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Ying-Ying Weng, Rong-Yu Wu and Yu-Jun Zheng
In the traditional express delivery sector, trucks are the most available and efficient transportation mode in urban areas. However, due to the pressures of traffic congestion and air pollution problems, many cities have implemented strict measures to re...
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Jeff Grasberger and Dominic Forbush
Aquaculture systems require careful consideration of location, which determines water conditions, pollution impacts, and hazardous conditions. Mobility may be able to address these factors while also supporting the targeting of renewable energy sources s...
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Nerea Portillo Juan, Vicente Negro Valdecantos, M. Dolores Esteban and José Santos López Gutiérrez
Wave energy is one of the most powerful sources of energy on our planet, but its exploitation is difficult. Much current research on renewable energy is focused on how to harness ocean energy. However, wave energy converter (WEC) technology is still imma...
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Sevgi Cavdar and Ali Uyumaz
A roadway?s capacity to drain itself is of utmost importance for the safety and comfort of its users. Standing water and any amount of channelized flow on roadways create nuisances to the users, and the extent of encroachment into the lanes and the water...
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Zheng-Lian Su, Xun-Lin Jiang, Ning Li, Hai-Feng Ling and Yu-Jun Zheng
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used for target detection in modern battlefields. From the viewpoint of the opponents, false target jamming is an effective approach to decrease the UAV detection ability or probability, but currently ther...
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Hao Chen, Xin Wang, Mohamed Benbouzid, Jean-Frédéric Charpentier, Nadia A?t-Ahmed and Jingang Han
Wave compensation technology is crucial to the safety of the ship operation and the accurate placement of load. Its compensation efficiency and the gentle change of the rope tension are particularly important. In this paper, we adopt permanent magnet syn...
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Longzai Ge, Hanbao Chen, Songgui Chen and Haiyuan Liu
In order to ensure the safety and reliability of the submerged tunnel covering layer at the junction of an artificial island and tunnel under extremely bad conditions, the wave current characteristics and the stability of the protective structure in the ...
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Lei Tan, Tomoki Ikoma, Yasuhiro Aida and Koichi Masuda
Barge-type platforms with moonpools are a promising type of foundation for floating offshore wind turbines due to their good seakeeping performance. In this paper, the mean wave drift force on a barge-type vertical-axis floating wind turbine with multipl...
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Zaloa Sanchez-Varela, David Boullosa-Falces, Juan Luis Larrabe Barrena and Miguel A. Gomez-Solaeche
The prediction of loss of position in the offshore industry would allow optimization of dynamic positioning drilling operations, reducing the number and severity of potential accidents. In this paper, the probability of an excursion is determined by deve...
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Fares M?zoughi, Izaskun Garrido, Aitor J. Garrido and Manuel De La Sen
The Harmony Search algorithm has attracted a lot of interest in the past years because of its simplicity and efficiency. This led many scientists to develop various variants for many applications. In this paper, four variants of the Harmony search algori...
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