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Ivan Kostic, Aleksandar Simonovic, Olivera Kostic, Du?an Ivkovic and Dragoljub Tanovic
This paper presents the second stage of a tandem fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerodynamic development. In the initial stage, the UAV was optimized by analyzing its characteristics only in symmetrical flight conditions. Posted requirements wer...
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Giuseppe Palaia, Karim Abu Salem and Alessandro A. Quarta
The continuously expanding transport aviation sector has a significant impact on climate change, and measures must be taken to limit its environmental impact. The study of advanced airframes, which may increase the lift-to-drag ratio and structural effic...
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Boxiang Tang and T. W. Gallien
Urban coastal flooding is a global humanitarian and socioeconomic hazard. Rising sea levels will increase the likelihood of hydrologic events interacting with high marine water levels. These compound events may, in turn, nonlinearly interact with urban i...
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Qi Zhang, Hongqi Yang, Shuang Wu, Wenbo Cheng, Yuanhua Liang and Yi Huang
Different buckling failure modes of stiffened panels will result in differences in ultimate strengths. In this study, the benchmark model of the bottom of bulk carrier with appropriate initial imperfections, boundary conditions and mesh size are selected...
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Wai-Ming To and Billy T. W. Yu
Difficult coworkers can be found in almost every workplace, including public and private organizations. This paper investigates the effects of difficult coworkers on employees? responses including intention to leave and mental health through attitude tow...
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Himasha Dilshani Abeysiriwardana, Nitin Muttil and Upaka Rathnayake
Among numerous methods that have been developed to estimate potential evapotranspiration (PET), the Food and Agricultural Organization Penman?Monteith model (FAO P?M) is often recognized as a standard method to estimate PET. This study was conducted to e...
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Guiwen Liu, Jie Liu, Neng Wang, Xuanyi Xue and Youjia Tan
Fire has significant effects on the residual resistance of steel structures. It is necessary to accurately clarify its effects on Q690 HSS plate girders, which have been widely used. In this paper, the ultimate resistance and effective service resistance...
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Shuo Li, Changming Wang, Fuyan Guo, Xiaoyang Liu, Songling Han and Ruiyuan Gao
Secondary compression studies can provide insights for evaluating the engineering potential and environmental impact of soil. The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of bound water content on the secondary compression of marine silty...
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Jin Zhang, Qilin Zhou, Xudong Zhao, Yuguang Jiang and Wei Fan
Regenerative cooling is considered promising in the thermal protection of hypersonic propulsion devices such as SCRamjet. However, the heat transfer deterioration (HTD) of hydrocarbon fuel is a severe threat to the thermal structure safety, especially un...
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Ann T. W. Yu, Irene Wong, Zezhou Wu and Chi-Sun Poon
Hong Kong is a densely populated city with high-rise developments, and as in other metropolitan cities, the amount of waste generated from construction projects in the city is increasing annually. The capacity of existing landfills is expected to be satu...
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