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Energy‐Based Characterisation of Earthquake Damage in Masonry Infills Through Combined In‐Plane and Out‐of‐Plane Experimental Tests

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seismic capacity of structural systems/members is usually defined in terms of deformation thresholds. Although this is effective in many circumstances, disregarding cumulative quantities such as hysteretic energy may be ineffective when low‐cycle fatigue is relevant (e.g., long‐duration ground motions, very soft soils, ground‐motion ...
Roberto Gentile, Giulia Angelucci, Jingren Wu, Marilisa Di Benedetto, Riccardo Milanesi, Giulio Augusto Tropea, Fabrizio Mollaioli, Fatemeh Jalayer, Fabio Freddi, Fabio Di Trapani, Paolo Morandi, Gerard J. O'Reilly   +11 more
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Climate Driven Water Table Changes and Their Influence on Liquefaction Response of Integral Bridges

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Integral abutment bridges (IABs) eliminate bearings and joints but transfer seismic demand directly into the surrounding soil, making their response highly sensitive to groundwater conditions and soil–structure interaction. This study presents a 60 g centrifuge testing programme on single‐span IABs designed to isolate the influence of water ...
Yazan B. Asia, Gopal S. P. Madabhushi
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An Entropy-Based Neighborhood Rough Set and PSO-SVRM Model for Fatigue Life Prediction of Titanium Alloy Welded Joints

Entropy, 2019
In order to obtain comprehensive assessment of the factors influencing fatigue life and to further improve the accuracy of fatigue life prediction of welded joints, soft computing methods, including entropy-based neighborhood rough set reduction ...
Li Zou, Yibo Sun, Xinhua Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Seismic Response of Existing Masonry‐Infilled RC Frame Structures Retrofitted with Steel Exoskeletons

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering the needs for reducing carbon emissions and except for extreme cases of very degraded existing structures, research on technologies allowing continued use or upgrading of older buildings has become a priority topic. Generally, research on upgrading of reinforced concrete frame structures certainly has a prominent role, because of ...
Francesco Nigro, Gaetano Della Corte, Enzo Martinelli   +2 more
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Microstructural Evolution and Fatigue Behavior of Laser-Welded Joints in Air-Cooled Steel

Metals
Air-cooled steel is a high-strength steel widely used in automotive subframe applications. In this study, the microstructural evolution and fatigue performance of air-cooled steel welded joints subjected to a one-step heat treatment and an additional two-
Xing Fang, Yan-Xin Wu, Xin-Yue Liu, Wang-Nan Zuo, Xiao-Yu Yang, Qi Zhang, Fei-Da Chen, Yong-Gang Yang, Zhen-Li Mi   +8 more
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A Novel Bipolar DC Connection Strategy for Photovoltaic Power Plants With a 50% Reduction in DC Cabling Length

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Bipolar configuration is a new topology in the direct current (DC) system of photovoltaic power plants, which is topologically analogous to the bipolar configuration utilised in High‐Voltage Direct Current power transmission systems. DC cable length and copper usage are reduced by 50% using a bipolar configuration.
Duško M. Tovilović, Željko R. Đurišić, Vladan R. Durković   +2 more
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Creation of a Landslide Susceptibility Map Using Short‐Term Data From the July 2018 Heavy Rainfall in Southern Hiroshima Prefecture

Geological Journal, EarlyView.
This work advances landslide susceptibility mapping by incorporating short‐term trigger data with landscape susceptibility mapping. We also examine the importance of downsampling, watershed delineation and geospatial correlations in evaluating outcomes.
Kanta Kotsugi, Ting Liu, Toshiro Hata, Rebecca Muenich   +3 more
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Influence of hammering pile driving on overall bending resistance of single-sided welded piles

Yantu gongcheng xuebao
In order to study the influences of hammering pile driving on the overall anti-bending performance of PHC piles with single-side welded joints after construction, field pile driving tests and full-scale anti-bending tests are conducted.
XIA Gaoxiang 1 , GUAN Yunfei 2, LIU Jiangzhen 2, CHEN Pinzhang 1, CHEN Shengyuan 2, LI Fuzhong 1
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Ultra Short Pulse Laser Welding of Glass to Metal in the Low Fluence Regime

Laser &Photonics Reviews, EarlyView.
Ultrashortpulse laser welding enables precise joining of glass and metal with minimal thermal damage. We introduce the TwoThresholds Criteria to identify suitable laser parameters by combining the nonlinearabsorption threshold in glass with the metalmodification fluence threshold.
Lukas Günther, Anne Friedrich, Jens Ulrich Thomas, Andreas Koglbauer, Dominique de Ligny   +4 more
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Transcending the Space‐Bandwidth and Lighting Trade‐Offs: A Programmable Self‐Mixing Interferometry Imager for Cross‐Scale Surface Inspection

Laser &Photonics Reviews, EarlyView.
This work reports a laser diode‐based self‐mixing interferometry imager featuring illumination‐invariance imaging, a 500 kHz pixel rate, and an 8.77 µm lateral resolution. It also features a programmable field‐of‐view and leading space‐bandwidth product that surpasses existing technologies by an order of magnitude, enabling cross‐scale workflow ...
Zhou Su, Feng Lin, Mubasher Ali, Yuanfu Tan, Wei‐Hsin Liao, Hay Wong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source