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Cost-Effectiveness of Retrofitting Swedish Buildings [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter presents potentials for energy conservation through energy retrofitting of existing Swedish buildings, including residential and nonresidential buildings.
Mata Las Heras, Erika,, Johnsson, Filip, Mata Las Heras, Erika, Johnsson, Filip,   +3 more
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Effects of Wetting–Drying Cycles on the Macro and Micro Properties of the Cement-Stabilized Soil with Curing Agent

Buildings
Cement-stabilized soil is a commonly used pavement base/bottom base material. Adding a suitable curing agent to cement-stabilized soil can effectively reduce the dosage of cement, meet the strength requirements, and also greatly improve its water ...
Wenjun Hu, Kun Li, Wenhao Yin, Han Zhang, Yi Xue, Yutong Han, Pingyun Liu   +6 more
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Seismic retrofitting of RC frames with RC infilling (SERFIN Project) [PDF]

, 2014
The effectiveness of seismic retrofitting of multi-storey multi-bay RC-frame buildings by converting selected bays into new walls through infilling with reinforced concrete (RC) was studied experimentally at the ELSA facility of the Joint Research Centre
Onoufriou, Toula, Chrysostomou, Christis, Kosmopoulos, Antonis, Taucer, Fabio, Kotronis, Panagiotis, Molina Ruiz, Javier, Roussis, Panayiotis C., Kyriakides, Nicholas, Panagiotakos, Telemachos, Poljanšek, Martin   +9 more
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Spatiotemporal Forecasting of Seismic Activity Trends Using Wiener Filtering and Artificial Neural Networks

Mathematics
Reliable forecasting of seismic activity trends is essential for regional seismic hazard analysis. Based on earthquake catalogs from 1500 to 2026, this study investigates the spatiotemporal evolution of seismic activity in the North-South Seismic Belt ...
Pengfei Ren, Peijia Li, Xiaoyang Chen, Tingkai Gu, Xiaoyu Song, Cong Wang, Kai Yan   +6 more
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Evolutionary Retrofitting

ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization
After Learning Evolutionary Retrofitting (AfterLearnER) consists in applying evolutionary optimization to refine fully trained machine learning models by optimizing a set of carefully chosen parameters or hyperparameters of the model, with respect to some actual, exact, and hence possibly non-differentiable error signal, performed on a subset of the ...
Mathurin Videau, Mariia Zameshina, Alessandro Leite, Laurent Najman, Marc Schoenauer, Olivier Teytaud   +5 more
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Mechanical Properties of Precast Recycled Concrete Thermal Insulation Panels with GFRP Connectors

Buildings
To improve both the composite performance of precast thermal insulation wall panels and the environmental sustainability of the structure, this study employs recycled concrete, and introduces an innovative four-footstool Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic ...
Xiuling Li, Haodong Sun, Tianxuan Zhang, Tongxing Bu, Haoming Yu, Jiaxin Sun, Hu Feng   +6 more
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Effect of Molecular Chain Structure on Fracture Mechanical Properties of Aeronautical Polymethyl Methacrylate Using Extended Digital Image Correlation Method

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2016
The main purpose of this work is to investigate the fracture mechanical properties of aeronautical polymethyl methacrylate, which has been treated with directional tensile technology.
Wei Shang, Xiaojing Yang, Xinhua Ji, Zhongxian Liu   +3 more
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A marine turbocharger retrofitting platform [PDF]

, 2021
A turbocharger retrofitting platform utilizing 1D models for calculating turbomachinery components maps and a fully coupled process for integration with the turbomachinery components and the diesel engine, is presented.
Nikolaos Aretakis, Ntonas, Konstantinos, Aretakis, Nikolaos, Konstantinos Ntonas, Konstantinos Mathioudakis, Mathioudakis, Konstantinos, Roumeliotis, Ioannis, Ioannis Roumeliotis   +7 more
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Research on the Performance of Lightweight Prefabricated Concrete Stairs with a Special-Shaped Hollow Landing Slab

Buildings
In order to further improve the technical advantages of lightweight prefabricated concrete stairs, a kind of prefabricated stair system using a special-shaped hollow landing slab was proposed.
Yilin Wang, Dapeng Sheng, Yu Wang
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Numerical Study of the Performance of Existing Prestressed Cylindrical Concrete Pipes Strengthened with Reinforced Concrete or Carbon-Reinforced Fiber Polymer Jackets—Part B

Fibers, 2022
A popular water pipe system, used in many countries, is one formed by prestressed cylindrical concrete pipes (PCCP). This study used the results of an experimental investigation on ten (10) PCCP samples taken from an existing water pipeline.
Konstantinos Katakalos, Lazaros Melidis, George Manos, Vassilios Soulis   +3 more
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