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Utkarsh Bhardwaj, Angelo Palos Teixeira and C. Guedes Soares
This paper presents an approach for probabilistic design and safety assessment of sandwich pipelines under external pressure. The methodology consists of the categorisation of sandwich pipeline collapse strength models based on interlayer adhesion condit...
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Maddalena Marchelli, Valerio De Biagi and Daniele Peila
Net fences are among the most widespread passive protective measures to mitigate the risk from rockfall events. Despite the current design approach being based on partial safety factors, a more efficient time-dependent reliability approach has been recen...
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Oladimeji B. Olalusi and Panagiotis Spyridis
Shear failure is a brittle and undesirable mode of failure in reinforced concrete structures. Many of the existing shear design equations for steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) beams include significant uncertainty due to the failure in accurately pr...
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Utkarsh Bhardwaj, Angelo Palos Teixeira and C. Guedes Soares
This paper assesses the uncertainty of the partial safety factors for the design of corroded pipelines against burst failure due to the variability associated with the strength model selection. First, 10 calibrated burst pressure prediction models for co...
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Gaizka Zarraonandia Simeón and Claudio Bittencourt Ferreira
Tidal energy is nowadays one of the fastest growing types of marine renewable energy. In particular, Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbines (HATTs) are the most advanced designs and the most appropriate for standardization. This paper presents a review of actual...
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Sergio Márquez-Domínguez and John D. Sørensen
Consequences of failure of offshore wind turbines (OWTs) is in general lower than consequences of failure of, e.g., oil & gas platforms. It is reasonable that lower fatigue design factors can be applied for fatigue design of OWTs when compared to other f...
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Il-Geun Lee and Dong-Hyawn Kim
The load resistance factor according to the target reliability level was proposed using 16 vertical breakwaters constructed along the coast of Korea. Limit state functions for sliding and overturning limit states were defined. Reliability analysis was pe...
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Jana Chovancova,Emília Huttmanová
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Bio-product market is very challenging and developing rapidly. Consumers have raised great interest in healthy and tasty diet with high nutritional compounds, confidence in food safety, environmental and animal welfare concern and also sustainability. Th...
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Liwei Zhang, Weiguo Zhang, Zaiquan Wang, Sijia Liu and Kai Liu
Dynamic risk assessment is a pivotal tool for enhancing construction safety and minimizing the potential for partial failure during deep and extensive excavation projects. To enhance the efficacy of dynamic risk assessment in deep excavation, this study ...
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Alla Selivanova,Tatyana Mazurok,Artem Selivanov
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We have studied patterns in the decision-making process related to the managerial influence on the part of the operator of a refrigerating unit as a multifactor energy system with internal and external disturbances.An object such as a refrigeration unit ...
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Sarah James and Edith Joseph
The instability of iron artefacts is rooted in salt contamination during burial and damages associated with exposure to alternative oxygen levels and high relative humidity once excavated. While a combination of chemical and mechanical treatments is util...
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Minh-Huy Nguyen, Tran-De-Nhat Truong, Thanh-Cao Le and Duc-Duy Ho
For cable structures, the tension force is one of the main factors showing the structure?s health. If the tension force falls below a safe level during construction or operation, it can lead to partial or complete the structural failure, posing a risk to...
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Yelena Popova and Diana Zagulova
The contemporary urban environment faces such challenges as overloaded traffic, heavy pollution, and social problems, etc. The concept of the ?smart city? allows solving some of these issues. One of the opportunities provided by the smart city is the dev...
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Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis and Jannis S. Papadopulos
Public health and city planning are highly interconnected; however, the nexus between the urban state of buildings and sidewalks and corresponding public and urban health issues is lacking in Greece. In a case study in Athens, Greece, we evaluated unsafe...
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Sviatoslav Vasylets,Kateryna Vasylets
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The mathematical model of the frequency converter cable branch as a part of the mine section power network with a single phase-to-ground fault is clarified. The model takes into account a discrete nature of the output voltage and power switches commutati...
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Hung-Pin Chiu, Jian-Ping Suen
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After Typhoon Morakot, dredging engineering was conducted while taking the safety of humans and structures into consideration, but partial stream reaches were formed in the multiple-channel sections in Cishan Stream because of anthropogenic and natural i...
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