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Simulation and Assessment of Fire Evacuation Modes for Long Underwater Vehicle Tunnels
The objective of this study is to propose a new method to evaluate the performance of different evacuation modes, and to find a rational evacuation mode for long underwater vehicle tunnels. In this study, a co...
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New analytical solutions to water wave radiation by vertical truncated cylinders through multi-term Galerkin method
New analytical solutions to water wave radiation by vertical truncated circular cylinders are developed based on linear potential flow theory. Two typical cylinder configurations of a surface-piercing cylinder...
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Concurrent Flame Spread and Blow-Off Over Horizontal Thin Electrical Wires
Electrical wires with the flammable polymer insulation and the metal core are responsible for many fire accidents in buildings, nuclear power plants, aircraft, and spacecraft. For the first time, this work stu...
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A new bond failure criterion for ordinary state-based peridynamic mode II fracture analysis
Peridynamics is a nonlocal theory, and it has been applied to a series of fracture problems based on its two main bond failure criteria: the critical stretch criterion and the critical energy density criterion...
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Bending of circular nanoplates with consideration of surface effects
Surface effects play a significant role in affecting mechanical properties of micro- and nanosized materials and structures. This paper studies the bending of nanoplates with consideration of surface effects. ...
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Thermal performance of stratified fluid-filled geomaterials with compressible constituents around a deep buried decaying heat source
This paper investigates the transient thermal performance of stratified fluid-filled geomaterials with compressible constituents due to a buried decaying heat source. Starting with the governing partial differ...
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Numerical Investigation of Back-Layering Length and Critical Velocity in Curved Subway Tunnels with Different Turning Radius
Curved tunnels are inevitable subjected to the city underground geological conditions. Due to the catastrophic consequence of tunnel fires with high population density, the related researches on fire safety of...
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Behavior of Steel–Concrete Partially Composite Beams Subjected to Fire—Part 1: Experimental Study
Partially composite steel–concrete beams are commonly used in building construction, and so the behavior of such beams in fire is an important problem. This paper presents the results of an experimental invest...
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Experimental Studies of Electromagnetic Wave Attenuation by Flame and Smoke in Structure Fire
Attenuation of electromagnetic waves in the fire scene is an important issue when the stability of wireless communication is concerned, especially in fire rescue scenarios of high-rise buildings. Therefore, it...
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A geometric approach for forward kinematics analysis of a 3-SPS/S redundant motion manipulator with an extra sensor using conformal geometric algebra
This paper proposes a geometric approach for forward kinematics analysis of a 3-SPS/S redundant motion mechanism using conformal geometric algebra (CGA). The forward kinematics of a parallel kinematic mechanis...
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Fracture of a thin power-law nonlinear material with a crack using the DCB model
A thin power-law nonlinear material with a crack is studied. For a thin cracked structure, we simulate the layer with an edge crack or a center crack as a double-cantilever beam (DCB) or a double-clamped beam,...
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Dynamic analysis of a vertically loaded rigid disc in a transversely isotropic multilayered half-space
This paper focuses on the investigation of the response of a vertically loaded rigid circular disc embedded in a transversely isotropic multilayered half-space. The solutions for this dynamic interaction prob...
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Axisymmetric coupled thermo-mechanical response of multilayered elastic medium
Most thermal stress analyses are based on the uncoupled theory of thermoelasticity, which considers that the determination of the temperature field is independent from the stress and displacement fields. This ...
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Analytical layer-element method for 3D thermoelastic problem of layered medium around a heat source
This paper presents a numerically efficient and stable method to study the thermoelastic problem of layered medium containing a heat source. Based on the governing equations of 3D thermoelasticity, the relatio...
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Influences of Talc on Fire Performance of Low Density Polyethylene
In this paper the effects of talc on the ignition time, the burning rate and the downward flame spread rate of low density polyethylene were studied through the cone calorimeter test, the modified UL 94 vertic...
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Improved decohesion modeling with the material point method for simulating crack evolution
A combined elastoplasticity and decohesion model is used with the material point method for the crack problem as described in the Sandia National Laboratories challenge. To predict the cracking path in a compl...
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Dynamics of rotating conveying mud drill string subjected to torque and longitudinal thrust
In the view of fluid-structure interactions and rotor dynamics, this paper models the lateral vibration of a vertical downward rotating elastic drill string conveying mud subjected to supporting stabilizers, b...
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The analysis of power circulation and the simplified expression of the transmission efficiency of 2K-H closed epicyclic gear trains
Transmission efficiency is a principal index for estimating the performance of 2K-H closed epicyclical gear trains. To calculate transmission efficiency, it must confirm the power flow direction in transformat...
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Effects of the moving speed of a rigid stamp on contact behaviors of anisotropic materials based on real fundamental solutions
The paper studies contact problem of a rigid stamp moving at a constant speed over the surface of anisotropic materials. The solution method is based on Galilean transformation, Fourier transform and singular ...
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Interface edge crack in a multiferroic semicylinder
The purpose of the present work is to study the interface edge cracking problem in a semicircular cylindrical multiferroic composite theoretically by the methods of infinite series and singular integral equati...