Additive technologies are widely used in various industries. However, nowadays, the large-scale implementation of these technologies in the construction industry is difficult, due to a lot of open practical and scientific questions in terms of both b...
Reasonable adjustment of construction parameters is of great value to reduce surface settlement and ensure the safety of shield construction. A novel hybrid intelligent optimization framework based on combination weighting and gray correlation analys...
Garment simulation enables the reduction of physical prototypes, saving time, material and costs. Complete elimination of physical prototypes is not yet possible because simulation is not reliable enough for a robust fit analysis. In addition, predic...
To address the limited automation of 3D reconstruction caused by the inability of point clouds to represent the hidden structures and construction logic of Ming–Qing large timber buildings, this study proposes a hidden structural parameter infe...
To study the optimization of construction parameters and schemes for complex connecting tunnels in extra-long highway tunnels in granite strata, the research team, relying on the construction project of the complex connecting tunnel between the Xiaol...
When a tunnel traverses an inclined coal seam, the coal-tunnel angle α of the seam significantly alters the stress distribution in the surrounding rock, its failure mode, and the loading conditions on the support structure. This study investiga...
With the rapid development of computer science and technology, the Chinese petroleum industry has ushered in the era of big data. In this study, by collecting fracturing data from 303 horizontal wells in the Fuling Shale Gas Demonstration Area in Chi...
As a key transportation equipment in the construction of long tunnels with large slope, the material hoisting system plays an important role in the transportation of materials in sloping shafts. This paper proposes a parameterized calibration scheme...
So as to efficiently address the distortion of surrounding rock in tunnels constructed utilizing ADECO-RS, it is crucial to define suitable parameters for advanced support systems. This study took the 8 # tunnel in the F3 portion of the E60 Expresswa...
The ground settlement induced by shield tunnel construction should be carefully monitored and controlled during construction as a compulsory measurement to ensure construction safety. In the existing literature, gap parameter theory is adopted to pre...
Wood-reinforced rubble walls (so called timber-laced masonry), which were widespread in South Arabia and East Africa in the architecture of the first millennium BC, can be easily reconstructed in terms of their wall structure. They were mostly used f...
The construction industry is a major contributor to dust, greenhouse gases, and other air pollutants. Implementing effective and sustainable practices in managing construction site operations can greatly mitigate the environmental effects of a projec...
The construction of tunnels in conditions of dense urban development affects buildings, structures, and engineering communications located at the surface. In this work, through dispersion analysis, factors influencing the settlement of the earth&rsqu...
This paper investigates the distribution characteristics and variation rules of the temperature field of rock-filled concrete during pouring. Based on the thermal model accounting for the hydration rate, it uses ANSYS software to study the influence...
In this paper, we propose a new class of regular fractional repetition (FR) codes constructed from perfect difference families and quasi-perfect difference families to store big data in distributed storage systems. The main advantage of the proposed...
Taking the shield construction of Xiamen Metro Line 2 tunnel side-crossing the Tianzhushan overpass and under-crossing the Shen-Hai Expressway as the engineering background, FLAC3D 6.0 software was used to examine the deformation of adjacent structur...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed upon by the world’s leaders as the framework for a global agenda for development. The construction industry is key to the delivery of the SDGs because construction provides the physical basis...
Tunnel construction in soft soil environments involves significant geological and hydraulic uncertainty, particularly where permeable sandy interlayers within soft clay are prone to seepage-induced instability and excessive settlement. Although hydra...
In Singapore, there is an increasing need for independence from manpower within the Building and Construction (B&C) Industry. Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC) production is mainly driven by benefits in environmental pollut...
Landfills pose global challenges, notably in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, pollution release, and extensive land occupation. The transformative practice of landfill mining has redefined these sites as valuable resource reservoirs. The fine...
This review provides a comprehensive examination of porosity and permeability as key parameters governing the durability and performance of construction materials, including natural stone, mortar, concrete, and other cementitious composites. It highl...
High frequency air transformers for switched-mode power supply (SMPS) are important components of wireless power transfer systems (WPT). This paper describes a compact thermal model of such transformers. This model takes into account self-heating in...
A parametric study that examines the ground surface settlement due to the excavation of shallow offset arrangement twin tunnels is presented. Offset arrangement tunnels are those that run parallel to each other, but at different elevations. The study...
Large-section tunnels produce a large amount of dust after drill-and-blast construction. If not removed in a timely manner, the dust will seriously endanger workers’ health. For the purpose of enhancing the working conditions within the tunnel...
High oleic acid oilseed rape is a hot research area in the development of functional oilseed rape. At present, the model of predicting the oleic acid content in rapeseed at the early growth stage based on hyperspectral technology lacks a mechanistic...
Excessive surface settlement poses significant challenges to shield tunnelling construction, resulting in damage to adjacent buildings, infrastructure, and underground pipelines. This study focused on investigating the surface settlement induced by s...
There will be great damage in the process of harvesting, transporting, and storing after grain matures. The injury rate is as high as 8% to 12%. After damage, the germination rate of the grain becomes lower, the quality decreases, and it is easily in...
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Cardiorespiratory (e.g., heart rate and breathing rate) and thermoregulatory (e.g., local skin temperature and electrodermal activity) responses are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system. To cope with increased physical workload, the sympathet...
The construction of deep foundation pits in subway stations can affect the settlement of existing buildings adjacent to the pits to varying degrees. In this paper, the Long Short-Term Memory neural network prediction model of building settlement caus...
Image interpolation is important in image zooming. To improve the quality of image zooming, in this work, we proposed a class of rational quadratic trigonometric Hermite functions with two shape parameters and two classes of
To address the severe distresses of asphalt pavement, a new type of pavement maintenance treatment, porous ultra-thin overlay (PUTO) with small particle size was proposed. The PUTO has a thickness of 1.5–2.5 cm and a large void ratio of 18&ndas...
To exploit the influence of the tunnel face and the distance between the diameter and the orifice of a blast pipe on the ventilation effect in symmetric tunnel construction, this paper uses Fluent to establish a three-dimensional model and numerical...
Fabric properties significantly influence the accuracy of pattern dimensions derived from 3D scanned garment samples. To enhance the generated pattern accuracy, a novel predictive model was proposed to estimate the pattern dimension change ratio by i...
Post-construction settlement in embankments is a crucial quality indicator and a significant factor influencing the long-term stability of roadbeds. Especially for the mixed-fill materials, by considering the uncertainty of composition and mechanical...
The use of forest roads as foundations for dam construction by beavers is a recurrent problem in the management of forest road networks. In order to limit the damage to forest roads, our goal was to calculate the probability of beaver dam installatio...
Accurate prediction and optimized control of shield tunneling attitude are critical for ensuring tunneling quality and construction safety. In karst and other highly heterogeneous strata, complex geological conditions and construction parameters exhi...
The formwork system (FWS) in reinforced concrete (RC) construction is a critical component. The appropriate FWS is selected based on a number of conflicting and compromising criteria, and the selection of the FWS is carried out by construction profes...
Shale gas reservoirs, as representative reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin, have attracted widespread attention regarding development. Using gas reservoir numerical simulation to assist development has greatly improved the work efficiency of workers. Ho...
Information regarding newly added construction land can be extracted from high-resolution remote sensing images. The retrieval accuracy of land cover changes across the country has improved, and the illegal use of land is actively monitored. To addre...
Underground salt caverns have been widely used for oil and gas storage and have attracted increasing attention. The construction design of salt caverns is directly related to the final storage capacity, economic benefits, and resource utilization. Ho...
The section of Jialingjiang Road Station to Xiangjiang Road Station along Qingdao Metro Line 13 is located in Qingdao, China. All of them show obvious characteristics, being soft on the top and hard on the bottom, and the interval tunnel is faced wit...
Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), as the most advanced construction equipment for rock tunnels, has been widely used in railway tunnel engineering, water conservancy tunnel engineering, urban rail engineering, coal mine roadway engineering, and other fiel...
Moisture is a crucial quality property for granules in fluidized bed granulation (FBG) and accurate prediction of the granule moisture is significant for decision making. This study proposed a novel stacking ensemble method to predict the granule moi...
This study evaluates the role of design, operational, and physicochemical parameters of constructed wetlands (CWs) in the removal of pharmaceuticals (PhCs). The correlation analysis demonstrates that the performance of CWs is governed by several desi...
Constructing high-precision subsidence basins is of paramount importance for mining subsidence monitoring. Traditional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry techniques typically construct subsidence basins by directly differencing digital elev...
This research presents the correlation analysis of selected design and operational factors (depth, area, hydraulic and organic loading rate, and hydraulic retention time), and physicochemical parameters (pH, temperature, and dissolved oxygen) of cons...
Enormous development of technology over the past two centuries has been associated with a considerable drawdown of non-renewable raw materials and an increase in the amount of harmful emissions. Thus, building direction in the field of construction i...
The high-resolution topography is very crucial to investigate the hydrological and hydrodynamic process. To resolve the deficiency problem of high resolution terrain data in rivers, the Quartic Hermite Spline with Parameter (QHSP) method constructing...
The global obesity epidemic continues to rise worldwide. In this context, unraveling new interconnections between biological systems involved in obesity etiology is highly relevant. Dysregulation of the endocannabinoidome (eCBome) is associated with...
Nowadays, there is an increasing focus on enhancing the economy of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). This study builds a framework model for the parameter optimization of hybrid powertrains in user driving cycles. Unlike the optimization under standar...
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