Abstract: The choice of suitable pipe material is highly important for successful high-head, long-distance water transmission pipeline endeavors. In this research, four initially selected pipe materials were subjected to a comprehensive ...

Abstract: A rapid path planning (RPP) method that fast generates suboptimal zero propellant maneuver (ZPM) paths was proposed previously, and to further enhance the planning performance, the differential flatness of the model is ...

Abstract: Microbial induced calcite precipitation (MICP) is one of the potential methods for improvement of engineering properties of soil. A laboratory study was conducted to investigate the influence of various factors on engineering ...

Abstract: Nodal variable-based discontinuous deformation analysis (NDDA), which couples the finite-element method (FEM) mesh inside a discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) block, aims to improve the stress accuracy and the contact ...

Abstract: In recent years, energy harvesting technologies have been applied in pavement engineering. Piezoelectric energy harvesting in pavement aims to take advantage of the vehicle load on a road. Most of the existing theoretical ...