1. Strength and failure characteristics of sandstone containing two circular holes filled with two types of inclusions under uniaxial compression

   • Ming-rui Du
   • Hong-wen Jing
   • Min-liang Chen

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2487 - 2495

2. Limit equilibrium analysis for stability of soil nailed slope and optimum design of soil nailing parameters

   • Dong-ping Deng
   • Liang Li
   • Lian-heng Zhao

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2496 - 2503

3. Heading control method and experiments for an unmanned wave glider

   • Yu-lei Liao
   • Yi-ming Li
   • Quan-quan Jiang

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2504 - 2512

4. A new product family mining method based on PLM database

   • Xiang-yang Hu
   • Wei-ping Peng
   • Rui Jiang

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2513 - 2523

5. A novel LS-SVM control for unknown nonlinear systems with application to complex forging process

   • Bin Fan
   • Xin-jiang Lu
   • Ming-hui Huang

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2524 - 2531

6. Structural reliability analysis using a hybrid HDMR-ANN method

   • Bhaw Nath Jha
   • Hong-shuang Li

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2532 - 2541

7. Volatilization behaviors of molybdenum and sulfur in vacuum decomposition of molybdenite concentrate

   • Yue-zhen Zhou
   • Yong Lu
   • Wei Li

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2542 - 2549

8. A modified Johnson–Cook model for 7N01 aluminum alloy under dynamic condition

   • Yi-ben Zhang
   • Song Yao
   • Zhong-gang Wang

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2550 - 2555

9. Theoretical and experimental investigation of gas metal arc weld pool in commercially pure aluminum: Effect of welding current on geometry

   • A. Farzadi
   • M. Morakabiyan Esfahani
   • S. R. Alavi Zaree

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2556 - 2564

10. Mechanism studies of 5-HMF pyrolysis by quantum chemistry

    • Bo Chen
    • Zhang-ming Shi
    • Hong Tian

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2565 - 2571

11. Impact of low/high-κ spacer–source overlap on characteristics of tunnel dielectric based tunnel field-effect transistor

    • Zhi Jiang
    • Yi-qi Zhuang
    • Yu-qi Liu

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2572 - 2581

12. Open-circuit fault diagnosis and fault tolerance for shunt active power filter

    • Tao Peng
    • Shuai Zhao
    • Hua-xiong Yu

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2582 - 2595

13. Stochastic noise identification in a stray current sensor

    • Shao-yi Xu
    • Fang-fang Xing
    • Yu-Qiao Wang

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2596 - 2604

14. Transmission loss simulation based on rectangular-pulse method and experimental evaluation of acoustic performance of perforated intake pipe

    • Heng Li
    • Zhi-yong Hao
    • Lian-yun Liu

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2605 - 2612

15. 2D multi-model general predictive iterative learning control for semi-batch reactor with multiple reactions

    • Cui-mei Bo
    • Lei Yang
    • Fu-rong Gao

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2613 - 2623

16. Impacts of optimization strategies on performance, power/energy consumption of a GPU based parallel reduction

    • Thi Yen Phuong
    • Deok-Young Lee
    • Jeong-Gun Lee

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2624 - 2637

17. Modeling multi regional counter flow combustion of lycopodium dust cloud with considering radiative heat loss

    • Mehdi Bidabadi
    • Farzaneh Ebrahimi
    • Vahid Bordbar

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2638 - 2648

18. A novel approach for speaker diarization system using TMFCC parameterization and Lion optimization

    • V. Subba Ramaiah
    • R. Rajeswara Rao

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2649 - 2663

19. Real-time rear-end crash potential prediction on freeways

    • Xu Qu
    • Wei Wang
    • Pan Liu

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2664 - 2673

20. Restoring-force model of modified RAC columns with silica fume and hybrid fiber

    • Tao Yang
    • She-liang Wang
    • Wei Liu

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2674 - 2684

21. Flexural failure experiment on cracked PC simply supported box girders

    • Guo-hui Cao
    • Wang Zhang
    • Sheng Zhang

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2685 - 2692

22. A method for extracting anomaly map of Au and As using combination of U-statistic and Euclidean distance methods in Susanvar district, Iran

    • Seyyed Saeed Ghannadpour
    • Ardeshir Hezarkhani
    • Mostafa Sharifzadeh

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2693 - 2704

23. Variational analysis of mid-span deflection of gantry cranes

    • Da-peng Zhang
    • Wen-ming Cheng
    • Bin Wang

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2705 - 2716

24. Mechanical analysis of double-layered circular graphene sheets as building material embedded in an elastic medium

    • Zheng-tian Wu
    • Fu-yuan Hu
    • Zhen-ping Chen

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2717 - 2724

25. Biomathematical study of time-dependent flow of a Carreau nanofluid through inclined catheterized arteries with overlapping stenosis

    • Ashfaq Ahmed
    • Sohail Nadeem

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2725 - 2744

26. Erratum to: Squeezing rock conditions at phyllite-slate zone in Golab water conveyance tunnel, Iran: A case study

    • Asghar Rahmati
    • Lohrasb Faramarzi
    • Mohammad Darbor

    Erratum 16 December 2017 Pages: 2745 - 2745

27. Erratum to: Ground movement mechanism in tectonic stress metal mines with steep structure planes

    • Kai-zong Xia
    • Cong-xin Chen
    • Hua Fu

    Erratum 16 December 2017 Pages: 2745 - 2745