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Wanzhi Zhang, Yunzhen Qu, Xiubo Yin, Hongjuan Liu, Guizhi Mu and Dengshan Li
Sweet potato skin is prone to friction damage during mechanical harvesting. To reveal the friction damage mechanism of sweet potato skin, the impact friction process between a sweet potato and a rod was theoretically analyzed. The main factors affecting ...
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A. R. Avinash, A. Krishnamoorthy, Kiran Kamath and M. Chaithra
Base isolation techniques have emerged as the most effective seismic damage mitigation strategies. Several types of aseismic devices for base isolation have been invented, studied, and used. Out of several isolation systems, sliding isolation systems are...
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Alexandros Tsipianitis and Yiannis Tsompanakis
Base isolation of liquid storage tanks has proven to be an efficient seismic protection measure, leading to a drastic reduction of a superstructure?s distress. However, many such tanks are located near seismic tectonic faults, which generate strong pulse...
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Vincenzo Bianco, Giorgio Monti and Nicola Pio Belfiore
The effectiveness of Double Concave Curved Surface Sliders (DCCSS), which initially spread under the name of Double Friction Pendulum (DFP) isolators, was already widely proven by numerous experimental campaigns carried out worldwide. However, many aspec...
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Tadayoshi Shoyama, Ayana Banno, Yousuke Furuta, Noboru Kurata, Daisuke Ode, Yutaka Wada and Takafumi Matsui
The method of air-launching a rocket using a launcher suspended from a balloon, referred to as a rockoon, can improve the flight performance of small rockets. However, there have been safety issues and flight trajectory errors due to uncertainty with res...
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Peisong Wu and Jinping Ou
Isolation technology has been successfully applied in seismic migration. With increasing of seismic demand, seismic performance of isolation structures subjected to very-rare earthquakes need further improvement. However, the isolation layer generally la...
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Domenico Vizzari, Emmanuel Chailleux, Stéphane Lavaud, Eric Gennesseaux and Stephane Bouron
Solar roads are transportation infrastructures able both to generate electricity thanks to solar cells placed under a semi-transparent layer and to ensure heavy traffic circulation. In this paper, a novel transparent top layer made of glass aggregates bo...
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Fangzhou Zhao and Junyao Gao
Humanoid robots are expected to have broad applications due to their biped mobility and human-like shape. To increase the walking speed, it is necessary to increase the power for driving the joints of legs. However, the resulting mass increasing of the l...
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R. Aguiar, D. Mora, D. Muñoz, S. Serrano, D. Vera, M. Rodríguez, D. Páez
Pág. 113 - 130
At the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas - ESPE, in Ecuador, different structural blocks with and without seismic isolators of triple friction pendulum are being built. In one of them, the access stairs to the floors is located in a Structural Block wit...
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Ján Celko, Matú? Kovác, Peter Kotek
Pág. 2994 - 3003
Interaction between vehicle and the pavement surface has the primary effect to the road safety. This phenomenon including adhesive and hysteresis forces influences the contact stresses which are responsible for appropriate interaction between tyre and pa...
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