Abstract: Postinstalled anchors are frequently installed with unpredictable abandoned drilled holes (ADHs) at the job site. While ADHs may have a reducing impact on the original ultimate tensile strength (Nu) of the anchor per the ...

Abstract: Closed-form model expression is commonly required for parametric data assimilation (e.g., model updating, damage quantification, and so on). However, epistemic bias due to fixing the model class is a challenging issue ...

Abstract: The procedure of constructing the bored piles of a new bridge is simulated by using the three-dimensional finite element method. The variance of soil body stress, the deformation in each step of the construction, and the ...

Abstract: new method is proposed to detect small targets embedded in sea clutter for land-based microwave coherent radar using spectral kurtosis as a signature from radar data. It is executed according to the following procedures. ...

Abstract: multifrequency high-frequency (MHF) radar system was designed and developed by Wuhan University in 2007. This system can simultaneously operate at four frequencies mainly in the 7.5?25-MHz band. This paper focuses on ...

Abstract: ind sea and swell representing different weather conditions generally coexist in both open waters and coastal areas, which results in bimodal or multipeaked features in directional wave spectrum. Because they make wave ...

Abstract: ne pivotal factor affecting the accuracy of HF radar current measurements is the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation performance of the current signal. The beamforming technology or superresolution algorithm cannot always ...

Abstract: In this paper, a symmetric 3-UPU (U and P represent universal and prismatic joints, individually) parallel mechanism and its variant mechanism under different geometric and assembly conditions are analyzed. Both have two ...