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Zhiyuan Hu, Peng Yu, Guohua Xu, Yongjie Shi, Feng Gu and Aijun Zou
Tiltrotors permit aircrafts to operate vertically with lift, yet convert to ordinary forward flight with thrust. The challenge is to design a tiltrotor blade yielding maximum lift and thrust that converts smoothly without losing integrity or efficiency. ...
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M. Domaneschi, R. Cucuzza, L. Sardone, S. Londoño Lopez, M. Movahedi and G. C. Marano
Random vibration analysis is a mathematical tool that offers great advantages in predicting the mechanical response of structural systems subjected to external dynamic loads whose nature is intrinsically stochastic, as in cases of sea waves, wind pressur...
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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Jun Dong, Qingqing Chen, Guangxiang Yuan and Kaiyan Xie
In large-scale water conservancy and hydropower projects, complex rock structures are considered to be the main factor controlling the stability of hydraulic structures. The classification of rock mass structure plays an important role in the safety of a...
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Shaobo Ye, Xinchi Zhang, Qi Wang, Xin Li, Fenshan Hu, Haiyan Song and Decong Zheng
Mechanical weeding is an important technical means for organic and regenerative agricultural systems. Current weed control equipment has a variety of problems, such as difficulty adapting to high-stalk crops and poor operational quality. A high-clearance...
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Sipho G. Thango, Georgios A. Drosopoulos, Siphesihle M. Motsa and Georgios E. Stavroulakis
A methodology to predict key aspects of the structural response of masonry walls under blast loading using artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented in this paper. The failure patterns of masonry walls due to in and out-of-plane loading are complex d...
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Munashe Ignatius Chibinyani, Thywill Cephas Dzogbewu, Maina Maringa and Amos Muiruri
Lattice structures are useful in the aerospace, automotive, infrastructural, and medical fields due to the way they incorporate a lightweight design and good mechanical properties, because of their hollow shapes. This review paper documents work carried ...
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Panagiotis D. Kordas, George N. Lampeas and Konstantinos T. Fotopoulos
The main purpose of this study comprises the design and the development of a novel experimental configuration for carrying out tests on a full-scale stiffened panel manufactured of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material. Two different test-bench design ...
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Taozhen Sheng, Tongchun Li, Xiaoqing Liu and Huijun Qi
The stability analysis of rock slopes has been a prominent topic in the field of rock mechanics, primarily due to the widespread occurrence of discontinuous structural planes in rock masses. Based on this complex characteristic of rock slopes, this paper...
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Zhijie Sun, Pengfei Li, Xiuli Du and Xuanyu Yang
There are a large number of structural planes distributed in the surrounding rock of a tunnel, and this is one of the key factors causing a tunnel?s instability. Due to different geological and historical conditions, the distribution characteristics and ...
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