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Gaizka Zarraonandia Simeón and Claudio Bittencourt Ferreira
Tidal energy is nowadays one of the fastest growing types of marine renewable energy. In particular, Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbines (HATTs) are the most advanced designs and the most appropriate for standardization. This paper presents a review of actual...
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Edgar Muñoz, Federico Núñez, Wilson Rodríguez, Camilo Otalora, Daniel Ruiz
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This article presents an analysis by structural reliability based on instrumentation applied to the bridge Puerto Salgar, considered one of most important ofColombia. This work included: surveying, mechanical testing, traffic counting, load test, optimiz...
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Gang Zhang, Tuo Xie, Lei Zhang, Xia Hua, Fuchao Liu
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The Sacramento model is widely utilized in hydrological forecast, of which the accuracy and performance are primarily determined by the model parameters, indicating the key role of parameter estimation. This paper presents a multi-step parameter estimati...
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Gang Zhang, Tuo Xie, Lei Zhang, Xia Hua and Fuchao Liu
The Sacramento model is widely utilized in hydrological forecast, of which the accuracy and performance are primarily determined by the model parameters, indicating the key role of parameter estimation. This paper presents a multi-step parameter estimati...
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Amal Hayati Ishak,Muhamad Rahimi Osman,Siti Khadijah Ab. Manan,Rafeah Saidon
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Rasch Model is a robust technique for questionnaire validation. It offers a variety of analyses on the instrument?s validity and reliability, as well as analysis on the rating scale design of a measurement scale. Thus, employing Rasch scale calibration a...
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Andrea Momblanch, Ian P. Holman and Sanjay K. Jain
Global change is expected to have a strong impact in the Himalayan region. The climatic and orographic conditions result in unique modelling challenges and requirements. This paper critically appraises recent hydrological modelling applications in Himala...
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Chongxun Mo, Peiyu Tang, Keke Huang, Xingbi Lei, Shufeng Lai, Juan Deng, Mengxiang Bao, Guikai Sun and Zhenxiang Xing
Karst basins have a relatively low capacity for water retention, rendering them very vulnerable to drought hazards. However, karst geo-climatic features are highly spatially heterogeneous, making reliable drought assessment challenging. To account for ge...
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Fan Yang, Anita Moldenhauer-Roth, Robert M. Boes, Yuhong Zeng and Ismail Albayrak
To study the fish behavioral response to up- and downstream fish passage structures, live-fish tests are conducted in large flumes in various laboratories around the world. The use of multiple fisheye cameras to cover the full width and length of a flume...
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Xianrui He, Xingyuan Wang, Chonglin Xu and Yue Wang
Tiny interference components play an important role in the aerospace and instrumentation fields. Contact stress and connection force are important factors in evaluating the reliability and service life of components. In this study, the ultrasonic method ...
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Giovanni Passalacqua, Claudio Iuppa and Carla Faraci
Plastic is one of the most widely used materials. It is expected that there will be about 12 billion tons of debris dispersed into the environment by 2050. This, combined with marine littering, pollution and climate change will threaten our ability to su...
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Yue Ma, Qing Liu and Liu Yang
Seafarers are prone to reduce behavioral reliability under high workloads, resulting in human errors and accidents. To explore the changes in seafarers? workload and physiological activities under complex task conditions, a bridge simulator experiment wa...
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Amrit Bhusal, Utsav Parajuli, Sushmita Regmi and Ajay Kalra
Rainfall-runoff simulation is vital for planning and controlling flood control events. Hydrology modeling using Hydrological Engineering Center?Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) is accepted globally for event-based or continuous simulation of the rain...
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Edson L. Meyer, Oliver O. Apeh and Ochuko K. Overen
This paper centers on the design and installation of a robust photovoltaic (PV)-based microgrid data acquisition system (DAS) that can monitor different PV systems simultaneously. The PV-based microgrid consists of three solar systems: off-grid, hybrid a...
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Ariele Zanfei, Andrea Menapace, Simone Santopietro and Maurizio Righetti
Proper hydraulic simulation models, which are fundamental to analyse a water distribution system, require a calibration procedure. This paper proposes a multi-objective procedure to calibrate water demands and pipe roughness distribution in the context o...
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Cássio G. Rampinelli, Ian Knack and Tyler Smith
Many hydrologic studies that are the basis for water resources planning and management rely on streamflow information. Calibration and use of hydrologic models to extend flow series based on rainfall data, perform flood frequency analysis, or develop flo...
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Nicholas Fiorentini and Massimo Losa
Crash severity is undoubtedly a fundamental aspect of a crash event. Although machine learning algorithms for predicting crash severity have recently gained interest by the academic community, there is a significant trend towards neglecting the fact that...
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Thu Ha Nguyen, Ilyas Masih, Yasir A. Mohamed and Pieter Van der Zaag
The limitation in quantity and quality of climate data, in particular rainfall measurements, directly affects the reliability of hydrological models, which negatively impacts on the quality of water resources planning and management. This is obviously tr...
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Jonas Gliß, Kerstin Stebel, Arve Kylling, Anna Solvejg Dinger, Holger Sihler and Aasmund Sudbø
Ultraviolet (UV) SO2 cameras have become a common tool to measure and monitor SO2 emission rates, mostly from volcanoes but also from anthropogenic sources (e.g., power plants or ships). Over the past decade, the analysis of UV SO2 camera data has seen m...
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Jakub Langhammer, Jana Bernsteinová and Jakub Mirijovský
This paper explores the potential of the joint application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based photogrammetry and an automated sensor network for building a hydrodynamic flood model of a montane stream. UAV-based imagery was used for three-dimensional...
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I. Adin, J. Mendizabal, G. de Miguel, J. Goya, ... S. Arrizabalaga
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The suitability of EGNSS (including EGNOS and Galileo early services) for safety railway applications has been analysed by several European projects such as Grail, Grail-2, Satloc, 3InSat, and it is currently being analysed by ERSAT EAV. ERSAT EAV in par...
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