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Tara L. Cavalline, Jorge Gallegos, Reid W. Castrodale, Charles Freeman, Jerry Liner and Jody Wall
Due to their porous nature, lightweight aggregates have been shown to exhibit thermal properties that are advantageous when used in building materials such as lightweight concrete, grout, mortar, and concrete masonry units. Limited data exist on the ther...
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M. O. Kostin, A. M. Mukha, O. H. Sheikina, O. Y. Kurylenko
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K. Akom, T. Shongwe, M.K. Joseph
The Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) was designed to consider South Africa?s energy needs from 2015 to 2050, as a guide for energy structural savings and the development of energy policy. The main aim of the Department of Energy is to ensure the security of ...
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Muhammad Wajahat Hassan, Muhammad Babar Rasheed, Nadeem Javaid, Waseem Nazar and Muhammad Akmal
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R.K. Kulkarni,I.H. Patel,R.D. Bothe,P.P. Vyavahare
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Evaporative cooler operating on solar energy is a viable option in places where there is scarcity of grid power and is also useful for short term storage of farm products. This paper analyzes the performance of a commercial cooler operated on the solar p...
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Chao Lu, Hanchen Xu, Xin Pan and Jie Song
Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) can be utilized to shave the peak load in power systems and thus defer the need to upgrade the power grid. Based on a rolling load forecasting method, along with the peak load reduction requirements in reality, at the...
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Pengcheng Liu, Jian Hao, Hui Hu, Xuekun Luan and Bingqian Meng
This article addresses the issue of energy waste resulting from frequent braking of underground mine cars and proposes an optimization design to address this. The proposed solution involves the installation of a regenerative braking device within the min...
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Katarzyna Kocur-Bera and Szymon Czyza
Green energy production has become a common and recognized method of electricity generation. Giving up reliance on non-renewable energy sources is an important trend in the economies of many countries. The paper presents an analysis of the impact of indi...
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Young-Chan Kim, Seyed Javad Mortazavi, Alireza Farzampour, Jong-Wan Hu, Iman Mansouri and Paul Oluwaseun Awoyera
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Yuliang Wang, Zhaohui Wang, Yunlong Zhou, Zhinian Yang and Yumin Zhang
At present, most precast shear walls are implemented in accordance with the method equivalent to a cast-in-place structure, where the joint is complicated, and the construction is difficult. According to the characteristics of precast shear wall structur...
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Mingzhi Wang, Junchao Zhang and Weidong Wang
The design of lightweight lattice structures with excellent specific mechanical properties has received great attention in recent years. In this paper, inspired by the hierarchical structure of biological materials, a novel hierarchical circular-cell con...
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Javier Gutiérrez, Javier Velázquez, María Luz Aguiló, Fernando Herráez, Carlos Jiménez, Luis Eduardo Canelo, Ana Hernando, Inmaculada Gómez and Víctor Rincón
This paper presents a multi-criteria methodology for the detection of optimal locations for solar photovoltaic installations connected to the electrical grid. The proposed methodology has been applied to the island of Tenerife, as it is one of the territ...
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Panuwat Joyklad, Nazam Ali, Salvatore Verre, Hassan M. Magbool, Amr Elnemr, Muhammad Irshad Qureshi, Qudeer Hussain and Krisada Chaiyasarn
In the past, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been extensively used to modify the structural response of masonry brick walls. The promising advantages of FRP composites are easy application, lightweight, and very high tensile strength. Howe...
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Katarzyna Cyran and Michal Kowalski
Salt caverns are an attractive solution to the growing energy demand in view of their large storage capacity, safety of storage operation and long operation time. The designing process of salt caverns is still considered a complex issue despite progress ...
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Jong-Han Lee, Eunsoo Choi and Baik-Soon Cho
Concrete edge failure of a single anchor in concrete is strongly dependent on the tensile performance of the concrete, which can be greatly improved by the addition of steel fibers. This study investigated the effect of steel fibers on the shear failure ...
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Mansour Ghalehnovi, Mehdi Yousefi, Arash Karimipour, Jorge de Brito and Mahdi Norooziyan
The most researches on steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich slabs are to control the cracking of concrete core along with losing weight, and shear connector type. In this study, the behaviour of SCS slabs with bi-directional corrugated-strip shear connect...
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Yannian Zhang and Moncef L. Nehdi
This study investigates the behavior of cast-in-situ masonry cavity walls subjected to in-plane quasi-static loading. Thirteen cast-in-situ masonry cavity walls and one solid wall were tested under combined axial and quasi-static lateral loads. Test para...
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Zhixiong Chen, Hongrui Li, Anthony Teck Chee Goh, Chongzhi Wu and Wengang Zhang
Soil liquefaction is one of the most complicated phenomena to assess in geotechnical earthquake engineering. The conventional procedures developed to determine the liquefaction potential of sandy soil deposits can be categorized into three main groups: S...
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Zhipeng Liu, Guangyue Lu, Yinghui Ye and Liqin Shi
Compared with the conventional simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) based relaying with ?harvest-then-forward? protocol, the battery-assisted SWIPT relaying is more practical and powerful due to the joint use of the harvested ener...
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H. Kekana, G. Landwehr
The wind capacity factor calculator is developed to perform two main tasks: to estimate the annual energy production from the wind resource at any location in South Africa, and to compare the two datasets used in its operation with standard error analysi...
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