Buildings account for a significant proportion of the total energy consumption in the global energy sector, with a value of about 40% of the total energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and studying building...
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This paper proposes a new method of achieving air conditioning energy conservation in small and medium-sized exhibition halls by utilizing infrared sensors, pressure sensors, and edge computing control. This paper fir...
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Detecting cracks on concrete surfaces is a crucial task in civilengineering inspections, but it poses significant challenges due to the small and concealed nature of cracks. Visual detection is particularly difficult...
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Cities in developing countries, such as Addis Ababa, face enormous challenges as a result of high demand for food and clean water, as well as the generation of large amounts of urban waste that is discharged into natu...
Cities in developing countries, such as Addis Ababa, face enormous challenges as a result of high demand for food and clean water, as well as the generation of large amounts of urban waste that is discharged into natural water bodies, contaminating rivers, lakes, and other freshwater bodies used in urban agriculture. Farmers in Addis Ababa and nearby areas use polluted irrigation water diverted from the highly contaminated Little and Great Akaki rivers. The study aimed to assess how well a floating treatment wetland with vetiver grass could reduce irrigation water pollution at the Mekanisa-Gofa-Lafto Cooperative (MGLC) farm in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Additionally, the study sought to provide design recommendations that could be implemented at the farmer level. The irrigation water underwent a 7-day treatment using a Vetiver grass floating treatment wetland. A field test was also conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the floating treatment wetland in reducing pollutants at the study site. The results showed that the floating treatment wetland was able to reduce the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) (73.68%), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) (73.92%), Acidity/Basicity (pH) (0.39%), Chloride (Cl−) (43.12%), Total Hardness (66.56%) and Total Suspended Solid (TSS) (96.21%) values, approaching the recommended irrigation water quality guideline values within 3 days. In contrast, there was an increase in Electro Conductivity (EC) (22.2%) and Sodium (Na) (15.2%) concentrations, which exceeded the recommended values, due to evapotranspiration or the entry of the surrounding soil into the irrigation water of the study site.
The hierarchical modeling framework is widely used in designing the longitudinal control of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). To describe the throttle/brake maneuvers, the lower-level controller is constructed and...
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The hierarchical modeling framework is widely used in designing the longitudinal control of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). To describe the throttle/brake maneuvers, the lower-level controller is constructed and modeled. Meanwhile, it leads to a problem that how CAV traffic flow evolve with different lower-level controller. In this paper, two typical lower-level controller models are introduced and compared. One is the first-order lag model which is widely used in theoretical analysis and the other one is a second-order response model with delay and feedback control, which is identified from field test data in our previous work. The result of stability analysis exhibits a smaller string stable region under second-order response model with delay. Moreover, the throughput at a lane drop on two lane highways is also lower than first-order lag model. In spatiotemporal diagram, phase transition markedly differs among two CAV systems. Under second-order response model with delay and feedback control, it shows a characteristic of ‘Three-stage’ phase transition. First-order lag model, widely used in theoretical analysis, does not accurately describe the acceleration and deceleration of actual CAVs. It usually overestimates the executive process of the vehicle's mechanical structure. Some conclusion based on the first-order lag model may not match the actual traffic. This comparative paper is hoped to draw more attention about the differences caused by lower-level controller model, especially in some typical traffic scenarios.
In this paper, plant urease-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (EICP) is proposed to reinforce collapsible loess. Axial compressive characteristics of the improved loess are investigated by the unconfined compres...
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Recently, the interest in construction equipment simulation has increased, and thus the necessity for rapid generation of 3D BIM construction equipment library for virtual space simulation at a low cost has also been ...
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This study investigates the buckling behavior of functionally graded (FG) porous micro-shell covered with nanocomposite facesheets;graphene nanoplatelets (GPLs) are hired to reinforce and strengthen the faces. This mi...
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This study determined the reduced modulus and hardness of the ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS)-based alkali-activated paste using nanoindentation to explore the relationships among its micromechanical prope...
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On the demand of reducing the global warming due to cement production which is used as main constituent in the production of concrete and minimizing the environmental impact caused by the waste and its disposal method...
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