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Climent Molins, Pau Trubat, Xavi Gironella and Alexis Campos
One of the main aspects when testing floating offshore platforms is the scaled mooring system, particularly with the increased depths where such platforms are intended. The paper proposes the use of truncated mooring systems to emulate the real mooring s...
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Xiao-Meng Dai, Liang Zong, Yang Ding, Hao-Wen Zhang and Feng-Wei Shi
The use of modular steel construction (MSC) achieves a minimum of on-site work and the potential for removability and reuse. In order to realize the overall disassembly of module buildings and the rapid off-site reconstruction after disassembly, special ...
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Florent Grotto, Oscar Peta, Christophe Bouvet, Bruno Castanié and Joël Serra
Airworthiness certification requires proof of structure strength, which is performed generally through a building block approach. To achieve this, representative intermediate-scale experiments generated by test benches are, in general, needed, in additio...
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Hany El Naggar and Khaled Zahran
Tire recycling and reuse in North America and worldwide have increased considerably, intending to reduce the harmful effects of scrap tires on the environment. Accordingly, the use of tire derived aggregates (TDA) as backfill material in civil engineerin...
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Moritz Kreyenschulte and Holger Schüttrumpf
One of the most common revetment types in Germany is the mortar-grouted riprap revetment (MGRR), which is constructed by placing riprap on a filter or separation layer and subsequent grouting with mortar. Existing technical standards and guidelines for M...
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Simone Peloso, Chiara Casarotti, Filippo Dacarro and Giuseppe Sinopoli
The purpose of the research was to study the response of existing constructions, designed for gravity loads only in the South of Italy, more precisely in the Sicily Region. The building is an existing two-story reinforced concrete structure, built in the...
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Sonia Martínez, Ana de Diego, Viviana J. Castro, Luis Echevarría, Francisco J. Barroso, Gabriel Rentero, Rafael P. Soldado and José Pedro Gutiérrez
Confinement of columns with externally bonded fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) sheets is an easy and effective way of enhancing the load carrying and strain capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) columns. Many experimental studies have been conducted on cyl...
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M. L. Korotenko,R. B. Granovskiy,S. A. Kostritsa,O. V. Sultan,V. V. Glukhov,I. V. Klymenko,N. Ya. Harkavi,Ye. F. Fedorov,V. V. Karpenko
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There are presented some examples where the primary conclusions on features of the objects tested were wrong because of using the unwarranted idealized models.
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V. P. Hnatenko,K. V. Moyseyenko
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The results of full-scale strength test of the switch type R65 mark 1/11 of the design 65111Zh are presented.
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Alejandro Pérez Caldentey, Yolanda G. Diego, Anastasio P. Santos, Lina López, María Chiquito and Ricardo Castedo
Within the research project ITSAFE, two full-scale structures were built, one consisting of a single-storey, two-span, 7.00 × 14.00 m2 RC frame with a solid slab and another consisting of a two-storey, 7.00 × 7.00 m2 RC frame with solid slabs. In the two...
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Roger Ruiz-Carulla, Jordi Corominas, Josep A. Gili, Gerard Matas, Nieves Lantada, Jose Moya, Albert Prades, M. A. Núñez-Andrés, Felipe Buill and Carol Puig
Real-scale fragmentation tests provide high quality data in order to study the fragmentation pattern of rock blocks. In the tests carried out, the initial rock mass, in terms of both volume and shape, was reconstructed by means of 3D photogrammetry. The ...
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Mitchell McFarland and Elsa Antunes
The last decade has seen an almost exponential increase in the number of rocket launches for sounding missions or for delivering payloads into low Earth orbits. The emergence of new technologies like rapid prototyping, including 3D printing, is changing ...
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Joseph Guttman, Ido Negev and Genadi Rubin
Surplus water from seawater desalination plants along the Israeli Coast can be injected underground for seasonal storage. Two pilot projects were established to simulate the movement of air bubbles and changes in the well hydraulic parameters during pump...
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Joseph Guttman, Ido Negev, Genadi Rubin
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Surplus water from seawater desalination plants along the Israeli Coast can be injected underground for seasonal storage. Two pilot projects were established to simulate the movement of air bubbles and changes in the well hydraulic parameters during pump...
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Harish S. Bhat and Nitesh Kumar
The Markov Tree model is a discrete-time option pricing model that accounts for short-term memory of the underlying asset. In this work, we compare the empirical performance of the Markov Tree model against that of the Black-Scholes model and Heston?s st...
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Harish S. Bhat and Nitesh Kumar
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Oksana Golovko, Luana de Brito Anton, Claudia Cascone, Lutz Ahrens, Elin Lavonen and Stephan J. Köhler
Granulated active carbon (GAC) is commonly used as a chemical barrier for the removal of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs). However, little is known about the impact of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and its long-t...
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Christian Overgaard Christensen, Fengqiao Zhang, Gabriela Zarate Garnica, Eva Olivia Leontien Lantsoght, Per Goltermann and Jacob Wittrup Schmidt
Advanced monitoring methods are required to identify stop criteria in proof-load tests. In this study, the combined methodology of two-dimensional digital image correlation and acoustic emission is investigated for its applicability for future implementa...
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Antti Ahola, Kalle Lipiäinen, Juuso Lindroos, Matti Koskimäki, Kari Laukia and Timo Björk
Weld quality and life extension methods of welded details in ship structures made of high-strength and ultra-high-strength steels are of high importance to overcome the issues related to the fatigue characteristics of welded high-strength steels. The cur...
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Byeong-Su Kim
Capillary barrier (CB) systems consisting of a fine-grained soil layer placed over a coarse-grained soil layer can generally provide a water-shielding effect, increasing the slope stability of soil structures during rainfall. In order to improve the wate...
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