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Yan Dong, Jian Zhang, Shaofeng Zhong and Yordan Garbatov
The study aims to develop a simplified strength assessment method for the preliminary structural design of a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine platform. The method includes load cases with extreme wave load effects and a load case dominated...
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Hao Deng, Hong-Bin Peng and Wei Chang
Corrugated web girders with plate flanges have been widely applied in buildings and bridges due to the large shear capacity of the corrugated web (CW). However, experiments on corrugated web girders with tubular flanges are limited. Accordingly, this pap...
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Guan-Yuan Zhao, Wei Liu, Rui Su and Jia-Cheng Zhao
A beam finite element model considering the slip, shear lag, and time-dependent effects of steel?concrete composite box beams have been proposed in this study. The element is employed to a one-dimensional analytical method that is solved involving an exp...
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Xin Chen, Hui Shen, Jinxiong Yuan and Li Li
The turbidity maximum zone (TMZ) plays an important role in the morphology and ecosystems of estuaries. The distributions of TMZ in Hangzhou Bay (HZB) and mechanisms of sediment fluxes in TMZ have been studied by applying a fully calibrated three-dimensi...
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Quan Cheng, Zhengwei Li, Shaowei Deng, Haibo Jiang, Yueqiang Tian and Jiayue Geng
In this paper, a bending test of a precast ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) diaphragm slab was carried out. The test revealed that the flexural failure process of specimens under the action of a positive bending moment can be divided into three sta...
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Cun Zhang, Pingcuo Zhuoma, Yongjuan Zhang and Zhenya Li
The longitudinal dynamic response of a large-diameter-bored pile is investigated considering the bottom sediment and the radial unloading of the surrounding soil. First, the sediment between the pile tip and the bedrock is treated as a fictitious soil pi...
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Jiyan Qiao, Xiaobing Lu and Xuhui Zhang
A separate-bottom Couette cell is used to carry out ring-shear tests on sand and hydrate, and the evolution of shear bands is recognized using the tracer method. Based on experimental verification, a numerical simulation method is applied to study the sh...
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Nguyen Xuan Tinh, Hitoshi Tanaka, Xiping Yu and Guangwei Liu
In this study, the tsunami-induced bottom boundary layer was investigated based on actual waveforms obtained by the GPS buoys along the coast of the Tohoku region during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake tsunami. The k-? model was utilized for the num...
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Xinjun Cheng, Xiang Xu, Zhinan Hu, Liping Jing, Haian Liang and Jie Cui
To study the dynamic response of a saturated sand-underground structure system subjected to earthquakes, a series of shaking table tests with a geometric scale ratio of 1/30 were conducted. Based on the experimental acceleration records of testing soil d...
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Hongqing Lv, Shan Liu, Jiahao Chen and Baoli Li
The energy consumption of a vehicle is closely related to the resistance it receives, and it is of great significance to study the drag reduction of a vehicle to promote energy conservation and emissions reductions. Boundary layer control drag reduction ...
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