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Giulia Palomba, Simone Scattareggia Marchese, Vincenzo Crupi and Yordan Garbatov
Integrating innovative solutions for ship design has always been a great challenge for the maritime sector due to complex design and construction processes. With this scenario in mind, the objective of this study was to develop a procedure to evaluate th...
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Dennis Przytarski, Christoph Stach, Clémentine Gritti and Bernhard Mitschang
When, in 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned the first distributed database management system that relied on cryptographically secured chain of blocks to store data in an immutable and tamper-resistant manner, his primary use case was the introduction of a...
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Arianna Pavia, Fabrizio Scozzese, Enrica Petrucci and Alessandro Zona
Masonry towers are part of a valuable architectural heritage characterizing the landscape of many historical areas. These towers are vulnerable structures that are prone to earthquake damage. Hence, the design of effective seismic upgrading interventions...
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Jerzy F. Latka and Michal Swieciak
Temporary pavilions play an important role as experimental fields for architects, designers, and engineers, in addition to providing exhibition spaces. Novel structural and formal solutions applied in pavilions also can give them an unusual appearance th...
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Paul Murdy, Jack Dolson, David Miller, Scott Hughes and Ryan Beach
This work outlines the opportunities for producing novel hybrid structures for marine energy systems by leveraging the benefits of combining additive and composite manufacturing techniques, and the potential this has for rapid prototyping.
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Christian Gallegos-Calderón, Javier Naranjo-Pérez, Iván M. Díaz and José M. Goicolea
Due to the high strength-to-weight ratio of fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs), human-induced vibration problematic remains as a subject to be fully comprehended in order to extend the use of composites in Bridge Engineering. Thus, this paper studies an ul...
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Giovanni Cannata, Marco Tamburrino and Francesco Gallerano
The aim of coastal structures for the defense from erosion is to modify the hydrodynamic fields that would naturally occur with the wave motion, to produce zones of sedimentation of solid material, and to combat the recession of the coastline. T-head gro...
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Alessandro Airoldi, Paolo Bettini, Matteo Boiocchi, Giuseppe Sala
Pág. 13 - 15
The paper presents some engineering solutions for the development of innovative aerodynamic surfaces with the capability of progressive shape variation. A brief introduction of the most significant issues related to the design of such morphing structures...
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M. Dolores Esteban, José-Santos López-Gutiérrez and Vicente Negro
In recent years, the offshore wind industry has seen an important boost that is expected to continue in the coming years. In order for the offshore wind industry to achieve adequate development, it is essential to solve some existing uncertainties, some ...
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Gloria Terenzi, Caterina Bazzani, Iacopo Costoli, Stefano Sorace and Paolo Spinelli
A study concerning the performance assessment and enhanced retrofit of public buildings originally designed without any anti-seismic provisions is presented herein. A representative structure belonging to this class was demonstratively examined, i.e., a ...
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Zhiyong Zeng
A novel local structure descriptor (LSD) for color image retrieval is proposed in this paper. Local structures are defined based on a similarity of edge orientation, and LSD is constructed using the underlying colors in local structures with similar edge...
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P. M. Koval,I. P. Babyak,T. M. Sitdyikova
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In the paper the exposition of metal corrugated constructions is given. The special attention is paid to the normalization and related features. The questions, which can be solved by the operating norms, are specified.
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Lukas Boxberger, Linda Weisheit, Sebastian Hensel, Julia Schellnock, Danilo Mattheß, Frank Riedel and Welf-Guntram Drossel
Many living beings show the ability and necessity to develop invertible, tubular structures to enable additional functions temporarily. The biological archetypes always demonstrate a high change of volume of the structure between an inactive and active s...
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O. V. Krasniuk,O. L. Kireiko,K. S. Kharchenko
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The article represents results of the studies, which have allowed determining optimum components correlations polymeric mortars based on ?F-??-15 carbamide resin and ED-22 epoxy resin to obtain highly efficient materials for repair of transport facilitie...
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Yumei Zhang, Jie Zhang, Ye Li, Dan Yao, Yue Zhao, Yi Ai, Weijun Pan and Jiang Li
Acoustic metamaterials (AMs) composed of periodic artificial structures have extraordinary sound wave manipulation capabilities compared with traditional acoustic materials, and they have attracted widespread research attention. The sound insulation perf...
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Ming-Liang Yen, Hao-Ming Hsiao, Chiung-Fang Huang, Yi Lin, Yung-Kang Shen, Yu-Liang Tsai, Chun-Wei Chang, Hsiu-Ju Yen, Yi-Jung Lu and Yun-Wen Kuo
This study investigates the results of cell cultures on aluminum (Al) templates with flat-structures, micro-structures, nano-structures and micro/nano-structures. An Al template with flat-structure was obtained by electrolytic polishing; an Al template w...
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Malcolm L. Spaulding, Annette Grilli, Chris Damon, Teresa Crean and Grover Fugate
STORMTOOLS coastal environmental risk index (CERI) was applied to communities located along the southern coast of Rhode Island (RI) to determine the risk to structures located in the flood plain. CERI uses estimates of the base flood elevation (BFE), exp...
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Huaibo Yao, Yixin Huang, Wenlai Ma, Lei Liang and Yang Zhao
Joints are widely used in large deployable structures but show semi-rigidity due to performance degradation and some nonlinear factors affecting the structure?s dynamic characteristics. This paper investigates the influence of semi-rigid joints on the ch...
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Yanping Yuan, Dongfang Li, Weina Han, Kai Zhao and Jimin Chen
Laser-induced periodic surface structures have been extensively studied for various materials because of their promising applications. For these applications, uniform rippled structures with well-defined large areas are required. However, the efficient f...
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Lumantarna, E.,Lam, N.,Wilson, J.
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Assessment of structures according to conventional seismic design procedure has been based on trading off strength and ductility (or displacement) to provide sufficient energy dissipation capacity to structures. Consequently, structures in regions of hig...
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