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Safety Identifying of Integral Abutment Bridges under Seismic and Thermal Loads

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
Integral abutment bridges (IABs) have many advantages over conventional bridges in terms of strength and maintenance cost. Due to the integrity of these structures uniform thermal and seismic loads are known important ones on the structure performance ...
Narges Easazadeh Far, Majid Barghian
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Towards a Better Understanding of Behaviour of Bridges with Integral Abutments

Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete VI, 2011
One of the issues that has not been completely resolved in bridges built without expansion joints is the influence of seasonal temperature variations and soil characteristics on the maximum bridge length. To study this problem, a 40 meter long road composite bridge over the river Leduan in the north of Sweden was built in 2005.
Nilsson, Martin, Eriksen, Jörgen, Veljkovic, Milan   +2 more
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Harnessing Spatial and Multi‐Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to Optimize Land Suitability for Kenaf Cultivation in Kelantan: Pathways for Sustainable Economic Development

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kelantan, entrenched land degradation and extensive idling of agricultural lands exacerbate rural poverty. Current top‐down planning often overlooks local geographic and social constraints, despite state initiatives to convert idle lands and strengthen rural livelihoods.
Nur Afiqah Ariffin, Zainol Jamil, Yaniza Shaira Zakaria, Nur Ain Che Mat Ali, Azizul Ahmad   +4 more
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Experimental Study on Dynamic Response Characteristics of RPC and RC Micro Piles in SAJBs

Applied Sciences, 2019
The pile foundations below approach slab in a semi-integral abutment jointless bridge (SAJB) that requires high flexibility to accommodate the horizontal cyclic deformation of approach slab generated by the girder’s thermal expansion and ...
Junfeng Cheng, Xiaoyong Luo, Yizhou Zhuang, Liang Xu, Xiaoye Luo   +4 more
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Composite Bridges with Integral Abutments Minimizing Lifetime Cost

IABSE Symposium, Melbourne 2002: Towards a Better Built Environment - Innovation, Sustainability, Information Technology, 2002
The cost of maintenance is an ever- growing problem for road administrations around the world, and bridges are no exception to the rule.
Pétursson, Hans, Collin, Peter
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Targeted Muscle Reinnervation for Intuitive Prosthetic Control

Muscle &Nerve, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of medical and technological advances has led to a substantial expansion of therapeutic approaches for patients with limb amputations. Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) is one of the strategies to improve control of bionic arms and has been applied for more than two decades. Through surgical rewiring of the nerves responsible
Nitay Maile, Laura Ferrante, Dario Farina, Ulla Al Dabbass, Oskar C. Aszmann, Vlad Tereshenko   +5 more
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Seismic evaluation of the southbound Stellenberg Interchange Bridge, B5593, in South Africa

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract This study presents a nonlinear finite element assessment of the seismic vulnerability of Bridge B5593, located in the south‐western region of South Africa. Previous evaluations identified a high likelihood of column failure; however, these were based on linear material models incapable of capturing damage evolution.
Wandie Olivier, Trevor Haas
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Experimental Investigations of Seismic Performance of Girder–Integral Abutment–Reinforced-Concrete Pile–Soil Systems

Applied Sciences
Integral abutment bridges (IABs) have been widely applied in bridge engineering because of their excellent seismic performance, long service life, and low maintenance cost.
Weiqiang Guo, Bruno Briseghella, Junqing Xue, Camillo Nuti, Fuyun Huang   +4 more
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Deflection‐based assessment of residual prestress in simply‐supported bridges accounting for creep variability

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Several test methods have been proposed in the literature for measuring the level of residual prestress, most of them involving either semi‐ or fully destructive techniques for local measurements which could be highly sensitive to boundary conditions and execution details.
Giuseppe Zarrella, Daniele Losanno, Alfred Strauss   +2 more
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Nonthermal plasma approaches for combating implant‐associated infections: A compendious review

VIEW, EarlyView.
Implant‐associated infections pose serious clinical challenges. Non‐thermal plasma (NTP) modifications overcome this bottleneck in distinct ways relative to traditional sterilization methods. Gas‐phase plasmas generate highly energetic species, UV radiation and reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (RONS), which alter the implant surface properties.
A. M. Trimukhe, Satish Rojekar, Amol Gholap, K. Navaneetha Pandiyaraj, Mukesh Patekar, Claudia Riccardi, R. R. Deshmukh, Tomáš Kovářík, Kalim Deshmukh   +8 more
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