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Mapping and measuring urban-rural inequalities in accessibility to social infrastructures

Geography and Sustainability
Equal access to social infrastructures is a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable development, but has long been a great challenge worldwide. Previous studies have primarily focused on the accessibility to social infrastructures in urban areas across ...
Chenmeng Guo, Weiqi Zhou, Chuanbao Jing, Dawa Zhaxi   +3 more
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Sustainability of Urban Infrastructures [PDF]

Sustainability, 2010
The scope of the paper is to overview the different approaches for evaluation of urban infrastructure sustainability. In this context, urban infrastructure covers transportation, energy, water, sewage and information networks as well as waste management and blue-green infrastructure, in terms of both the supply and demand side.
Marjana Šijanec Zavrl, Mine Tanac Zeren
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Resolved CFD-DEM Simulation of Free Settling of Polyhedral Particles with Various Orientations: Insights Provided by Oscillation Behavior in Quiescent Liquid

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023
Particle settling is the process by which particulates move toward the bottom of a liquid, which can affect the sediment transport and energy balance of marine systems.
Zhimin Zhang, Yuanyi Qiu, Hao Xiong, Rui Tang   +3 more
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Granular Flow–Obstacle Interaction and Granular Dam Break Using the S-H Model with the TVD-MacCormack Scheme

Applied Sciences, 2022
An accurate second-order spatial and temporal finite-difference scheme is applied to solve the dynamics model of a depth-averaged avalanche. Within the framework of the MacCormack scheme, a total variation diminishing term supplements the corrector step ...
Hao Zhou, Mingsheng Wang, Shucai Li, Zhenxing Cao, Anjia Peng, Guang Huang, Liqiang Cao, Jianbo Fei   +7 more
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Countermeasures for Low-Carbon Transformation of Construction Industry in China Toward the Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals

中国工程科学, 2023
Carbon emission reduction in the construction industry is crucial for promoting low-carbon transformation of the industry and for realizing the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals.
Wu Zezhou , Huang Haoquan , Chen Xiangsheng , Li Jianjun , He Qiufeng , Li Ao , Huang Jun , Lin Yuhan , Liu Xingyu , Wang Jiahao   +9 more
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Sustainability Assessment of Urban Infrastructures [PDF]

, 2021
Abstract The “renaturing” of cities through an increased emphasis on the use of nature-based solutions (NBS) potentially offers urban areas the opportunity to deliver multiple environmental and socioeconomic benefits. In particular, approaches linked to NBS can limit the degree of climate exposure and vulnerability impacting upon ...
Barker, Adam; id_orcid 0000-0001-8835-7837, Felliu, Efren, Garcia-Blanco, Gemma, Kwiacinska, Kornelia, Pedrola, Blanca   +4 more
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Possible models for the roll-out of a public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in the Brussels-Capital Region

Brussels Studies, 2021
The impact of transport on climate change is becoming increasingly significant, making switching to sustainable vehicles an important step in emission reduction.
Quentin De Clerck, Lieselot Vanhaverbeke   +1 more
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Behaviors of Large-Rupture-Strain Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Beams Under Static and Impact Loads

Frontiers in Materials, 2020
Reinforced concrete (RC) structures may be damaged seriously when subjected to impact loading, and it is necessary to strengthen existing structures to improve their impact resistance.
Zenghui Ye, Zenghui Ye, Debo Zhao, Debo Zhao, Lili Sui, Zhenyu Huang, Zhenyu Huang, Xiaoqing Zhou   +7 more
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Ranking the counties of East Azarbaijan Province based on Urban Tourism Infrastructures by MCDM’s Methods [PDF]

جغرافیا و آمایش شهری منطقه‌ای, 2014
Today in many cases, urban tourism is considered as the beginning part of sustainable development of cities in developing regions and beginning of proper planning to achieve sustainable urban tourism and identifying areas' potential in this view.
Dr. Abolfazl Ghanbari, Bahman Shojaeivand, Bahram Zeynali   +2 more
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Parameter back-analysis of hardening soil model for granite residual soil and its engineering applications

Rock and Soil Mechanics, 2022
In recent years, construction works near the operating metro tunnel in granite residual soil have been gradually increasing, and the impact of these construction works on the safety of shield tunnel should not be ignored.
ZHU Min, CHEN Xiang-sheng, ZHANG Guo-tao, PANG Xiao-chao, SU Dong, LIU Ji-qiang   +5 more
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