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Language engineering : Challenges, opportunities and potential disasters for interactive systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Language engineering underpins model-driven engineering and the application of domain-specific languages. In this talk, I will introduce language engineering and its principles and practices, using model-driven engineering as an exemplar.
Paige, Richard F.
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Microseismic monitoring and forecasting of dynamic disasters in underground hydropower projects in southwest China: A review

open access: yesJournal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2023
The underground hydropower projects in Southwest China is characterized by large excavation sizes, high geostresses, complicated geological conditions and multiple construction processes.
Biao Li   +6 more
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Real-Time Structural Monitoring of the Multi-Point Hoisting of a Long-Span Converter Station Steel Structure

open access: yesSensors, 2021
In the process of using a long-span converter station steel structure, engineering disasters can easily occur. Structural monitoring is an important method to reduce hoisting risk.
Yunfeng Zhu   +5 more
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Vulnerability Assessment of Settlements During Emergencies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
During emergencies which occur as a result of uncontrolled effects of natural disasters, major technical and technological accidents and major epidemics of infectious diseases, the health and life of people and the persistent environmental degradation ...
Djordvevic, Amelija   +3 more
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Is Engineering Ethics Important for Aerospace Engineers?

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
Engineering as a profession has a direct effect on society and the environment. Engineering ethics is a part of the essence of engineering. One of the important branches of engineering profession is aerospace engineering.
Haghighattalab Sakineh   +2 more
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Testing the shearing creep of composite geomembranes-cushion interface and its empirical model

open access: yesSoils and Foundations, 2022
An accurate description of composite geomembranes (CGs)–cushion interface behaviour (particularly creep behaviour) is of great importance. This paper presents a creep experiment method for studying the shearing creep characteristics of CGs–cushion ...
Wu Yang   +3 more
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The Effects of Aerodynamic Interference on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Twin-Box Girder

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
To investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of a twin-box girder in turbulent incoming flow, we carried out wind tunnel tests, including two aerodynamic interferences: leading body-height grid, and leading circular cylinder.
Buchen Wu   +3 more
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The 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The history of natural disasters in Taiwan has frequently been linked to the practice of historical preservation, archival science, oral history, and museum curatorship.
Alsford, Niki J.P.
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ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT AND TRADE-OFF WITH RISKS OF TECHNICAL FACILITIES [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Submitted work “Analysis, management and trade-off with risk of technical facilities“ deals with the all type of risks associated with the technical facilities, particularly with the complex ones, with aim to ensure their safety. It demonstrates the ways
Procházka J., Procházková D.
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Compressive Fracture of Brittle Geomaterial: Fractal Features of Compression-Induced Fracture Surfaces and Failure Mechanism

open access: yesAdvances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2014
Compressive fracture is one of the most common failure patterns in geotechnical engineering. For better understanding of the local failure mechanism of compressive fractures of brittle geomaterials, three compressive fracture tests were conducted on ...
L. Ren, L. Z. Xie, C. B. Li, J. Wang
doaj   +1 more source

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