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Model Test and Numerical Simulation Study on the Effect of Mudcake and Length-Diameter Ratio on the Bearing Capacity of Bored Cast-in-Place Piles

Advances in Civil Engineering, 2022
To study the effect of length-diameter ratio and mudcake on the bearing capacity of bored cast-in-place piles, the indoor model test and finite element numerical simulation method were used to carry out the loading test of piles under different mudcake ...
Peisheng Xi, Mengxuan Kan, Yang Liu
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Accessing Resources in Arrival Neighbourhoods: How Foci-Aided Encounters Offer Resources to Newcomers

Urban Planning, 2020
Numerous studies have stressed the importance of social networks for the transfer of resources. This article focuses on recently arrived immigrants with few locally embedded network contacts, analysing how they draw on arrival-specific resources in their
Nils Hans, Heike Hanhörster
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Heat Transfer Enhancement of Energy Pile with Nanofluids as Heat Carrier

Advances in Civil Engineering, 2023
As one of the core components of the transport medium in the energy pile system, the circulating working fluid is crucial for the enhancement of its heat transfer efficiency.
Ruizhi Wang, Ya Yin, Qingwen Li, Xiao Hai, Naifu Deng, Chao Huang   +5 more
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Street Art and Space [PDF]

, 2016
Various forms of street art, such as murals, anamorphic painting or urban interventions, become an important component of urban space. The paper examines examples of selected works of urban art in the context of space and its reception. These unexpected “
Gralińska-Toborek, Agnieszka
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On the Dynamic Mechanical Behaviors of a Fault Unwelded Bimrock Exposed to Freeze-Thaw-Fatigue Loads: A Lab-Scale Testing

Geofluids, 2022
This work is aimed at investigating the mechanical behaviors of a fault unwelded bimrock subjected to coupled freeze-thaw (FT) and fatigue loads. The influence of FT cycle on rock strength, deformation, damage evolution, and failure morphology was ...
Yu Wang, Hongjian Wang, Sun Tao, Xuefeng Yi   +3 more
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Urban energy exchanges monitoring from space [PDF]

, 2018
One important challenge facing the urbanization and global environmental change community is to understand the relation between urban form, energy use and carbon emissions.
AJ Arnfield, B Crawford, B Offerle, CSB Grimmond, CSB Grimmond, CW Kent, D Founda, F Creutzig, F Lindberg, F Lindberg, F Lindberg, G Pigeon, HC Ward, J-P Gastellu-Etchegorry, JA Voogt, JA Voogt, JP Gastellu-Etchegorry, K Nishida, KC Seto, M Kanda, M Kanda, N Chrysoulakis, Q Wang, Q Weng, Q Weng, R Kormann, S Chen, S Kato, S Kato, S Kato, S Kotthaus, S Russo, SK Meyn, T Ando, T Sun, W Xu, Z Mitraka, Z Mitraka, Z Mitraka   +38 more
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Biotechnological development of plants for space agriculture

Nature Communications, 2021
The logistical and practical challenges of supplying food for long-term space missions are substantial. In this comment, the authors discuss potential biotechnological approaches that could be used to aid the production of food crops in space.
Yongming Liu, Gengxin Xie, Qichang Yang, Maozhi Ren   +3 more
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Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using green infrastructure: A literature review [PDF]

, 2007
Europe is a highly urbanised continent. The consequent loss and degradation of urban and peri-urban green space could adversely affect ecosystems as well as human health and well-being.
Aleksandra Kaźmierczak, Barrett, Bartley, Beier, Bengtsson, Bixler, Bodin, Bolund, Booth, Bratton, Brunner, Brussard, Butler, Cairns, Calow, Collins, Costanza, Costanza, Davey-Smith, Davey-Smith, de Groot, de Leo, de Vries, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Dunn, Ehrlich, Faber-Taylor, Flores, Grimm, Haddad, Haeuber, Haila, Hartig, Hartig, Henwood, Hobbs, Horwitz, Humpel, Humpel, Jari Niemela, Jongman, Kalevi Korpela, Kaplan, Kaplan, Kim, Kinzig, Konstantinos Tzoulas, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Lackey, Levin, Li, Loreau, Lu, Macintyre, Macintyre, Mageau, Mayer, Millennium Assessment, Moss, Naeem, Newell, Noss, Odum, Opdam, O’Campo, Paton, Patz, Payne, Philip James, Pickett, Pickett, Pikora, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rioux, Ross, Rudlin, Sallis, Sandström, Schrijnen, Simberloff, St Leger, Stephen Venn, Stokols, Takano, Tanaka, Tilman, Troyer, Turner, Turner, Ulrich, Ulrich, Ulrich, van der Ryn, van Kamp, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen, Walmsley, Wells, Westphal, Whitford, Wicklum, Wilson, Yli-Pelkonen, Zielhuis, Zielinski-Gutierrez, Zipperer   +119 more
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A Novel Fatigue Damage Model of Rock considering Temperature Effects

Advances in Civil Engineering, 2020
The deformation rules and failure types of rock fatigue damage at different temperatures are quite different, and existing constitutive theory cannot describe them quantitatively.
Yaoliang Zhu, Jin Yu, Yanyan Cai, Xin Tang, Wei Yao, Xueying Liu   +5 more
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Creep Damage Evolution of Marble From Acoustic Emission and the Damage Threshold

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020
For the underground engineering, time-dependent behavior (i.e., creep) of rocks is one of the main reasons for instability of surrounding rock in great stress conditions.
Xueying Liu, Jin Yu, Yaoliang Zhu, Yaoliang Zhu, Wei Yao, Yongming Lai   +5 more
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