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Experimental and numerical investigation on shear and bond–slip behaviors of FSK-reinforced FRP–UHPC composite beams
The shear performance of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)–ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) composite beams with FRP shear keys (FSK) was investigated through a four-point loading test and refined finite el...
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Flexural performance of prefabricated U-shaped UHPC permanent formwork–concrete composite beams reinforced with FRP bars
Finite-element (FE) analysis of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)–reinforced concrete beams cast in U-shaped ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) permanent formworks is presented in this paper. Concrete damage ...
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Resource management in UAV-assisted MEC: state-of-the-art and open challenges
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been widely used in various fields because of their high mobility and portability. At the same time, due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence, people’s demand...
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Experimental Study On Shear Performance of Steel–Concrete Composite Bolted Connectors in Precast Concrete Shear Walls
To explore the shear performance of steel-concrete composite bolted (SCCB) connectors used in precast reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls, 16 specimens were designed and tested under monotonic loading, taking...
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Editorial: Advances in Mobile, Edge and Cloud Computing
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Performance study of precast reinforced concrete shear walls with steel columns containing friction-bearing devices
A novel structural system based on precast reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall panels mutually connected vertically using T-connectors and horizontally using friction-bearing devices (FBDs) mounted on interpos...
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MiFo: A novel edge network integration framework for fog computing
Fog computing has been recently proposed to move certain cloud computing services down to edge networks especially for mobile applications, aiming at improving the throughput and delay through the collaboratio...
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Reversible stress softening in layered rat esophagus in vitro after potassium chloride activation
Significant stress softening recovery after potassium chloride (KCl) administration was previously demonstrated in the intact rat esophageal wall. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of KCl acti...
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Chain-based barrier coverage in WSNs: toward identifying and repairing weak zones
Barrier coverage constructs a sensing barrier for detecting intruders crossing a belt region. Recent studies mostly focus on efficient algorithms to guarantee barrier coverage, with little consideration on the...
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A novel networking architecture for mobile content delivery in urban transport systems
Today, the media content delivery in intermittent connected networks has become increasingly critical. This paper studies content exchange among mobile commuters in urban transport systems. Our work is inspire...
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OPS: Opportunistic pipeline scheduling in long-strip wireless sensor networks with unreliable links
Being deployed in narrow but long area, strip wireless sensor networks (SWSNs) have drawn much attention in applications such as coal mines, pipeline and structure monitoring. One of typical characteristics of...
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Boundary-free skeleton extraction and its evaluation in sensor networks
In sensor networks community, the skeleton (or medial axis), as an important infrastructure which can correctly capture the topological and geometrical features of the underlying network, has been widely used...
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Trajectory-based multi-dimensional outlier detection in wireless sensor networks using Hidden Markov Models
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been increasingly available for monitoring the traffic, weather, pollution, etc. Outlier detection in WSNs is an essential step for many important applications, such as abn...
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Network coding over connected dominating set: energy minimal broadcasting in wireless ad hoc networks
Energy efficient broadcast is indispensable for many applications in wireless ad hoc networks. It has been proved that network coding has great potential to improve performance in terms of energy consumption i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Skeleton Extraction Algorithm in Sensor Networks
This paper analyzes the problem of location-free skeleton extraction in sensor networks . Different from most of the previous solutions, the proposed algorithm has no dependency on boundary information. Ou...
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Lifetime Optimization by Load-Balanced and Energy Efficient Tree in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), often composed of a large number of sensor nodes with limited power, have been widely used for environmental monitoring and battlefield surveillance. A basic operation in such ...
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Energy-Efficient Mobile Data Uploading from High-Speed Trains
Recent decades have witnessed the fast development of high-speed railway systems in many countries, which have significantly shortened the travel time between distant cities. Accompanied with this convenience ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reversible Stress Softening in Rat Oesophagus in Vitro after KCl Activation
The aim of this study is to investigate whether stress softening in the passive oesophagus is reversible after KCl activation. Eight normal male Wistar rats’ oesophagus segments were used in this study. Three ...