Abstract: With the continuous increase of bridge spans, wind-induced vibrations will pose serious problems to structural integrity and serviceability. Among the many vibration sources of long-span bridges, buffeting, which results ...

Abstract: This work is concerned with simulations of rotor-generated unsteady response of the turbulent flow in a stator. The rotor’s effect is represented by moving cylinders of equivalent drag coefficient ...

Abstract: Repetitive projects are those characterized by repetitive construction activities. Examples are highway, pipeline, high‐rise building construction, etc. Many researchers recognized the disadvantages of using traditional ...

Abstract: A phase Doppler particle analyzer (PDPA) system is employed to measure the two-phase mist flow behavior including flow velocity field, droplet size distribution, droplet dynamics, and turbulence characteristics. Based on ...

Abstract: Motivated by the need to further improve film cooling in terms of both cooling effectiveness and coolant coverage area, the mist/air film cooling scheme is investigated through experiments using fan-shaped holes over an ...

Abstract: With the continuous increase of bridge spans, wind-induced vibrations will pose serious problems to structural integrity and serviceability. Among the many vibration sources of long-span bridges, buffeting, which results ...

Abstract: A novel reliability evaluation procedure is proposed for analysis and design of offshore mooring dolphin structures (MDS). It is a hybrid approach consisting of an improved response surface method (IRSM), secondorder ...

Abstract: Reliability of complicated mooring dolphin structures (MDS) is estimated using few deterministic evaluations and an improved response surface method denoted as IRSMsecondorder reliability method (SORM). It is a hybrid ...