The Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems engineering (BKCASE) project's dual product development cycle spanned a three-year period from the September 2009 to December, 2012. During this timeframe, B...
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Prediction models in mobility and transportation maintenance systems have been dramatically improved through using machine learning methods. This paper proposes novel machine learning models for an intelligent road in...
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Apparent quality of concrete is one of the important indexes of engineering quality assessment, occupying a very important position in the quality of engineering. As an important evaluation index of the apparent quali...
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The article ‘‘Improved method to measure the strength and elastic modulus of single aggregate particles’’, written by ‘‘Natalia V. Silva, Sérgio C. Angulo, Aline da Silva Ramos Barboza, David A. Lange, Lu...
The article ‘‘Improved method to measure the strength and elastic modulus of single aggregate particles’’, written by ‘‘Natalia V. Silva, Sérgio C. Angulo, Aline da Silva Ramos Barboza, David A. Lange, Luís M. Tavares’’, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s Internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 6 July 2019 without open access.
Eight reinforced concrete columns were designed and strengthened with high ductile concrete (HDC) and grouting material. The failure modes, strength enhancement mechanics and shear capacities of the specimens were stu...
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Exterior beam-column joint is typically the weakest link in a limited-ductile RC frame structure. The use of diagonal haunch element has been considered as a desirable seismic retrofit option for preventing brittle fa...
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In recent years, invasive alien plant species, Sicyos angulatus has been spreading across the shoreline area especially in the drawdown zone, where the water level fluctuates (8 m) between the flood and non-flood seas...
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In recent years, invasive alien plant species, Sicyos angulatus has been spreading across the shoreline area especially in the drawdown zone, where the water level fluctuates (8 m) between the flood and non-flood seasons, in the Miharu dam. Particularly, the expansion of the 5. angulatus community has been conspicuous since 2009, when the water level rise to the non-flood season has slowed along with the maintenance work for the reservoir shoreline in the end of the flood season. It is hypothesized that decrease in the number of flooding days given to the seeds of 5. angulatus during the non-flood season relates to the proliferation of 5. angulatus community. Hence, the research was focused on the ecological characteristics such as water tolerance of 5. angulatus seeds. It is found that many 5. angulatus fruits observed along the shoreline turning their color green to brown in October, leaving seeds to mature. Green and brown fruits had different water tolerant properties. All green fruits sank in the water in 178 days and were decayed, and the germination rates in the next spring were low. Therefore, it was considered that fruit germination could be reduced if the water level was raised to immerse 5. angulatus community by the middle of October, when the fruits were ripened. In the case of the Miharu dam, germination of 5. angulatus could be inhibited within the range of 2 m above drawn water level in flood season. On the other hand, about 40% of the brown mature fruits were floating even after the seven months of the flooding period, and more than 20% germinated in the next spring whether they are floating or sunken. Since the water level during the non-flood season is raised back near the normal high-water level and maintained in the Miharu dam, it was thought that the floating fruits were diffused near the normal high-water level and germinated as seedlings in the next spring. This could be the reason S. angulatus community in the Miharu dam was large near the n
One of the major challenges in collapse assessment of building columns has been the lack of realistic data obtained from reliable experimental loading protocols that are capable of accurately quantifying the reserve c...
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Gravity caissons are widely used in the construction of coastal ports owing to their simplicity, high capacity, and easy construction. The verification of resistance to seismic liquefaction and earthquakes is necessar...
Gravity caissons are widely used in the construction of coastal ports owing to their simplicity, high capacity, and easy construction. The verification of resistance to seismic liquefaction and earthquakes is necessary and important in the design and construction of coastal ports. In this study, a numerical program was developed based on elasto-plastic theory and a coupled finite element–finite difference method. The seismic resistance of a caisson wharf was assessed using the proposed program. Furthermore, gravel piles were designed to resist liquefaction-induced disaster. It was found that the lateral spreading of liquefied soil would cause large sliding and rotational deformation in the gravity caisson. Adding gravel piles, it can decrease the deformation of the caisson foundation, and improve the stability of the caisson wharf.
Based on theory of dissolution and dispersion and special chemical structure of vegetable oil, the article chooses four kinds of vegetable oil (Tung oil, Castor oil, Rapeseed oil and Linseed oil) and blended them with...
Based on theory of dissolution and dispersion and special chemical structure of vegetable oil, the article chooses four kinds of vegetable oil (Tung oil, Castor oil, Rapeseed oil and Linseed oil) and blended them with asphalt. And then Rejuvenating Agents of asphalt based on the four kinds of vegetable oil are prepared. The test results show that good exponent relationship is presented between Tung oil content and Brookfield viscosity of Tung-oil-based Rejuvenating Agent. Furthermore, this paper studies the performance of recycled asphalt by conventional indexes, adhesion, SHRP indexes. The data show it by improving the composition of aging asphalt, thereby enabling recycled asphalt indexes recovered to close to or above the level of original asphalt.
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