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Sebastian Pech, Maximilian Autengruber, Markus Lukacevic, Roman Lackner and Josef Füssl
In recent years, the use of timber as a building material in larger construction applications such as multi-story buildings and bridges has increased. This requires a better understanding of the material to realize such constructions and design them more...
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Mohammed Y. Fattah, Qutaiba G. Majeed and Hasan H. Joni
The theoretical and practical studies of the cyclic loads resulting from the movement and passage of trains on the unsaturated subgrade to determine the effect of the degree of saturation and moisture content on the foundations and infrastructure of the ...
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Qiujuan Jiao, Fengmin Shen, Lina Fan, Zihao Song, Jingjing Zhang, Jia Song, Shah Fahad, Fang Liu, Ying Zhao, Zhiqiang Tian and Haitao Liu
Salinity is an obstacle to global agriculture, as it affects plant growth and development. Chitosan (CTS) has been suggested as a plant growth regulator to alleviate environmental stresses. In this study, the morphological and biochemical responses of ch...
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Guiping Wang, Xinghong Yang and Xiaomin Xue
Extreme weather events, including drought, have occurred worldwide with increasing frequency and severity in recent years. Drought stress is the main limiting factor for agricultural development in many regions, including tobacco?an important economic cr...
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Weidong Zhao, Bernt Johan Leira, Knut Vilhelm Høyland, Ekaterina Kim, Guoqing Feng and Huilong Ren
This paper presents a framework for structural analysis of icebreakers during ramming of first-year ice ridges. The framework links the ice-ridge load and the structural analysis based on the physical characteristics of ship?ice-ridge interactions. A shi...
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Ahmed Elgamal and Nissreen Elfaris
The tunnel boring method (TBM) is a widely used and effective tunneling technology in various rock mass quality circumstances. A ?faulted rock mass? can range from a highly fractured rock mass to a sheared weak rock mass, making the ground conditions cha...
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Robert E. Melchers and Henry Humphrey
The alkali?aggregate reactivity (AAR) of concrete, long known for mass concrete, can also induce corrosion of steel in reinforced concrete structures. Several examples are given for which the origin of observed reinforcement corrosion and loss of concret...
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Xiao Lang, Da Wu, Wuliu Tian, Chi Zhang, Jonas W. Ringsberg and Wengang Mao
Ocean-crossing ship structures continuously suffer from wave-induced loads when sailing at sea. The encountered wave loads cause significant variations in ship structural stresses, leading to accumulated fatigue damage. Where large inherent uncertainties...
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Sang-Hyun Park, Sang-Hoon Yoon, Teguh Muttaqie, Quang Thang Do and Sang-Rai Cho
The residual strength of denting- and fracture-damaged box girders were experimentally and numerically investigated. The experiments were conducted under a pure bending moment using the four-point bending test method. The load, deflection, and strain wer...
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Xiaohui Yin, Yi Yuan, Xiaowen Han, Shuo Han, Yiting Li, Dongfang Ma, Zhengwu Fang, Shuangjun Gong and Junliang Yin
DUF668s, a plant-specific gene family, encode proteins containing domain of unknown function (DUF) domains. Despite their essential functions, there is a lack of insight into Triticum aestivum TaDUF668s. Here, 31 TaDUF668s were identified from the wheat ...
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