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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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Alessio Cellupica, Marco Cirelli, Giovanni Saggio, Emanuele Gruppioni and Pier Paolo Valentini
In recent years, the boost in the development of hardware and software resources for building virtual reality environments has fuelled the development of tools to support training in different disciplines. The purpose of this work is to discuss a complet...
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Ivan Corazza, Pier Luca Rossi and Romano Zannoli
Background: Despite the growing interest in CO2 angiography, some mechanical aspects related to CO2 injection still need to be deepened, and some improvements are still possible. This work explores the possibility of optimizing gas injection into small-s...
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Laura Bergamonti, Marianna Potenza, Federica Scigliuzzo, Sandro Meli, Antonella Casoli, Pier Paolo Lottici and Claudia Graiff
TiO2/OrMoSil-based coatings can be employed as an effective cleaning method to preserve painted carbonate stones. The treatment is also efficient as a protective coating to slow down the degradation phenomena.
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Jing Liu, Zongyu Li, Hanming Huang, Weiwei Lin, Zhilin Sun and Fanjun Chen
In response to the deficiencies in existing bridge pier scour protection technologies, this paper introduces a novel protective device, namely a normal distribution-shaped surface (BND) protection devices formed by rotating a concave normal curve. A thre...
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Michiel van der Vlag, Lionel Kusch, Alain Destexhe, Viktor Jirsa, Sandra Diaz-Pier and Jennifer S. Goldman
Global neural dynamics emerge from multi-scale brain structures, with nodes dynamically communicating to form transient ensembles that may represent neural information. Neural activity can be measured empirically at scales spanning proteins and subcellul...
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Athanasios Bakalis, Triantafyllos Makarios and Vassilis Lekidis
The seismic damage in reinforced concrete bridges is identified in this study using the ?M and P? hybrid technique initially developed for planar frames, where M signifies ?Monitoring? and P denotes ?Pushover analysis?. The proposed methodology involves ...
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Tamar Shabi, Yaron Ziv, Reuven Yosef and Nadav Shashar
Global degradation of coral reefs is reflected in the destruction of shelters in various environments and threatens the stability of marine ecosystems. Artificial shelters offer an alternative, but their design could be more challenging due to limited kn...
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Xianzheng Yu, Hua Liu, Xiaolin Fan, Liangyu Zhu, Chengqi Zhang and Shiyi Zhang
In marine environments, bridge piers and columns are prone to corrosion caused by harmful media, particularly chloride ions. This corrosion can lead to cracking of the steel bars in the protective layer of the bridge piers. To enhance the corrosion resis...
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Xiaolong Zhou, Taoxin Deng, Li Chen, Jie Chen, Ao Li, Qijie Yuan, Wei Fang and Jianfeng Gu
In the construction process of large-scale bridges, there are uncertainties and time-varying factors in the environment and construction loads. It is difficult to make accurate estimates of the theoretical calculation models of construction control in ad...
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