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Mario Manosalvas-Paredes, Ronald Roberts, Maria Barriera and Konstantinos Mantalovas
Road agencies are constantly being placed in difficult situations when making road maintenance and rehabilitation decisions as a result of diminishing road budgets and mounting environmental concerns for any chosen strategies. This has led practitioners ...
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Atsushi Suzuki, Wang Liao, Daiki Shibata, Yuki Yoshino, Yoshihiro Kimura and Nobuhiro Shimoi
With demand for the long-term continued use of existing building facilities, structural health monitoring and damage detection are attracting interest from society. Sensors of various types have been practically applied in the industry to satisfy this ne...
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Chang-Yull Lee and Ji-Hwan Kim
A smart-skin antenna structure is investigated for active flutter control with piezoelectric sensors and actuators. The skin antenna is designed as a multilayer sandwich structure with a dielectric polymer to perform the role of antenna or radar structur...
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Daniel Ferrández Vega,Carlos Morón Fernández,Pablo Saiz Martínez,Jorge Pablo Díaz Velilla
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Activity of static loads and different activities of dynamic loads produced over the structure of a building have a negative effect causing deformations of the materials that form the structure. Reinforced concrete is the most used in building structural...
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Sakineh Fotouhi, Mohamad Fotouhi, Ana Pavlovic and Nenad Djordjevic
Ships are usually under vibration, impact, and other kinds of static and dynamic loads. These loads arise from water flow across the hull or surfaces, the propeller cavitation, and so on. For optimal design purposes and reliable performance, experimental...
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Sakineh Fotouhi, Mohamad Fotouhi, Ana Pavlovic and Nenad Djordjevic
Ships are usually under vibration, impact, and other kinds of static and dynamic loads. These loads arise from water flow across the hull or surfaces, the propeller cavitation, and so on. For optimal design purposes and reliable performance, experimental...
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Sakineh Fotouhi, Mohamad Fotouhi, Ana Pavlovic and Nenad Djordjevic
Ships are usually under vibration, impact, and other kinds of static and dynamic loads. These loads arise from water flow across the hull or surfaces, the propeller cavitation, and so on. For optimal design purposes and reliable performance, experimental...
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Jorge de-J. Lozoya-Santos, L. C. Félix-Herrán, Juan C. Tudón-Martínez, Adriana Vargas-Martinez and Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
This work designed and implemented a new low-cost, Internet of Things-oriented, wireless smart sensor prototype to measure mechanical strain. The research effort explores the use of smart materials as transducers, e.g., a magnetorheological elastomer as ...
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Roberto De Fazio, Vincenzo Mariano Mastronardi, Matteo Petruzzi, Massimo De Vittorio and Paolo Visconti
Human?machine interaction (HMI) refers to systems enabling communication between machines and humans. Systems for human?machine interfaces have advanced significantly in terms of materials, device design, and production methods. Energy supply units, logi...
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Chouaib Ennawaoui, Abdelowahed Hajjaji, Cédric Samuel, Erroumayssae Sabani, Abdelkader Rjafallah, Ikrame Najihi, El Mehdi Laadissi, El Mehdi Loualid, Mohamed Rguiti, Abdessamad El Ballouti and Azeddine Azim
This paper investigates energy harvesting performances of porous piezoelectric polymer films to collect electrical energy from vibrations and power various sensors. The influence of void content on the elastic matrix, dielectric, electrical, and mechanic...
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Song Liu, Xianmei Wu, Yuanyuan Kong and Xiuqian Peng
As a representative fluid-transporting system, fluid-conveying pipes play an essential role in many fields. For a fluid-conveying pipe system in operation, fluid pulsation in pipes contains much information about fluid flow parameters (flow velocity, flu...
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Mario Manosalvas-Paredes, Nizar Lajnef, Karim Chatti, Kenji Aono, Juliette Blanc, Nick Thom, Gordon Airey and Davide Lo Presti
Pavement structures are designed to withstand continuous damage during their design life. Damage starts as soon as the pavement is open to traffic and increases with time. If maintenance activities are not considered in the initial design or considered b...
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Sung Hee Kim, Yongchan Kwon, KangGeon Kim and Youngsu Cha
Soft sensors are attracting significant attention in human?machine interaction due to their high flexibility and adaptability. However, estimating motion state from these sensors is difficult due to their nonlinearity and noise. In this paper, we propose...
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Dong Hwi Kim, Eun Soo Kim, Sung-chul Shin and Sun Hong Kwon
Sloshing experiments have increasingly received academic attention. Understanding the measurement errors in the sloshing impact pressures is an important parts of the sloshing experiments since these errors, which arise from experimental conditions, affe...
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Ionut Dragos Moldovan, Abdalla Almukashfi and António Gomes Correia
The small strain shear modulus is an important characteristic of geomaterials that can be measured experimentally using piezoelectric sensors (bender elements). However, most conventional signal interpretation techniques are based on the visual observati...
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Ting Dong and Nam H. Kim
Although structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies using sensors have dramatically been developed recently, their capability should be evaluated from the perspective of the maintenance industry. As a first step toward utilizing sensors, the objecti...
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Ting Dong and Nam H. Kim
Although structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies using sensors have dramatically been developed recently, their capability should be evaluated from the perspective of the maintenance industry. As a first step toward utilizing sensors, the objecti...
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David Valentín, Alexandre Presas, Mònica Egusquiza, Carme Valero and Eduard Egusquiza
One of the main causes of damage in hydraulic turbines is cavitation. While not all cavitation appearing in a turbine is of a destructive type, erosive cavitation can severely affect the structure, thus increasing maintenance costs and reducing the remai...
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Alessandro Corsini, Sara Feudo, Cecilia Tortora, Graziano Ullucci
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This work investigates the use of unconventional sensors to measure pressure modulation interpreted as pseudo sound in the near field on the casing of a fan in a view to detect rotating stall. Rotating stall is an aerodynamic issue with a frequency signa...
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Susana Barrios, Andrés Guzmán and Albert Ortiz
Corrosion directly affects the structural stiffness of a steel element, reducing the thickness, thus inertia, due to the gradual deterioration of the material. Quickly identifying corrosion damage to the stiffness of a steel structure is a challenge in c...
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