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Xiaomei Zhong, Yongsheng Wu, Jie Yu, Lei Liu and Haibo Niu
The formation of oil?mineral aggregates (OMAs) is essential for understanding the behavior of oil spills in estuaries and coastal waters. We utilized statistical methods (screening design) to identify the most influential variables (seven factors in tota...
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Costas P. Providakis, Maria G. Mousteraki and Georgia C. Providaki
Without affecting the integrity or stability of the heritage monuments, vibration-based techniques provide useful solutions for acquiring global information about them. By studying the dynamic response to suitable excitation sources, it is feasible to de...
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Hamed Hasani and Francesco Freddi
Structural health monitoring systems have been employed throughout history to assess the structural responses of bridges to both natural and man-made hazards. Continuous monitoring of the integrity and analysis of the dynamic characteristics of bridges o...
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Claudia Lucia Piccolo, Laura Cea, Martina Sbarra, Anna Maria De Nicola, Carlo De Cicco Nardone, Eliodoro Faiella, Rosario Francesco Grasso and Bruno Beomonte Zobel
Endometriosis is a chronic condition characterized by the presence of abnormal endometrial tissue outside the uterus. These misplaced cells are responsible for inflammation, symptoms, scar tissue and adhesions. Endometriosis manifests mainly in three pat...
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Xiaomei Zhong, Haibo Niu, Pu Li, Yongsheng Wu and Lei Liu
An oil spill is considered one of the most serious polluting disasters for a marine environment. When oil is spilled into a marine environment, it is dispersed into the water column as oil droplets which often interact with suspended particles to form oi...
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Martina Pappalardo, Antonio Virdis and Enzo Mingozzi
The Internet of Things (IoT) brings Internet connectivity to devices and everyday objects. This huge volume of connected devices has to be managed taking into account the severe energy, memory, processing, and communication constraints of IoT devices and...
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Gabriel Castro and Grover Zurita
There have been steadily growing requirements from the academia and industry, demanding non-invasive methods and reliable measurement systems of research devoted to operational mode analysis (OMA). Due to the simplicity of performing only structures surf...
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Vasileios D. Papavasileiou, Charis J. Gantes, Pavlos Thanopoulos and Xenofon A. Lignos
Even though prefabricated steel Bailey bridges have been used for more than 80 years, limited studies of their structural features have been conducted, most of which do not consider their response in operational conditions. This study aimed at determinin...
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Mubashar Sarfraz, Muhammad Farhan Sohail, Sheraz Alam, Muhammad Javvad ur Rehman, Sajjad Ahmed Ghauri, Khaled Rabie, Hasan Abbas and Shuja Ansari
Unmanned air vehicle communication (UAV) systems have recently emerged as a quick, low-cost, and adaptable solution to numerous challenges in the next-generation wireless network. In particular, UAV systems have shown to be very useful in wireless commun...
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Hanzlah Akhlaq, Faheem Butt, Mamdooh Alwetaishi, Mamoon Riaz, Omrane Benjeddou and Enas E. Hussein
This paper presents the operational modal analysis of a 90-m-high RC minaret of an iconic mosque considered as a landmark of the city. The minaret was monitored for three days with 11 tri-axial MEMS accelerometers. The purpose of the study was to observe...
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