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Marco Furinghetti, Igor Lanese and Alberto Pavese
In this research work the outcomes of a hybrid experimental campaign are analyzed, in order to evaluate the influence of aftershock events on the frictional response of sliding-based isolation devices for buildings. To achieve this, a hybrid testing fram...
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Christino Boyke and Takashi Nagao
Pile-supported wharf (PSW) is one of the primary port structures and is often damaged by earthquakes. To mitigate the risk of seismic damage to a PSW, its seismic performance should be thoroughly assessed. This study aimed to examine the impact of ground...
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Simone Palladino, Luca Esposito, Paolo Ferla, Elena Totaro, Renato Zona and Vincenzo Minutolo
The presented method allows applying the limit analysis of structures and reformulates the method in terms of displacements and permanent strain. In this perspective, it results that the method is stated directly considering the strain rather than the st...
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Min-Wen Wang, Fatahul Arifin, Van-Hanh Vu
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Injection molding technology is known as the most widely used method in mass production of plastic products. To meet the quality requirements, a lot of methods were applied in optimization of injection molding process parameter. In this study the optimiz...
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Bingtao Hu, Zhaolin Gu, Chenxing Zhou, Le Wang, Chuanqing Huang and Junwei Su
Water flooding technology is widely used to improve oil recovery efficiency in oilfields. The capillary barrier effect induced by the complex pore structures in the reservoir rocks is a crucial reason for the trapping of a great deal of residual oil in o...
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Chenfei Shao, Chongshi Gu, Zhenzhu Meng and Yating Hu
Risk assessment of dam?s running status is an important part of dam management. A data-driven method based on monitored displacement data has been applied in risk assessment, owing to its easy operation and real-time analysis. However, previous data-driv...
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S. Saad-Eldeen and Yordan Garbatov
This study presents experimental and numerical analyses of compressive collapse tests of initially corroded steel-stiffened plates with multiple circular openings, which may be used as tank wash plates. The ultimate load-carrying capacity and the relevan...
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Nicholas R. MacDonald, Timothy R. M. Packulak and Jennifer J. Day
Direct shear (DS) is a common geotechnical laboratory test used to determine strength and deformation properties of rock discontinuities, such as normal and shear stiffness, peak and residual shear strength, and dilation. These are used as inputs for dis...
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Rui Guo, Dan Yang, Bin Jia and Deyun Tang
A total of nine specimens were constructed and tested under cyclic loads to investigate the differences in seismic behavior between glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP)-reinforced concrete (RC) joints and RC beam-to-column joints. The experimental param...
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Xinghua Li, Xiaohuan Yang, Lingyu Gao, Zhikun Su, Xuan Wei, Zekui Lv, Jiaqi Liang, Haopeng Li and Fengzhou Fang
Error compensation technology offers a significant means for improving the geometric accuracy of CNC machine tools (MTs) as well as extending their service life. Measurement and identification are important prerequisites for error compensation. In this s...
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Mohd Tajularif Ibrahim, Nur Afiqah Hashim, Nasrul Anuar Abd Razak, Noor Azuan Abu Osman, Hossein Gholizadeh and Suryani Dyah Astuti
Increased pressure and shear stress distributions at the limb?socket interface are hypothesised to result from changes in the residual limb shape and volume, which can cause socket fit difficulties. Accurate residual limb volume measurements may aid clin...
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Yi Fang, Guo-Niu Zhu, Yudi Zhao and Chaochen Gu
High-speed motions performed by industrial machines can induce severe vibrations that degrade the positioning accuracy and efficiency. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel motion profile design method utilizing a sinusoidal jerk model to ge...
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Yujing Jiang, Baocheng Li, Changsheng Wang, Hengjie Luan, Sunhao Zhang, Qinglin Shan and Xianzhen Cheng
To study the shear deformation and failure characteristics of a wellbore and the interaction mechanism with its surrounding rocks induced by a layer slip during natural gas hydrates (NGHs) extraction, this paper conducted a numerical simulation study of ...
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Zhipeng Zhai, Wei Guo, Yanhui Liu, Shuang Zou and Fulin Zhou
In this paper, a new precast self-centering rocking shear wall system (PSCRSW) mainly composed of precast reinforced concrete (RC) wall, V-shaped steel brace and pre-pressed disc spring friction damper (PDSFD) are proposed to enhance the seismic resilien...
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Hadi Aryan
Reinforced concrete bridge columns often endure significant damages during earthquakes due to the inherent deficiencies of conventional materials. Superior properties of the new materials such as shape memory alloy (SMA) and ultra-high-performance concre...
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Martina Vivoda Prodan and ?eljko Arbanas
The Krbavcici landslide occurred in January 1979 near the town of Buzet, Croatia, after a long period of heavy rainfall. It is located in Northern Istria in the area built of flysch rock mass where numerous mass movements in the past and recent history h...
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Francesca Bozzano, Carlo Esposito, Paolo Mazzanti, Federico Innocca and Saverio Romeo
On February 14th, 2018, in the North-Western sector of the Municipality of Rome (Central Italy), in the framework of an excavation for building construction, a portion of a piling wall piling wall collapsed in an already densely urbanized area. Soil behi...
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Tao Yang, Zhongqing Han, Nianchun Deng and Wanqing Chen
Six concrete beam-column frame sub-assemblages reinforced with basalt fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars in the frame beams were designed to investigate the collapse resistance after a middle column removal. Effect of parameters, including span to dept...
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Yu Feng, Frank Thiemann and Monika Sester
Cartographic generalization is a problem, which poses interesting challenges to automation. Whereas plenty of algorithms have been developed for the different sub-problems of generalization (e.g., simplification, displacement, aggregation), there are sti...
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