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Francesco Fusco, Vittorio Ugo Castrillo, Hernan Maximiliano Roque Giannetta, Marta Albano and Enrico Cavallini
In the world of space systems and launchers in particular, there is always a strong demand for the reduction of the weight of all components/subsystems that are not related to the payload and simplification of the integration phase. A possible solution t...
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Anna Derlatka, Piotr Lacki, Pawel Kania and Shan Gao
The proposed solution of fasteners made of corrugated steel sheet and shot nails can be used as the connector for steel?concrete composite floor beams. The sheet provides stay-in-place formwork for a monolithic reinforced concrete slab. Furthermore, the ...
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Tianhao Cai, Feng Lyu, Tianzhi Wang and Fushi Huang
Conventional cabled seafloor observatories (CSOs) power in-situ instruments via wet-mated or dry-mated direct electrical contact (DEC) connectors to achieve long-term and real-time observation. However, the DEC connectors have high risks of water leakage...
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Antoniu Nicolau, Mihai Alin Pop, Sergiu Valeriu Georgescu and Camelia Co?ereanu
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a potential technology to be applied for replacing wood joints in the furniture industry. Overall, 3D-printed connectors have a lot of advantages in chair construction: the possibility of improving the design by using color...
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Nianxin Ren, Yuekai Yu, Xiang Li and Jinping Ou
For both the expansion of important islands/reefs and the development of marine resources in South China Sea, a modular integrated floating structure (MIFS) system with tidal self-adaptation dolphin-fender mooring (DFM) has been proposed. The DFM, couple...
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Yanwei Li, Nianxin Ren, Xiang Li and Jinping Ou
A novel modular floating structure (MFS) system moored by tension legs was proposed, which is composed of hexagonal floating modules, floating artificial reefs and wave energy converters (WECs). The integration of floating artificial reefs and WECs into ...
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Nianxin Ren, Hongbo Wu, Kun Liu, Daocheng Zhou and Jinping Ou
This work presents a modular floating structure, which consists of five inner tension-leg platforms and two outermost wave energy converters (denoted as MTLPW). The hydrodynamic interaction effect and the mechanical coupling effect between the five inner...
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Adel Razek
Nowadays the groundbreaking tools of contactless energy transfer reveals new opportunities to supply portable devices with electrical energy by eliminating cables and connectors. One of the important applications of such technology is the energy providin...
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Álvaro Gómez-Pau, Jordi-Roger Riba and Manuel Moreno-Eguilaz
The ageing process of medium voltage power connectors can lead to important power system faults. An on-line prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) is a convenient strategy to prevent such failures, thus easing the application of predictive mainten...
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Yang Liu, Bo Zhang, Yinian Feng, Xiaolin Lv, Dongfeng Ji, Zhongqian Niu, Yilin Yang, Xiangyang Zhao and Yong Fan
Frequency multipliers and mixers based on Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) are widely used in terahertz (THz) imaging applications. However, they still face obstacles, such as poor performance consistency caused by discrete flip-chip diodes, as well as low...
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