The increasing global demand for food security and sustainable agriculture has spurred significant research into advanced grain quality monitoring and storage techniques. Recent developments integrate ...

Soil compaction is a global threat to soil ecosystem services, causing tremendous costs to society. The costs of soil compaction are borne by the cumulative loss of soil functionality (e.g. yield loss ...

Structural health monitoring (SHM), essentially, involves a nondestructive testing (NDT) system that integrates sensors into a structure to enable continuous or periodic inspection. The resulting data ...

The partial collapse of the Carola Bridge in Dresden in September 2024 was a wake-up call for Germany's infrastructure policy. At least 8,000 highway bridges and roughly 18,000 kilometers of railroad ...