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Xinshan Zhuang and Jinze Zhao
With the increasing demand and use of highways, railways and tunnels in China, the phenomena of foundation settlement, uneven deformation and ground cracking caused by the cyclic loading by traffic are becoming increasingly significant. There is now an e...
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Libin Du, Yongchao Cui, Yanqun Ma, Jie Liu and Zezheng Liu
The pendulum-tuned mass damper (PTMD) is a widely used vibration-damping device capable of transferring and dissipating structural vibration energy, resulting in reduced structural amplitude, and offering both structural and performance advantages. Given...
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Lucas Mazzon, Giada Frappa and Margherita Pauletta
A case study where a tuned mass damper (TMD) was installed at the top of a five-story reinforced concrete (RC) building is presented. The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the TMD in changing the structural behavior of medium-rise ...
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Weisheng Xu, Yingna Zhu, Haoran Kang, Qing Xu, Qipei Han, Xiangwei Song and Zhenwei Liu
Clay soil has poor engineering properties such as poor permeability and low shear strength. Waste steel slag is an industrial by-product formed in the furnace during the steelmaking process which has high quality, durability, anti-slip properties, gellin...
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Nitesh Kumar, Ananda Babu, Alok Kumar Das and Ashish Kumar Srivastava
This paper presents an evaluation of the mechanical properties of nanocomposites when a lower concentration of nanoparticles graphene and ceramics are mixed with epoxy to determine the damping and stability characteristics of hybrid epoxy, using vibratio...
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Xin Liu, Yu Fan, Lin Li and Xiaoping Yu
Understanding the mechanism of the aeroelastic stability improvement induced by mistuning is essential for the design of bladed disks in aero-engines. In this paper, a quantitative interpretation is given. It starts by projecting the mistuned aeroelastic...
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Junwei Yang, Hua Yang, Xiangjun Wang and Nailu Li
The present work aimed to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of a pitching wind turbine airfoil with a Gurney flap under turbulent inflow. Experiments were carried out for the DTU-LN221 offshore wind turbine airfoil under different turbulence le...
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Gun-Ho Lee, Bong-Jin Cha and Hyun-young Kim
This study established the conditions in which mooring load is minimized in a fish cage that includes a damping buoy in specific wave conditions. To derive these conditions, numerical simulations of various mooring contexts were conducted on a fish cage ...
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Chloé Paquet, Thomas Schmitt, Jolanta E. Klemberg-Sapieha, Jean-François Morin and Véronic Landry
In the wood flooring sector, good surface mechanical properties, such as abrasion and scratch resistance, are prerequisite. Surface wood protection is provided by finishing systems. Despite coating improvement, scratches formation on wood flooring is una...
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Ye Bai and Srikanth Gururajan
This article describes the design, fabrication, and flight test evaluation of a morphing geometry quadcopter capable of changing its intersection angle in-flight. The experiments were conducted at the Aircraft Computational and Resource Aware Fault Toler...
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