Abstract: A study is conducted to compare two simulation methods for estimating conflicts between road users. An improved cellular automata (CA) model is proposed to estimate the occurrences and severity of traffic conflicts (both ...

Abstract: A numerical study on the transient heating of a cast iron slab in a car-hearth furnace is presented. The influence of the direction of jets issuing from the burners on the velocity and ...

Abstract: The deformation characteristics of soil subjected to vacuum pressure are discussed and an approximate method is proposed for calculating settlement and lateral displacement of the ground induced by vacuum consolidation. ...

Abstract: Exterior wall painting is one of the most widely-used coating solutions in Portugal. It is particularly susceptible to degradation; this affects the quality of public spaces and the image of cities. The study of service-life ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental study of heat transfer in a pool boiling evaporator with porous insert. Porous graphite foams were structured into cubic block and straight fin shapes and ...

Abstract: Highly conductive porous media have recently been considered for enhanced cooling applications due to their large internal contact surface area, which promotes convection at the pore level. In ...