Epoxy-Glass Microballoon Syntactic Foams: Rheological Optimization of the Processing Window by A. V. Ullas, Devendra Kumar, Prasun Kumar Roy

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Research on Path Planning Method of Coal Mine Robot to Avoid Obstacle in Gas Distribution Area by Ruiqing Mao, Xiliang Ma

“…In this paper, to avoid a secondary explosion when the coal mine robot passes through gas hazard zones, a path planning method is proposed with consideration of gas concentration distributions. …”
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Investigating the Electron-capture Supernova Candidate AT 2019abn with JWST Spectroscopy by Sam Rose, Ryan M. Lau, Jacob E. Jencson, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Kishalay De, Michael E. Ressler, Ori D. Fox, Matthew J. Hankins

“…The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened up a new window to study highly reddened explosive transients. We present results from late-time JWST follow-up spectroscopic observations with NIRSpec and MIRI-LRS of the intermediate-luminosity red transient (ILRT) AT 2019abn. …”
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Modeling Blast Loading on Buried Reinforced Concrete Structures with Zapotec by Greg C. Bessette

“…A coupled Euler-Lagrange solution approach is used to model the response of a buried reinforced concrete structure subjected to a close-in detonation of a high explosive charge. The coupling algorithm is discussed along with a set of benchmark calculations involving detonations in clay and sand.…”
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Research on Damage Assessment of Buried Standard and Carbon-Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Petroleum Pipeline Subjected to Shallow Buried Blast Loading in Soil by Ying Cui, Jun Fang, Zhan Qu, Meimei Song, Junhai Zhao

“…Buried petroleum pipelines may encounter threats from blast loading due to terrorist attacks, accidental explosions, and artificial blasting during in-progress construction. …”
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Investigation of Shock Initiation in Covered Charges under Shock Wave and Fragment Impacts by Xingwang Chen, Jinxiang Wang, Kui Tang, Hongfei Wang, Yuanbo Li

“…In the next step, we developed a theoretical model to take into account the shock initiation of charges covered with defected metal plates. Explosive initiation standards coupled with shock wave evolution characteristics were applied to specify the crucial conditions of explosive detonation. …”
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Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Diffusion Process for the Leakages of a Tunnel LNG Pipeline by Chunyan Kong, Derong Zhang, Rong Cai, Shuangshuang Li, Rongjun Zhu

“…From the simulation results, the variation of CH4 concentration field and explosive gas cloud with time within the tunnel, and the influence of leakage location on the diffusion was analyzed for the three cases. …”
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Transient bifurcation induced rocket acceleration leading to a relativistic bulk medium induced by designed high-intensity lasers by Ryutaro Matsui, Yasuaki Kishimoto

“…The other is the fast process of the transient bifurcation of the shock to a soliton leading to an explosion, which splits the structure into two shock structures propagating in opposite directions, i.e., one is boosted forward as the reaction of the other ejected backward as a fuel. …”
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Differences in Nanosecond Laser Ablation and Deposition of Tungsten, Boron, and WB2/B Composite due to Optical Properties by Tomasz Moscicki

“…In the same conditions, during ablation of boron, the phase explosion and/or fragmentation due to recoil pressure is observed. …”
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Experimental Study on Single-excavation Compound Shock-reflection Blasting Technology of Protective Layer by MA Mengmeng, ZHENG Jiawei, DU Haoliang, ZHAO Zhenfu, LU Wenbo

“…The results show that the compound shock-reflection blasting technique realizes the control and utilization of the explosion energy through multiple reflections of the explosion shock wave on different interfaces. …”
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Forecasting Eruptions at Poorly Known Volcanoes Using Analogs and Multivariate Renewal Processes by Ting Wang, Mark Bebbington, Shane Cronin, Joel Carman

“…Applying this tool to Tongariro volcano (NZ), there is a 5% probability for a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) ≥ 3 explosive eruption in the next 50 years. …”
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Initial Moving Mechanism of Densely-Packed Particles Driven by a Planar Shock Wave by Hua Lv, Zhongqi Wang, Yunming Zhang, Jianping Li

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Damage Assessment of Two-Way Bending RC Slabs Subjected to Blast Loadings by Haokai Jia, Ling Yu, Guiying Wu

“…Parametric studies are carried out to investigate the effects of explosive weight and explosive position on the damage mode of the two-way RC slab. …”
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Numerical Study of Ground Vibrations Caused by Cylindrical Wave Propagation in a Rock Mass with a Structural Plane by Shaobo Chai, Wei Tian, Liyuan Yu, Hao Wang

“…Stress wave which is caused either by an explosion in a borehole or by an accidental explosion in a tunnel is supposed to be considered under certain circumstances when it propagates through the surrounding rock masses which contain holes in cylindrical form. …”
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Traffic Status Prediction of Arterial Roads Based on the Deep Recurrent Q-Learning by Wei Hao, Donglei Rong, Kefu Yi, Qiang Zeng, Zhibo Gao, Wenguang Wu, Chongfeng Wei, Biljana Scepanovic

“…The model is based on the optimized Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) algorithm to handle the explosive growth of Q-table data, which not only avoids the gradient explosion and disappearance but also has the efficient storage and analysis. …”
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Experimental Research on Fire Resistance of Reactive Powder Concrete by Gai-Fei Peng, Yi-Rong Kang, Yan-Zhu Huang, Xiao-Ping Liu, Qiang Chen

“…An experimental investigation was conducted on fire resistance of reactive powder concrete (RPC), mainly on explosive spalling occurrence and residual mechanical properties exposed to high temperature. …”
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Real-time discrimination of earthquake signals by integrating artificial intelligence technology into IoT devices by Zhi Geng, Yanfei Wang, Wenyong Pan, Caixia Yu, Zhijing Bai, Hongzhou Zhang

“…Notably, the model effectively identifies typical explosions during the Russia-Ukraine war in Europe. …”
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A new method for mining event influence propagation trees from spatio-temporal data by FANG Dianwu, WANG Lizhen, ZOU Muquan, DENG Fei

“…Once the spatio-temporal events were dense, the cost of mining time and space would be significantly increased by an explosive growth in the number of combinations, therefore, it would be difficult to mine large-scale data. …”
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A Comparison Investigation on Cylinder Test in Different Ambient Media by Experiment and Numerical Simulation by Fan Zhang, Fei Shen, Biaobiao Li, Baohui Yuan, Bing Li

“…For the numerical simulation, a coupling scheme of a meshless method and finite element method called the coupled finite element material point method was used to reproduce the cylinder expansion problem driven by explosive sliding detonation where the interaction between the cylinder wall and the explosive/detonation product is enforced by using a point-to-surface contact scheme to accurately achieve contact and separation between material particles and finite elements. …”
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Design Method for Specific Charge in Deep Mining considering Influence of In Situ Stress by Fengpeng Zhang, Qiqi Hao, Xiulong Wang, Zhaoguo Qiu

“…In situ stress has a large influence on blasts in deep mines and should be considered in blasting design. In this study, explosion crater tests were conducted to investigate the variation of specific charges under different stress loading conditions. …”
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