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Seyed Fathollah Sajedi, Iman Saffarian, Masoud Pourbaba and Jung Heum Yeon
This paper presents experimental and theoretical assessments of the structural behavior of circular steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) columns reinforced with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars subjected to a concentric axial compressive load...
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Shiming Wei and Kaixuan Qiu
The extraction of shale gas from onshore and offshore shale gas reservoirs will play an important role in meeting China?s future energy needs, which will not only help alleviate the energy crisis but also contribute to climate change mitigation. As for t...
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Eyad K. Sayhood, Nisreen S. Mohammed, Salam J. Hilo and Salih S. Salih
This paper presents comprehensive empirical equations to predict the shear strength capacity of reinforced concrete deep beams, with a focus on improving the accuracy of existing codes. Analyzing 198 deep beams imported from 15 existing investigations, t...
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Marat Satayev, Abdugani Azimov, Gani Iztleuov and Lazzat Satayeva
The aim of this work is to develop an adsorber with a fixed bed of adsorbent and a mathematical model of the adsorption bed. On the basis of the theory of fractal clusters, an equation for calculating the layer porosity that takes into account the averag...
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Jian Qin, Zhenquan Zhang, Xuening Song, Shuting Huang, Yanjun Liu and Gang Xue
In order to enhance the power generation efficiency and reliability of wave energy converters (WECs), an enclosed inertial WEC with a magnetic nonlinear stiffness mechanism (nonlinear EIWEC) is proposed in this paper. A mathematical model of the nonlinea...
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Hao Deng, Hong-Bin Peng and Wei Chang
Corrugated web girders with plate flanges have been widely applied in buildings and bridges due to the large shear capacity of the corrugated web (CW). However, experiments on corrugated web girders with tubular flanges are limited. Accordingly, this pap...
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Shiyuan Zhu, Yuwei Zhao and Shihong Yue
Given a set of data objects, the fuzzy c-means (FCM) partitional clustering algorithm is favored due to easy implementation, rapid response, and feasible optimization. However, FCM fails to reflect either the importance degree of the individual data obje...
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Ziran Zhang and Maosheng Zhang
Describing the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soil is very important in predicting water transport. Most current models have complex forms and generally need to be calibrated by the measured unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curve. A simple model...
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Christos Tzimopoulos, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Nikiforos Samarinas, Basil Papadopoulos and Christos Evangelides
In this work, a novel fuzzy FEM (Finite Elements Method) numerical solution describing the recession flow in unconfined aquifers is proposed. In general, recession flow and drainage problems can be described by the nonlinear Boussinesq equation, while th...
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Shih-Lun Fang, Yi-Shan Lin, Sheng-Chih Chang, Yi-Lung Chang, Bing-Yun Tsai and Bo-Jein Kuo
The reference evapotranspiration (ET0) information is crucial for irrigation planning and water resource management. While the Penman-Monteith (PM) equation is widely recognized for ET0 calculation, its reliance on numerous meteorological parameters cons...
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