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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 +3 more
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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]
, 2013 The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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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 +3 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 +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 +5 more
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Urban Gardening and Green Space Governance: Towards New Collaborative Planning Practices [PDF]
, 2016 In the context of urban densification and central urban areas’ lack of open spaces, new forms of small-scale urban gardening practices have emerged.
Tappert, Simone +7 more
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Exploration of safe space for traumatic urban youths amidst urban growth [PDF]
, 2023 For traumatised urban youths, a youth safe space can simply be access to refuge, a place where they feel safe and protected as well as being comfortable in their own skin.
Mohd Noor, Mohd Zairul +2 more
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Meitan xuebao, 2023 In order to study the fatigue behavior of porous weakly cemented siltstone, a quantitative calculation method of characteristic stress was established based on uniaxial step loading and unloading tests of siltstone.
Mingchun LIANG +4 more
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, 2022 Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.
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工程科学学报, 2020 With the development of the mining industry, a large number of accessible shallow mineral resources are being depleted, and some have now been completely exhausted.
Li-yuan LIU +4 more
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