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Gianluca Diodati, Assunta Sorrentino, Lorenzo Pellone, Antonio Concilio, Monica Ciminello, Gianvito Apuleo, Shay Shoham, Iddo Kressel and David Bardenstein
In the aeronautical field, the damage that occurs to a carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) structure analysis is a crucial point for further improving its capability and performance. In the current the state of the art, in fact, many issues are linked...
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Alessandra De Angelis, Giuseppe Maddaloni and Maria Rosaria Pecce
Recent seismic events that hit the central part of Italy have highlighted again the high vulnerability of the historical and architectonical heritage of Italy and the importance of preserving it. However, the seismic assessment of monumental buildings is...
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Lorenzo Brezzi, Edoardo Carraro, Davide Pasa, Giordano Teza, Simonetta Cola and Antonio Galgaro
Propagation models can study the runout and deposit of potential flow-like landslides only if a reliable estimate of the shape and size of the volumes involved in the phenomenon is available. This aspect becomes critical when a collapse has not yet occur...
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F. Necati Catbas, Jacob Anthony Cano, Furkan Luleci, Lori C. Walters and Robert Michlowitz
This study investigates the capture of digital data and the development of models for structures with incomplete documentation and plans. LiDAR technology is utilized to obtain the point clouds of a pedestrian bridge structure. Two different point clouds...
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Michele Betti, Luciano Galano and Andrea Vignoli
The paper presents a comparison between two numerical modelling approaches employed to investigate the seismic behavior of unreinforced masonry buildings with flexible diaphragms. The comparison is performed analyzing a two-story prototype tested on a sh...
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Alessia Bez, Chiara Bedon, Giampiero Manara, Claudio Amadio and Guido Lori
The structural design of glass curtain walls and facades is a challenging issue, considering that building envelopes can be subjected extreme design loads. Among others, the soft body impact (SBI) test protocol represents a key design step to protect the...
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Given a series of intrinsic features of structural glass systems (i.e., material properties, type of restraints, operational conditions, etc.), special care should be spent at the design stage, to ensure appropriate fail-safe requirements, but also in th...
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Chi Zhang, Shanli Zhang, Harrif Santo, Minbo Cai, Modi Yu and Michael Si
Reduced-order stick models are frequently employed to obtain dynamic amplification factors of self-elevating units (SEU), while the full-order finite element (FE) models are used for quasi-static analyses. This paper develops an efficient framework to cr...
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Thi Tuyet Trinh Nguyen, Van Bac Nguyen and Minh Quan Thai
In this paper, the flexural strength and buckling of the partially concrete-filled steel tubes (PCFST) under laterally repeated loads was investigated through three-point bending test configuration. Three-dimensional Finite Element (FE) models of the ben...
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Miguel Bravo, António P. C. Duarte, Jorge de Brito and Luís Evangelista
This works intends to analyze, experimentally and numerically, the bond-slip behavior between steel and concrete made with recycled aggregates (RA) from construction and demolition waste (CDW) from several recycling plants in Portugal. Pull-out tests per...
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Valerio Acanfora, Roberto Petillo, Salvatore Incognito, Gerardo Mario Mirra and Aniello Riccio
This work provides a feasibility and effectiveness analysis, through numerical investigation, of metal replacement of primary components with composite material for an executive aircraft wing. In particular, benefits and disadvantages of replacing metal,...
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Arsalan Majlesi, Adnan Shahriar, Reza Nasouri, Hamid Khodadadi Koodiani, Arturo Montoya, Ao Du and Adolfo Matamoros
Finite element (FE) models that simulate wave?superstructure interactions with the coupled Eulerian?Lagrangian (CEL) technique provide a viable and economical solution to estimate wave impact forces on bridge superstructures. One of the main drawbacks of...
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Safet Kurtovic,Sead Talovic
Pág. 552 - 565
This paper's main objective is to research the effect of liberalization of trade with the European Union (EU) and its impact on the reduction in trade balance deficit of CEFTA 2006 (Central European Free Trade Agreement). It utilizes panel data time-seri...
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Xinli Li, Yansong Li, Dayong Hu, Wei Rao, Yufeng Qi, Qiang Yang and Gang Wang
The trim flap is an aerodynamic control surface capable of allowing Mars entry vehicles to improve landing performance during the most dangerous entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phase. In present work, a deployable trim flap system was proposed to meet ...
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Ana Cristina Pinto Silva, Keyla Thayrinne Zoppi Coimbra, Levi Wellington Rezende Filho, Gustavo Pessin and Rosa Elvira Correa-Pabón
Currently, most mining companies conduct chemical analyses by X-ray fluorescence performed in the laboratory to evaluate the quality of Fe ore, where the focus is mainly on the Fe content and the presence of impurities. However, this type of analysis req...
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Chiara Bedon, Martina Sciomenta and Massimo Fragiacomo
Self-tapping screws (STSs) can be efficiently used in various fastening solutions for timber constructions and are notoriously able to offer high stiffness and load-carrying capacity, compared to other timber-to-timber composite (TTC) joint typologies. T...
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Olivier Pantalé
Numerical methods based on finite element (FE) have proven their efficiency for many years in the thermomechanical simulation of forming processes. Nevertheless, the application of these methods to new materials requires the identification and implementa...
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Wei Zeng, Tao Ren, Lijun Yu and Jingjing Huang
The VX gasket is an important part of the wellhead connector for a subsea Christmas tree. Optimization of the gasket?s structure can improve the connector?s sealing performance. In this paper, we develop an optimization approach for the VX gasket structu...
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Guang Ma, Ling Cheng, Yu Han and Chengxu He
The magnetic properties of a 0.10 mm ultra-thin, grain-oriented (UTGO) silicon steel and an Fe-based amorphous (FBA) alloy under sinusoidal excitation were experimentally researched, and the magnetic field strength and iron loss of the two materials unde...
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Christian Pommer, Michael Sinapius, Marco Brysch and Naser Al Natsheh
Controlling complex systems by traditional control systems can sometimes lead to sub-optimal results since mathematical models do often not completely describe physical processes. An alternative approach is the use of a neural network based control algor...
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