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Applied Sciences, 2021 To explore the interference effects of a high-rise building on the snow load on a low-rise building with a flat roof, a series of wind tunnel tests were carried out with fine silica sand as a substitute for snow particles.
Qingwen Zhang +5 more
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CFD Simulations of Snowdrifts on a Gable Roof: Impacts of Wind Velocity and Snowfall Intensity
Buildings, 2022 Roof structures are suffering serious threats caused by unbalanced snow distribution, especially long-span spatial structures, such as gable roofs. The formation of unbalanced snowdrifts on the gable roof is affected by the meteorological condition and ...
Guolong Zhang +6 more
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An Efficient Nonstandard Finite Difference Scheme for Chaotic Fractional-Order Chen System
IEEE Access, 2020 In this paper, an efficient nonstandard finite difference scheme for the numerical solution of chaotic fractional-order Chen system is developed. In the new method, an appropriate nonlocal framework in conjunction with the Grünwald-Letnikov ...
Beijia Wang, Liang Li, Yaowu Wang
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Design and Validation of Android Smartphone Based Wireless Structural Vibration Monitoring System
Sensors, 2020 Vibration monitoring is one of crucial functions of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. Traditional structural vibration monitoring usually relies on specialized sensors, data transmission and acquisition equipment, which are expensive and may ...
Dongyu Zhang, Jiadong Tian, Hui Li
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Nanomaterials, 2021 The superior mechanical properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) play a significant role in the improvement of the mechanical and thermal stability of an epoxy matrix.
Arya Uthaman +4 more
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Applied Sciences, 2019 This experimental investigation focused on the mechanical and damping properties of raw and alkali treated flax fibers reinforced cementitious composites.
Pengfei Lai +4 more
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A Brief Method for Rapid Seismic Damage Prediction of Buildings Based on Structural Strength
Buildings, 2022 Rapid prediction of the post-earthquake structural damage to a region is of great importance to community relief and rescue. Detailed information on buildings in earthquake disaster areas is commonly inaccessible in the aftermath of an earthquake ...
Siwei Zhang, Yide Liu, Shuang Li
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A Framework to Assess the Seismic Resilience of Urban Hospitals
Advances in Civil Engineering, 2019 The phenomenon of hospital functional interruption has been widely observed in the historical moderate-strong earthquakes, indicating that hospital functionality cannot be well considered in the current seismic design methods.
Peng Yu +4 more
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Behaviour of a Sacrificial Cladding with Foam Concrete-Filled Square Tubes under Impact Loads
Buildings, 2023 In this paper, a new sacrificial cladding with foam concrete-filled square tubes (FCFST sacrificial cladding) was developed for dissipating impact energy.
Liquan Gu, Yonghui Wang, Ximei Zhai
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Journal of Natural Fibers, 2019 Multiwalled carbon nanotubes were grafted to ramie fiber through a silane coupling agent, and its effect on the mechanical and interfacial properties of ramie/epoxy composite was studied.
Anna Dilfi K. F., Zijin Che, Guijun Xian
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