This paper presents numerical failure analysis on cracking of shield machine cutterhead structure during a metro-tunnel construction. The stress intensity factors (SIFs) of surface cracks with different shapes and location angles were analyzed by a finite element simulation method based on linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) theory. The ratios of variation in stress intensity factors of cracks with different shapes were analyzed. The maximum allowable crack depth of the cutterhead panel is 50.23 mm by dynamic stress calculation, and the damage tolerance criterion of the cutterhead panel was proposed. The influence of the Paris model parameter values was analyzed based on mathematical methods. It is proven that the location of the cutterhead cracking angle is mainly determined by the mixed-mode SIF. In practice, the crack section basically expanded into the semi-elliptical shape. The cutterhead structure may directly enter the stage of crack propagation due to welding defects during tunneling. The research results provide a theoretical basis and important reference for crack detection in the key parts of the cutterhead, as well as maintenance cycle determination and life prediction of the cutterhead mileage, both of which have important engineering value.
Blur detection is aimed to differentiate the blurry and sharp regions from a given image. This task has attracted much attention in recent years due to its importance in computer vision with the integration of image processing and artificial intelligence. However, blur detection still suffers from problems such as the oversensitivity to image noise and the difficulty in cost–benefit balance. To deal with these issues, we propose an accurate and efficient blur detection method, which is concise in architecture and robust against noise. First, we develop a sequency spectrum-based blur metric to estimate the blurriness of each pixel by integrating a re-blur scheme and the Walsh transform. Meanwhile, to eliminate the noise interference, we propose an adaptive sequency spectrum truncation strategy by which we can obtain an accurate blur map even in noise-polluted cases. Finally, a multi-scale fusion segmentation framework is designed to extract the blur region based on the clustering-guided region growth. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance and the best balance between cost and benefit. It offers an average F1 score of 0.887, MAE of 0.101, detecting time of 0.7 s, and training time of 0.5 s. Especially for noise-polluted blurry images, the proposed method achieves the F1 score of 0.887 and MAE of 0.101, which significantly surpasses other competitive approaches. Our method yields a cost–benefit advantage and noise immunity that has great application prospect in complex sensing environment.
2 May 2025 in Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
In order to obtain continuous stratum information during TBM tunneling, using TBM tunneling parameters, stratum recognition is carried out through the K‐nearest neighbor model, and the model is improved by the entropy weight method to improve the stratum recognition rate. By analyzing the correlation between TBM tunneling characteristic parameters and stratum, the tunneling characteristic parameter vector which is most sensitive to the stratum is obtained by sensitivity analysis, and the stratum recognition model based on the K‐nearest neighbor algorithm is established. Aiming at the problem that the model has a large error in complex formation recognition, a formation recognition model based on the entropy weight K‐nearest neighbor algorithm is established, and the wrong data of the K‐nearest neighbor model is recalculated. The recognition rate of the stratum in the new model is increased from 90.95% to 98.55%. The results show that the K‐nearest neighbor model has a better recognition effect for the interval with single stratum distribution, and the recognition rate of entropy weight K‐nearest neighbor model for complex stratum is significantly improved, which provides an effective method to obtain stratum information by using tunneling characteristic parameters.
The measurement and monitoring of the dimensional characteristics of the body-in-white is an important part of the automobile manufacturing process. The process of using key point regression technology to perform online detection of complex features on body-in-white currently faces a bottleneck problem, namely limited training samples. Under the condition that the number of labeled normal map samples is limited, this paper proposes a framework for domain-independent self-supervised learning using a large number of original images. Under this framework, a self-supervised pre-order task is designed, which uses a large number of easily accessible unlabeled original images for characterization learning as well as a domain discriminator to conduct adversarial training on the feature extractor, so that the extracted representation is domain-independent. Finally, in the key point regression task of five different complex features, a series of comparative experiments were carried out between the method in this paper and benchmark methods such as supervised learning, conventional self-supervised learning, and domain-related self-supervised learning. The results show that the method proposed in this paper has achieved significant performance advantages. In the principal component analysis of extracting features, the representation extracted by the method in this paper does not show obvious domain information.