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Bowen Yan, Yanan Li, Xiao Li, Xuhong Zhou, Min Wei, Qingshan Yang and Xu Zhou
This paper investigates the twisted wind effect on a typical super-tall building (500-m-tall square prism) by conducting pressure model wind tunnel tests. Two twisted wind fields (TWFs) with maximum yaw angles of approximately 30° and 20°, respectively, ...
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Gifty Oppong Boakye, Laura E. Geambazu, Arna M. Ormsdottir, Baldur G. Gunnarsson, Ioana Csaki, Francesco Fanicchia, Danyil Kovalov and Sigrun N. Karlsdottir
Materials can be subjected to severe wear and corrosion due to high temperature, high pressure and mechanical loads when used in components for the production of geothermal power. In an effort to increase the lifetime of these components and thus decreas...
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Hipólito Sousa and Rui Sousa
Bowing is an uncommon pathology that can affect marble stone cladding of building façades, causing a large permanent deflection and the degradation of the flexural and anchoring strength of the stone slabs, which can lead to the cladding falling from the...
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Hans-Wilhelm Dorgarten, Hermann Otremba, Rolf Padberg
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As part of the German national research project ?Protection of critical bridges and tunnels ? SKRIBTPlus? HOCHTIEF Engineering has conducted the development and testing of a protection measure against contact detonations in tunnels. The measure consists ...
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Mark Bassett and Greg Overton
Residential buildings are now better engineered to manage rainwater following the leaking building problem in New Zealand. The next challenge is to improve the weathertightness of medium-rise buildings which often use joint details widely applied on low-...
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