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Alon Urlainis, Monica Paciuk and Igal M. Shohet
This study investigates the life expectancy (LE) and life cycle costs (LCC) of three alternatives of interior partitions in residential units: gypsum board, autoclaved concrete block, and hollow concrete block partitions. The aim is to examine the sustai...
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Maria Rota, Martino Zito, Paolo Dubini and Roberto Nascimbene
Monitoring of non-structural elements is not usually implemented, despite the seismic vulnerability of these components and the significant cost associated with their replacement in case of damage. By exploiting the limited cost of commercial sensors, ac...
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Fabio Borghetti, Michela Longo, Michela Bonera, Marco Libretti, Claudio Somaschini, Valentina Martinelli, Marco Medeghini and Renato Mazzoncini
Nowadays, designing and adopting sustainable and greener transport systems is of upmost interest. The European Commission and different EU countries are developing plans and programs?but also delivering resources?aimed at the decarbonization of cities an...
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Quanjiang Yu, Ola Carlson and Serik Sagitov
Wind power is one of the most important sources of renewable energy available today. A large part of the cost of wind energy is due to the cost of maintaining wind power equipment. When a wind turbine component fails to function, it might need to be repl...
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Julio Cantero-Durango, Rodrigo Polo-Mendoza, Gilberto Martinez-Arguelles and Luis Fuentes
Continuous research efforts have been developed in the literature to raise the sustainability components of the road infrastructure industry, i.e., reduce potential contaminants and augment financial profitability. In this regard, this investigation aims...
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Carlo Costantino, Anna Chiara Benedetti and Riccardo Gulli
The Italian residential building stock consists of 12.2 million buildings, with 7.2 constructed post-World War II during the economic boom. These structures were designed without specific regulations for seismic safety, fire resistance, and energy effici...
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Leandro S. Silva, Mayara Amario, Carina M. Stolz, Karoline V. Figueiredo and Assed N. Haddad
The escalating demand for natural resources within the construction industry is progressing upward. At the same time, however, there is a great concern regarding the depletion of these resources. This review paper emphasizes the significance of utilizing...
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Kaixuan Zhao, Hongzhen Li, Jiangtao Ji, Qianwen Li, Mengsong Li, Yongkang He, Jinlong Li and Suhe Xing
Agaricus bisporus is widely cultivated worldwide due to its considerable economic benefits. The increasingly prominent contradiction between production and labor shortage necessitates the urgent replacement of human workers with intelligent picking techn...
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Behrouz Pirouz, Stefania Anna Palermo, Gianfranco Becciu, Umberto Sanfilippo, Hana Javadi Nejad, Patrizia Piro and Michele Turco
Climate change is a significant problem that many countries are currently facing, and green roofs (GRs) are one of the suitable choices to confront it and decrease its impacts. The advantages of GRs are numerous, such as stormwater management, thermal ne...
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Biao Wang, Haobo Zhang, Yunan Zhu, Banggui Cai and Xiaopeng Guo
Low energy consumption has always been one of the core issues in the routing design of underwater sensor networks. Due to the high cost and difficulty of deployment and replacement of current underwater nodes, many underwater applications require the rou...
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