Abstract: This paper presents a novel procedure to determine the apparent activation energy (

Abstract: The performance of sucrose in cement hydration, including both the early structure formation and further development of cement paste under different curing temperatures, was studied by measures of setting time, heat ...

Abstract: The present study builds a regional urban resilience index model through ecological density, spatial distance, and social division based on the Density, Distance and Division (3D) theory of new economic geography. In total, ...

Abstract: The failure prognosis is crucial for industrial equipment in prognostics and health management field. The vibration signal is the commonly used data for failure prognosis. The conventional prognostic approaches have ...

Abstract: ogether with economic development and accelerated urbanization, the urban population in China has been increasing rapidly, and anthropogenic heat released by large-scale energy consumption in cities is expected to be a ...

Abstract: Pile-soil interaction in an expansive soil foundation has been primarily analyzed by an analytical solution in our previous study. As a complementary work, this paper briefly reviews the derivation process in more detail ...

Abstract: Based on the experimental data from a

Abstract: This study investigated torrential rain and waterlogging disasters in Henan Province combining the analytic hierarchy process method with the theory of fuzzy variable sets, and applying ArcGIS technology. The study focused ...

Abstract: Due to the large void ratio of porous asphalt pavement, rainwater is more likely to infiltrate through surface voids and affect the internal structure, leading to pavement damage. The objective of this study was to investigate ...