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ONHISTORY OF BUILDING OF WOODENSHELLSAND<неи THEIROPPORTUNITIESATPRESENTANDINTHEFUTURE

open access: yesStructural Mechanics of Engineering Constructions and Buildings, 2014
The history of building of wooden shellsnumbers several centuries. It begins after hipped roofs of tower buildings and church domes. Principally new structures of large-span wooden shells appeared in the 1920th. After this period, the history of building
S N Krivoshapko, K P Pyatikrestovskiy
doaj  

The use of wood for wind turbine blade construction [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
The interrelationships between moisture and wood, conditions for dry rot spore activity, the protection of wood fibers from moisture, wood resin composites, wood laminating, quality control, and the mechanical properties of wood are discussed.
Gougeon, M., Zuteck, M.
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Electrothermally Controlled 3D‐Printed Shape Memory Polymers for Near‐Ambient Temperature Soft Robotic Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
In this article, we develop bespoke resins for stereolithography 3D‐printing of soft‐robotic grippers that are controlled remotely by electrothermal stimulus near ambient temperatures. Turning on the electrical control, each finger can be actuated separately.
Kalyan Ghosh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deformable Attention Multiscale Feature Fusion Network‐Dehaze: An Adaptive Image Dehazing Method Based on Deformable Attention Multiscale Fusion Network

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This paper presents the deformable attention multiscale feature fusion network‐dehaze adaptive image dehazing network, which integrates three core modules (revised residual shrinkage unit, multiscale attention, cross‐scale feature fusion). It incorporates deformable convolution and multiscale attention mechanisms to address the detail loss issue of ...
Ruipeng Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wooden structures in the historic port of Rijeka

open access: yesGrađevinar, 2016
A review of the use of wood in construction of the historic port of Rijeka is given in the paper. Traditional use of wooden structures for floors and roofs can be seen in ancillary structures and early warehouses, while the first temporary storage units ...
Nana Palinić, Adriana Bjelanović
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Finding Words: The Ligatus Glossary Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
All crafts, trades and disciplines sooner or later develop their own specialist vocabularies to allow their practitioners to communicate quickly, easily and clearly when going about their everyday activities. In the more literate areas of life – medicine
Pickwoad, Nicholas
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Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
wiley   +1 more source

A Wooden Pin Reinforcement of Ancient Chinese Wooden Temple: A Case of Daxiong Hall

open access: yesAdvances in Civil Engineering
Post and lintel frame is a prominent architectural structure in Chinese temple architecture, characterized by its wooden construction. Mortise–tenon joints (MTJs) serve as the primary connection method for these wooden structures, employing straight ...
Hua Zhang, Wuping Gao, Yanling Wang
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Estimation of wood properties using pin pushing in method with various shapes of the penetration pin

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2009
The existing penetration methods for the identification of the density of wood that forms a part of structures do not make it possible to describe the density in the entire element profile but only on its surface. However, wood density changes throughout
Michal Kloiber   +2 more
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Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
Brophy, Kenneth   +2 more
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