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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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Marialaura Malena, Andrea Genoese, Bartolomeo Panto?, Daniele Spina and Gianmarco de Felice
The structural analysis of historic masonry churches subject to earthquakes is commonly based on two distinct approaches: that of the global response to seismic actions and that of the local analysis of a priori pre-determined collapse mechanisms. This i...
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Swith Claude Burgos Alconz,Grover Zurita V.
There is a steadily growing demand for reliable, versatile measurement rotor balancing system which can be used to determine the machine unbalances behavior. The effect of these causes are the increase of vibration amplitudes, causing damage to elements ...
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Jakub Fiacan, Jozef Jenis, Damián Cechmánek, Slavomír Hrcek and Pavol Michal
This paper examines the design of a maintenance shaft hatch cover at an airport service road which will be utilized at airports in the European Union. The shaft has a particular application: it will be used for information networks and airport security. ...
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Jaroslaw Chodór, Leon Kukielka, Grzegorz Chomka, Lukasz Bohdal, Radoslaw Patyk, Marek Kowalik, Tomasz Trzepiecinski and Andrii M. Radchenko
This article concerns the application of the FEM method for the prediction of stress and deformation states in the workpiece during diamond sliding burnishing (DSB). An updated Lagrange (UL) description was used to describe the phenomena at a typical inc...
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Zhongyu Chen, Weidong Zhao, Zhanyang Chen, Guoqing Feng, Huilong Ren and Hongbin Gui
To address global challenges, research on the safety of polar navigation is indispensable. However, most of studies focus on traditional surface vessels, with few research studies on submarine. The dynamic response of submarine during surface navigation ...
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Roberto Valentino
Modelling the presence and the effect of a thin weak layer of soil or rock in a slope stability analysis performed through the finite element method (FEM) presents several problems of purely numerical nature. This paper deals with a parametric analysis o...
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Yuanxing Dai, Zhenghao Liu, Wei Zhang, Jianping Chen and Jianguo Liu
This paper investigates the problem of vibration in an axial flow waterjet propeller with high power density and low specific speed. Based on fluid?structure coupling vibration analysis, combined with modal analysis and ship tests, the unsteady fluid?str...
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Veronika Vala?ková and Jozef Melcer
The article is dedicated to a numerical and experimental analysis of the basic natural frequencies of a bridge structure. It presents the results obtained using the finite element method and the frequency response functions applied in two variants, using...
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Andrea Cristofolini, Arturo Popoli, Leonardo Sandrolini, Giacomo Pierotti and Mattia Simonazzi
A numerical methodology is proposed for the calculation of transient electromagnetic interference induced by overhead high-voltage power lines in metallic structures buried in soil?pipelines for oil or gas transportation. A series of 2D finite element si...
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Juan Enrique Martínez-Martínez, Felipe Pedro Álvarez-Rabanal, Mar Alonso-Martínez and Juan José del Coz-Díaz
Composite slabs with steel decking profiles are widely used in building construction. However, the literature on the fire resistance of lightweight concrete (LWC) composite slabs with steel decking is limited. In this work, the thermo-structural performa...
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Elide Nastri and Paolo Todisco
Sometimes it is difficult to choose the most appropriate failure criterion for the problem analyzed. For brittle materials, attention must be paid to the availability of experimental data and the calibration of the representative parameters, within the c...
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Claudio Vanneschi, Giovanni Mastrorocco and Riccardo Salvini
In this paper, various methods have been used to control and evaluate engineering difficulties in mining accurately. Different unstable scenarios occurring at the surfaces of underground mine walls, have been identified by comparing 3D terrestrial laser ...
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Jonathan Hilger and Markus Raimund Ritter
The Pazy wing aeroelastic benchmark is a highly flexible wind tunnel model investigated in the Large Deflection Working Group as part of the Third Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop. Due to the design of the model, very large elastic deformations in the ord...
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Dimitrios Dermentzoglou, Myrta Castellino, Paolo De Girolamo, Maziar Partovi, Gerd-Jan Schreppers and Alessandro Antonini
Several failures of recurved concrete crownwalls have been observed in recent years. This work aims to get a better insight within the processes underlying the loading phase of these structures due to non-breaking wave impulsive loading conditions and to...
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Joffrey Jamain, Julien Touboul, Vincent Rey and Kostas Belibassakis
There is growing interest for water-wave flows through arrangements of cylinders with application to the performance of porous marine structures and environmental flows in coastal vegetation. For specific few cases experimental data are available in the ...
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Betsy D. M. Chaparro-Rico, Daniele Cafolla, Marco Ceccarelli and Eduardo Castillo-Castaneda
Patients with neurological or orthopedic lesions require assistance during therapies with repetitive movements. NURSE (cassiNo-qUeretaro uppeR-limb aSsistive dEvice) is an arm movement aid device for both right- and left-upper limb. The device has a big ...
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Bernard A. Zulu, Shingo Miyazawa and Nobukazu Nito
Thermal stresses are generated in concrete during the accelerated curing process in precast concrete. These stresses may cause concrete to crack, which would have a negative effect on the general concrete performance. This paper provides the results of t...
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Norbert Jendzelovsky and Katarina Tvrda
This paper deals with the design of a five-storey hospital building, in which we focus on the deterministic and probabilistic analysis of its slab foundation. The hospital building bearing structure was modeled as a reinforced concrete skeleton. The Bous...
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Rossella Bovolenta and Diana Bianchi
The paper describes the three-dimensional numerical model of Ville San Pietro, an Italian village subject to slope movements causing damage. The church (dating back to 1776), which is the most significant building of the area, is modelled too. The inform...
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