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Seung Oh Lee and Seung Ho Hong
Bridge pier scour is one of the main causes of bridge failure and a major factor that contributes to the total construction and maintenance costs of bridge. Recently, because of unexpected high water during extreme hydrologic events, the resilience and s...
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Yi Zhu, Jianqi Zhuang and Yong Zhao
The problems of gully and soil erosion caused by large-scale urban construction and agricultural development in China have become more and more serious in recent years. In an effort to solve this problem, a series of gully stabilization and highland prot...
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Yasser A. Khalifa, Mohamed N. Lotfy and Elsayed Fathallah
Floating pontoons have played a supreme and indispensable role in crises and disasters for both civil and military purposes. Floating bridges and ferries are exposed to blast loadings in the case of wars or terrorist attacks. The protection effectiveness...
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Qikai Zhuang, Peijie Yue, Kai Li, Xin Guo and Xiaoquan Cheng
Coal-based carbon foam (CCF) has been widely used in the hypersonic vehicles? thermal protection system (TPS) due to its good thermal insulation and mechanical properties. In addition, CCF can absorb large quantities of energy when crushed so that the CC...
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Beom-Joon Park and Hyun-Joon Chung
The growing trend of onboard computational autonomy has increased the need for self-reliant rovers (SRRs) with high efficiency for unmanned rover activities. Mobility is directly associated with a successful execution mission, thus fault response for act...
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Katarina Monkova, Peter Pavol Monka, Milan ?aludek, Pavel Beno, Romana Hricová and Anna ?meringaiová
Porous materials bring components not only direct advantages in the form of lightening of constructions, saving of production materials, or improvement of physical properties, but also secondary advantages, which are manifested as a result of their daily...
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Stefano Piacquadio, Dominik Pridöhl, Nils Henkel, Rasmus Bergström, Alessandro Zamprotta, Athanasios Dafnis and Kai-Uwe Schröder
Economic viability of small launch vehicles, i.e., microlaunchers, is impaired by several factors, one of which is a higher dry to wet mass ratio as compared to conventional size launchers. Although reusability may reduce launch cost, it can drive dry an...
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Yang Yang and Guanghua Song
Outsourcing computation has become increasingly popular due to its cost-effectiveness, enabling users with limited resources to conduct large-scale computations on potentially untrusted cloud platforms. In order to safeguard privacy, verifiable computing...
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Zeqing Fan, Xiaobin Li, Tao Huang and Wei Chen
A multilayer liquid-containing protective structure is composed of a liquid tank, ceramic, a honeycomb sandwich and homogeneous steel. This structure has superior resistance to combined blast wave and fragment loading. Due to the relatively complicated c...
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Xueliang Jiang, Wenjie Liu, Hui Yang, Zhenyu Li, Wenchen Fan and Feifei Wang
Although the current ecological engineering technology can reinforce shallow landslides, it cannot reinforce deep landslides. A new type of ecological engineering technology-living tree stump slope protection was developed, aiming at the deficiency of cu...
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