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Qiang Xu, Bo Liu, Jianyun Chen, Jing Li and Mingming Wang
This paper presents experimental and numerical investigations of the seismic failure of the reinforced and unreinforced monoliths of the Huangdeng concrete gravity dam. To verify the scale factors, we use suitable materials (emulation concrete material a...
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Jorge Fernando Marquez-Peñaranda, Mauricio Sanchez-Silva and Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga
The worldwide current practice of the structural design of sewers is based on procedures which usually include the effects caused by chemical and biological deterioration. However, in the last few decades, many sewer pipes have been designed using reinfo...
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Waste heat that is available in the flue gas of power plant stacks is a potential source of useful thermal power. In reclaiming and utilizing this waste heat without compromising plant efficiency, stacks usually need to be equipped with forced-draught fa...
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Cristobal Pineda and Beatriz Mella Lira
Relying mostly on travel time savings, cost-benefit analysis has been widely used in transport project appraisals in the Chilean context, with utility maximisation theory as its background. Nevertheless, subjective well-being advocates have challenged th...
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Cristina Matos, António Cunha, Francisco Pereira, Arminda Gonçalves, Elisabete Silva, Sandra Pereira, Isabel Bentes, Diana Faria and Ana Briga-Sá
The characterization of water and energy consumptions is essential in order to define strategies for their rational use. The way these resources are used in households is the path for efficient and rational management, interdependent from each other. It ...
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