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Novel non-fiber optical metamaterial waveguide for monitoring canal and pipeline structures
The electromagnetic metamaterials are the recent entrants, into the classification of smart materials for structural health monitoring (SHM). Their applications in SHM have raised the curiosity due to their ra...
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Underground Workspaces: A Human Factors Approach
With increasing population density in urban areas, underground space use in these urban centres is also on the rise. This can be in the form of more traditional underground (UG) facilities, such as water trea...
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Attention and Vigilance
Many previous studies have examined the effect of working environment on job performance. However, these are usually site-specific experiments examining office workers, concentrating on self-report measures a...
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An In-Depth Analysis of Workers’ Attitudes Towards an Underground Facility in USA with a Focus on Breaks and Breakrooms
With the increase in urbanization and industrialization and the ever-increasing problem of space, sustainable solutions such as underground work places are on the rise. However, considering the huge investmen...
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Digging Deep: The Effect of Design on the Social Behavior and Attitudes of People Working in Underground Workplaces in Europe
With the cities of the world grappling with the ever-increasing challenge of land scarcity, sustainable solutions such as Underground Workplaces (UW) have been getting renewed interest. However, considering th...
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The Influence of Room Size on Error Monitoring: Evidence from Event-Related Potential Responses
The effect of environment on human behavior is a central topic for many disciplines. Many physical properties of the built environment, such as room size, modulate human perception and cognition: for instance,...
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Application of Metamaterial Surface Plasmon and Waveguide for Robotic-Arm Based Structural Health Monitoring
Several electromagnetic (EM) metamaterial designs and their variants, such as localized surface plasmons (LSPs), with ultra sensing capabilities for structural health monitoring (SHM) have emerged in the last ...
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Open AccessMelatonin and health: an umbrella review of health outcomes and biological mechanisms of action
Our aims were to evaluate critically the evidence from systematic reviews as well as narrative reviews of the effects of melatonin (MLT) on health and to identify the potential mechanisms of action involved.
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Monitoring of Fatigue in Welded Beams Using Piezoelectric Wafer Based Impedance Technique
Real-life aerospace and mechanical structures are mostly prone to fatigue, which is the occurrence of localized but progressive damage due to continuous fluctuating stresses. Fatigue damage can be monitored by...
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Durability and Remaining Useful Fatigue Life Assessment of Welded Joint Using Impedance and Wave Propagation Techniques
All real-life aerospace and machine structures are prone to fatigue, which is the occurrence of localized but progressive damage due to continuous fluctuating stresses. Even if the magnitudes of the fluctuatin...
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Piezo-Impedance Transducers for Evaluation of Seismic Induced Structural Damage
This chapter focuses on the detection and evaluation of seismic induced structural damages by means of changes in structural mechanical impedance at high frequencies of the order of kilohertz. Structural mecha...
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Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting Techniques
The continuous reduction in power consumption of wireless sensing electronics has led to immense research interests in vibration energy harvesting techniques for self-powered devices. Currently, most vibration...
