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Quantifying the performance of dual-use rainwater harvesting systems
Water Research X, 2021 Rainwater harvesting systems in urban settings are increasingly relied upon to mitigate pluvial flooding on top of providing an additional water supply. Alternative designs have been proposed to support their dual use.
Ruth Quinn +2 more
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Estimating deformations of laboratory structures subjected to loadings using images collected with phone cameras [PDF]
, 2018 A Fundamental civil engineering knowledge is the ability to understand, explain and calculate deformations of/in civil structures. New civil engineers acquire this knowledge at universities in material science, engineering mechanics and introduction to ...
Kromanis, R
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Cyclic Olefin Copolymers as Versatile Materials for Advanced Engineering Applications
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Cyclic olefin copolymers (COCs) are presented as highly versatile materials combining tunable synthesis, excellent optical properties, and mechanical robustness. Their potential spans microfluidics, bioengineering, and advanced electronics, while emerging self‐healing and sustainable solutions highlight future opportunities.
Giulia Fredi +3 more
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Jurnal Teknik SipilPerformance-Based Design (PBD) method is widely used to design or evaluate super high-rise building against earthquake loads. The building is expected to present a certain level of performance set on FEMA 303 in response to ground motions, and should ...
Wirza Muharzaki Putri +3 more
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Shock and Vibration, 2013 This paper provides a critical overview of available technology and facilities for determining human-induced dynamic forces of civil engineering structures, such as due to walking, running, jumping and bouncing.
Vitomir Racic +2 more
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QoS oriented MapReduce Optimization for Hadoop Based BigData Application [PDF]
, 2014 International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering ...
Burhan Ul Islam Khan +1 more
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A sub-Nyquist co-prime sampling music spectral approach for natural frequency identification of white-noise excited structures [PDF]
, 2018 Motivated by practical needs to reduce data transmission payloads in wireless sensors for vibration-based monitoring of civil engineering structures, this paper proposes a novel approach for identifying resonant frequencies of white-noise excited ...
Giaralis, A., Gkoktsi, K.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.An original method is presented for producing artificial spider silk fibers with magnetic and magnetomechanical responsiveness, which consists in coating them with a nanometer‐thick layer of FeCo alloy by sputtering deposition. The challenge of combining organic materials and inorganic magnetic nanostructures is addressed, thus taking a step forward ...
Filippo Lanaro +5 more
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Measurements of 2-D flow parameters around rectangular prisms arranged at the ground
Budownictwo i Architektura, 2008 Measurements of 2-D flows around a square and a rectangle (ratio 2:1) in wind tunnel have been presented in this paper. The results of these measurements presented here are pressure and standard deviation distributions on the models’ walls, components of
Ewa Błazik-Borowa +4 more
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Earthquake and structural engineering science for civil protection
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2022 AbstractA close relationship between civil protection organizations and scientific community is widely recognized today at international and European level as being of paramount importance for the effectiveness of research products in their application for disaster risk management.
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