⚡ electrical engineering

Upcycled E-Waste as Precision Instruments: A Low-Cost, Circular-Economy Spectrometer for Equitable Science and STEM Education

This paper presents a low-cost, modular spectrometer constructed from repurposed e-waste components like DVDs and webcams that achieves commercial-grade performance while advancing circular economy principles and equitable STEM education.

Xusan Yang, Hao Wang, Xiaofan Li, Hao Zeng, Fumei Chai, Hao Qian, Yan Zhang, Meiqi Li, Meng Cheng, Cui Zhang2026-08-05
⚡ electrical engineering

NDT Data Fusion for Post-Impact Damage Characterization in a Discontinuous Long Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite with Stochastic Meso-Structure

This study demonstrates that pixel-level data fusion of ultrasonic testing, infrared thermography, and X-ray micro-computed tomography effectively overcomes the limitations of individual non-destructive techniques to provide a more complete and conservative characterization of impact damage in Prepreg Platelet Molded Composites with complex stochastic meso-structures.

Marco Didone, Rachel Lear, David Jack, Sergii G. Kravchenko2026-08-05
⚡ electrical engineering

XYclopZ - LPT: a Time-Resolved Single-Camera 4D Lagrangian Particle Tracking (4D-LPT) method

XYclopZ-LPT is a cost-effective, single-camera 4D Lagrangian particle tracking method that utilizes structured illumination and high-speed imaging to achieve time-resolved 3D volumetric flow measurements with accuracy comparable to multi-camera systems, thereby democratizing advanced flow diagnostics for diverse scientific and industrial applications.

Andres Aguirre-Pablo, Abdullah Alhareth, Max Dhillon, Sigurdur Thoroddsen2026-08-05
⚡ electrical engineering

Commodity Wi-Fi Sensing for Managed Multi-Access-Point WLANs: A Scopus-Based Systematic Evidence Map and Deployment Synthesis

This Scopus-based systematic evidence map reveals a critical gap in the literature regarding commodity Wi-Fi sensing for managed multi-AP WLANs, finding that while signal capture is well-documented, studies lack the necessary evidence to substantiate cooperative management, interface completeness, and quantifiable service impacts.

Volodymyr Pavlenko2026-08-05
⚡ electrical engineering

Introduction to Dissolved Gas Analysis based Hybrid Confidence Fusion Model for improvement of Maintenance of Insulating Oil based Power Equipment

This paper proposes a Hybrid Confidence Fusion Model that integrates multiple Dissolved Gas Analysis diagnostic methods via a relational database and adaptive confidence voting to overcome the limitations of existing techniques, thereby enhancing the consistency, robustness, and reliability of maintenance for oil-immersed power equipment.

Joydip Dhar, Sovan Dalai, Saibal Chatterjee2026-08-05
⚡ electrical engineering

Grid Impact Comparison of Classic and Multipulse Converter-Fed Electric Arc Furnaces

Using MATLAB/Simulink modeling, this paper demonstrates that replacing classic AC Electric Arc Furnaces with multipulse converter-fed systems significantly improves grid power quality by reducing reactive power demand, increasing the power factor to 0.87, and lowering harmonic voltage distortion at the Point of Common Coupling by 37% to 44%.

Daniel Méndez Pérez, Gonzalo Arturo Alonso Orcajo2026-08-05
⚡ electrical engineering

Rooftop optical modulation stabilizes urban photovoltaics across seasons

This study demonstrates that implementing emissivity-balanced radiative cooling rooftops in tropical cities like Kolkata, Delhi, and Kuala Lumpur significantly stabilizes urban photovoltaic performance across seasons by drastically reducing panel temperatures and cooling energy demand in summer while maintaining net productivity gains in winter, thereby offering a scalable solution for enhancing urban energy resilience under climate warming.

Ansar Khan, Samiran Khorat, Rupali Khatun, Debashish Das, Thanh Nguyen, Konstantina Vasilakopoulou, Deepak Amaripadath (…)2026-08-05
⚡ electrical engineering

Formation Mechanism and Parameter Influence of Multi-type Burrs on 6061-T6 Aluminum Alloy from Micro-milling to Precision Milling

This study investigates the formation mechanisms and parameter influences of multi-type burrs on 6061-T6 aluminum alloy across a wide cutting depth range (0.2–1.4 mm) by combining thermo-mechanical coupled finite element simulations with orthogonal experiments, revealing that feed rate and spindle speed are the dominant factors and that up-milling generates significantly larger burrs than down-milling.

Bo Deng, Yuhang Liu, Cong Zhao, Chunjin Li, Chao Kang, Liping Wang2026-08-04
⚡ electrical engineering

A Choquet–Sugeno Framework for Non-Additive Variability Quantification in FRAM: An Aviation Safety Application

This paper proposes a novel Choquet–Sugeno framework integrated with an AI-driven AHP protocol to quantify non-additive variability in the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM), demonstrating through an aviation safety case study that this approach captures systemic risks invisible to traditional additive models.

Joao Guilherme Fowler, Moacyr Machado Cardoso Júnior2026-08-04