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Liang Dai, Chaojun Jia, Lei Chen, Qiang Zhang and Wei Chen
The intricate geological conditions of reservoir banks render them highly susceptible to destabilization and damage from fluctuations in water levels. The study area, the Cheyipin section of the Huangdeng Hydroelectric Station, is characterized by numero...
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Giedrius Abromavicius, Martynas Skapas and Remigijus Ju?kenas
Co2+:MgAl2O4 crystals are successfully used as passive Q-switches within the cavity of erbium glass lasers. Their limited resistance to laser radiation might also put constraints on the generated output peak power. Usually, polishing of optical substrate...
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Qingsheng Meng, Yang Li, Wenjing Wang, Yuhong Chen and Shilin Wang
Silt liquefaction can occur due to the rapid cyclic loading of sediments. This can result in the loss of the bearing capacity of the underlying sediments and damage to the foundations and infrastructure. Therefore, assessing liquefaction hazards is an im...
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Tianjie Zhang, Md Asif Rahman, Alex Peterson and Yang Lu
The qualitative measurement is a common practice in infrastructure condition inspection when using Infrared Thermography (IRT), as it can effectively locate the defected area non-destructively and non-contact. However, a quantitative evaluation becomes m...
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Ali K. Saleh, Zafer Sakka and Hasan Almuhanna
The early condition-based assessment of civil infrastructures plays an essential role in extending their service life, preventing undesirable sudden failures, and reducing maintenance and rehabilitation costs. One of the most commonly used and fastest no...
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Oliver Campbell, Tom Blenkinsop, Oscar Gilbert and Lisa Mol
The shift of armed conflicts to more urbanised environments has increased the risk to cultural heritage sites. Small arms impacts are ubiquitous in these circumstances, yet the effects and mechanisms of damage caused are not well known. A sandstone targe...
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Zhan Zhao, Jingtao Liu, Wenlong Ding, Ruiqiang Yang and Gang Zhao
Fault damage zone has an important influence on subsurface fluid flow and petrophysical properties. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the characteristics of fault damage zone for oil and gas development of ultra-deep carbonate formation. Th...
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Said A. Mejia Manrique, Eric W. Harmsen, Reza M. Khanbilvardi and Jorge E. González
Flooding during extreme weather events damages critical infrastructure, property, and threatens lives. Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico (PR) on 20 September 2017. Sixty-four deaths were directly attributable to the flooding. This paper describes th...
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Hadi Sanati, David Wood and Qiao Sun
The failure of wind turbine blades is a major concern in the wind power industry due to the resulting high cost. It is, therefore, crucial to develop methods to monitor the integrity of wind turbine blades. Different methods are available to detect subsu...
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Jian Cheng, Jinghe Wang, Jing Hou, Hongxiang Wang and Lei Zhang
Laser-induced damage on fused silica optics remains a major issue that limits the promotion of energy output of large laser systems. Subsurface impurity defects inevitably introduced in the practical polishing process incur strong thermal absorption for ...
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