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Jarrett Wise, Sherry Hunt and Mohammed Al Dushaishi
With the majority of the United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS)-sponsored earthen dams exceeding their planned service life, seepage is a concern since it is a common failure mechanism among earthen dam...
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Taruansh Qaumi and Seyed M. Hashemi
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a powerful tool that can aid in the engineering design process to reduce cost and time. However, it is best used in conjunction with experimental data, through which its numerical results can be verified. This paper prese...
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Maël Renault and Vaios Lappas
The recent growth in maturity of paraffin-based hybrid propulsion systems reassesses the possibility to design an alternative Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) propelled by a European hybrid motor. As part of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign, a Hybrid MAV w...
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Yongjie Zhang, Songyuan Wang, Bo Cui and Nuo Zhang
In the context of green aviation, as an internationally recognized solution, hydrogen energy is lauded as the ?ultimate energy source of the 21st century?, with zero emissions at the source. Developed economies with aviation industries, such as Europe an...
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Adel Younis and Zuomin Dong
The employment of conventional optimization procedures that must be repeatedly invoked during the optimization process in real-world engineering applications is hindered despite significant gains in computing power by computationally expensive models. As...
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Arvindan Sivasuriyan, Dhanasingh Sivalinga Vijayan, Wojciech Górski, Lukasz Wodzynski, Magdalena Daria Vaverková and Eugeniusz Koda
This study investigated operational and structural health monitoring (SHM) as well as damage evaluations for building structures. The study involved damage detection and the assessment of buildings by placing sensors and by assuming weak areas, and consi...
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Nouman Iqbal, Heng Fang, Ahsan Naseem, Muhammad Kashif and Hans De Backer
This study numerically investigates the limitations of structural hot-spot stress (SHSS) methods and proposes a guideline for the calculation of hot-spot stresses, which can be used for the better evaluation of fatigue-related problems. Four different SH...
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Zhuo-Yi Chen, Chuan-Xi Li, Jun He and Hao-Hui Xin
Diaphragm cutouts are set to release redundant constraints and hence reduce weld fatigue at the connection of U-ribs to diaphragms in orthotropic steel decks. However, most fatigue cracks which originate from the edge of cutouts are in fact detected in t...
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Udochukwu B. Akuru, Maarten J. Kamper
The China-based monopoly of high-energy permanent magnet materials used in modern wind generators impact the economic viability and local content value of most wind turbines installed in South Africa, especially large installations. It is possible to des...
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Touré Youssouf, Tianlai Yu, Dembélé Abdramane, Assogba Ogoubi Cyriaque and Diakité Youssouf
This study was focused on the performance of the pile force at the lateral load of an arched bridge. The effect of the compression of arch bridges creates a large horizontal load. Therefore, it is one of the most important factors in the dimensioning of ...
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