Abstract: The ridership of a metro system depends largely on the feed from other modes, especially buses. Therefore the quality of the interchange between metro and buses is a significant factor affecting the attractiveness of a ...

Abstract: The failure mechanisms of backfill with limited width that is subjected to a co-application of earthquake force and surcharge formed by single and double wedges, respectively, were introduced to address the active earth ...

Abstract: To realize lightweight and corrosion resistance, a novel hybrid pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer (PFRP)-aluminum space truss system is proposed, which adopts the pretightened teeth connections (PTTCs) and aluminum–bolt–ball ...

Abstract: A long investment cycle and complex environmental changes bring lots of uncertainty to urban rail-transit (URT) project investment, and lead to many investment risks. However, investors’ aggressive flexible management ...

Abstract: Understanding relationships between different products in a market system and predicting how changes in design impact their market position can be instrumental for companies to create better products. We propose a graph ...

Abstract: With the utilization of a representative volume element, we investigate the effect of interfacial adhesion on the in-plane viscoelasticity of graphene oxide thin films. A multiple-bond contact model is employed for the ...

Abstract: Clamping force and shimming are two important compensation processes in the composite assembly. Their effects on variation propagation should be investigated in tolerance analysis. The paper presents a tolerance analysis ...

Abstract: Metallic dissipators have gained considerable attention in the seismic structural design industry in recent years because of their ability to provide stable hysteresis behavior and excellent energy dissipation capacity. ...

Abstract: Urban parks have an important impact on the health of urban residents. Normally, the first step is to identify whether the accessibility of urban parks is equitable; however, multiple models that were applied in previous ...

Abstract: The separation of waste printed circuit boards (WPCB) has been a bottleneck in WPCB resource processing. In this study, the separation of WPCBs was performed using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as a solvent by dissolving polymer ...