supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 51991393];support from the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering and Applied Technology and Key Laboratory of Earthquake Resistance,Earthquake Mitigation,and Structural Safety funded by the Ministry of Education。
Seismic isolation is an effective strategy to mitigate the risk of seismic damage in tunnels.However,the impact of surface-reflected seismic waves on the effectiveness of tunnel isolation layers remains under explored...
Financial support for this project has been provided by the U.S.De-partment of Transportation(Grant#69A3551747118)via the Univer-sity Transportation Center for Underground Transportation Infrastruc-ture(UTC-UTI)at the Colorado School of Mines(CSM).
A framework is presented to quantify the objective-level resilience of reinforced concrete liners of circular tunnels when exposed to enclosed vehicle fire hazards.By assessing the loss of functionality due to fire-in...
Revised simulations of ALT-like devices are presented.The results from these simulations closely match those from experiments and demonstrate the capabilities of the devices as applied to ramp compression of metals to...
supported by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand with Grant No. 452STUPDZ;National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore, with Grant No. NRF2016NRF-NSFC001-102;National Natural Science Foundation of China (11661141020)
Open-loop control of self-excited flame pulsating oscillations and thermo-acoustic instability is considered in this work.The performance of the control strategy is numerically evaluated in a 2 D Rij ke-type combustor...
The authors acknowledge the Water Research Commission(WRC-K8-850);South Africa for funding this research and Tshwane University of Technology for the facilities;financial support for Sibiya IV for her masters'programme.
In the present study,the seasonal concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers(PBDEs)in leachate and sediment samples,and the influence of geomembrane liners on PBDE levels and the extent of their infiltration int...
The correlation between the wear behavior of a heavy commercial vehicle (HCV) brake liner tested under controlled laboratory conditions and that in actual field conditions is investigated.A brake liner study for frict...
To meet minimum spring flows, water management districts in Florida sought to make both agriculture and urban landscapes water efficient, which includes tree farms. Acer rubrum L. (red maple) trees are endemic to Cent...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61404008&61574016);"111"Project of China(Grant No.B14010)
Low-k and high aspect ratio blind through-silicon-vias (TSVs) to be applied in "via-last/backside via" 3-D integration paradigm were fabricated with polyimide dielectric liners formed by vacuum-assisted spin coati...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51201013)
Two kinds of W/Cu double-layer shaped charge liner(SCL) were prepared by chemical vapor deposition(CVD) combined with electroforming technique: A SCL with W inner layer and Cu outer layer, B SCL with Cu inner lay...
Clinical two-dimensional linear wear rate data for acetabular cup liners fabricated using approved brands of highly cross-linked ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene, as reported in 39 articles in the literature, ...