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Gonzalo Rincón-Llorente, Irene Heras, Elena Guillén Rodríguez, Erik Schumann, Matthias Krause and Ramón Escobar-Galindo
The optimisation of the specular reflectance of solar collectors is a key parameter to increase the global yield of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. In this work, the influence of filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition parameters, particularly wor...
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Alfred Strauss, Panagiotis Spyridis, Ivan Zambon, Fabian Sattler and Eftychia Apostolidi
In the past few years, there has been an increasing societal and industrial demand for the reliable assessment and design of structural systems with service-life criteria of at least several decades. The life cycle characterisation of engineering structu...
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The proposed study aims at analysing a sub-urban sector in the historic centre of Qualiano, located in the province of Naples (Italy), in order to assess the seismic vulnerability of the main typology classes (masonry and reinforced concrete) in the stud...
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Claire Bossennec, Matthis Frey, Lukas Seib, Kristian Bär and Ingo Sass
For an accurate multiscale property modelling of fractured crystalline geothermal reservoirs, an enhanced characterisation of the geometrical features and variability of the fracture network properties is an essential prerequisite. Combining regional dig...
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Rocio L. Segura, Carl Bernier, Capucine Durand and Patrick Paultre
Most gravity dams have been designed and built during the past century with methods of analysis that are now considered inadequate. In recent decades, knowledge of seismology, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering has greatly evolved, leading to...
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Filipe Santos, Corneliu Cismasiu, Ildi Cismasiu and Chiara Bedon
This paper reports on the dynamic characterisation of a Reinforced Concrete (RC) stadium grandstand module for the Sporting Stadium in Lisbon. To this aim, a three-dimensional (3D) Finite-Element (FE) numerical model, implemented according to the technic...
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Ann-Louise Anderson and Russell Binions
Titanium dioxide thin films were deposited using a Tween® surfactant modified non-aqueous sol-gel method onto fluorine doped tin oxide glass substrates. The surfactant concentration and type in the sols was varied as well as the number of deposited layer...
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Ann-Louise Anderson and Russell Binions
Titanium dioxide thin films were deposited using a Tween® surfactant modified non-aqueous sol-gel method onto fluorine doped tin oxide glass substrates. The surfactant concentration and type in the sols was varied as well as the number of deposited layer...
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María Dolores Granado-Castro, María Dolores Galindo-Riaño, Jesús Gestoso-Rojas, Lorena Sánchez-Ponce, María José Casanueva-Marenco and Margarita Díaz-de-Alba
A new biosorbent obtained from Calabrese broccoli stalks has been prepared, characterised and used as an effective, low-cost and ecofriendly biomass to remove Pb(II) from aqueous solutions, without any complicated pretreatment. Structural and morphologic...
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Rafael Ramírez Eudave, Daniel Rodrigues, Tiago Miguel Ferreira and Romeu Vicente
The characterisation of the seismic vulnerability of historical constructions represents a complex problem in which the typological variability, the difficulty of performing reliable large-scale assessments and dealing with a large database all play a ro...
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Costas P. Providakis, Maria G. Mousteraki and Georgia C. Providaki
Without affecting the integrity or stability of the heritage monuments, vibration-based techniques provide useful solutions for acquiring global information about them. By studying the dynamic response to suitable excitation sources, it is feasible to de...
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Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Facheng Wang and Jianqiao Ye
The application of marine bonded hoses has increased in recent times, due to the need for more flexible conduits and flexible applications in the offshore industry. These marine structures include Catenary Anchor Leg Moorings (CALM) buoys and ocean monit...
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Noor Fazreen Dzulkafli, Akbariah Mahdzir and Hirofumi Hara
The study of organic matter characterisation in coastal sediment is useful for understanding how dissolved organic matter (DOM) reactivity influences the fate of pollutants in the aquatic environment. However, there is little information available on the...
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