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Abdelrahim Sabsabi, Oussama Baalbaki, Adnan Masri and Hassan Ghanem
Arch beams are widely used in bridge construction due to their ability to withstand much greater loads than horizontal beams. The utilization of composite construction has also increased due to its tendency to optimize the utilization of construction mat...
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Hai An, Po Yang, Hanyu Zhang and Xinquan Liu
In this work, a novel numerical method for studying the influence of gas types on drag reduction by microbubble injection is presented. Aimed at the microbubble drag reduction (MBDR) process for different types of gases, the mass transfer velocity of dif...
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Jiaqi Hu, Yin Gu, Jinhuang Yan, Ying Sun and Xinyi Huang
With the convenient and fast requirements for construction in bridge engineering, prefabricated assembly technology is widely applied in engineering construction. Typically, prefabricated bridge decks are connected through cast-in-place wet joints. Wet j...
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Liang Dai, Chaojun Jia, Lei Chen, Qiang Zhang and Wei Chen
The intricate geological conditions of reservoir banks render them highly susceptible to destabilization and damage from fluctuations in water levels. The study area, the Cheyipin section of the Huangdeng Hydroelectric Station, is characterized by numero...
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Yufan He, Can Luo, Li Cheng, Yandong Gu and Bin Gu
The shaft-type tubular pumping station has the remarkable characteristics of a large flow rate and high efficiency. It can realize the functions of irrigation, pumping, and drainage through pumping and generating conditions considering tides. Moreover, i...
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Xi Chen, Shen Li, Gang Liang and Min He
The present study proposes a variable replaceable link for high-strength steel frames with Y-eccentric braces designed to effectively dissipate earthquake energy by confining plastic deformation to its central zone. This unique feature allows for easy po...
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Xuan Mo, Zhijun Yuan, Yigang Jia, Liangjian Lu, Xianglan Wei and Naiwen Ke
In this paper, a novel T-shaped steel?concrete composite shear wall (TSCCW) is proposed. Low-cycle reciprocating tests were carried out on the TSCCW to investigate its performance in terms of its damage characteristics, hysteretic properties, energy diss...
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Ammar Alnmr, Ashraf Sheble, Richard Ray and Hussein Ahmad
The growing demand for transportation tunnels in densely populated urban areas has led to the widespread adoption of twin tunnel configurations in contemporary infrastructure projects. This research focuses on investigating the complex interaction betwee...
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Lei Xi, Zhen Zhao, Qicheng Ruan, Zhengheng Yang, Liang Xu, Jianmin Gao and Yunlong Li
Inappropriate distributions of temperature and humidity will cause the failure of the spring-loaded actuators. Therefore, it is essential to understand the temperature and humidity distribution characteristics in typical spring-loaded actuators, to guara...
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Junzhi Pan, Zilong Ti and Hengrui You
Evaluation of hydrodynamic wave pressure on large-scale structure is an important task in the wave load design of thin-walled components used in sea-crossing bridge. This study focuses on the probability distribution of hydrodynamic wave pressure on a la...
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Desheng Zhang, Xin Wang, Ming Zhao, Lin Hong and Xuecheng Li
Remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) have been widely used in deep-sea resource exploitation and industrial engineering operations. To perform these tasks accurately in the deep-sea environment, stable motion control has become a key area of rese...
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Ivana Cavlina Toma?evic, Vi?njica Vucetic, Kevin K. W. Cheung, Paul Fox-Hughes, Paul J. Beggs, Maja Teli?man Prtenjak and Barbara Malecic
Understanding the relationship between fire behavior and the driving weather conditions is critical for fire management and long-term fire risk assessment. In this study, we focus on two wildfire events: the Split wildfire in Croatia and the Forcett?Duna...
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Rositsa Velichkova, Rosen Iliev, George Pichurov, Detelin Markov, Iskra Simova, Martin Pushkarov and Tsvetan Tsalov
This paper presents results from a physical and numerical study of a new type of axial hydraulic turbine with oscillating blades, which is used to utilize wind waves energy. The pilot studies were conducted on a test bench constructed in one of the labs ...
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Abdelaziz Nasr and Abdullah A. Alzahrani
The present work focuses on a numerical investigation of nanofilms? (water/copper and water/aluminium) evaporation inside a heat exchanger by mixed convection flowing down on one channel plate. The channel was composed of two parallel vertical plates. Th...
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Xiang Zhao, Hanxuan Wang, Zhongwei Li, Guoliang Dai, Ziwei Yin, Shuning Cao and Junlong Zhou
The excavation of the foundation pit will cause changes in the soil stress field around the foundation pit, and that may have adverse effects on the adjacent subway tunnels. In this paper, a complex deep foundation pit excavated in different sections is ...
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Lin Hong, Xin Wang, Desheng Zhang and Hang Xu
Hydrodynamic coefficient estimation is crucial to the shape design, dynamic modeling, and control of underwater vehicles. In this paper, we conduct a numerical study on the hydrodynamic coefficient estimation of an underactuated underwater vehicle (actua...
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Carmine De Lucia, Edoardo Bucchignani, Andrea Mastellone, Marianna Adinolfi, Myriam Montesarchio, Davide Cinquegrana, Paola Mercogliano and Pasquale Schiano
In this work, the results of a sensitivity study based on ICON-LAM simulations at 2.5 km of spatial resolution over the Italian area, driven by ECMWF IFS global data, are presented. The main aim is to provide a contribution to the selection of suitable p...
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M. De la Cruz-Ávila, I. Carvajal-Mariscal, J. Klapp and J. E. V. Guzmán
This work aims to analyse different injection configurations for the analysis of the emulsification process in a Y-junction staggered horizontal pipeline. The case study comprises a multiphase analysis between two liquids, one with high and the other wit...
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André Furtado, Hugo Rodrigues and António Arêde
The seismic behavior of the infill masonry infill walls has a significant impact on the global response of reinforced concrete frame structures. One factor influencing its behavior is the existence of openings in the walls, such as doors and windows, whi...
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Yunpeng Jiang and Qiang Sun
In this study, three different repair methods are proposed for the common broken parts of traditional wooden beams. Four wooden beams without initial damage and six repaired beams in a planar wooden frame are tested and numerical simulated. The test phen...
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