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Simulation of roof snow loads based on a multi-layer snowmelt model: Impact of building heat transfer
To investigate the impact of building heat transfer on roof snow loads, roof snow loads and snow load thermal coefficients from 61 Chinese sites over a period of 50 years are simulated based on basic meteorolo...
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Numerical simulation of rime ice accretion on a three-dimensional wind turbine blade using a Lagrangian approach
The accreted ice on wind turbine blades significantly deteriorates the blade aerodynamic performance and consequently the power production. The existing numerical simulations of blade icing have mostly been pe...
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Vibration Analysis of the Electric Drive System with Inter-turn Short-Circuit and Gear Spalling Faults
The electric drive system is usually composed of an electric motor and gear transmission system, and widely used for industrial applications. However, the dynamic behaviors of the coupled electromechanical sys...
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Simulation of steel beam under ceiling jet based on a wind-fire-structure coupling model
For localized fires, it is necessary to consider the thermal and mechanical responses of building elements subject to uneven heating under the influence of wind. In this paper, the thermomechanical phenomena e...
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RANS CFD simulations can be successfully used for simulating snowdrift on roofs in a long period of snowstorm
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A novel muscle-computer interface for hand gesture recognition using depth vision
Muscle computer Interface (muCI), one of the widespread human-computer interfaces, has been widely adopted for the identification of hand gestures by using the electrical activity of muscles. Although multi-mo...
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Human Activity Recognition Enhanced Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
This paper presents a human activity recognition enhanced robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (HAR-RAMIS) for the redundant robot, which aims to bridge the human activity recognition techniques and inte...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Processing of visually evoked innate fear by a non-canonical thalamic pathway
Nature Communications 6: Article number: 6756 (2015); Published: 9 April 2015; Updated: 21 August 2015. The affiliation details for Lin Xu and **ntian Hu are incorrect in this article. The correct affiliation ...
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A new simulation method on sliding snow load on sloped roofs
In cold regions, the accurate evaluation of sliding snow loads on roofs is important in structure design. Hence, this study develops a new method to simulate sliding snow loads on sloped roofs. First, the posi...
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Open AccessProcessing of visually evoked innate fear by a non-canonical thalamic pathway
The ability of animals to respond to life-threatening stimuli is essential for survival. Although vision provides one of the major sensory inputs for detecting threats across animal species, the circuitry unde...
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Wind tunnel test of snow loads on a stepped flat roof using different granular materials
An accurate prediction of wind-induced redistribution of snow load on roof surfaces is vital to structural design. To represent the pattern of snow distribution caused by snowdrift in wind tunnel test, appropr...
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Research on wind-induced responses of a large-scale membrane structure
The wind-induced responses of a large-scale membrane structure, Expo Boulevard, are evaluated in this study. To obtain the wind pressure distribution on the roof surface, a wind tunnel test is performed. A bri...
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Simulation method of sliding snow load on roofs and its application in some representative regions of China
Sliding snow load on roofs is an important issue. Thus, a simulation method to calculate the sliding snow load on roofs is developed in this paper. Firstly, based on previous mass- and energy-balance models, a...
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Grou** response method for equivalent static wind loads based on a modified LRC method
Wind loading is one of the most important loads for controlling the design of large-span roof structures. Equivalent static wind loads, which can generally aim at determining a specific response, are widely us...
