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Unraveling the Impact of Development Zones on Industrial Land-Use Efficiency: Empirical Analysis in Kunshan, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Development zones (DZs) have long been regarded as an important engine of economic growth. Nevertheless, the booming of DZs in China has also brought about land-use issues in cities and across the country. Although extant ... -
Unlocking the Ecological Blueprint: Strategic Zoning and Policy Guidelines for Ecosystem Services in Guangdong Province, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Ecosystem services (ESs) exhibit significant spatial heterogeneity due to various environmental and human-related factors. Understanding these spatial patterns and their drivers is crucial for zoning and managing ESs, ... -
Unified Fatigue Life Calculation of Q460C Steel Butt-Welded Joints with Unequal Widths Considering Fatigue Crack Initiation and Stable Propagation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study experimentally investigated the effects of the stress amplitude and the nominal maximum stress on the fatigue life of Q460C steel butt-welded joints with unequal widths. The fatigue crack initiation length, ... -
Underwater Surface Defect Recognition of Bridges Based on Fusion of Semantic Segmentation and Three-Dimensional Point Cloud
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study introduces an innovative approach for identifying surface defects in underwater bridge structures through the fusion of deep learning and three-dimensional point cloud. The method employs a U2-Net neural network ... -
Understanding the Underlying Trends in US Construction Labor Wages: A Data-Driven Mixed-Method Computational Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Precisely forecasting construction costs is crucial for maintaining financial stability for contractors and the broader construction sector. Nonetheless, this task has long been acknowledged as challenging. Recent global ... -
Understanding the Size-Specific Reactive Potential and Dissolution Characteristics of Linz–Donawitz Slag
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The utilization of Linz–Donawitz (LD) slag in cementitious applications has gained traction due to its widespread availability, offering a potential solution to reduce global warming. This study evaluates the impact of ... -
Understanding the Role of Coral Powder in the Rheological, Shrinkage, and Mechanical Properties and Pore Structure of Coral Mortar
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The content of coral powder in coral aggregates significantly impacts the quality of coral mortars using coral aggregates, ultimately affecting various properties of coral mortars. Hence, to elucidate the role of coral ... -
Understanding Construction Workers’ Risk Perception Using Neurophysiological Responses
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In the dynamic construction environment, workers’ safety heavily depends on their ability to effectively perceive and react to hazards. Accordingly, studies have assessed the status of workers’ risk perception using advanced ... -
Understanding and Modeling Drivers’ Diversion Behavior during Congestion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Traffic congestion causes significant economic losses due to delays and excessive fuel consumption. Understanding drivers’ behaviors, particularly in terms of diversionary routing to avoid congestion, is crucial for ... -
Assessment of Urban Rail Transit System Resilience Based on a Cloud Matter-Element Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To ensure the operational reliability and service quality of urban rail transit systems, it is crucial to assess the resilience of urban rail transit reasonably when subjected to disruptions. This paper divides the resilience ... -
Uncertainty Analysis in Tunnel Deformation Using Monte Carlo Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Calculating in situ rock stresses is increasingly imperative due to the complexities and limitations associated with testing techniques, equipment, assumptions, and the subjective interpretation of test results. Estimating ... -
Uncertain Resource Allocation for Coastal Floods Based on the Resilience of Interdependent Water Infrastructures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Floods are known as one of the most frequent natural events that impose many risks and consequences, especially for coastal communities. Utility companies such as wastewater and electricity have to improve the resilience ... -
Ultraviolet Aging Behavior of Asphalt Based on Principal Component Analysis and the Least-Squares Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To evaluate the significance of macro/microproperties of asphalt in the ultraviolet aging process and use their correlation to judge the residual engineering properties. The A-70 matrix asphalt and styrene-butadiene-styrene ... -
UBFS-Based Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete as Jacketing Material for Retrofitting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Recently, a new sustainable binder named geopolymer has gained significant momentum due to its cost-effectiveness and environmental benefits. In the present paper, material characterization of fiber-reinforced geopolymer ... -
Two-Way Shear Strength of GFRP-Reinforced Precast Concrete Box Culverts under Vertical Concentrated Loading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The purpose of this study was to investigate the two-way shear strength of precast concrete box culverts reinforced with glass fiber–reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars. The investigations included testing four full-scale ... -
Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Consolidation of Saturated Clay Considering Anisotropic Hansbo’s Flow
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The permeability in the natural clay layer is obviously anisotropic, and the flow of water in the pores often deviates from Darcian law. In order to analyze the effect of anisotropic non-Darcian flow on the two-dimensional ... -
TVDLF Method to Simulate Two-Dimensional Flow through Large Hydrologic Systems with Wetlands and Hillslopes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a physical process-based integrated hydrologic model for multiyear simulations of surface and subsurface flow in large regional hydrologic systems with hillslopes, wetlands, natural, agricultural, and ... -
Turning Motion Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles at Unsignalized Intersections Considering Multiple Left-Turn Exit Lanes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Left-turn maneuvers pose significant challenges for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) regarding both safety and traffic efficiency, particularly at mixed traffic unsignalized intersections. This paper addresses these ... -
Treatment of Railway Laundry Wastewater through a Chain of Physicochemical Processes and an Aerobic Sequential Batch Reactor
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces a comprehensive approach to treating industrial laundry wastewater collected from a railway laundry, employing a novel unique sequential combination of coagulation–flocculation, neutralization, ... -
Transport of Nutrients by Overland Flow on Sites Containing Beef Cattle Manure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In an inductive metastudy, we investigated the effects of varying rates of overland sheet flow on the transport of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) from sites containing beef cattle manure. The analyzed data were collected ...