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Investigations on Interface Shear-stress Transfer Behavior of Concrete Composite Slabs with Lattice Girders
Concrete-to-concrete interface shear-stress transfer behavior is crucial for concrete composite slabs with lattice girders. In practice, diagonal reinforcements in the lattice girders make shear reinforcement ...
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Enhancing Lateral Integrity of a Prestressed Concrete Box-Girder Bridge without Transverse Diaphragms: A Study on Strengthening Methods
This study established a finite element model to assess the impact of various transverse strengthening techniques on the **uzhen River Bridge, a prestressed concrete box-girder bridge. On-site experiments vali...
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Advancing glass recycling and environmental applications with porous glass: a mini-review
In response to resource scarcity and environmental challenges, sustainable practices, particularly in recycling and reusing waste materials, have become crucial. This paper reviews the utilization of porous gl...
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Force Property Analysis of a Steel-concrete-steel Bias Component with a Variable Section: The Effect of Design Parameters
In order to study the influence of various design parameters on the ultimate load of the bias component of the pipe-roof pre-construction (PP) structure, a variable section steel-concrete-steel (VSSCS) bias co...
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Experimental Study on the Mechanical Properties of Horizontally Bolted Joints of Prefabricated Shear Walls
Based on the existing research results on prefabricated shear wall vertical bolt connections, the force performance of horizontal bolt joints composed of multiple bolt connections were further examined in this...
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Open AccessThermal boundary conditions for heat transfer analysis of bridges considering non-uniform distribution of internal air temperature by computational fluid dynamics
Heat transfer analysis has been used to calculate the temperature distribution in bridges. Thermal boundary conditions play a critical role in this analysis. However, existing studies on thermal boundary condi...
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Structural performance of flexible freeform panels subjected to wind loads
An increased number of hurricanes and tornadoes have been recorded worldwide in the last decade, while research efforts to reduce wind-related damage to structures become essential. Freeform architecture, whic...
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Seismic Performance Management of Aging Road Facilities in Korea: Part 2 − Decision-making Support Technology and Its Application
This study aims to develop a decision-making support system for managing aged road facilities in a target road network based on seismic performance evaluation. For this purpose, the seismic fragility consideri...
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Monitoring the Fracture Damage Evolution Process of Flawed Rocks and Its Temporal Fractal Characteristic
Investigating the progressive fracture process of rock masses containing flaws holds significant importance for assessing the stability of rock engineering projects. To study the fracture evolution behaviors o...
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Seismic responses of an intensively constructed metro station-passageway-shaft structure system
Intensive construction methods offer benefits for metro station development, yet they present challenges for seismic design due to the spatially asymmetric configuration of passageway-shaft structures. In this...
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Open AccessMulti-task learning with self-learning weight for image denoising
Image denoising technology removes noise from the corrupted image by utilizing different features between image and noise. Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based algorithms have been the concern of the recen...
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Open AccessPacking optimization of practical systems using a dynamic acceleration methodology
System design is a challenging and time-consuming task which often requires close collaboration between several multidisciplinary design teams to account for complex interactions between components and sub-sys...
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Pothole Detection Based on Superpixel Features of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images
Potholes are a significant expressway engineering disease. Automatic inspection based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images can identify potholes more efficiently than manual inspection. However, few pothole...
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N-do** offering higher photodegradation performance of dissolved black carbon for organic pollutants: experimental and theoretical studies
We investigated the influence mechanism of N-do** for dissolved black carbon (DBC) photodegradation of organic pollutants. The degradation performance of N-doped dissolved black carbon (NDBC) for tetracyclin...
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Study on the Wind-induced Interference Effect of a Large-span Roof Structure Building Group
The wind-induced interference effects existing during the construction of a building group were studied in the context of the Zhangjiakou Olympic Sports Center project. Based on CFD numerical simulations, 120 ...
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Open AccessResearch on the influence of geological factors on casing stress in casing-in-casing cementing in the horizontal section of shale gas wells
Deep shale gas development has great potential, but the frequent occurrence of shale gas well casing change problems triggered by geological factors seriously restricts deep shale gas development. In order to ...
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Experimental Evaluation of Estimating Local Bed Shear Stress Using Log Law in a Straight River Channel
Bed shear stress is a critical parameter in riverine environments, directly influencing sediment transport, erosion, deposition, and flow dynamics. However, direct measurement of bed shear stress in natural ri...
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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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Experimental study on the damage identification of bridge expansion joints
To address the shortage of damage identification methods for modal bridge expansion joints (MBEJs). Two damage indexes, DI(IPH) and DI(HS) were constructed using the instantaneous phase (IP) and Hilbert spectrum ...
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Estimation of Bedform Friction Factor Directly from Bathymetry Data
We present a procedure to systematically estimate the form friction factor through the analysis of spatial data obtained by acoustic Doppler current profiler. The form friction factor is related to the geometr...
