Heavy-duty gears are extensively utilized in high-power equipment such as helicopters, ships, and commercial vehicles, often leading to significant frictional power losses. Accurate friction prediction is essential for designing energy-efficient transmission systems. This study proposes a data-driven model to predict the friction coefficient and applies it to estimate the meshing efficiency of heavy-duty gears. By training on friction test data under various lubrication conditions, an extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model is developed to predict the friction coefficient, with hyperparameters optimized through grid search and cross-validation. The model’s decision mechanism is interpreted using Shapley additive explanations, highlighting the influence of speed, load, surface roughness, and lubricant viscosity on the friction coefficient. When applied to predict meshing efficiency, the model is experimentally validated, achieving a maximum prediction error of 0.211 % and an average error of 0.108 %. The effects of major operating and geometrical parameters are analyzed, showing that meshing efficiency increases with higher speeds, torque, pressure angles, tip relief length, and lower addendum coefficients. The results indicate that proper parameter optimization and the use of high-viscosity lubricants can enhance the energy efficiency of heavy-duty gears.
{"title":"A data-driven friction coefficient model and its application in meshing efficiency prediction of heavy-duty gears","authors":"Ningwei Xia , Changjiang Zhou , Shengwen Hou , Fa Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Heavy-duty gears are extensively utilized in high-power equipment such as helicopters, ships, and commercial vehicles, often leading to significant frictional power losses. Accurate friction prediction is essential for designing energy-efficient transmission systems. This study proposes a data-driven model to predict the friction coefficient and applies it to estimate the meshing efficiency of heavy-duty gears. By training on friction test data under various lubrication conditions, an extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model is developed to predict the friction coefficient, with hyperparameters optimized through grid search and cross-validation. The model’s decision mechanism is interpreted using Shapley additive explanations, highlighting the influence of speed, load, surface roughness, and lubricant viscosity on the friction coefficient. When applied to predict meshing efficiency, the model is experimentally validated, achieving a maximum prediction error of 0.211 % and an average error of 0.108 %. The effects of major operating and geometrical parameters are analyzed, showing that meshing efficiency increases with higher speeds, torque, pressure angles, tip relief length, and lower addendum coefficients. The results indicate that proper parameter optimization and the use of high-viscosity lubricants can enhance the energy efficiency of heavy-duty gears.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49518,"journal":{"name":"Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103173"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144510757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Effective path planning in flooding emergency rescue scenarios is essential for ensuring timely evacuation while minimizing safety risks. Conventional path-planning algorithms often prioritize the shortest or most cost-efficient routes, potentially neglecting safety considerations. To address this limitation, this study introduces an improved path-planning method using a behavior-based A-star (A*) algorithm designed for evacuation scenarios. A cellular automata (CA) environment is applied to address common challenges associated with traditional A* algorithms, including path inefficiencies, longer distances, and difficulties in handling dynamic flood environments. The key innovation of this study is the optimization of a heuristic function by integrating depth sensitivity perception (DSP), which directly influences evacuation behavior by prioritizing safer paths based on real-time water depth assessments during path selection. Experimental results across diverse flood scenarios demonstrate that the optimized A* algorithm significantly outperforms traditional A-star and Dijkstra’s algorithms, achieving reductions in explored nodes by 90.06 % and 93.13 %, lowering safety risks, and shortening computational times by 87.65 % and 88.06 %, respectively. These findings validate the efficacy of the depth-sensitive heuristic in enhancing evacuation pathfinding within complex flood environments.
{"title":"Simulating optimal flood evacuation using heuristic algorithms and path-choice behaviors","authors":"Housseyn Chebika , Guoqiang Shen , Haoying Han , Mahmoud Mabrouk , Brahim Nouibat","doi":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effective path planning in flooding emergency rescue scenarios is essential for ensuring timely evacuation while minimizing safety risks. Conventional path-planning algorithms often prioritize the shortest or most cost-efficient routes, potentially neglecting safety considerations. To address this limitation, this study introduces an improved path-planning method using a behavior-based A-star (A*) algorithm designed for evacuation scenarios. A cellular automata (CA) environment is applied to address common challenges associated with traditional A* algorithms, including path inefficiencies, longer distances, and difficulties in handling dynamic flood environments. The key innovation of this study is the optimization of a heuristic function by integrating depth sensitivity perception (DSP), which directly influences evacuation behavior by prioritizing safer paths based on real-time water depth assessments during path selection. Experimental results across diverse flood scenarios demonstrate that the optimized A* algorithm significantly outperforms traditional A-star and Dijkstra’s algorithms, achieving reductions in explored nodes by 90.06 % and 93.13 %, lowering safety risks, and shortening computational times by 87.65 % and 88.06 %, respectively. These findings validate the efficacy of the depth-sensitive heuristic in enhancing evacuation pathfinding within complex flood environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49518,"journal":{"name":"Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103167"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144596951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-07-05DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103180
Nan Jiang , Hanchen Yu , Eric Wai Ming Lee , Hongyun Yang , Lizhong Yang , Richard Kwok Kit Yuen
The modeling and simulation of pedestrian and evacuation dynamics provides essential insights for the field of crowd safety against the background of population increasing and regional development. With the superior performance of machine learning methods demonstrated in pedestrian modeling, varying data encoding schemes and machine learning algorithms were investigated and lack of comparative analysis. Hence, this study analyzes machine learning methods for simulating microscopic pedestrian and evacuation dynamics. The motion interaction field along with a data extraction rule that standardizes input lengths for learning-based models is proposed. Two typical algorithms, Classification and Regression Trees (CART) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), are employed for model training and comparison. The fitting performance is evaluated using mean absolute error of velocity, revealing that the CART-based model outperforms the ANN-based model in stability and lower error rates, particularly in varying local density ranges. Dynamics tests are further performed to examine the two models’ robustness against inherent error. The results indicate that the CART-based model struggles under high-density conditions due to the split-based structure. In contrast, the ANN-based model demonstrates superior non-linear fitting ability, allowing for better reproduction of pedestrian dynamics at relatively higher densities. Moreover, the Wasserstein Distance with Sinkhorn iteration is used to quantify model performance in terms of flow-density fundamental diagrams, highlighting the advantages of learning-based approaches over traditional social force model. This research has significant implications for the field of building and civil engineering, as insights from comparative analysis of two typical machine learning algorithms and the establishment of motion interaction field can inform the progress of learning-based pedestrian and evacuation dynamics simulation. The study presented underscores the transformative potential of machine learning methods in simulating pedestrian dynamics and suggests future research directions to enhance robustness and applicability across diverse scenarios of learning-based methods in microscopic pedestrian and evacuation dynamics simulation.
{"title":"Machine learning methods in microscopic pedestrian and evacuation dynamics simulation: a comparative study","authors":"Nan Jiang , Hanchen Yu , Eric Wai Ming Lee , Hongyun Yang , Lizhong Yang , Richard Kwok Kit Yuen","doi":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The modeling and simulation of pedestrian and evacuation dynamics provides essential insights for the field of crowd safety against the background of population increasing and regional development. With the superior performance of machine learning methods demonstrated in pedestrian modeling, varying data encoding schemes and machine learning algorithms were investigated and lack of comparative analysis. Hence, this study analyzes machine learning methods for simulating microscopic pedestrian and evacuation dynamics. The motion interaction field along with a data extraction rule that standardizes input lengths for learning-based models is proposed. Two typical algorithms, Classification and Regression Trees (CART) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), are employed for model training and comparison. The fitting performance is evaluated using mean absolute error of velocity, revealing that the CART-based model outperforms the ANN-based model in stability and lower error rates, particularly in varying local density ranges. Dynamics tests are further performed to examine the two models’ robustness against inherent error. The results indicate that the CART-based model struggles under high-density conditions due to the split-based structure. In contrast, the ANN-based model demonstrates superior non-linear fitting ability, allowing for better reproduction of pedestrian dynamics at relatively higher densities. Moreover, the Wasserstein Distance with Sinkhorn iteration is used to quantify model performance in terms of flow-density fundamental diagrams, highlighting the advantages of learning-based approaches over traditional social force model. This research has significant implications for the field of building and civil engineering, as insights from comparative analysis of two typical machine learning algorithms and the establishment of motion interaction field can inform the progress of learning-based pedestrian and evacuation dynamics simulation. The study presented underscores the transformative potential of machine learning methods in simulating pedestrian dynamics and suggests future research directions to enhance robustness and applicability across diverse scenarios of learning-based methods in microscopic pedestrian and evacuation dynamics simulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49518,"journal":{"name":"Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103180"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144702136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103166
Chuanxiang Ren , Li Lu , Xiang Liu , Fangfang Fu , Lin Cheng
With the rapid development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology, ecological speed planning has become a critical challenge in eco-driving, particularly in reducing energy consumption and improving the efficiency of autonomous vehicles. A key research focus is how to achieve energy savings and emission reductions by optimizing driving speed under various complex conditions, while simultaneously ensuring driving comfort and traffic efficiency. In view of this, a multi-intersection ecological speed planning strategy and method for autonomous platoon is proposed, aiming to reduce speed fluctuations and energy consumption of autonomous platoon in multiple driving scenarios. Firstly, the scenarios of platoon passing through the current intersection and its downstream intersection are analyzed, and then, the strategies for the platoon to pass through the current and its downstream intersections are proposed, including constant speed strategy (CSS) and segmented speed strategy (SSS). Moreover, the platoon ecological speed planning method is presented, which includes the calculation of the passage period, the capacity in the passage period of the intersections, and the platoon ecological speed. Finally, different simulation situations are designed in view of different ecological speed strategies, and compared with the single intersection platoon speed strategy (SIPSS) and the no speed strategy (NSS). The results indicate that the CSS and the SSS can mitigate the speed fluctuations of the platoon through intersections, reduce the fuel consumption and delay time, and outperform the SIPSS and NSS. Especially in the current intersection with a queuing platoon, the proposed strategy reduces fuel consumption and delay time by up to 67.21 % and 2.74 %, respectively.
{"title":"Multi-intersection platoon ecological speed planning strategy and method for autonomous driving simulation testing","authors":"Chuanxiang Ren , Li Lu , Xiang Liu , Fangfang Fu , Lin Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the rapid development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology, ecological speed planning has become a critical challenge in eco-driving, particularly in reducing energy consumption and improving the efficiency of autonomous vehicles. A key research focus is how to achieve energy savings and emission reductions by optimizing driving speed under various complex conditions, while simultaneously ensuring driving comfort and traffic efficiency. In view of this, a multi-intersection ecological speed planning strategy and method for autonomous platoon is proposed, aiming to reduce speed fluctuations and energy consumption of autonomous platoon in multiple driving scenarios. Firstly, the scenarios of platoon passing through the current intersection and its downstream intersection are analyzed, and then, the strategies for the platoon to pass through the current and its downstream intersections are proposed, including constant speed strategy (CSS) and segmented speed strategy (SSS). Moreover, the platoon ecological speed planning method is presented, which includes the calculation of the passage period, the capacity in the passage period of the intersections, and the platoon ecological speed. Finally, different simulation situations are designed in view of different ecological speed strategies, and compared with the single intersection platoon speed strategy (SIPSS) and the no speed strategy (NSS). The results indicate that the CSS and the SSS can mitigate the speed fluctuations of the platoon through intersections, reduce the fuel consumption and delay time, and outperform the SIPSS and NSS. Especially in the current intersection with a queuing platoon, the proposed strategy reduces fuel consumption and delay time by up to 67.21 % and 2.74 %, respectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49518,"journal":{"name":"Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103166"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144297683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103191
Zhiyuan Zhang , Weimin Yang , Meixia Wang , Linkun Jin , Xuan Song , Enming Zhang , Cong Tian , Fengqiang Gong
Carbon dioxide (CO2) fracturing tubes have been applied as a novel blasting technique in rock blasting. However, the three-dimensional evolution of fracture networks induced by CO2 blasting remains poorly investigated. Therefore, this study conducted on-site blasting tests on 1 m3 rock specimens. Field data were used to validate numerical simulations, and phase-transition blasting processes were further simulated under varying expansion ratios and loading durations. The results indicated a fractal dimension of 1.578 for the fracture network, with rock fragments exhibiting greater uniformity than those generated by traditional explosive blasting. The internal fracture network comprised interconnected radial and circumferential fracture planes. A linear positive correlation was observed among the particle expansion ratio, the total fracture count, and the input energy. Moreover, the density of radial fracture planes and the fracture network increased with the expansion ratio. In contrast, the total number of fractures and blasting energy demonstrated a quadratic inverse relationship with loading duration. Shorter loading durations led to a dense distribution of fracture networks around the blasting hole and increased heterogeneity of rock fragments. As the loading duration increases, the fracture number curve exhibited a significant lag compared to the particle expansion curve. These findings advance the mechanistic understanding of CO2 fracturing tubes and optimize blasting efficiency.
{"title":"Study on the evolution mechanism of three-dimensional fracture networks in rock induced by CO2 fracturing tube blasting","authors":"Zhiyuan Zhang , Weimin Yang , Meixia Wang , Linkun Jin , Xuan Song , Enming Zhang , Cong Tian , Fengqiang Gong","doi":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) fracturing tubes have been applied as a novel blasting technique in rock blasting. However, the three-dimensional evolution of fracture networks induced by CO<sub>2</sub> blasting remains poorly investigated. Therefore, this study conducted on-site blasting tests on 1 m<sup>3</sup> rock specimens. Field data were used to validate numerical simulations, and phase-transition blasting processes were further simulated under varying expansion ratios and loading durations. The results indicated a fractal dimension of 1.578 for the fracture network, with rock fragments exhibiting greater uniformity than those generated by traditional explosive blasting. The internal fracture network comprised interconnected radial and circumferential fracture planes. A linear positive correlation was observed among the particle expansion ratio, the total fracture count, and the input energy. Moreover, the density of radial fracture planes and the fracture network increased with the expansion ratio. In contrast, the total number of fractures and blasting energy demonstrated a quadratic inverse relationship with loading duration. Shorter loading durations led to a dense distribution of fracture networks around the blasting hole and increased heterogeneity of rock fragments. As the loading duration increases, the fracture number curve exhibited a significant lag compared to the particle expansion curve. These findings advance the mechanistic understanding of CO<sub>2</sub> fracturing tubes and optimize blasting efficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49518,"journal":{"name":"Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103191"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144772999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-07-12DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103178
Dimitris Gkoulis, Anargyros Tsadimas, George Kousiouris, Cleopatra Bardaki, Mara Nikolaidou
Real-time data streams from edge-based IoT sensors are frequently affected by transmission errors, sensor faults, and network disruptions, leading to missing or incomplete data. This paper investigates the application of lightweight, real-time imputation methods to enhance fault tolerance in edge computing systems. To this end, we propose to integrate a modular imputation engine on edge system supporting lightweight forecasting models selected for their computational efficiency and suitability to operate on real-time data streams. To assess the performance of different popular lightweight forecasting models for real-time applications, a simulation framework is introduced that simulates the operation of the imputation engine, replicates sensor failure scenarios and allows controlled testing on real-world systems. Imputation accuracy is evaluated using Mean Absolute Error (MAE), 95th percentile error, and maximum error, with results benchmarked against sensor tolerance thresholds. The simulation framework is used to explore imputation on environmental data based on observations collected from a weather station. The findings show that Holt–Winters Exponential Smoothing delivers the highest accuracy for real-time imputation across environmental variables, outperforming simpler models suited only for short-term gaps. Errors grow with longer forecasts, confirming imputation as a temporary solution. Evaluations against sensor-specific thresholds offer practical insights, and execution profiling proves these models are lightweight enough for deployment on low-power edge devices, enabling real-time, fault-tolerant monitoring without cloud dependence.
{"title":"Exploring the performance of real-time data imputation to enhance fault tolerance on the edge: A study on environmental data","authors":"Dimitris Gkoulis, Anargyros Tsadimas, George Kousiouris, Cleopatra Bardaki, Mara Nikolaidou","doi":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Real-time data streams from edge-based IoT sensors are frequently affected by transmission errors, sensor faults, and network disruptions, leading to missing or incomplete data. This paper investigates the application of lightweight, real-time imputation methods to enhance fault tolerance in edge computing systems. To this end, we propose to integrate a modular imputation engine on edge system supporting lightweight forecasting models selected for their computational efficiency and suitability to operate on real-time data streams. To assess the performance of different popular lightweight forecasting models for real-time applications, a simulation framework is introduced that simulates the operation of the imputation engine, replicates sensor failure scenarios and allows controlled testing on real-world systems. Imputation accuracy is evaluated using Mean Absolute Error (MAE), 95th percentile error, and maximum error, with results benchmarked against sensor tolerance thresholds. The simulation framework is used to explore imputation on environmental data based on observations collected from a weather station. The findings show that Holt–Winters Exponential Smoothing delivers the highest accuracy for real-time imputation across environmental variables, outperforming simpler models suited only for short-term gaps. Errors grow with longer forecasts, confirming imputation as a temporary solution. Evaluations against sensor-specific thresholds offer practical insights, and execution profiling proves these models are lightweight enough for deployment on low-power edge devices, enabling real-time, fault-tolerant monitoring without cloud dependence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49518,"journal":{"name":"Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103178"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144614126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-07-14DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103182
Burak Özcan , Umut Çalışkan , Murat Aydın , Onur Çavuşoğlu , Ulvi Şeker
In this study, the asymmetric (different tensile and compressive behavior) thermo-mechanical behavior and damage of gray cast irons (EN-GJL-200, EN-GJL-250, EN-GJL-300), which are widely used in industrial applications, under different strain rates and temperatures were investigated by a combination of experimental and numerical methods. The mechanical response of the materials was characterized by quasi-static tensile and compression tests at room temperature and elevated temperatures up to 700 °C, Split Hopkinson Compression Bar (SHPB) tests for high strain rates (up to ∼3600 s−1) and tensile tests with specimens of different notch radii to analyze the damage behavior. Based on the experimental data obtained, the Johnson-Cook (JC) material (A, B, n, C, m) and damage (D1-D5) model parameters were calibrated separately for both loading cases in order to capture the apparent asymmetric behavior of gray cast irons under tensile and compression loading. These separate parameter sets were integrated into ANSYS Autodyn finite element software through FORTRAN-based user-defined subroutines and virtual tensile, compression and SHPB tests were performed. Comparing the numerical simulation results with the experimental data, it was observed that the developed asymmetric modeling approach, in particular, represents the thermo-mechanical behavior and damage of the material with high accuracy (deviations in the range of 2–8 % for maximum stress and elongation at break values). This study provides reliable and decoupled JC parameter sets for modeling the asymmetric thermo-mechanical behavior and damage of gray cast irons, allowing more realistic simulations to predict the performance of these materials in demanding engineering applications.
{"title":"Modeling the asymmetric thermo-mechanical behavior and failure of gray cast irons: An experimental–numerical study with separate Johnson–Cook parameters","authors":"Burak Özcan , Umut Çalışkan , Murat Aydın , Onur Çavuşoğlu , Ulvi Şeker","doi":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103182","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103182","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, the asymmetric (different tensile and compressive behavior) thermo-mechanical behavior and damage of gray cast irons (EN-GJL-200, EN-GJL-250, EN-GJL-300), which are widely used in industrial applications, under different strain rates and temperatures were investigated by a combination of experimental and numerical methods. The mechanical response of the materials was characterized by quasi-static tensile and compression tests at room temperature and elevated temperatures up to 700 °C, Split Hopkinson Compression Bar (SHPB) tests for high strain rates (up to ∼3600 s<sup>−1</sup>) and tensile tests with specimens of different notch radii to analyze the damage behavior. Based on the experimental data obtained, the Johnson-Cook (JC) material (A, B, n, C, m) and damage (D1-D5) model parameters were calibrated separately for both loading cases in order to capture the apparent asymmetric behavior of gray cast irons under tensile and compression loading. These separate parameter sets were integrated into ANSYS Autodyn finite element software through FORTRAN-based user-defined subroutines and virtual tensile, compression and SHPB tests were performed. Comparing the numerical simulation results with the experimental data, it was observed that the developed asymmetric modeling approach, in particular, represents the thermo-mechanical behavior and damage of the material with high accuracy (deviations in the range of 2–8 % for maximum stress and elongation at break values). This study provides reliable and decoupled JC parameter sets for modeling the asymmetric thermo-mechanical behavior and damage of gray cast irons, allowing more realistic simulations to predict the performance of these materials in demanding engineering applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49518,"journal":{"name":"Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103182"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103168
Zhuangzhi Tian , Xiaolong Xu
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-fog computing, efficient offloading of complex dependency tasks has become a key challenge for improving system performance, especially for real-time IoT applications. Traditional methods are inefficient in handling dynamic environments and long-range dependencies, while existing deep reinforcement learning approaches face issues such as rigid resource allocation and Q-value overestimation. To address these problems, we propose an Adaptive Dynamic Cloud-fog Computing Offloading Method for complex dependency tasks (CADCO). The method accurately models task dependencies using the multi-head attention mechanism of Transformer, optimizes computational and memory resource allocation through Hybrid Model Parallelism (HMP) technology, and designs a dynamic offloading strategy based on an improved Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN). A freshness factor is introduced to optimize the experience replay mechanism, enhancing the stability of the strategy. Experimental results show that CADCO demonstrates significant advantages in multi-user, multi-task offloading scenarios, optimizing task scheduling, improving resource utilization, and significantly enhancing QoS while reducing task latency and energy consumption. These results validate the practical application value of CADCO in complex task dependency environments, providing solid theoretical and experimental support for intelligent computing offloading optimization.
{"title":"CADCO: An Adaptive Dynamic Cloud-fog Computing Offloading Method for complex dependency tasks of IoT","authors":"Zhuangzhi Tian , Xiaolong Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103168","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103168","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-fog computing, efficient offloading of complex dependency tasks has become a key challenge for improving system performance, especially for real-time IoT applications. Traditional methods are inefficient in handling dynamic environments and long-range dependencies, while existing deep reinforcement learning approaches face issues such as rigid resource allocation and Q-value overestimation. To address these problems, we propose an Adaptive Dynamic Cloud-fog Computing Offloading Method for complex dependency tasks (CADCO). The method accurately models task dependencies using the multi-head attention mechanism of Transformer, optimizes computational and memory resource allocation through Hybrid Model Parallelism (HMP) technology, and designs a dynamic offloading strategy based on an improved Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN). A freshness factor is introduced to optimize the experience replay mechanism, enhancing the stability of the strategy. Experimental results show that CADCO demonstrates significant advantages in multi-user, multi-task offloading scenarios, optimizing task scheduling, improving resource utilization, and significantly enhancing QoS while reducing task latency and energy consumption. These results validate the practical application value of CADCO in complex task dependency environments, providing solid theoretical and experimental support for intelligent computing offloading optimization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49518,"journal":{"name":"Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103168"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144570443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103192
Sven Watzinger , David Olave-Rojas , Janina Bathe , Hanna-Joy Renner , Jan Wnent , Leonie Hannappel , Jan-Thorsten Gräsner , Stefan Nickel
The global pandemic provoked by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in recent years has presented new challenges to health care systems. One major issue is the risk of overloading hospital capacities during regional surges, especially in intensive care units. Strategic patient transfers between regions with different loads can mitigate this risk. To coordinate such nationwide strategic patient transfers in Germany, the clover-leaf system was initiated. The transfer decision consists of allocating patients to destination hospitals as well as scheduling patients on transport vehicles which includes the possibility of combining different modes of transport, for instance ground-based with an ambulance and air-based with a helicopter, during one transfer. As potentially conflicting objective dimensions the impact of the transfers on the transferred patients and the impact on loads in intensive care units have to be considered. To support the decision makers a hybrid simulation model combining agent-based and discrete-event modeling is developed by an interdisciplinary team of medical and operations research experts. The main contribution of the simulation model is the modeling of multimodal patient transfers which to the best of our knowledge has not been considered in the existing literature. Next to the simulation model, several transfer strategies in the form of decision rules are proposed. These transfer strategies are used to benchmark transfer plans created by the decision makers in a test scenario based on nationwide data of the German health care system. Using simulation allowed to evaluate the transfer plans in different objective dimensions and informed the decision-making process.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2025.103147
Aellison C.T. Santos , Renan M. Silva , Ben Schneider , Malte Wilhelm , Iguatemi E. Fonseca , Vivek Nigam
Due to the complexity of deployed networks, as well as its NP-complete traffic scheduling problem (Craciunas et al., 2016b), Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) configuration is error-prone and challenging when done manually. We present TSNsched, an open-source framework for TSN configuration. The proposed framework has workflows that enable the generation, validation, and deployment of TSN schedules. TSNsched takes as input the network logical topology, expressed as flows, its latency and jitter requirements, generating schedules for TSN switches by reducing different variations of traffic scheduling problems to logical theories that can be automatically solved using Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers. TSNsched provides customized network simulators for validation of the generated schedules. We describe by example how these tool workflows can be used to analyze, validate, and deploy TSN configurations.
由于部署网络的复杂性,以及其NP-complete流量调度问题(Craciunas et al., 2016b),时间敏感网络(TSN)配置在手动完成时容易出错且具有挑战性。我们提出TSNsched,一个用于TSN配置的开源框架。建议的框架具有支持TSN计划的生成、验证和部署的工作流。TSNsched将以流表示的网络逻辑拓扑、时延和抖动需求作为输入,通过将流量调度问题的不同变化形式简化为可以使用可满足模理论(Satisfiability Modulo theories, SMT)求解器自动求解的逻辑理论,生成TSN交换机的调度。TSNsched提供定制的网络模拟器来验证生成的时间表。我们通过示例描述如何使用这些工具工作流来分析、验证和部署TSN配置。
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