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Cause, Stability Analysis, and Monitoring of Cracks in the Gate Storehouse of a Flood Diversion Sluice
The cracks in a gate storehouse for a flood-diversion sluice of the Wangfuzhou Water Conservancy Project were studied to diagnose the structural safety. The study was based on an integrated method that involve...
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The effect of early-age freeze–thaw cycle damage on hydraulic concrete self-healing
The freeze–thaw cycle-damage test was designed and conducted on early-age hydraulic concrete at three freeze–thaw-damage ages (1 d, 2 d, 3 d) and two freeze–thaw cycles (5, 10). The compressive strength growth...
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Identification of Pulmonary Hypertension Animal Models Using a New Evolutionary Machine Learning Framework Based on Blood Routine Indicators
Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is a global health problem that affects about 1% of the global population. Animal models of PH play a vital role in unraveling the pathophysiological mechanisms of the disease. The ...
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How First-Immersion Age Affects Wet Expansion of Dam Concrete: An Experimental Study
Upon immersion in water, dam concrete undergoes wet-expansion deformation due to infiltration of moisture. To investigate how first-immersion age affects the wet expansion of dam concrete, wet-expansion tests ...
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Fractional-order model of the compressive strength of hydraulic concrete in a real temperature and humidity environment
Concrete is a kind of composite material that is in a plastic flow state in its initial stage, gradually hardening with the cement hydration reaction and then finally reaching a relatively stable condition. In...
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Fractional order creep model for dam concrete considering degree of hydration
Concrete is a material that is an intermediate between an ideal solid and an ideal fluid. The creep of concrete is related not only to the loading age and duration, but also to its temperature and temperature ...
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Back-Analysis for the Elasto-Viscoplastic Parameters of Landslides Based on the Observed Displacements: A Case Study of the Wujiang Landslide, China
The Wujiang landslide is located on the right bank of Centianhe reservoir near the entrance of the Wujiang gorge, approximately 300 m upstream of the original dam. As a typical ancient landslide, this landslid...
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Transformation from Measured Strains to Viscoelastic Stresses considering Temperature History for Concrete Dams
Strain and stress monitoring is an important approach for evaluating the stress state of concrete dams. Since the hydration rate of cement increases with increasing temperature, the parameters of the thermal a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Micromechanical Model for Time Dependent Behavior Related to Subcritical Damage in Quasi Brittle Rocks
In France, an underground research laboratory is constructed in a clay formation, called Callovo-Oxfordian argillites. In order to evaluate quantitatively the structure durability, it is necessary to achieve a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on Equivalent Rheological Damage Model for Jointed Mass
On the basis of the macroscopic continuum theory and the second theorem of damage thermodynamics, the evolution damage functions are proposed for rock and rock joints respectively, postulating that damage is a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Intelligent Instructing Mechanism for Stream-Media-Based Video/Audio Education System in SME
Through studying worldwide existing stream-media-based video/audio educational systems for SME (small and medium enterprises), it was found that most of software mainly delivers video courses to learners in te...
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A 10-bit 200-MHz CMOS video DAC for HDTV applications
This paper describes a 10-bit 200-MHz CMOS current steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for HDTV applications. The proposed 10-bit DAC is composed of a unit decoded matrix for 6 MSBs and a binary weighte...