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Influence of pier height on the safety of trains running on high-speed railway bridges during earthquakes
Sudden earthquakes pose a threat to the running safety of trains on high-speed railway bridges, and the stiffness of piers is one of the factors affecting the dynamic response of train-track-bridge system. In ...
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Coupling vibration analysis of high-speed maglev train-viaduct systems with control loop failure
The risk of failure of the control loop can occur when a high-speed maglev train runs on viaduct. Meanwhile, the failure of the levitation magnets which balances the gravity of the maglev train could cause the...
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Pre-evaluation on stability of proposed expressway embankment with existing geothermal regulation measures in permafrost regions
Embankment stability is the primary problem for the expressway construction in permafrost regions. The proposed Qinghai-Tibet Expressway (QTE) is planned to construct along the Qinghai-Tibet Project Corridor. ...
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Cations stress on low-grade nickel sulfide ore oxidation leaching
The effects of cations stress of magnesium ion and sodium ion on the low-grade nickel sulfide ore oxidative leaching in simulated sulfuric acid solutions were investigated. This study was performed in two cour...
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Effects of MgO additive on metallurgical properties of fluxed-pellet
As a main charging burden of blast furnace (BF) ironmaking process, pellets play an important role in ironmaking process. However, compared with sinters, there are some inevitable disadvantages for traditional...
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Assessing performance of collision mitigation brake system in Chinese traffic environment
Advanced driver-assistance systems such as Honda’s collision mitigation brake system (CMBS) can help achieve traffic safety. In this paper, the naturalistic driving study and a series of simulations are combin...
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Origin of deep carbonate reservoir in northeastern Sichuan Basin: New insights from in-situ hydrothermal diamond anvil cell experiments
In situ Raman analysis on the segregated near-equilibrium carbonate-fluid interaction at elevated temperatures (room temperature−260 °C) and pressures (13-812 MPa) in a hydrothermal diamond anvil cell (HDAC) r...
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A buried Neolithic paddy soil reveals loss of microbial functional diversity after modern rice cultivation
It has been documented that human activities are causing the rapid loss of taxonomic, phylogenetic, genetic and functional diversity in soils. However, it remains unclear how modern intensive rice cultivation ...
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Cyclic deformation behaviour of natural K 0-consolidated soft clay under different stress paths
Characteristic of cyclic loading due to passing wheels is associated with one-way loading without stress reversal, which includes a simultaneous cyclic variation of vertical normal stress and horizontal normal...
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Real time remaining useful life prediction based on nonlinear Wiener based degradation processes with measurement errors
Real time remaining useful life (RUL) prediction based on condition monitoring is an essential part in condition based maintenance (CBM). In the current methods about the real time RUL prediction of the nonlin...