%–20%), fuel injection pressure (FIP) (500–600 bar), EGR rates (0%–14%), and engine load (0–12 kg) were used. The optimization method is utilized to maximize brake thermal efficiency (BTE) while minimizing BSFC, CO, HC, and NOx emissions. Experimental research data were used to create the RSM model through DoE (Design of experiments). The most relevant factors impacting the responses were identified using an ANOVA analysis. According to the optimization findings, the engine’s optimum working parameters were found to be a 20% SOME ratio, 577.5 bar FIP, 5.26% EGR rates, and 5.12 kg engine load. Under these operating circumstances, the optimal responses were determined to be 18.92% BTE, 0.3705 kg/kWh BSFC, 0.03190% vol. CO, 13 ppm HC, and 447.5 ppm NOx emission. At the same time, R 2 values were 96.35%, 87.54%, 91.57%, 95.87%, and 93.73% for BTE, BSFC, CO, HC, and NOx respectively. Graphical Abstract","PeriodicalId":48635,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46949672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2023.1083658
Lukas Strauß, S. Rieß, M. Wensing
In order to be able to use the full potential of regenerative fuels, a comprehensive characterization is necessary to identify the differences between conventional fuels and regenerative fuels. In the current work, we compare OME3−5 and 1-Octanol with diesel-like Dodecane in terms of mixture formation under ECN Spray A conditions for single and multi-injection. To determine the mixtures, i.e., the mass distribution and the resulting air-fuel equivalence ratio, Naber and Siebers’ model as well as Musculus and Kattke’s model are used, which are based on experimental data. For this work, the mass flow rates and also the liquid and gaseous penetration depths of the fuel spray are measured. Results show that the mass ratios for the quasi-steady state of a single main injection for all three fuels are nearly the same, whereas the air-fuel equivalence ratios are very different. In addition, multiple injections are used to show that the fuel influences the opening and closing behavior of the injector. In the transient case of multiple injections, completely different mixtures result. In summary, it can be stated that OME3−5 and also 1-Octanol show a clearly different physio-chemical behavior from Dodecane and cannot simply be used as a drop-in fuel. Therefore, a simple exchange is not possible without major adaptations.
{"title":"Mixture formation of OME3−5 and 1-Octanol in comparison with diesel-like Dodecane under ECN Spray A conditions","authors":"Lukas Strauß, S. Rieß, M. Wensing","doi":"10.3389/fmech.2023.1083658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2023.1083658","url":null,"abstract":"In order to be able to use the full potential of regenerative fuels, a comprehensive characterization is necessary to identify the differences between conventional fuels and regenerative fuels. In the current work, we compare OME3−5 and 1-Octanol with diesel-like Dodecane in terms of mixture formation under ECN Spray A conditions for single and multi-injection. To determine the mixtures, i.e., the mass distribution and the resulting air-fuel equivalence ratio, Naber and Siebers’ model as well as Musculus and Kattke’s model are used, which are based on experimental data. For this work, the mass flow rates and also the liquid and gaseous penetration depths of the fuel spray are measured. Results show that the mass ratios for the quasi-steady state of a single main injection for all three fuels are nearly the same, whereas the air-fuel equivalence ratios are very different. In addition, multiple injections are used to show that the fuel influences the opening and closing behavior of the injector. In the transient case of multiple injections, completely different mixtures result. In summary, it can be stated that OME3−5 and also 1-Octanol show a clearly different physio-chemical behavior from Dodecane and cannot simply be used as a drop-in fuel. Therefore, a simple exchange is not possible without major adaptations.","PeriodicalId":48635,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45977894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2023.1079887
Rochmad Winarso, R. Ismail, P. Anggoro, J. Jamari, A. Bayuseno
Bone disease and fractures are among the health issues that are becoming more prevalent year after year. A mandibular disorder is caused by an accident or disease to the largest and strongest bone in the human face. Because the natural healing process of mandibular bones takes a long time, a bone grafting procedure is used to speed up the patient’s recovery. Due to the limitations of bone grafting processes such as autographs, allographs, and xenografts, bone replacement is being developed using biomaterials via 3D printing. The purpose of the review was to evaluate research on the use of 3D printing in the replacement of mandible bones. The search algorithm found as many as 2,941 articles at the start of the search and 123 articles after initial selection. Up to February 2022, the Scopus electronic database was used to conduct the literature search. This research includes publications that employ 3D printers, additive manufacturing, or finite element analysis to build or analyze mandibular implants. Paper topics in engineering, materials science, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, dentistry, chemical engineering, and computer science are included in this study. Papers in physics, astronomy, and energy, book chapter document types, papers reviews, and documents in languages other than English were excluded from this study. After an initial screening that included the year, publication stage, source type, and language, as many as 70 articles were obtained, and after filtering titles and abstracts obtained 55 articles. After the full-text selection was obtained, 32 articles were included in this review. Some articles were unacceptable because the topics discussed were unrelated to mandibular bone scaffolds. As a result, the field of additive manufacturing for the repair and reconstruction of mandibular defects necessitates the development of novel tools and methodologies. A customized biological scaffold can be created using an appropriate 3D printing process based on the characteristics of various mandibular defects, allowing it to be perfectly matched to the defect region and reducing stress, thereby improving the scaffold’s healing function.
{"title":"A scoping review of the additive manufacturing of mandibular implants","authors":"Rochmad Winarso, R. Ismail, P. Anggoro, J. Jamari, A. Bayuseno","doi":"10.3389/fmech.2023.1079887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2023.1079887","url":null,"abstract":"Bone disease and fractures are among the health issues that are becoming more prevalent year after year. A mandibular disorder is caused by an accident or disease to the largest and strongest bone in the human face. Because the natural healing process of mandibular bones takes a long time, a bone grafting procedure is used to speed up the patient’s recovery. Due to the limitations of bone grafting processes such as autographs, allographs, and xenografts, bone replacement is being developed using biomaterials via 3D printing. The purpose of the review was to evaluate research on the use of 3D printing in the replacement of mandible bones. The search algorithm found as many as 2,941 articles at the start of the search and 123 articles after initial selection. Up to February 2022, the Scopus electronic database was used to conduct the literature search. This research includes publications that employ 3D printers, additive manufacturing, or finite element analysis to build or analyze mandibular implants. Paper topics in engineering, materials science, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, dentistry, chemical engineering, and computer science are included in this study. Papers in physics, astronomy, and energy, book chapter document types, papers reviews, and documents in languages other than English were excluded from this study. After an initial screening that included the year, publication stage, source type, and language, as many as 70 articles were obtained, and after filtering titles and abstracts obtained 55 articles. After the full-text selection was obtained, 32 articles were included in this review. Some articles were unacceptable because the topics discussed were unrelated to mandibular bone scaffolds. As a result, the field of additive manufacturing for the repair and reconstruction of mandibular defects necessitates the development of novel tools and methodologies. A customized biological scaffold can be created using an appropriate 3D printing process based on the characteristics of various mandibular defects, allowing it to be perfectly matched to the defect region and reducing stress, thereby improving the scaffold’s healing function.","PeriodicalId":48635,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45361431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2022.1126450
Mohammad Dehghani, P. Trojovský
This paper introduces a new metaheuristic algorithm named the Osprey Optimization Algorithm (OOA), which imitates the behavior of osprey in nature. The fundamental inspiration of OOA is the strategy of ospreys when hunting fish from the seas. In this hunting strategy, the osprey hunts the prey after detecting its position, then carries it to a suitable position to eat it. The proposed approach of OOA in two phases of exploration and exploitation is mathematically modeled based on the simulation of the natural behavior of ospreys during the hunting process. The performance of OOA has been evaluated in the optimization of twenty-nine standard benchmark functions from the CEC 2017 test suite. Furthermore, the performance of OOA is compared with the performance of twelve well-known metaheuristic algorithms. The simulation results show that the proposed OOA has provided superior performance compared to competitor algorithms by maintaining the balance between exploration and exploitation. In addition, the implementation of OOA on twenty-two real-world constrained optimization problems from the CEC 2011 test suite shows the high capability of the proposed approach in optimizing real-world applications.
{"title":"Osprey optimization algorithm: A new bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems","authors":"Mohammad Dehghani, P. Trojovský","doi":"10.3389/fmech.2022.1126450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2022.1126450","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a new metaheuristic algorithm named the Osprey Optimization Algorithm (OOA), which imitates the behavior of osprey in nature. The fundamental inspiration of OOA is the strategy of ospreys when hunting fish from the seas. In this hunting strategy, the osprey hunts the prey after detecting its position, then carries it to a suitable position to eat it. The proposed approach of OOA in two phases of exploration and exploitation is mathematically modeled based on the simulation of the natural behavior of ospreys during the hunting process. The performance of OOA has been evaluated in the optimization of twenty-nine standard benchmark functions from the CEC 2017 test suite. Furthermore, the performance of OOA is compared with the performance of twelve well-known metaheuristic algorithms. The simulation results show that the proposed OOA has provided superior performance compared to competitor algorithms by maintaining the balance between exploration and exploitation. In addition, the implementation of OOA on twenty-two real-world constrained optimization problems from the CEC 2011 test suite shows the high capability of the proposed approach in optimizing real-world applications.","PeriodicalId":48635,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48309467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2023.1116330
Z. Cao, C. White, M. Agir, K. Kontis
Understanding plume-surface interactions is essential to the design of lander modules and potential bases on bodies such as the Moon, as it is important to predict erosion patterns on the surface and the transport of the displaced regolith material. Experimentally, it is difficult to replicate the extra-terrestrial conditions (e.g. the effects of reduced gravity). Existing numerical tools have limited accessibility and different levels of sophistication in the modelling of regolith entrainment and subsequent transport. In this work, a fully transient open source code for solving rarefied multiphase flows, rarefiedMultiphaseFoam, is updated with models to account for solid-solid interactions and applied to rocket exhaust plume-lunar regolith interactions. Two different models to account for the solid-solid collisions are considered; at relatively low volume fractions, a stochastic collision model, and at higher volume fractions the higher fidelity multiphase particle-in-cell (MPPIC) method. Both methods are applied to a scaled down version of the Apollo era lunar module descent engine and comparisons are drawn between the transient simulation results. It is found that the transient effects are important for the gas phase, with the shock structure and stand-off height changing as the regolith is eroded by the plume. Both models predict cratering at early times and similar dispersion characteristics as the viscous erosion becomes dominant. In general, the erosion processes are slower with the multiphase particle-in-cell method because it accounts for more physical effects, such as enduring contacts and a maximum packing limit. It is found that even if the initial volume fraction is low, the stochastic collision method can become unreliable as the plume impinges on the surface and compresses the regolith particles, invalidating the method’s assumption of only binary collisions. Additionally, it is shown that the breakdown of the locally free-molecular flow assumption that is used to calculate the drag and heat transfer on the solid particles has a strong influence on the temperatures that the solid particles obtain.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2023.1045542
Adnan Darwish Ahmad, Nelson K. Akafuah, J. Forthofer, M. Fuchihata, T. Hirasawa, K. Kuwana, Yuji Nakamura, K. Sekimoto, Kozo Saito, F. Williams
The authors are a team of fire whirl researchers who have been actively studying whirls and large-scale wildland fires by directly observing them through fire-fighting efforts and applying theory, scale modeling, and numerical simulations in fire research. This multidisciplinary research-background team previously conducted scale model experiments to reconstruct hazardous large-scale fires in the laboratory, then conducted numerical simulations and developed fundamental theories to translate these findings into a basic understanding of combustion science and fluid dynamics. This article, a mix of reviews of the state of art experiments, theories, numerical modeling and artificial intelligence, and two case studies, is intended to address some safety concerns and raise awareness of large-scale fire whirls and forest fires with knowledge of thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, fluid dynamics, design, and practical fire-fighting experience, offering gaps that should be filled and future research to be conducted in each field, and crucial new observations and insights on large-scale fire incidents. We believe, this timely topic is of interest not only to fire research community but also to general readers, as the frequency and intensity of large-scale forest fires and fire whirls have increased, possibly due to the continuing global warming trend and human-induced changes in fuels. Each section and case study was written by one or two individual researchers based on their field of expertise which allows them to critically review progress made in their section of large-scale fire-whirls and forest-fires. Crucial observations and insights on the historical Great-Kanto-Earthquake-generated Hifukusho-Ato Fire-whirl (HAFW) and the slow rotations observed during recent forest firefighting efforts are presented. The first case study occurred in downtown Tokyo on 1 September 1923, as a result of the Great-Kanto-Earthquake, which claimed over 38,000 deaths within 15 min. The second case study discusses large-scale slow rotations observed during recent forest fires, which might had been responsible for the injuries and deaths of experienced firefighters.
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