Abstract: Situations in which deep excavations are made adjacent to metro stations in service are common in the development of underground space. However, the structural responses of existing metro stations to adjacent deep excavations ...

Abstract: Situations in which deep excavations are made adjacent to metro stations in service are common in the development of underground space. However, the structural responses of existing metro stations to adjacent deep excavations ...

Abstract: Shoe-surface interface characteristics have been implicated in the high incidence of ankle injuries suffered by athletes. Yet, the differences in rotational stiffness among shoes may also influence ...

Abstract: Numerous studies on the mechanisms of ankle injury deal with injuries to the syndesmosis and anterior ligamentous structures but a previous sectioning study also describes the important role of ...

Abstract: The ballastless track system (BTS) is widely adopted in the construction of high-speed railways (HSRs), in which the vehicle-induced cyclic stresses are evenly transferred to subgrade at a smaller amplitude compared with ...

Abstract: This paper presents a numerical study of the block shear strength and behavior of coped beams with welded end connections. The finite-element (FE) method was employed to predict the structural behavior and block shear ...

Abstract: A horizontal smooth copper tube and two enhanced tubes (a dimpled tube and a diamond-shaped tube) with a length of 2 m and an outer diameter of 9.52 mm were studied in a two-phase condensation experiment using R410A and ...