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Rui Huang, Qinghe Zhang, Pengfei Qi and Weiwei Liu
A set of miniature optical fiber particle concentration measuring instruments is designed and applied to develop a unified expression for the concentration measurement of uniform particles in tap water. By measuring the concentrations of six uniform sili...
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Francesco Fusco, Pantaleone De Vita, Benjamin B. Mirus, Rex L. Baum, Vincenzo Allocca, Rita Tufano, Enrico Di Clemente and Domenico Calcaterra
On the 4th and 5th of March 2005, about 100 rainfall-induced landslides occurred along volcanic slopes of Camaldoli Hill in Naples, Italy. These started as soil slips in the upper substratum of incoherent and welded volcaniclastic deposits, then evolved ...
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Huiying Ren, Z. Jason Hou, Mark Wigmosta, Ying Liu and L. Ruby Leung
Changes in extreme precipitation events may require revisions of civil engineering standards to prevent water infrastructures from performing below the designated guidelines. Climate change may invalidate the intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) computatio...
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Alyson H. Rapp, Robert B. Sowby and Gustavious Williams
More water utilities are adopting aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) to balance long-term water supply and demand. Due to large implementation and operation costs, ASR projects need to be optimized, particularly for energy use, which is a major operating...
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Li Li, Gyumin Lee and Doosun Kang
A model that computes the per-unit process energy consumption, energy intensity, CO2 emission, and CO2 intensity of water treatment plants is developed. This model is used to estimate the total energy consumption of six water treatment plants in Seoul Me...
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Devendra M. Amatya, Timothy J. Callahan, Sourav Mukherjee, Charles A. Harrison, Carl C. Trettin, Andrzej Walega, Dariusz Mlynski and Kristen D. Emmett
Hydrology and meteorological data from relatively undisturbed watersheds aid in identifying effects on ecosystem services, tracking hydroclimatic trends, and reducing model uncertainties. Sustainable forest, water, and infrastructure management depends o...
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Jaehyun Shin and Dong Sop Rhee
As the frequency and intensity of natural and social disasters increase due to climate change, damage caused by disasters affects urban areas and facilities. Of those disasters, inundation occurs in urban areas due to rising water surface elevation becau...
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Chengtuan Yin, Weisheng Zhang, Mengjie Xiong, Jinhua Wang, Xin Xu, Jinshan Zhang, Junning Pan and Jinlan Guo
This study explores storm floods in the Yangtze Estuary to investigate how extreme sea levels and storm surges change in the context of global warming. Previous studies focused on the long-term variations in amplitude or frequency of storm surges, with l...
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Dong-Ju Kim, Young-Suk You and Min-Young Sun
Offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are exposed to cyclic loads resulting from wind, waves, and rotor rotation. These loads can induce resonance, thereby significantly increasing the amplitude of the structure and accelerating the accumulation of fatigue damag...
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Krishna Ghimire, Isabel McIntyre and Melanie Caffe
The increase in intensity and frequency of drought due to global climate change has increased the urgency of developing crop cultivars suitable for dry environments. Drought tolerance is a complex trait that involves numerous physiological, biochemical, ...
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