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Roberta Prado Mendes, Leonardo Carvalho Mesquita, Maurício Pina Ferreira, Leandro Mouta Trautwein, Markssuel Teixeira Marvila and Marília Gonçalves Marques
In reinforced concrete flat slab buildings, the transference of unbalanced moments in the slab?column connections usually results from the asymmetry of spans, vertical loads, and horizontal forces from the wind. The punching strength of the slab?column c...
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Barbora Cernilová, Miloslav Linda, Jirí Kure, Monika Hromasová, Rostislav Choteborský and Ondrej Krunt
Regular weight measurement is important in fattening geese to assess their health status. Failure to gain weight may indicate a potential illness. Standard weight gain analysis involves direct contact with the animal, which can cause stress to the animal...
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Brian G. Roche, Michael A. Perez, Wesley N. Donald and Jarrell Blake Whitman
Sediment barriers are used on construction sites to protect downstream waterbodies from the impacts of sediment-laden stormwater runoff. Although ubiquitous on construction sites, many sediment barrier practices lack performance-based testing to determin...
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Margot Hurlbert, John Bosco Acharibasam, Ranjan Datta, Sharon Strongarm and Ethel Starblanket
Indigenous Peoples in Canada have shown great strength and resilience in maintaining their cultures and ways of life to date in the face of settler colonialism. Centering the Water crises within Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, we explore t...
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Aavudai Anandhi, Raveendranpillai Deepa, Amit Bhardwaj and Vasubandhu Misra
The Ogallala Aquifer is one of the most productive agricultural regions and is referred to as the ?breadbasket of the world?. It covers approximately 225,000 square miles beneath the Great Plains region spanning the states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma,...
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Mengistu A. Jemberie, Assefa M. Melesse and Brook Abate
Urban drainage infrastructures are facing critical challenges due to a lack of integrated asset management, periodic maintenance, improper design, and construction methodologies. The objective of this study is to understand the urban drainage challenges ...
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Nilupa Herath, Lihai Zhang, Priyan Mendis, Satheeskumar Navaratnam, Weena Lokuge and Sujeeva Setunge
Damage accumulation due to multiple seismic impacts over time has a significant effect on the residual service life of the bridge. A reliability-based framework was developed to make decisions in bridge maintenance activities. The feature of the framewor...
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Mohammad Damen Bani Fawwaz, Mohammad Najafi and Vinayak Kaushal
Pipeline asset management derives from pipelines? physical conditions, condition rating, and serviceability through investigating, monitoring, and analyzing the rupture history. The remaining asset life and structural condition of the pipeline network ru...
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Esther Barrios-Crespo, Saúl Torres-Ortega and Pedro Díaz-Simal
The effects of climate change imply an increase in the risk levels due to coastal flooding. These areas present a high concentration of population and economic activity. The failure of critical infrastructures (CI) serving these communities can have sign...
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Franz W Gatzweiler, Saroj Jayasinghe, José G Siri and Jason Corburn
The intensity and range of health challenges that people in cities are facing has increased in recent years. This is due in part to a failure to adequately adapt and respond to emergent and expanding global systemic risks, but also to a still-limited und...
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