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Dorys T. Chirinos, Fernando Sánchez-Mora, Freddy Zambrano, Jessenia Castro-Olaya, Gregorio Vasconez, Galo Cedeño, Kevin Pin, Jeison Zambrano, Viviana Suarez-Navarrete, Vicente Proaño, Julio Mera-Macias and Carlos Vasquez
Corn (Zea mays L.) is an important cereal for food sovereignty, extensively planted due to its adaptation to various agroecological conditions. Climatic conditions and pests can affect its production. Concerning the latter, natural enemies could be consi...
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Takahiro Yoshikawa and Toshihiro Noda
Immense liquefaction damage was observed in the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake. It was reported that, in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, the main shock oozed muddy water from the sandy ground and the aftershock which occurred 29 min after the m...
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Rocco Ditommaso and Felice Carlo Ponzo
In recent years, the development of quick and streamlined methods for the detection and localization of structural damage has been achieved by analysing key dynamic parameters before and after significant events or as a result of aging. Many Structural H...
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Stergios Roumeliotis, Kyriakos Lampropoulos, Ekaterini Delegou, Elisavet Tsilimantou, Vasileios Keramidas, Asterios Bakolas and Antonia Moropoulou
The restoration of historic buildings and structures involves a wide range of scientific and technical fields. The grouting process is among an array of rehabilitation and preservation interventions and aims to homogenize the structure after the implemen...
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Alejandro Pérez Caldentey, Yolanda G. Diego, Anastasio P. Santos, Lina López, María Chiquito and Ricardo Castedo
Within the research project ITSAFE, two full-scale structures were built, one consisting of a single-storey, two-span, 7.00 × 14.00 m2 RC frame with a solid slab and another consisting of a two-storey, 7.00 × 7.00 m2 RC frame with solid slabs. In the two...
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Saleh Ahmed, Katerina Lepkova, Xiao Sun, William D. A. Rickard and Thunyaluk Pojtanabuntoeng
Phenolic-epoxy coatings, which are designed to protect substrates from thermal damage, are widely applied in many fields. There remains an inadequate understanding of how such coatings change during their service life after exposure to various temperatur...
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Fahriye Akar, Ercan Isik, Fatih Avcil, Aydin Büyüksaraç, Enes Arkan and Rabia Izol
On 6 February 2023, two independent earthquake pairs on the East Anatolian Fault Zone, with epicenters in Pazarcik (Mw = 7.7) and Elbistan (Mw = 7.6) districts of Kahramanmaras province, caused great destruction. Adiyaman and Gölbasi districts of this ci...
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Huanran Wang, Tingting Lu, Wenhui Yan, Pinghui Yu, Weimeng Fu, Juncai Li, Xiaona Su, Tingting Chen, Guanfu Fu, Zhihai Wu and Baohua Feng
Ascorbic acid (AsA) plays a crucial role in the physiological processes of rice plants when they encounter various biotic and abiotic stresses. However, the specific mechanism by which AsA affects cold tolerance in rice seedlings remains unclear. Two ric...
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Haobo Jiao, Juming Luo, Aifei Tang, Lihong Wang, Chen Ma, Yaping Li and Chengsong Li
The amplitude of excitation force from exciters used in fruit tree vibration harvesting remains constant at a given frequency, leading to poor fruit detachment ratio and tree damage. A solution has been proposed through the development of a Double-Symmet...
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Seyed Fathollah Sajedi, Iman Saffarian, Masoud Pourbaba and Jung Heum Yeon
This paper presents experimental and theoretical assessments of the structural behavior of circular steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) columns reinforced with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars subjected to a concentric axial compressive load...
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