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Tímea Kiss, Gabriel J. Amissah and Károly Fiala
Stone and concrete revetments are widely constructed to control bank erosion and thus stabilize river banks. The consequences include accelerated erosion at unrevetted downstream channel sections and in-channel incision at revetted sections. The studied ...
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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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Young-Min Kim, Jae-Ho Lim and Hyun-Doug Yoon
Wind is a significant factor influencing the stability of breakwater armor stones. However, few existing studies have considered the effects of wind on these structures. In this study, two-dimensional laboratory experiments were conducted to examine the ...
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Laura Bergamonti, Marianna Potenza, Federica Scigliuzzo, Sandro Meli, Antonella Casoli, Pier Paolo Lottici and Claudia Graiff
TiO2/OrMoSil-based coatings can be employed as an effective cleaning method to preserve painted carbonate stones. The treatment is also efficient as a protective coating to slow down the degradation phenomena.
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Xiaojun Zhang, Zhuo Li, Zheng Wei and Wenxue Gao
Blasting technology is widely applied in various engineering applications due to its cost-effectiveness and high efficiency, such as in mining, transport infrastructure construction, and building demolition. However, the occurrence of cracking in the rea...
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Nicholas Fiorentini, Jiandong Huang, Giacomo Cuciniello, Pietro Leandri and Massimo Losa
Stone pavement structures (SPS), also known as stone roads or stone-paved roads, are road pavements constructed using stones as the primary surface material. Different types of SPS exist; historically, irregular-shaped stones with downward protrusions ha...
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Yuangui Zhang and Bangrang Di
The study of fractures in the subsurface is very important in unconventional reservoirs since they are the main conduits for hydrocarbon flow. For this reason, a variety of equivalent medium theories have been proposed for the estimation of fracture and ...
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Indira Rodríguez, Almudena Ortiz, Pablo Caldevilla, Sara Giganto, Gabriel Búrdalo and María Fernández-Raga
Acid rain is a problem that despite efforts to reduce atmospheric pollution, continues to impact not only countries where there is a high production of pollutants, but also transboundary areas to which the pollutants are transported. In addition to its e...
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Junbo Liu, Xiaozhen Zhang, Zhixi Mai, Yongqing Wang, Shaohua Wang, Yebing Cai and Junli Feng
The rapid development of the traditional ceramic industry contributes considerably to economic advancements; however, the ecological hazards caused by the large amount of sintered ceramic wastes generated during ceramic production and discarded at landfi...
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Enrique Aldao, Higinio González-Jorge, Luis Miguel González-deSantos, Gabriel Fontenla-Carrera and Joaquin Martínez-Sánchez
The inspection and maintenance of track ballast are fundamental tasks for the preservation of the condition of railway networks. This work presents an application based on a low-cost solid-state LiDAR system, which allows the user to accurately measure t...
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