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Miao Li, Hao Li and Yang Wen
A new type of spherical node was used to design a laboratory-scale prototype of a six-leg lattice of steel tubes and concrete for application as a wind turbine tower. Repeated load tests were performed on the prototype tower for several weeks to evaluate...
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Yan Chen, Xuechun Li and Xiao Du
The double-skin roof has been applied in the design of modern granaries for energy saving. Compared with the ordinary parallel double plate, the double skin composed of an inclined upper plate can effectively improve the situation of a ?hot roof? through...
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Saiaf Bin Rayhan and Xue Pu
Over the past two decades, aircraft crashworthiness has seen major developments, mainly with modern computing systems and commercial finite element (FE) codes. The structure and the material have been designed to absorb more kinetic energy to ensure enou...
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Yukui Tian, Dongbao Yang, Xuhao Gang, Chaoge Yu, Shunying Ji and Qianjin Yue
The determination of ice loads on polar vessels and offshore structures is important for ice-resistant design, safe operation, and management of structural integrity in ice-infested waters. Physical model testing carried out in an ice tank/basin is usual...
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Lichun Chang, Yao Zhao, Hua Yuan and Zhenshuai Wei
The surface-flattening process has many applications in industries such as shipbuilding. Curved surfaces in the industry are usually formed from flat surfaces, so the target surface needs to be flattened to obtain its corresponding initial shape. In addi...
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Hongwei Ma, Ziming Huang, Xiongbin Song and Yuhong Ling
Modular steel buildings show high assembly degree and fast installation speed. The inter-module connection (IMC) is one of the key technologies that restrict the robustness of modular steel buildings. An innovative IMC with a cross-shaped plug-in connect...
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Zhimin Zhou, Yawei Sun, Lifen Chen, Dezhi Ning and Sulisz Wojciech
In this paper, a two-dimensional time-domain numerical flume has been established to model and investigate nonlinear interactions between nonlinear surface waves and a submerged inclined thin plate. The model solves the Laplace equation and the fully non...
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Hongcheng Li, Rong Zeng, Zhiyou Niu and Junqi Zhang
Clarifying the maize kernel movement during the crushing process is critical for improving the design and optimization of the impact mill. Rather than through experiments, maize kernel movement can be quantitatively analyzed through the discrete element ...
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Cun Hu, Junfeng Chen, Chun Fai Leung, Yean Khow Chow and Zhichuan Li
As most existing experimental studies on plate anchors were carried out in uniform clay, a centrifuge model study is presented in this paper to investigate the pull-out behaviour of plate anchors in normally consolidated clay, which is not uncommon in of...
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Sihyun Kim, Seunghee Kim, Jingtao Zhang, Ethan Druszkowski and Abdallah Sweidan
Mild temperature fluctuation of a material sitting on a slope may only cause a small slip, but a large number of the repeated temperature changes can amplify the magnitude of the overall slip and eventually bring an issue of structural instability. The s...
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