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Yasser A. Khalifa, Mohamed N. Lotfy and Elsayed Fathallah
Floating pontoons have played a supreme and indispensable role in crises and disasters for both civil and military purposes. Floating bridges and ferries are exposed to blast loadings in the case of wars or terrorist attacks. The protection effectiveness...
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Tao Liu, Jinqiu Duan, Yan Zheng and Yingjing Qian
The novel concept of a functionally graded three-phase composite structure is derived from the urgent need to improve the mechanical properties of traditional two-phase composite structures in aviation. In this paper, we study the free vibrations of a ne...
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Auckpath Sawangsuriya, Tunwin Svasdisant and Poranic Jitareekul
The Department of Highways (DOH), Thailand, has adopted both empirical and mechanistic approaches for flexible pavement analysis and design. Recently, the deflection-based design approach has been comprehensively reviewed by the DOH for the possible adop...
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Gaoke Ma, Hongyun Jia, Jichun Xiao and Lina Hao
Exoskeletal robots are of critical importance in the domain of mechanical boosting. The pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) is commonly used as a flexible actuator in exoskeletal robots designed for upper limbs due to its high power-to-weight ratio, confor...
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Xinshan Zhuang and Jinze Zhao
With the increasing demand and use of highways, railways and tunnels in China, the phenomena of foundation settlement, uneven deformation and ground cracking caused by the cyclic loading by traffic are becoming increasingly significant. There is now an e...
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