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Robotic Walker for Slope Mobility Assistance with Active-Passive Hybrid Actuator
Walking assistance can be realized by active and passive robotic walkers when their users walk on even roads. However, fast signal processing and...
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Buildings Fires and Fire Safety
Besides providing indoor living comfort, a building must also ensure the safety of its occupants. Natural disasters excluded, the safety of a...
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Safety in the Digital Age—Sociotechnical Challenges
This chapter describes some of the recurring themes that emerged from the contributions in this book, as well as from the workshop in which the...
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Evaluating and Ensuring the Environmental Safety of Buildings
The paper discusses the integrated methodology for ensuring the environmental safety of buildings (ESB). The building and its surrounding environment...
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Enhancing Bridges’ Safety Training Using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
The increase in urbanization rates has driven the construction of highly complex infrastructural projects across the globe, including the...
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Fire Safety in Informal Settlements: A Gendered Framework of Fire Justice
People living in informal settlements, whether in urban or tented environments, face daily risks of injury and loss of life or property due to...
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Significance of flow rule for the passive earth pressure problem
Determination of earth pressures is one of the fundamental tasks in geotechnical engineering. Although many different methods have been utilized to...
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Functional Safety Design and ISO26262 Compliance for BMS in EV and HEV
The use of electric cars (HEV/PHEV/EV) is becoming the most widespread because for several good reasons. These vehicles employ batteries of different...
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Investigation of Ultra-High-Temperature Sapphire-Based RF Passive Sensor for Harsh Environment Applications
An ultra-high-temperature ceramic-based sensor has been fabricated following platinum (Pt) metallization and a very high-temperature sintering route....
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Model Tests of the Effect of the Column Centre of Gravity Position on the Value of the Passive Safety Coefficient ASI During Impact
This paper shows the effect of mass on passive safety coefficient (Acceleration Severity Index - ASI) during vehicle collision with a lighting...
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Development of an ejector for passive hydrogen recirculation in PEM fuel cell systems by applying 2D CFD simulation
The anode subsystem is a major energy consumer of polymer-electrolyte-membrane (PEM) fuel cell systems. A passive hydrogen recirculation system, like...
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Methodology of Traffic Safety Management at Railway Crossings in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The most important task of the traffic infrastructure manager is to ensure traffic safety for all participants in the traffic. The railway crossings...
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A Systematic Literature Review of Improvements to Transportation Safety Through Crowdsourced Data
The following discussion is a systematic literature review of recent research papers and articles focused on the topic area of...
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Intelligent Unmanned Air Vehicles Communications for Public Safety Networks
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the potential use cases and intelligent technologies, UAV layered architectures, research findings,...
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Passive Control of Flow Over Rectangular Cavities Using Aft Wall Geometry Modifications
This paper presents characteristics of flow over rectangular cavities for a flow condition of Mach 0.85. A rectangular cavity with an aspect ratio...
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Effect of a Passive Shoulder Support Exoskeleton on Fatigue During Working with Arms over Shoulder Level
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders have a high prevalence across industries and are a leading cause for days away from work. Exoskeletons can...
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High-Speed Passive Shut-Off Device for Shut-Off of Feed-Water Flow in a Brest-Type Reactor Facility in Accidents with Solidification of the Lead Coolant
AbstractA technical description and calculation justification for the use of a fast-acting passive device for shutting off the feed-water flow in the...
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Numerical Investigation of Passive Auto Catalytic Recombiner Performance due to Oxygen Starvation Condition
A significant quantity of hydrogen may be released in the nuclear containment of water cooled nuclear power reactors in case of severe accident...