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Shape of Water: Power Dynamics for Supply Chain Resilience
ABSTRACT The world is facing climate change‐driven disruptions such as extreme weather events, which affect nature as well as firms and their supply chains. Nonetheless, little is known about how supply chain players shape their socioecological resilience, including from a power perspective.
Aristides R. Oliveira Junior +3 more
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Anchor block for pier no. 4 caisson being tipped off a barge, Tacoma Narrows Bridge construction, March 28, 1939 [PDF]
Caption on image: Placing Caisson Anchor for Pier No. 4, Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 3.-28.-'39. Simmer 24. PH Coll.
Simmer
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Gabion basket for reducing scour around a rectangular bridge pier [PDF]
Riprap, a slit inside the pier, a number of piles located in front of a pier, collars, and other strategies have all been used to control scouring around bridge piers.
M Elshahat, Elsayed
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Research on Local Scour at Bridge Pier under Tidal Action
Through the local scour test at bridge pier under tidal action in a long time series, this paper observes the growing trend of the deepest point of local scour at bridge pier under tidal conditions with different characteristic parameters, analyzes the ...
Wang Jianping
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Pursuing patents for their own sake: How the investment discourse shapes patent quality and quantity
Abstract Patent systems worldwide face criticisms over declining patent quality and increasing patent quantity. While most research focuses on strengthening examination rigour, this article turns attention to relatively underexplored patenting incentives.
Li Liu
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Delaware Memorial Bridge from pier [PDF]
This negative shows the Delaware Memorial Bridge from the New Castle Pier.
Department of State, Delaware Public Archives; Dickens, C.W.
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Flow pattern around the bridge piers includes water surface profile, velocity profile, shear velocity, shear stress distribution, etc. In this research, the effects of the base shape along with scale effects on the flow pattern around the rectangular ...
Z. Talebi, H. Arvanaghi
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Development of Abutment Design Standards for Local Bridge Designs, Volume 1 of 3, Development of Design Methodology; TR-486, August 2004 [PDF]
Several superstructure design methodologies have been developed for low volume road bridges by the Iowa State University Bridge Engineering Center. However, to date no standard abutment designs have been developed.
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ABSTRACT The management of lifespan and safety performance, aimed at ensuring the structural integrity and durability of highway infrastructure, has become an increasingly important area of research. In civil engineering, traditional methods for evaluating dynamic behavior, such as Operational Modal Analysis and the Peak Picking technique, often fall ...
Gianna Agrò, Mariantonietta Ruggieri
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