The objective of this study was to improve the reliability of the endurance test for the powertrain system of military tracked vehicles. The measurement system that measures the driving duty applied to the powertrain system caused by mobility on road...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) of composite wind turbine blades (WTBs) is crucial for improving power efficiency, reducing maintenance costs, and ensuring long-term structural reliability. Traditional frequency-based damage detection, often deriv...
Identifying cracks in the incipient state is essential to prevent the failure of engineering structures. Detection methods relying on the analysis of the changes in modal parameters are widely used because of the advantages they present. In our previ...
This study analyzes the relative contributions from wind, storm surge, and inland flooding to tropical cyclone damage from 1925 to 2000 in North Carolina. It emphasizes the importance of regional tropical cyclone risk assessments, using North Carolin...
This study presents a method for determining the optimal gear ratio in electric trains by examining the effects of motor efficiency, wheel wear, and relative damage to the input and output shafts of the reduction gear. In electric trains, reduction g...
Freeze–thaw damage is one of the most important factors affecting the durability of concrete in cold regions, and how to quantitatively characterize the effect of freeze–thaw cycles on the degree of damage of concrete is a widely concerni...
This paper reports on a two-step approach for optimally determining the location and severity of damage in beam structures under flexural vibration. The first step focuses on damage location detection. This is done by defining the damage index called...
Based on the displacement-induced linearity error curve and the theory of wavelet packet analysis, a bridge structural damage identification method is proposed, integrating two damage indicators: Quasi-Static Displacement-Induced Linearity Error Curv...
This study investigates the feasibility of identifying the axial position of circumferential defects in laminated pipeline structures based on damage indices. Wavelet packet decomposition is combined with damage indices, and the effects of dual defec...
Plasmid DNA is useful for investigating the DNA damaging effects of ionizing radiation. In this study, we have explored the feasibility of plasmid DNA-based detectors to assess the DNA damaging effectiveness of two radiotherapy X-ray beam qualities a...
The alkali–silica reaction is a universally known destructive mechanism in concrete that can lead to the premature loss of serviceability in affected structures. Quite an enormous number of research studies have been carried out focusing on the...
Concrete prepared using Gobi sand and gravel instead of ordinary sand and gravel is referred to as Gobi concrete. In order to explore the effect of fibers on the frost resistance of Gobi concrete, as well as to enhance the service life of Gobi aggreg...
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is cultivated in regions with frequent drought periods and high temperatures, conditions that have intensified in the last decades. One of the most important photosynthetic components, sensible to hydric stress,...
Predicting radiobiological effects is important in different areas of basic or clinical applications using ionizing radiation (IR); for example, towards optimizing radiation protection or radiation therapy protocols. In this case, we utilized as a ba...
Chromosome aberrations are widely considered among the best biomarkers of radiation health risk due to their relationship with late cancer incidence. In particular, aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) can be regarded as indicators of he...
Pinus massoniana Lamb. is an evergreen conifer; however, some current-year seedlings exhibit “winter reddening” at the onset of winter. The biological significance of this reddening is unclear. We examine the physiological responses of ne...
Spaceborne multi-temporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (MT-InSAR) is a monitoring technique capable of extracting line of sight (LOS) cumulative surface displacement measurements with millimeter accuracy. Several improvements in the techn...
Patients with asymmetric glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON) present a relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) in the eye with more advanced damage. Although useful, pupillometric RAPD quantification is not widely used as it is not portable. Whethe...
Murtilla (Ugni molinae) is a shrub native to Chile that has undergone an incipient domestication process aimed at increasing its productivity. The reduction in intrinsic chemical defenses due to the domestication process has resulted in a decrease in...
Technical improvements in clinical radiotherapy for maximizing cytotoxicity to the tumor while limiting negative impact on co-irradiated healthy tissues include the increasing use of particle therapy (e.g., proton therapy) worldwide. Yet potential di...
The mean sea level rising predicted for this century and the following centuries will make necessary to protect most of the human properties located on the coast. One of the alternatives is the construction of slope breakwaters along hundreds of kilo...
Finding a low-cost and highly efficient method for identifying subway tunnel damage can greatly reduce catastrophic accidents. At present, tunnel health monitoring is mainly based on the observation of apparent diseases and vibration monitoring, whic...
Individual contributions by infringing firms to the compensation of cartel victims must reflect their “relative responsibility for the harm caused” according to EU legislation. Several studies have argued that the theoretically best way to operationa...
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On 17 June 2019, an M6.0 earthquake occurred in Changning County, Sichuan Province, China. Considerable highway subgrades were damaged in this earthquake. By investigating seismic damage of these subgrades, a systematical analysis of influence factor...
Moisture susceptibility is a complex phenomenon that induces various distresses in asphalt pavements and can be assessed by the Retained Stability Index (RSI). This study proposes a robust model to predict the RSI using a hybrid machine learning tech...
Proton therapy enables precise dose delivery to tumors while sparing healthy tissues, offering significant advantages over conventional radiotherapy. Accurate prediction of biological doses requires detailed knowledge of radiation interactions with b...
The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between the chilling resistance of rubber trees and the bark-bleeding characteristics caused by chilling stress, considering physiological indicators in rubber tree bark, cell wall chemical...
The success of CO2 storage projects largely depends on addressing formation damage, such as salt precipitation, hydrate formation, and fines migration. While analytical models for reservoir behaviour during CO2 storage in aquifers and depleted gas fi...
Fatigue strength is vital for engineering applications of aluminum alloys. Accurate models incorporating mesoscopic defect-representing features are one of the issues for accurate fatigue strength prediction. A fatigue life prediction method based on...
The article defines and explains methods for detecting and locating damage and quantifying its extent on an example of a finite element model of a simple beam. The defined methods are based on a comparison of the decreases in the bending natural freq...
Illegal solid waste dumping is a significant factor contributing to environmental damage. In this study, 16S rRNA gene sequencing technology was used for the identification and assessment of environmental damage in an illegal dumping area in China, w...
The purpose of this research is to investigate the durability damage law for ultrahigh toughness cementitious composites (UHTCCs) under freeze–thaw environments and impact resistance. In this study, UHTCCs with fiber length-to-diameter ratios o...
Mining salt tolerance genes is significant for breeding high-quality salt-tolerant rice varieties in order to improve the utilization of saline–alkaline land. In this study, 173 rice accessions were measured for their germination potential (GP)...
Freezing rain is a frequently occurring, but relatively rarely studied disturbance in Europe, although ice accumulation may occasionally cause severe damage for forestry. We aimed to characterize ice-accumulation damage to overstory trees in spruce s...
A cylindrical tool was applied for ultrasonic bonding of multi-layered copper foil and a copper sheet to prevent damage to the foil during bonding. The strength of the joints bonded with the cylindrical tool was comparable to that of the joints bonde...
This study investigated the effects of rubber substitution ratios (0%, 5%, 10%, 15%) on the frost resistance of rubber concrete with recycled brick–concrete aggregate (BRC). The freeze–thaw (F–T) damage model was established and imp...
The aim of this study was to reveal the macroscopic and mesoscopic deterioration behaviors of concrete under the coupling effect of chlorine salt erosion and the freezing–thawing cycle. The rapid freezing–thawing test was carried out in a 5% chlorine...
In this work, we performed molecular dynamics simulations to study the dynamics of a shock wave-induced single nanobubble collapsing near one flexible and two rigid boundaries. The flexible boundary consisted of polyethylene, and the rigid boundaries...
We present in this paper a framework for damage detection and localization using neural networks. The data we use to train the network are m×d pixel images consisting of measurements of the relative variations of m natural frequencies of the st...
This paper proposes a new damage identification approach for beam structures with stochastic parameters based on uncertain static measurement data. This new approach considers not only the static measurement errors, but also the modelling error of th...
Damage to birch (Betula spp.) trees after an extensive freezing rain and snowing event was assessed in hemiboreal stands aged from 2 to 30 years. Tree diameter, height, and stem bending were measured, stand age and time of thinning were obtained from...
Over the past few decades, increasing populations of cervid species in the Baltic region have reduced the quality and vitality of cultivated Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) stands. This study evaluated the effect of bark stripping on the volu...
This article presents a novel procedure for detecting, locating, and quantifying damage caused by a loose bolted joint in a modular plate structure. The primary aims of this work are to locate the loose joint with a minimum number of measurement poin...
To investigate the influence of polypropylene–basalt hybrid fibers (PBHFCC) on the durability of ceramsite concrete, this study determined the appearance change, mass loss rate, relative dynamic elastic modulus, compressive strength and splitti...
Sulfur mustard (HD) poses a serious threat due to its relatively simple production process. Exposure to HD in the short-term causes an inflammatory response, while long-term exposure results in DNA and RNA damage. Respiratory tract tissue models were...
Potential damage, eventually demonstrated as moisture damage on inner and in-situ road structures, is the most complex problem to predict, which costs lots of money, time, and natural resources for maintenance and even leads to safety problems. Tradi...
The urban drainage system is an important part of the urban water cycle. However, with the aging of drainage pipelines and other external reasons, damages such as cracks, corrosion, and deformation of underground pipelines can cause serious consequen...
Tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a significant threat in terms of wind-induced damage and storm risk to the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China. In this research, annual power dissipation index (PDI) and storm surge and...
Research on the characterization of ground motion intensity and damage of underground structures is limited, while reasonable selection of ground motion intensity measures and structural damage measures is a crucial prerequisite for structural seismi...
A dam may be damaged by occasional extreme loads such as major earthquakes or terrorist attacks during its service. According to the needs of emergency assessment, this paper studies a rapid damage identification method for damage location and damage...
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