Abstract: Tower cranes are widely used in the construction of high-rise buildings and the analysis of their dynamic behaviors is of both theoretical and practical significance. A parameterized super element formulation for modeling ...

Abstract: Coke drums experience severe thermal and mechanical loadings during operation, and the reliability and safety of the coke drums are critical to the industry. The objective of this study is to ...

Abstract: Coke drums are critical equipment in the petroleum industry. The failure modes of coke drums include excessive bulging deformation and fatigue cracking. The elastic-plastic behavior of a coke ...

Abstract: Functional additives can be incorporated into coal-based solid waste cementitious composites (CSCC) to create a new self-sensing material that can effectively monitor the health of engineering structures, including those ...

Abstract: Concrete with coal gangue as aggregate has a self-sensing ability with addition of carbon fiber (CF), which has an outstanding effect in terms of dealing with the large amount of coal gangue discharge and monitoring the ...

Abstract: The global forecast system (GFS), which started its operation in 1988 at the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan, has been upgraded to incorporate better numerical methods and more complete parameterization schemes. The ...

Abstract: The global forecast system (GFS), which started its operation in 1988 at the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan, has been upgraded to incorporate better numerical methods and more complete parameterization schemes. The ...