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Publication date: 4 April 2024

Tingting Liu, Yehui Li, Xing Li and Lanfen Wu

High-tech enterprises, as the national innovation powerhouses, have garnered considerable interest, particularly regarding their technological innovation capabilities…

Abstract

Purpose

High-tech enterprises, as the national innovation powerhouses, have garnered considerable interest, particularly regarding their technological innovation capabilities. Nevertheless, prevalent research tends to spotlight the impact of individual factors on innovative behavior, with only a fraction adopting a comprehensive viewpoint, scrutinizing the causal amalgamations of precursor conditions influencing the overall innovation proficiency of high-tech enterprises.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper employs a hybrid approach integrating necessary condition analysis (NCA) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine the combinatorial effects of antecedent factors on high-tech enterprises' innovation output. Our analysis draws upon data from 46 listed Chinese high-tech enterprises. To promote technological innovation within high-tech enterprises, we introduce a novel perspective that emphasizes technological innovation networks, grounded in a network agents-structure-environment framework. These antecedents are government subsidy, tax benefits, customer concentration, purchase concentration rate, market-oriented index and innovation environment.

Findings

The findings delineate four configurational pathways leading to high innovative output and three pathways resulting in low production.

Originality/value

This study thereby enriches the body of knowledge around technological innovation and provides actionable policy recommendations.

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Kybernetes, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 28 March 2023

Xiaokun Zhou, Suming Xie, Maosheng He, Tingting Fu and Qifeng Yu

This study aims to reduce the weight of the door, improve the operating efficiency and ensure the safety of vehicle operation.

Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to reduce the weight of the door, improve the operating efficiency and ensure the safety of vehicle operation.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on traditional aluminium alloy doors, a new type of honeycomb composite material was developed. Tests were conducted to determine the honeycomb compression resistance, honeycomb and skin shear performance, plate bending, thermal conductivity and environmental protection. Eight doors were developed based on the full-side open structure, and static strength and stiffness analyses were performed simultaneously. To solve door vibration problems, modal analysis and test were carried out.

Findings

The test results showed that the weight of the door was reduced by more than 40% whilst ensuring the strength and stiffness of the vehicle. The first–sixth-order test mode of the door was increased by more than 14% compared with existing aluminium alloy doors.

Originality/value

A new type of honeycomb composite material was used in this study. The test results showed that the weight of the door was reduced by more than 40% whilst ensuring the strength and stiffness of the vehicle. The 1st-to-6th order test mode of the door was increased by more than 14% compared with the existing aluminium alloy door.

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International Journal of Structural Integrity, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1757-9864

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Article
Publication date: 28 June 2023

Ahmed Youcef, Rachid Saim and Hakan F. Öztop

The purpose of this paper is to give a comparison between different type of baffles for a better application. Computational analysis of heat transfer and fluid flow through plain…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to give a comparison between different type of baffles for a better application. Computational analysis of heat transfer and fluid flow through plain, flower and perforated baffles for heat exchanger.

Design/methodology/approach

Numerical simulations for heat exchangers with plain, flower and perforated baffles are carried out with finite volume method. The thermal-hydraulic performance for the three types is presented in the same conditions.

Findings

The perforated baffles generate low shell pressure with high Nusselt number; transverse baffles give the best heat transfer with high pumping power. The overall performance coefficient of these three types of heat exchangers shows that the perforated baffles have a highest and the transverse baffles have the lowest. Analysis of the results show that perforated transverse baffles produce pressure drop lower by 6.68% than transverse baffles and 2.64% lower than flower baffles. The pumping power for perforated transverse baffles lower by 13.3% to the transverse baffles and 4.72% lower than that of flower baffles. The Nusselt number for perforated baffles higher by 4.16% to the flower baffles and 2.77% with transverse baffles. The overall performance factor in the heat exchanger with perforated baffles higher by 5.55% to that with transverse baffles and 3.46% with flower baffles. Recirculation areas are reduced in shell with perforated baffles and velocity distribution becomes more uniform.

Originality/value

Using of perforated baffles in heat exchanger give the best overall performance factor.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 33 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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