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Exploring CO2 Sensor Grid Configurations and the Implications for Demand-controlled Ventilation
Carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor grid configuration has implications on indoor air quality (IAQ) when used for demand-controlled ventilation (DCV). The...
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Thermographic investigations and dynamic identification tests for non-destructive structural assessment and enhanced FE modelling of a historical iron-strengthened masonry church
The paper deals with the description of detailed non-destructive in-situ tests and the analysis of the dynamic behaviour of the Santa Maria Maddalena...
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First Results from Operational Modal Analysis of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine
The exploration of the wind energy available offshore is of vital importance to overcome the energy dependence on fossil fuels and, depending on the...
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Controlled Friction Dam** using Optimally Located Structural Joints
Lightweight structures typically have low inherent structural dam**. Effective vibration suppression is required, for example, in certain...
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Aerodynamic shape optimization of gas turbines: a deep learning surrogate model approach
The improvement of existing turbines requires time-consuming computations that often limit the number of parameters that can be optimized. To address...
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Seventy years of tensegrities (and counting)
We try to make a long way short by proceeding per exempla from Kenneth Snelson’s sculptures and Richard Buckminster Fuller’s coinage of the term tensegrity...
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Determining and Tuning Models of a Masonry Bridge for Structural Assessment
The paper describes a procedure aimed at develo** FE models suitable to the seismic assessment of masonry viaducts. The modeling strategy is based...
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Optimal Sensor Placement Considering Both Sensor Faults Under Uncertainty and Sensor Clustering for Vibration-Based Damage Detection
Use of a sensor network to provide adequate and reliable information is paramount for accurate damage detection of structures. However, unavoidably,...
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Powder bed fusion factory productivity increases using discrete event simulation and genetic algorithm
Powder bed fusion is importance is growing with uses across industries in both polymer and metallic components, particularly in mass...
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Global and Detailed Placement
After partitioning the circuit into smaller modules (Chap. 2 ) and floorplanning the layout to determine the...
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Evaluating different levels of information on the calibration of building energy simulation models
A poorly calibrated model undermines confidence in the effectiveness of building energy simulation, impeding the widespread application of advanced...
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Topology Optimization for a Large-Scale Truss Bridge Using a Hybrid Metaheuristic Search Algorithm
This paper introduces a simple and effective method to optimize the weight and geometry of truss members of a large-scale truss bridge. Design...
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Assessment of High Porosity Lattice Structures for Lightweight Applications
Additive manufacturing (AM) methods have a growing application in different fields such as aeronautical, automotive, biomedical, and there is a huge...
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Elliptical Polarized Radio Wave Decay in Land Communication Links
The topic of depolarization in terrestrial wireless communication links has been poorly researched even for technologies beyond 4G. The main source...
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Evaluation of vibration properties of an 18-story mass timber–concrete hybrid building by on-site vibration tests
Timber–concrete hybrid structural systems are a practical option to provide tall mass timber buildings with a lateral load-resisting system. This...
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Bridge weigh-in-motion using augmented Kalman filter and model updating
Most of the bridge weigh-in-motion (B-WIM) systems in use adopt the static approach. For these systems, dynamic components of the bridge response...
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Geotechnical and Geophysical Railway Embankment Auscultation
As part of the understanding of the phenomena affecting tracks geometry on the Northern Europe high-speed line (LGV-Nord), a study was carried out on...
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Interacting Footings on Geo-Reinforced Soils: A State-of-the-Art Review
Soil reinforcement is increasingly applied in many geotechnical applications due to its high performance and justified costs than other alternatives....
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Semi-active Tuned Liquid Column Dampers with Variable Natural Frequency
Semi-active devices offer fail-safe attributes of passive and adaptability of active systems. Variants of tuned mass dampers (TMDs) have been...
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Drivetrains on floating offshore wind turbines: lessons learned over the last 10 years
This paper presents lessons learned from own research studies and field experiments with drivetrains on floating wind turbines over the last ten...
