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A Bio-resourced and Superhydrophobic Dry Water Extinguishing Agent for Pool Fire Based on Phytic Acid and Silicon
A new non-toxic, clean, and effective dry water (DW) nanomaterial is synthesized, and its extinguishing performance is characterized for pool fire. The nanomaterial reaches up to 93% water content due to its s...
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Evolution and control technology of energy aggregation and dissipation of a high hard roof during breakage and destabilization
The focus of this study was prevented disasters caused by the breaking of high hard roofs (HHRs) in mines. A model of the mining load-bearing capacity of a HHR cantilever beam structure (HHRCBS) was developed ...
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Study on the Influence of Temperature on the Verticality of Thin-Walled High Pier and the Control Method Based on Measured Temperature
This paper presents a method for controlling the elevation of vertical molds for high piers based on measured temperature fields to address formwork deviation during the construction of the Huibai high-speed L...
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Mechanical efficiency of cartridge two-dimensional (2D) piston pump for electro-hydrostatic actuators
The cartridge two-dimensional (2D) piston pump studied is the core component of an aircraft electro-hydrostatic actuator (EHA). Its mechanical efficiency is a very important performance which is closely relate...
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Scattering Characteristics of Fire Smoke and Dust Aerosol in Aircraft Cargo Compartment
Photoelectric smoke detectors, commonly used in aircraft cargo compartments, have high false alarm rates, which may result in huge economic losses and threaten flight safety. Dust aerosols are conventionally c...
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City-Wide Fire Vulnerability Map of High-Rise Residential Buildings
One of the significant hazards in the event of a fire in high-rise residential buildings in cities is the length of time taken to completely evacuate a large number of occupants. On a city scale, it is importa...
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The optimization of parallel flow channel structure of plate heat exchangers
The main purpose of this paper is to design a small channel plate heat exchanger that meets the needs of the enterprise. The efficiency of heat exchanger was improved by adding a distributor at the entrance of...
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Using nonlinear feedback control to improve aircraft nose landing gear shimmy performance
Shimmy vibration is a common oscillation in the nose landing gear (NLG) during aircraft landing and taxiing process, which is a potentially dangerous phenomenon. Herein, the nonlinear angular velocity feedback...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Using Probabilistic Zone Model Simulations to Investigate the Deterministic Assumptions of UK Residential Corridor Smoke Control Design
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Stochastic vibration analysis of a nonlinear oscillator with symmetric viscoelastic impact protection under wide-band noise excitations
To reduce the damage to the structure of mechanical vibration devices caused by the vibration, the end stops impact protection structure is often introduced in the design of the devices, which will inevitably ...
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Open AccessUsing Probabilistic Zone Model Simulations to Investigate the Deterministic Assumptions of UK Residential Corridor Smoke Control Design
The modelling of common corridor smoke control systems in residential buildings is one of the most frequently undertaken performance-based assessments by fire engineers in the UK. However, there is limited und...
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Real-Time Prediction of Smoke Spread Affected by Multiple Factors in Subway Tunnel Using CAERES-DNN Model
High-accuracy and real-time smoke spread models are vitally important for firefighting in subway tunnels. This paper proposes a data-driven model, named CAERES-DNN, for predicting smoke spread in subway tunnel...
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Analytical solution to the SH wave scattering problem caused by a circular cavity in a half space with inhomogeneous modulus
In this work, the scattering problem of SH wave caused by circular cavity in half space with inhomogeneous shear modulus is solved. The shear modulus is assumed to vary in two dimensions. Based on the complex ...
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Fracture characteristics of advanced high strength steels during hole expansion test
This study was performed to estimate the stretch-flangeability of two important advanced high strength steel (AHSS) sheets, i.e. DP980 and TRIP1180, using hole-expansion test (HET). Moreover, the effect of hol...
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Pool Fire Burning Characteristics of Biodiesel
The characteristics of pool fire burning of methyl esters/biodiesels of palm, soybean, coconut and their blends with diesel were compared against baseline diesel. Pool fires were established and investigated u...
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A thermomechanical model for mesh deflection calculation of crown spur gear pair
An analytical model of evaluating tooth pair deflection along the line of contact is proposed in this paper to preliminarily determine the load distribution between tooth pairs contacting instantaneously for c...
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Open AccessDesign Fire Characteristics for Probabilistic Assessments of Dwellings in England
In England, there are no fixed requirements on the parameters adopted when considering residential design fires, and analyses undertaken are often deterministic with limited consideration given to probabilisti...
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Thin Filament Pyrometry Field Measurements in a Medium-Scale Pool Fire
This paper presents the development of a thin filament pyrometry method to characterize the time-varying temperature field in a medium-scale pool fire burning in a quiescent environment. A digital camera with ...
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Dynamic stress concentration of a cylindrical cavity in vertical exponentially inhomogeneous half space under SH wave
Dynamic stress concentration factor around a cylindrical cavity which is in vertically inhomogeneous half space is investigated by applying complex function method and multi-polar coordinates system. The mass ...
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Analysis of water wave scattering by a submerged perforated reef ball using multipole method
Based on linear potential theory, this study develops an analytical solution to water wave scattering by a submerged perforated reef ball. The series solutions for velocity potentials in the external and inter...