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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Guo, Xiaolei, et al.
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Machinability of wood fiber/polyethylene composite during orthogonal cutting
- 2021
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In: Wood Science and Technology. - : Springer. - 0043-7719 .- 1432-5225. ; 55:2, s. 521-534
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Wood fiber/polyethylene composite (WFPEC) is composed of a natural wood fiber and a recyclable polyethylene plastic, which is normally used as an environmental protection composite material. However, better knowledge of chip formation and surface damage mechanism of WFPEC is essential to improve its machinability for extending exterior and interior applications. In this article, machinability of WFPEC was investigated by analyzing the disparity between cutting efficiency and surface quality through a group of orthogonal cutting experiments with change of cutting depth. The chip formation process was recorded by a high-speed camera system with 5000 frames per second. Surface topography was observed by a scanning electron microscope. The results showed that the chip morphology changed from continuous cutting governed by a continuous shearing process under the shallow cutting depth, to a discontinuous cutting governed by plastic fracture under the deep cutting depth ahead of the tool tip. Flattened matrix was the main form of surface topography caused by shallow cutting depth, while matrix-fiber tearing was caused by deep cutting depth. Pullout/fracture and debonding of fibers were related to the fiber orientation angle and the diameter of fiber bundles, but not to the cutting depth. Taken together, the toughness of the workpiece material in the cutting region decreased with the increase in cutting depth. To avoid matrix-fiber tearing, shallow cutting depth should be used during finishing to maintain surface quality. In contrast, pre-cutting can be performed with a deep cutting depth in order to improve the cutting efficiency.
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- Klionsky, Daniel J., et al.
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Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy
- 2012
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In: Autophagy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1554-8635 .- 1554-8627. ; 8:4, s. 445-544
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In 2008 we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy. Since then, research on this topic has continued to accelerate, and many new scientists have entered the field. Our knowledge base and relevant new technologies have also been expanding. Accordingly, it is important to update these guidelines for monitoring autophagy in different organisms. Various reviews have described the range of assays that have been used for this purpose. Nevertheless, there continues to be confusion regarding acceptable methods to measure autophagy, especially in multicellular eukaryotes. A key point that needs to be emphasized is that there is a difference between measurements that monitor the numbers or volume of autophagic elements (e.g., autophagosomes or autolysosomes) at any stage of the autophagic process vs. those that measure flux through the autophagy pathway (i.e., the complete process); thus, a block in macroautophagy that results in autophagosome accumulation needs to be differentiated from stimuli that result in increased autophagic activity, defined as increased autophagy induction coupled with increased delivery to, and degradation within, lysosomes (in most higher eukaryotes and some protists such as Dictyostelium) or the vacuole (in plants and fungi). In other words, it is especially important that investigators new to the field understand that the appearance of more autophagosomes does not necessarily equate with more autophagy. In fact, in many cases, autophagosomes accumulate because of a block in trafficking to lysosomes without a concomitant change in autophagosome biogenesis, whereas an increase in autolysosomes may reflect a reduction in degradative activity. Here, we present a set of guidelines for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macroautophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes. These guidelines are not meant to be a formulaic set of rules, because the appropriate assays depend in part on the question being asked and the system being used. In addition, we emphasize that no individual assay is guaranteed to be the most appropriate one in every situation, and we strongly recommend the use of multiple assays to monitor autophagy. In these guidelines, we consider these various methods of assessing autophagy and what information can, or cannot, be obtained from them. Finally, by discussing the merits and limits of particular autophagy assays, we hope to encourage technical innovation in the field.
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- Cao, Pingxiang, et al.
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Effect of rake angle on cutting performance during machining of stone-plastic composite material with polycrystalline diamond cutters
- 2019
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In: Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology. - : Springer. - 1738-494X .- 1976-3824. ; 33:1, s. 351-356
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study investigates the effect of rake angle on cutting performance during machining of stone-plastic composite material with diamond cutters. To that end, an orthogonal cutting experiment was designed, in which stone-plastic composite material was planed by a polycrystalline diamond (PCD) cutter to produce chips. The features studied include cutting forces, cutting heat, chip formation and cutting quality. The conclusions are as follows: Firstly, increased rake angle causes frictional force and resulting force to decrease, promoting an increase in normal force. Secondly, during planing, cutting heat is primarily distributed in the chips, with less retained in the cutting edge, and the least retained in the machined surface. The temperatures of both cutting edge and chip decline with an increase in rake angle. Thirdly, as rake angle increases, chip morphology changes from segmental to curved and then to particle chips, with chip-breaking lengths first increasing and then decreasing. Finally, an increased rake angle leads a more stable cutting process and improved cutting quality. Therefore, with the precondition of blade strength, a diamond cutter with a larger rake angle can be used to machine stone-plastic composite to improve production quality by forming a smoother machined surface.
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- Ekevad, Mats, et al.
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Curve sawing effects on board dimensions when rip-sawing with a circular saw blade
- 2016
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In: Wood Material Science & Engineering. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1748-0272 .- 1748-0280. ; 11:3, s. 135-141
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Curve sawing means advantages for yield and quality of sawn boards. However, for circular saw machinery deviations of saw kerfs give losses of valuable board volume. Deviations give thinner boards but also slight cupping of the cross sections. Theoretical calculations show that even with moderate (large) curve radii, these saw kerf deviations are typically 0.2–0.6 mm for normal circular saw machinery and Swedish log material. The test sawing reported here was made in order to give experimental values that can be compared to theoretical values. Fifty normal logs and 50 curved with top diameter 236–248 mm were cut with sawing pattern 3X with center boards 51 × 149 mm. The average curve radius of the curved cants that were cut in the resaw was 132 m (bow height 19 mm) and the theoretical saw kerf deviation for this radius is 0.31 mm. The experimental results show that the thickness reduction at the measuring points for curve sawn boards compared to straight sawn boards was in average 0.19 mm to be compared with the theoretical value of 0.20 mm. Cupping was more difficult to measure but results seem to agree well between theory and experiments.
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- Ekevad, Mats, 1956-, et al.
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Potential Yield Increase with Reduced Saw Kerf Deviations when Curve Sawing
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Curve sawing with circular saw blades introduces saw kerf deviations due to the combination of the flat sawblade and the curvature of the saw kerf in log or cant direction. Deviations for a double arbor resaw used for curve sawing, are that the saw kerf becomes wider at top and bottom and that the desired rectangular cross sections of the boards become distorted. The yield loss due to the saw kerf deviation in practice for a sawmill was of interest in this study. Earlier and very approximate guesses and simple estimates have been indicating that the loss of income for a sawmill in Sweden producing 200’ m3 of sawn timber may be about 2 MSEK/year (0.22 Meuro/year). In this study calculations were based on true log data and assumed sawing conditions for a sawmill. A true mixed input log assortment (78458 spruce and pine logs taken into the log yard of a sawmill in northern part of Sweden) was used as basis. Individual curvature of these logs was taken into consideration but the calculation was still approximate because not all facts about sawing patterns, log classes etc. for an actual sawmill were known. Instead one single sawing class was used for the calculation of saw kerf deviation. Results show that the direct yield loss given the assumed input data was 0.61 %-units. This corresponds roughly to the income loss 0.2 Meuro/year mentioned above. Besides from the yield increase there are other advantages gained if the saw kerf deviation can be reduced.
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- Guo, Wenchao, et al.
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Early diagnosis of battery faults through an unsupervised health scoring method for real-world applications
- 2024
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In: IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. - 2332-7782. ; 10:2, s. 2521-2532
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Battery fault diagnosis is critical to ensure the safe and reliable operation of electric vehicles or energy storage systems. Early diagnosis of battery faults can enable timely maintenance and reduce potential accidents. However, the lead time for detection is still relatively insufficient, and the identification of target vehicle with unidentified fault type has generally been neglected. To fill the gap, an unsupervised health scoring method for early diagnosis of battery faults is proposed in this paper. First, considering the properties of field data, new features and four types of feature sets related to battery health and fault status are derived for each cell. Then, a novel strategy is proposed to transform a typical classification problem into a quantitative scoring problem by performing multiple clustering. To produce ample clustering results, three cluster algorithms based on different principles are used and the features are randomly divided into feature subsets. By coupling temperature information, early determination of thermal runaway faults can be achieved. Finally, the real-world cloud data of three typical accidents are employed for verification, the results indicate that the proposed approach can innovatively achieve the detection of the abnormal cells at the level of days in advance, demonstrating excellent performance.
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- Guo, Wenchao, et al.
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Rapid online health estimation for lithium-ion batteries based on partial constant-voltage charging segment
- 2023
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In: Energy. - 0360-5442 .- 1873-6785. ; 281
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Battery health evaluation is vital for ensuring the security and reliability of lithium-ion batteries. However, the currently proposed methods generally require high-quality input data for feature extraction in online applications. To overcome this obstacle, this paper proposes a rapid online health estimation method only based on partial constant-voltage (CV) charging segment. Firstly, through primary analysis of battery test data, the evolution of CV charging current is confirmed to be correlated with battery capacity. Subsequently, the current evolution constant of CV charging phase is mathematically formulated and quantitatively characterized using a novel health indicator (HI). Besides, charging time and charging capacity are also extracted as HIs to comprehensively capture the CV charging behavior and enhance the robustness of data-driven models. Considering the user's charging habits, an optimized CV segment is determined, enabling a significant reduction in data size and coverage. Finally, three data-driven methods are employed to construct health estimation models by using the extracted HIs, and the best performance is achieved by Gaussian process regression with MAE and RMSE lower than 0.8% and 1%, respectively. Remarkably, the proposed method demonstrates superiority in dealing with sparse sampling, and satisfactory results with 2.9% error under the sparsity of 10 s are obtained.
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- Guo, Xiaolei, et al.
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Cutting Forces and Chip Morphology during Wood Plastic Composites Orthogonal Cutting
- 2014
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In: BioResources. - : BioResources. - 1930-2126. ; 9:2, s. 2090-2106
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The effect of chip thickness, rake angle, and edge radius on cutting forces and chip morphology in wood plastic composites (WPCs) orthogonal cutting was investigated. Three types of WPCs, Woodflour/polyethylene composite (WFPEC), wood flour/polypropylene composite (WFPPC), and wood flour/polyvinyl chloride composite (WFPVCC), that were tested exhibited different behavior with respect to the machinability aspects. The cutting forces of WFPVCC were the highest, followed by WFPPC and WFPEC. The most significant factor on the parallel cutting force of these three types of WPCs was the chip thickness, which explained more than 90%, contribution of total variation, while rake angle, edge radius, and the interactions between these factorshad small contributions. The most significant factor on the normal cutting force of WPCs was also the chip thickness, which accounted for more than 60% of the total variation. The chips produced included long continuous chips, short continuous chips, flake chips, and granule chips when cutting these three types of WPCs.
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