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Sarat Chandra Mohapatra and C. Guedes Soares
A hydroelastic model associated with the interaction between a surface wave and a floating circular structure connected with mooring lines in finite water depth is developed using BIEM. The BIEM solution is achieved using free surface Green?s function an...
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Jie Dong, Leiping Xue, Kaiyu Cheng, Jian Shi and Chi Zhang
We experimentally investigated the forces induced by monochromatic and solitary waves on a submerged horizontal plate in a wave flume. The experimental results of two-dimensional wave forces on the plate over a 1:10 simple slope and a flat bottom are pre...
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Il-Bum Kwon, Yong-Seok Kwon, Dae-Cheol Seo, Dong-Jin Yoon and Eunho Kim
Anchor systems are widely used to stabilize soil slope and suppress slope failure. Thus, monitoring conditions of an anchor system is important to prevent disasters due to slope failure. The slope condition can be indirectly monitored by sensing the tens...
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Amine Smahat, Abdelkader Megueni
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This paper analyzes the behavior of a functionnally graded plate subjected to impact force at a low velocity by adopting the Hertz law. The differential equation which governs the impact phenomenon is used to calculate the contact force, indentation and ...
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Zhe Ma, Ting Zhou, Nianxin Ren and Gangjun Zhai
Water wave impact on a wet deck is an important issue in ocean engineering, and the plate-shaped structure in the splash zone tends to suffer tremendous impact loads. This work presents a method for predicting the wave slamming uplift force on a fixed pl...
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Zoran Vrhovski, Karlo Obrovac, Josip Ni?etic, Alan Mutka, Hrvoje Klobucar and Stjepan Bogdan
Leg Length Discrepancy (LLD) causes a shift of the Center of Mass (CoM) of the human body, as well as an asymmetry in load distribution on the lower extremities. Existing LLD evaluation methods do not take into account this shift in the human body?s CoM....
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Xiaoniu Li, Siyuan Tao, Yongye Li and Li Wan
In order to improve the effective utilization of agricultural irrigation water and to reasonably allocate water resources in irrigation areas, it is necessary to use open channel flow measurement devices that are accurate and easy to carry. In this study...
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Jiarui Zhang, Jianwei Tu, Zhao Li, Kui Gao and Hua Xie
A new piezoelectric composite, macro fiber composite (MFC) is recombined with piezoceramic fibers, an epoxy resin basal body, and an interdigitated electrode. It has been widely applied in vibration reduction and deformation control of thin-walled struct...
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Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni and Ahmed Abdelraheem Farghaly
An existing riverine platform in Egypt, together with its pile group foundation, is analyzed under environmental loads using 3D FEM structural analysis software incorporating soil-pile interaction. The interaction between the transfer plate and the piles...
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Christian Mitschke, Tobias Heß and Thomas L. Milani
Accelerometers and gyroscopes are used to detect foot strike (FS), i.e., the moment when the foot first touches the ground. However, it is unclear whether different conditions (footwear hardness or foot strike pattern) influence the accuracy and precisio...
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Sanubar Ghorbani Faal, Elham Shirzad, Ali Sharifnezhad, Mojtaba Ashrostaghi and Roozbeh Naemi
Stiffness of ankle joint has been investigated in a wide range of biomechanical studies with a focus on the improvement of performance and reduction in the risk of injury. However, measuring ankle joint stiffness (AJS) using the existing conventional met...
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Shouju Miao, Xiaojian Zhan, Yangbing Yuan and Lijun Jia
This study investigates the mechanical performance of a polyester fiber concrete continuous rigid frame bridge during construction and the spatial stress distribution of the 0# block box girder, with a focus on the backdrop of the bridge in Pipa Zhou, Ji...
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Rui Deng, Zezhen Zhang, Fuqiang Luo, Pengnan Sun and Tiecheng Wu
An interceptor is an appendage widely used for high-speed planing boats to reduce resistance and modify hull attitude by the lift force-induced, but the relationship between the induced lift force and the factors affecting it are still not clear, especia...
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Tianyi Shi, Gang Hu and Lianghao Zou
Galloping-based piezoelectric wind energy harvesters (WEHs) are being used to supply renewable electricity for self-powered devices. This paper investigates the performance of a galloping-based piezoelectric WEH, with different arc-plate-shaped bluff bod...
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Kyungmok Kim
This paper describes statistical determination of fretting-induced failure of an electro-deposited coating. A fretting test is conducted using a ball-on-flat plate configuration. During a test, a frictional force is measured, along with the relative disp...
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Bingbing Wan, Yuyun Shi and Zhifu Li
The interaction problem of waves with a body floating near the marginal ice zone is studied, where the marginal ice zone is modeled as an array of multiple uniformly sized floating ice sheets. The linear velocity potential theory is applied for fluid flo...
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Jonathan Sinclair and Paul John Taylor
This study examined the effects of minimal, maximal and conventional running footwear on tibial strains and stress fracture probability using finite element and probabilistic analyses. The current investigation examined fifteen males running in three foo...
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Sogol Behradnia, Amir Khosravifard, Mohammad-Rahim Hematiyan and Yui-Chuin Shiah
Dynamic identification of the intensity of the moving loads applied to structures is an important task in aerospace, marine, and transportation industries. In the present work, a general technique is presented for identification of the time variations in...
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Balraj Muthusamy, Ching-Kong Chao, Ching-Chi Hsu and Meng-Hua Lin
The incidence of humerus greater tuberosity (GT) fractures is about 20% in patients with proximal humerus fractures. This study aimed to investigate the biomechanical performances of the humerus GT fracture stabilized by a locking plate with rotator cuff...
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Zheng Huang, Zhangtao Chen, Yanbing Zhang, Ying Xiong and Kemin Duan
In order to predict the fluid?structure coupling performance of a full-scale composite propeller under a wake flow field behind a full ship, a bidirectional transient fluid?structure coupling algorithm was established. The performance includes the transi...
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