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Eurasian Journal of Science and Engineering, 2023 The defective structures must be retrofitted to resist the effects of earthquakes due to the potential risks connected with reinforced concrete structures designed in many parts of the world in accordance with codes that are now proven to guarantee ...
Hogr Z. Hassan +2 more
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Time-Dependent Deformations of Eccentrically Loaded Reinforced Concrete Columns
International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials, 2018 If reinforced concrete columns and walls in high-rise buildings are subjected to axial load for a sustained duration, long-term lateral deformation (or curvature) as well as axial shortening increase over time due to the creep and shrinkage of concrete ...
Tae-Sung Eom +3 more
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Local Culture and Urban Retrofit: Reflections on Policy and Preferences for Wall and Roof Materials
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 Retrofitting strategies aim to reduce environmental footprints promoting the development or upgrade of existing infrastructure. One crucial aspect of successful retrofitting strategies is local culture, which can harmonise or come into conflict with ...
Jordi Cravioto, Augusto Mosqueda
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Investigation on Performance of Heritage Masonry Structures [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2023 A structural assessment study on the “Humayun Palace” in Tamil Nadu, a cultural heritage structure, constructed in the early 1700’s was done. Based on the original design documentation collected through records, a static analysis model of the building ...
Muthukumaraswamy Kamalakannan Sreenivas +2 more
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Frontiers in Materials, 2022 Unreinforced masonry structures are vulnerable to seismic action, especially with window openings. Therefore, a strengthening technique needs to be proposed to improve the seismic performance of the confined masonry walls with window openings.
Guo-an Liu +6 more
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The influence of joints and composite floor slabs on effective tying of steel structures in preventing progressive collapse [PDF]
, 2009 The event of the terrorist attack at 11th September 2001 in the USA has attracted increasing attention of researchers and engineers on progressive collapse of structures.
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GIS-3D Platform to Help Decision Making for Energy Rehabilitation in Urban Environments [PDF]
, 2019 One of the main current challenges of European cities is to become energy self-sufficient entities. One of the vectors for this challenge is to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings and to promote the generation of renewable energies in the ...
Egusquiza, Aitziber +2 more
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Biomedical ontology alignment: An approach based on representation learning [PDF]
, 2018 While representation learning techniques have shown great promise in application to a number of different NLP tasks, they have had little impact on the problem of ontology matching.
Kalousis, Alexandros +3 more
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Enhancing Word Embeddings with Knowledge Extracted from Lexical Resources [PDF]
, 2020 In this work, we present an effective method for semantic specialization of word vector representations. To this end, we use traditional word embeddings and apply specialization methods to better capture semantic relations between words. In our approach,
Biesialska, Magdalena +2 more
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BuildingsCement-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 +6 more
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