Abstract: Public–private partnerships (PPPs) use long-term contracts between the government and the private-sector partner to deliver public infrastructure or service. Due to unexpected contingencies, renegotiations have been common ...

Abstract: Wayside acoustic defective bearing detector (ADBD) system is a potential technique in ensuring the safety of traveling vehicles. However, Doppler distortion and multiple moving sources aliasing in the acquired acoustic ...

Abstract: A new C++ programming strategy with high modularization and good portability, and a novel data storage format for simultaneous equations with little computer memory consumption, no sorting operation, and simple addressing ...

Abstract: Simulating large-scale problems are still challenging for discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA). To this end, this paper develops an efficient disk-based DDA (DDDA) model considering the efficiency in searching contact ...

Abstract: The fluctuation of reservoir water levels has significant impact on bank slope stability near a reservoir. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the stability of bank slopes with reservoir drawdown. In this paper, a novel ...