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Niki Balkamou and George Papagiannopoulos
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings. In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed a...
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Andreas Neumann and Michaela Brchnelova
Electric space propulsion is a technology that is used in a continuously increasing number of spacecrafts. The qualification of these propulsion systems has to run in ground-based test facilities which requires long testing times and powerful pumping sys...
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Chen Liu and Jianghai Li
The South China Sea is in the convergence zone of the Pacific plate, the Indo-Australian plate, and the Eurasian plate. Its formation and tectonic evolution were influenced by continental margin spreading and plate interaction between the three plates an...
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Xiongchuan Chen, Shuangcheng Zhang, Bin Wang, Guangwei Jiang, Chuanlu Cheng, Xin Zhou, Zhijie Feng and Jingtao Li
The motion of a continuously operating reference station is usually dominated by the long-term crustal motions of the tectonic block on which the station is located. Monitoring changes in the coordinates of reference stations located at tectonic plate bo...
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Hao Wu, Xuewen Lei, Xiang Chen, Jianhua Shen, Xinzhi Wang and Tiantian Ma
The reclamation coral sand (CS) layer is the survival environment for island reef vegetation in the South China Sea. The root system within the CS bed draws water necessary for vegetation growth, implying that the water-retention capacity of CS plays a p...
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Dong Min Kim, Soon Ho Hong, Se Hyeon Jeong and Sun Je Kim
The interest in wind-assisted ship propulsions (WASPs) is increasing to improve fuel efficiency and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in ships. A rotor sail, one of the typical WASPs, can provide auxiliary propulsive force by rotating a cylinder-shaped ...
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Kangshen Xiang, Weijie Chen, Siddiqui Aneeb and Weiyang Qiao
Future UHBR (Ultra-High Bypass-Ratio) engines might cause serious ?turbine noise storms? but, at present, turbine noise prediction capability is lacking. The large turning angle of the turbine blade is the first major factor deserving special attention. ...
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Evangelos Filippou, Spyridon Kilimtzidis, Athanasios Kotzakolios and Vassilis Kostopoulos
The pursuit of more efficient transport has led engineers to develop a wide variety of aircraft configurations with the aim of reducing fuel consumption and emissions. However, these innovative designs introduce significant aeroelastic couplings that can...
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Michele Tonan, Alberto Pasetto and Alberto Doria
In this paper, the possibility of harvesting energy from the vibrations of a plate is analyzed. The harvester takes the form of a cantilever dynamic vibration absorber equipped with a piezoelectric layer and tuned by means of a tip mass to the first mode...
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Ahmet Demir, Bahadir Ok and Talha Sarici
In this study, the performance of unpaved road sections over soft clay soil geosynthetic-reinforced and stabilized with rock fill layer was evaluated using repeated plate loading tests. A total of 10 field tests were carried out using a circular model ri...
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