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Namitha Viona Pais, James O?Donnell and Nalini Ravishanker
The design strategies for flood risk reduction in coastal towns must be informed by the likelihood of flooding resulting from both precipitation and coastal storm surge. This paper discusses various bivariate extreme value methods to investigate the join...
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Alexander Robitzsch
The local independence assumption is crucial for the consistent estimation of item parameters in item response theory models. This article explores a pairwise likelihood estimation approach for the two-parameter logistic (2PL) model that treats the local...
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Xin Zhou, Chenglin Tao, Xi Liang, Zeliang Liu and Huijian Li
The aim of topology optimisation is to determine the optimal distribution of material phases within the periodic cells of a microstructure. In this paper, the density of grid points under element volume fraction is constructed to replace the finite eleme...
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Yilinuer Alifujiang, Na Lu, Pingping Feng and Ying Jiang
In the context of sustainable economic development, the current dilemma of water utilization can be resolved by improving water utilization and achieving an excellent decoupling state between economic growth and water utilization. The utilization of wate...
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Jae-Hyeon Park, Sung-Woo Park, Jong-Pil Kim and Hyun-Ung Oh
A novel passive vibration-damping device is proposed and investigated for a large deployable solar array. One strategy for achieving high damping in a solar panel is using a yoke structure comprising a hyperelastic shape memory alloy and multiple viscous...
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Oleg M. Alifanov, Margarita O. Salosina, Sergey A. Budnik and Aleksey V. Nenarokomov
Highly porous open-cell carbon materials have great potential for use as high-temperature thermal insulation for space vehicles due to a unique combination of properties: low density, high rigidity, sufficient compressive strength, and low thermal conduc...
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Hongfen Bai, Bo Yu and Wei Gu
With the increasing use of electric propulsion ships, the emergence of the shaftless rim-driven thruster (RDT) as a revolutionary integrated motor thruster is gradually becoming an important development direction for green ships. The shaftless structure ...
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Ching-Cheng Shen and Dan Wang
Maintaining the sustainable development of fascinating resources in Taiwan?s Hualien and Taitung (Huatung) regions is the basis of organic agritourism. Loyalty not only represents tourists? commitment to return and recommend but also serves as a goal for...
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Lisong Shi, E Fan, Hua Shen, Chih-Yung Wen, Shuai Shang and Hongbo Hu
A three-dimensional upwind conservation element and solution element method (CESE) in cylindrical coordinates is first developed to effectively solve the unsteady reactive Euler equations governing a hydrogen?air rotating detonation engine (RDE) with coa...
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Sebastian-Marian Zaharia, Mihai Alin Pop, George Razvan Buican, Lucia-Antoneta Chicos, Valentin Marian Stamate, Ionut Stelian Pascariu and Camil Lancea
Metallic additive manufacturing technology is seeing increasing use from aviation companies manufacturing prototypes or components with complex geometric shapes, which are then tested and put into operation. This paper presents the design, fabrication vi...
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