Abstract: Coastal bridges are continually attacked by chloride ions during their lifetime, making the structures vulnerable. Piers, which are the main components of bridge structures to resist lateral forces, are supposed to have ...

Abstract: In consideration of high heat transfer efficiency and stable combustion, a new type of microplanar combustor for micro-thermophotovoltaic (micro-TPV) system is proposed, in which the heat transfer is enhanced by staggered ...

Abstract: To select and improve techniques capable of eco-restoration and reconstruction of soils, it is vital to determine the impacts of different engineered eco-restoration techniques on communities of soil microbes. For this ...

Abstract: Neither structural properties nor wind loads are deterministic; accordingly, a fragility analysis of overhead transmission towers can be employed to comprehensively evaluate their strength capacity. Here, a fragility ...

Abstract: The manufacturing of miniaturized components is indispensable in modern industries, where the uncut chip thickness (UCT) inevitably falls into a comparable magnitude with the tool edge radius. Under such circumstances, the ...

Abstract: ake Taihu is a shallow lake located in the Yangtze River Delta region in East China. Lake breezes and their interactions with urban heat islands are of great importance to air quality and weather forecasting. In this study, ...

Abstract: an important component of the climate system. They provide moisture for precipitation, buffer temperature variations, and contribute to regional atmospheric carbon budgets. This article describes an eddy covariance (EC) ...