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How to get a lighter and stronger anti-rolling torsion bar has become a barrier for the development of high-speed railway vehicles. The purpose of this paper is to realize the…
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Purpose
How to get a lighter and stronger anti-rolling torsion bar has become a barrier for the development of high-speed railway vehicles. The purpose of this paper is to realize the multi-objective optimization of an anti-rolling torsion bar with a Modified Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm III (MNSGA-III), which aims to obtain a better design scheme of an anti-rolling torsion bar device.
Design/methodology/approach
First, the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm III (NSGA-III) uses a simulated binary crossover (SBX) operator and a polynomial mutation operator, while the MNSGA-III algorithm proposed in this paper introduces an arithmetic crossover and an adaptive mutation operator to change the crossover and mutate operator in NSGA-III. Second, two algorithms are tested by ZDT3, ZDT4 functions. Both algorithms set the same population size and evolutionary generation, and then compare the results of NSGA-III and MNSGA-III. Finally, MNSGA-III is applied to the multi-objective model of an anti-rolling torsion bar which is established by taking the mass and stiffness of the torsion bar as the optimization object. After that, it obtains the Pareto solution set by solving the multi-objective model with MNSGA-III. The only optimal solution selected from the Pareto solution set is compared with the traditional design scheme of an anti-rolling torsion bar.
Findings
The MNSGA-III converges faster than NSGA-III. Besides, MNSGA-III has better diversity of Pareto solutions than NSGA-III and is closer to the ideal Pareto frontier. Comparing with the results before the optimization, it shows that the volume of the anti-rolling torsion bar reduces by 1.6 percent and the stiffness increases by 3.3 percent. The optimized data verifies the effectiveness of this method proposed in this paper.
Originality/value
The simulated binary crossover operator and polynomial mutation operator of NSGA-III are changed into an arithmetic crossover operator and an adaptive mutation operator, respectively, which improves the optimization performance of the algorithm.
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Rensheng Wang, Cong Sun, Shichao Xiu, Dongming Liang and Bo Li
This paper aims to analyze the significance of machining parameters (workpiece’s rotational speed, magnet coil current and working gap) on final Ra (surface roughness) and…
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Purpose
This paper aims to analyze the significance of machining parameters (workpiece’s rotational speed, magnet coil current and working gap) on final Ra (surface roughness) and material removal rate (MRR) of workpiece in reciprocating magnetorheological polishing (RMRP) process.
Design/methodology/approach
The research is planned to analyze, model and predict the optimum machining parameters to anticipate final Ra and MRR by applying response surface methodology (RSM) and multiresponse optimization (desirability function approach). The experiments have been planned by design of experiments (DOE). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is applied to determine the significances of machining parameters on RMRP performance characteristics.
Findings
Response surface plots for final Ra and MRR by RSM show that machining parameters are significant for the responses. The optimum machining parameters obtained are optimized by desirability function approach (DFA), and the optimum parametric combination has been validated by confirmatory experiments. The experimental results of the final Ra and MRR are deviated by 5.12% and 2.31% from the response results under the same optimization conditions, respectively.
Originality/value
In this study, the RMRP responses (final Ra and MRR) are improved at predicted input machining parameters condition obtained by RSM and DFA approach. Furthermore, the research results provide a reference for experimental design and optimization of MRP process.
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Xi Zhang, Yihang Cheng, Juan Liu, Hongke Zhao, Dongming Xu and Yulong Li
Prosocial lending in online crowdfunding has flourished in recent years, and it has become a new way to fundraise for philanthropy. However, there is almost a 70% user attrition…
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Prosocial lending in online crowdfunding has flourished in recent years, and it has become a new way to fundraise for philanthropy. However, there is almost a 70% user attrition rate in crowdfunding. The purpose of this study is to understand what the lender’s lending experience and social connection influence lender retention of online prosocial lending from a self-determination perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT), this research utilizes a quantifiable method for factors of the lender's lending experience and social connection. Additionally, the research constructs economic models to explore the impacts of these factors acting as the necessary conditions for basic psychological needs on lender retention, using a large-scale sample of over 380,000 lenders from Kiva.
Findings
The results indicate that, from the lender's lending experience aspect, the loan narratives with more profit language in the last lending and the failure of past participation are negatively related to lender retention. Regarding the lender's social connection aspect, their friends or small lending teams are positively related to lender retention, while whether they are invited and lending team size show negative influence. Furthermore, results indicate the moderating effects of the disclosure of lending motivation.
Originality/value
This research explores the mechanism of lender retention of online prosocial lending, providing a self-determination perspective about how previous experience influences long-term lending behavior. The study offers significant implications for the literature on online philanthropy, SDT and user retention of online platforms. At the same time, the study provides an understanding of the effects of different aspects of SDT.
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Yansheng Chen, Xiaotong Cai, Jie Li, Peng Lin, Huitong Song, Guoqing Liu, Dongming Cao and Xiaohui Ma
This paper aims to the perspective of stakeholders, from external variables of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) system, users, task flow, the nature of the development of…
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This paper aims to the perspective of stakeholders, from external variables of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) system, users, task flow, the nature of the development of the execution process, organizational structure and policy impacts, that established a relationship among the internal concepts and intentions for the BIM application, individual or organizational differences, controlling interference factors and environmental constraints, discussed the combination of the values and barriers of BIM implementation.
Design/methodology/approach
Through the co-occurrence statistics and genre analysis based on co-citation context analysis and constructs the common information that impacts the combination of values and barriers of BIM implementation. Then, the paper chose the expert database of the green construction and intelligent building branch of the China construction association, and obtained 104 sample data through modified snowball sampling, using exploratory factor analysis with factor load linear functions, combined factor variance contribution rate weights.actor variance contribution rate weights.
Findings
The results show that eight aspects can be defined as the values of BIM implementation (VI), and the barriers of BIM implementation (BI) mainly come from five aspects caused by insufficient cognition and two aspects of an uncertain value in China.
Originality/value
This research reflects a combined evaluation of the values of BIM implementation and barriers of BIM and highlights the significance of the sustainable development of BIM technology and the value of building future informatization applications.
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Shan Jiang, Xi Zhang, Yihang Cheng, Dongming Xu, Patricia Ordoñez De Pablos and Xuyan Wang
Social loafing in knowledge contribution (namely, knowledge contribution loafing [KCL]) usually happens in group context, especially in the mobile collaboration tasks. KCL shows…
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Social loafing in knowledge contribution (namely, knowledge contribution loafing [KCL]) usually happens in group context, especially in the mobile collaboration tasks. KCL shows dynamic features over time. However, most previous studies are based on static assumption, that is, KCL will not change over time. This paper aims to reveal the dynamics of KCL in mobile collaboration and analyze how network centrality influences KCL states considering the current loafing state.
Design/methodology/approach
This study is based on empirical study design. Real mobile collaboration behavioral data related to knowledge contribution were collected to investigate the dynamic relationship between network centrality and KCL. In total, 4,127 chat contents were collected through Slack (a mobile collaboration APP). The text data were first analyzed using the text analysis method and then analyzed by a machine learning method called hidden Markov model.
Findings
First, the results reveal the inner structure of KCL, showing that it has three states (low, medium and high). Second, it is found that network centrality positively influences individuals involved in medium and high loafing state, while it has a negative influence on individuals with low loafing state.
Research limitations/implications
The limitations are related to the single machine learning method and no subdivision of social network. First, this paper only uses one kind of text classification model (TF-IDF) to divide chat contents, which may not be superior to other classification models. This paper considers the eigenvector centrality, and not further divides the social network into advice network and expressive network.
Practical implications
This study helps companies infer tendency of different KCL and dynamically re-organize a mobile collaborative team for better knowledge contribution.
Originality/value
First, previous studies based on static assumptions regarding KCL as static and the relationship between loafing reducing mechanisms and team members KCL does not change over time. This study relaxes static assumptions and allows KCL to change during the process of collaboration. Second, this study allows the impact of network centrality to be different when members are in different KCL states.
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Fei Qi, Dongming Bai, Xiaoming Dou, Heng Zhang, Haishan Pei and Jing Zhu
This paper aims to present a kinematics analysis method and statics based control of the continuum robot with mortise and tenon joints to achieve better control performance of the…
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Purpose
This paper aims to present a kinematics analysis method and statics based control of the continuum robot with mortise and tenon joints to achieve better control performance of the robot.
Design/methodology/approach
The kinematics model is derived by the geometric analysis method under the piecewise constant curvature assumption, and the workspace and dexterity of the proposed robot are analyzed to optimize its structure parameters. Moreover, the statics model is established by the principle of virtual work, which is used to analyze the mapping relationship between the bending deformation and the applied forces/torques. To improve the control accuracy of the robot, a model-based controller is put forward.
Findings
Results of the experiments verify the feasibility of the proposed continuum structure and the correctness of the established model and the control method. The force deviation between the theoretical value and the actual value is relatively small, and the mean value of the deviation between the driving forces is only 0.46 N, which verify the established statics model and the controller.
Originality/value
The proposed model and motion controller can realize its accurate bending control with a few deviations, which can be used as the reference for the motion planning and dynamic model of the continuum robot.
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Hongyun Zhang, Tan Zhang, Haili Cai, Yahui Li, Wayne Wei Huang and Dongming Xu
The purpose of this paper is to help enhance the scholarly conversation about the essential nature of the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct, its dimensionality and…
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The purpose of this paper is to help enhance the scholarly conversation about the essential nature of the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct, its dimensionality and measurement. The authors focus on how EO was defined and measured in various contexts, which is the basis for the proposed five-dimensional EO scale (FDEOS).
Design/methodology/approach
Survey was conducted in design industry in China. A pilot test was conducted with 20 Chinese firms. Questionnaires were sent to 1,200 firms. A total of 408 complete and valid questionnaires were received.
Findings
It was found that a behavior aspect of EO as a second-order reflective model had a greater degree of agreement among scholarly community. As a result, a new FDEOS was proposed from behavioral perspective. Data were collected from 408 firms of design industry in a big developing country.
Originality/value
While five-dimensional EO construct is a well-recognized concept in the literature on entrepreneurship, little is known about its measurement. The research reported in this paper provides support for this assertion and develops a new scale, FDEOS, that designed to be neutral with regard to industry context and type of organization.
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Di Wang, Yang Liu, Yongqiang Yang and Dongming Xiao
The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical foundation for improving the selective laser melting (SLM) surface roughness. To improve the part’s surface quality during…
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical foundation for improving the selective laser melting (SLM) surface roughness. To improve the part’s surface quality during SLM process, the upper surface roughness of SLM parts was theoretically studied and the influencing factors were analyzed through experiments.
Design/methodology/approach
The characteristics of single track were first investigated, and based on the analysis of single track, theoretical value of the upper surface roughness would be calculated. Two groups of cubic sample were fabricated to validate SLM parts’ surface roughness, the Ra and relative density of all the cubic parts was measured, and the difference between theoretical calculation and experiment results was studied. Then, the effect of laser energy density on surface roughness was studied. At last, the SLM part’s surface was improved by laser re-melting method. At the end of this paper, the curved surface roughness was discussed briefly.
Findings
The SLM upper surface roughness is affected by the width of track, scan space and the thickness of powder layer. Measured surface roughness Ra value was about 50 per cent greater than the theoretical value. The laser energy density has a great influence on the SLM fabrication quality. Different laser energy density corresponds to different fabricating characteristics. This study divided the SLM fabrication into not completely melting zone, balling zone in low energy density, successfully fabricating zone and excessive melting zone. The laser surface re-melting (LSR) process can improve the surface roughness of SLM parts greatly without considering the fabricating time and stress accumulation.
Originality/value
The upper surface roughness of SLM parts was theoretically studied, and the influencing factors were analyzed together; also, the LSR process was proven to be effective to improve the surface quality. This study provides a theoretical foundation to improve the surface quality of SLM parts to promote the popularization and application of metal additive manufacturing technology.
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The purpose of this paper is to test a catering theory by examining impacts of minority shareholders’ pressures on earnings management (EM), and attempt to answer: what is the…
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The purpose of this paper is to test a catering theory by examining impacts of minority shareholders’ pressures on earnings management (EM), and attempt to answer: what is the role of minority shareholders participation (MSP) in corporate governance? and does MSP serve as an external monitor to managers, or does it put excessive pressure on them?
Design/methodology/approach
Using a novel online voting data set in China’s stock market, the author constructs the measure of MSP, and regress the EM on MSP. To address the endogeneity, the author introduces propensity score matching and difference-in-difference methods, instrumental variables, and Heckman estimation to show that the results are robust to different specifications and alternative measures.
Findings
The author documents that: MSP plays limited role in external monitoring; and firms facing high MSP levels tend to manage earnings more actively. In addition, information asymmetry, proposals’ importance, managerial incentives, and CEO financial expertise significantly affect firms’ catering behaviors.
Originality/value
This paper contributes to different strands of the literature. First, the finding significantly supports the catering hypothesis from a new perspective of EM. Second, the author contributes to a hotly debated issue in corporate governance: whether minority shareholders should be granted increased participation in corporate decisions? The results also provide timely empirical evidence for government regulators who are concerned about the costs and benefits of granting minority shareholders direct control over corporate decisions.
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