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Luca Maria Puzzilli, Giovanni Bongiovanni, Paolo Clemente, Vincenzo Di Fiore and Vladimiro Verrubbi
The vibration effects on the Torre della Moletta and the ruins of the Circus Maximus in Rome are analyzed in the framework of a preservation effort of this archaeological area. Thanks to its exceptional size, the Circus hosts many social events with larg...
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Mourad Belhadj, Noureddine Lahbari, Abdelkader Slimane, Djamel Aouiche
Pág. 263 - 272
The aim of this work is to present a precise numerical calculus method capable to predict the behavior of a wind turbine mast, which is characterized by an open door in its lower part in order to facilitate the access to maintenance tasks. A parametric s...
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Ersilia Giordano, Laura Marcheggiani, Antonio Formisano and Francesco Clementi
The Cultural heritage spread all over the World needs to be preserved with systems that do not compromise its architectural and historical value. Nowadays, the most advanced technology available is the ambient vibration test. It allows to obtain the curr...
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Luca Di Angelo, Francesco Gherardini, Paolo Di Stefano and Francesco Leali
A systematic method to design new tower-like structures with an enhanced visual impact quality is proposed. The method is applied to the design of electricity pylons, which are very critical structures due to their visual impact on landscape and on citiz...
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Ashraf A. A. Beshr, Ali M. Basha, Samir A. El-Madany and Fathi Abd El-Azeem
The appearance and development of new construction materials, technology and accurate geodetic instruments have led to the necessity of their inevitable use in the health monitoring, maintenance, and restoration of civil structures and special structures...
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Minseo Jang, Yunwoo Lee, Deokhee Won, Young-Jong Kang and Seungjun Kim
Owing to the structural characteristics of floating-type structures, they can be effectively applied to overcome the limitation of conventional long-span bridges in deep water. Unlike cable-supported bridges with fixed towers, floating cable-supported br...
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Zhongchu Tian and Binlin Xu
As important load-bearing structures, suspension cables have been widely used in suspension bridges, engineering ropeways, cable suspension systems and other special equipment. Their dynamic problems have always been a research hotspot. Especially for co...
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Faris Tre?njo, Mustafa Humo, Filippo Casarin and Naida Ademovic
Minarets, tall structures, connected or not to the mosque attract attention due to their specific architectural features. Vulnerability to seismic damage has been witnessed throughout history on tall and slender structures after earthquake ground motions...
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Peng Wu, Gang Chen, Ruoqiang Feng and Fujiangshan He
Local wind pressures on tiny rods of complex grid structures are difficult to obtain through wind tunnel tests due to their small sizes after scaling down, resulting in a lack of data support in wind load calculations for similar structures. However, loc...
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Mário Vieira, Miguel Viana, Elsa Henriques and Luís Reis
Monopiles for offshore wind are the most used foundations by farm operators due to their low production costs, when compared to other bottom-fixed or floating foundations. In this research, a monopile foundation for offshore wind power was evaluated for ...
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Pasin Plodpradit, Van Nguyen Dinh and Ki-Du Kim
This paper presents theoretical aspects and an extensive numerical study of the coupled analysis of tripod support structures for offshore wind turbines (OWTs) by using X-SEA and FAST v8 programs. In a number of site conditions such as extreme and longer...
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Siriwan Silapacharanan
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There are very few Catholic churches in Thailand that conserve wooden structures.Take St.Paul in Muang District, Chachoengsao Province located on the east of Bangkok as an example, it was built by Bishop Pallegoix Jean-Baptise the Vicar Apostolic of Siam...
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V. Ye. Volkova,M. S. Oleynik
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Industrial pipes are an integral part of the complex structures of enterprises of metallurgical, chemical and other industries from the moment of their advent. Their purpose is to exhaust industrial wastes with residual content of hazardous substances on...
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Xianquan Wang, Yong Qiu, Jie Yuan, Dongyan Liu, Peiyu Shi, Chenchen Zhao, Shanyuan Xu and Tengfei Zhao
Spatial truss structures (STSs), serving as the bottom support structure of a cooling tower, effectively harness the superior load-bearing capacity offered by lattice-type truss structures. STSs are composed of main bars, diagonal bars, and horizontal ba...
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Shuang Liu, Yaozhen Han, Ronglin Ma, Mingdong Hou and Chao Kang
It is of great importance to simultaneously stabilize output power and suppress platform motion and fatigue loads in floating offshore wind turbine control systems. In this paper, a novel composite blade pitch control scheme considering actuator fault is...
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Iman Babaei, Ravin Garg, Lorenzo Vigna, Davide Salvatore Paolino, Giovanni Belingardi, Lucio Cascone, Andrea Calzolari and Giuseppe Galizia
Despite superior specific mechanical characteristics of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs), a lack of understanding of their fracture mechanisms under different impact conditions has limited the application of CFRP energy-absorbing structures. To a...
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Wojciech Mochocki and Urszula Radon
Failures and collapses of steel truss towers may be caused by various factors, which often occur simultaneously. The evaluation of truss tower reliability when single elements fail constitutes an important research area. It may happen that the failure of...
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Søren Christiansen, Thomas Bak and Torben Knudsen
Offshore wind energy capitalizes on the higher and less turbulent wind speeds at sea. To enable deployment of wind turbines in deep-water locations, structures are being explored, where wind turbines are placed on a floating platform. This combined struc...
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Stefania Cherubini, Giovanni De Cillis, Onofrio Semeraro, Stefano Leonardi and Pietro De Palma
The wake produced by a utility-scale wind turbine invested by a laminar, uniform inflow is analyzed by means of two different modal decompositions, the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), in its sparsity-promot...
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Roberto Boccagna, Maurizio Bottini, Massimo Petracca, Alessia Amelio and Guido Camata
In the last few decades, structural health monitoring has gained relevance in the context of civil engineering, and much effort has been made to automate the process of data acquisition and analysis through the use of data-driven methods. Currently, the ...
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