Abstract: Over the last decades in China, driven by rapid urbanization, a considerable number of migrants have moved from the rural to urban areas. According to the Communiqué of the Seventh National Population Census, more than 0.9 ...

Abstract: Horizontal lifeline system (HLLS) is one of the most widely used fall arrest systems for mitigating the risk of work-at-height in the construction and building industry. A HLLS must ensure the maximum arrest load created ...

Abstract: Compared with conventional cast-in-place mortar materials, three dimensional (3D)-printed mortar has the characteristics of high cementitious material consumption, low aggregate-cement ratio, and large water evaporation ...

Abstract: To improve the computational efficiency of the reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) of a complex structure with nonlinear and implicit limit-state function, the single-loop-single-vector (SLSV)-limit-state factor ...

Abstract: As the wind turbine structure flexibility is increased with its larger power capacity, the control system plays a more important role in the effective wind energy generation. This paper presents a robust model reference ...

Abstract: Both strain hardening and indenter elastic deformation are unavoidable in most engineering contacts. By the finite element (FE) method, this paper investigates the unloading behavior of elasticpowerlaw strain hardening ...