Abstract: In building rehabilitation and strengthening works, the need to create openings in existing walls is usual. When those walls are load-bearing walls, the loading path is locally altered; therefore, it is required to strengthen ...

Abstract: Historic conservation is closely connected with the phenomenon of partial shrinkage in the rapidly developing megacity of Guangzhou. Nine jiedao (subdistricts) including 14 historic conservation areas in old Liwan were ...

Abstract: The classical elasticity is inadequate for the dynamic analysis of microplates due to the size effect. This study incorporates a higher-order strain gradient theory into the Hamiltonian system-based symplectic framework ...

Abstract: In common engineering practice, data plots, such as the stress versus strain relationship of materials, are averaged among a series of samples using the mean ordinate (MO) method. This method is reliable as long as the ...

Abstract: Carbide coarsening has been investigated in a 12 percent CrMoV steel. Studies in the gauge length (creep exposed) and in the head (stress free ageing) for both interrupted and ruptured creep ...

Abstract: This paper presents analysis of a particular force tracking control problem for rectilinear hydraulic actuators governed by a servovalve. It presents no new theory, but rather uses a revealing ...

Abstract: A mathematical multilayer, multispecies two-phase model for polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) is presented based on fundamental molecular theory using the general transport equation (GTE). The ...

Abstract: Small scale, thermally driven power sources will require appropriate insulation to achieve sufficiently high thermal conversion efficiencies. This paper presents a micro-insulation design, which was ...

Abstract: A simple theoretical analysis on the stability of a resting tropical atmosphere to semigeostrophic perturbations is given using a free atmosphere?boundary layer coupled model on an equatorial ?-plane. An unstable mode ...