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6 July 2026

Automatic Drum Transcription (ADT) remains challenging due to overlapping spectral content among drum instruments, dense transient activity, and the increased difficulty associated with fine-grained full-kit transcription. This study investigates whe...

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  • Open Access
315 Views
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17 September 2026

Frequency-controlled parallel inverters combine nonlinear switching dynamics with load-dependent periodic operation, which makes controller-oriented uncertainty modeling difficult. This paper presents a reproducible surrogate-to-robust-control workfl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Robust Control Theory and Its Applications)
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15 Citations
6,115 Views
39 Pages

7 June 2017

Within the framework of the state-of-the-art, this paper presents a summary of some common research works carried out by the authors concerning computational methods for the prediction of the responses in the frequency domain of general linear dissip...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Vibroacoustics and Aeroacustics of Aerospace and Automotive Systems)
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  • Open Access
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27 September 2026

Stationary occupants modify the vibration of lightweight floors and grandstands, yet predicted responses depend on how the stationary human is represented. This study examines model-form effects among a conventional separative model (SM), a reduced i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Buildings for Health and Comfort: Indoor Environment, Thermal Design, and Structural Integrity)
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18 Citations
3,257 Views
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26 February 2025

Structural health monitoring commonly uses natural frequency analysis to assess structural conditions, but direct frequency shifts are often insensitive to minor damage and susceptible to environmental influences like temperature variations. Traditio...

(This article belongs to the Topic 3D Computer Vision and Smart Building and City, 3rd Edition)
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2 Citations
1,849 Views
36 Pages

28 December 2025

This study presents a frequency-domain analysis of a finite-element (FEM)-based rotor–nacelle model for wind turbines, validated against the open-source time-domain tool OpenFAST. The analysis was carried out using METHOD, an in-house computati...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
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1 Citations
403 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2026

Stationary human–structure interaction (HSI) can significantly modify the vibration characteristics of lightweight structures, yet it remains unclear whether a human model identified for an individual can be extended consistently to crowd condi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Buildings for Health and Comfort: Indoor Environment, Thermal Design, and Structural Integrity)
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3 Citations
2,958 Views
26 Pages

22 September 2022

Structural resonance increases the vibration and noise of porous acoustic metamaterials while reducing the energy consumption and conversion efficiency of acoustic waves. Therefore, structural fundamental frequency of porous acoustic metamaterials is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Metamaterials: Optimization and New Design Ideas)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,894 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2020

The modal response of a four-legged jacket structure to damages are explored and resulting considerations for damage detection are discussed. A finite element model of the Wikinger (Iberdrola) jacket structure is used to investigate damage detection....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk and Integrity Management of Energy Assets)
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2 Citations
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Testing for a Random Walk Structure in the Frequency Evolution of a Tone in Noise

  • Scarlett Abramson,
  • William Moran,
  • Robin Evans and
  • Andrew Melatos

15 August 2022

Inference and hypothesis testing are typically constructed on the basis that a specific model holds for the data. To determine the veracity of conclusions drawn from such data analyses, one must be able to identify the presence of the assumed structu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Smart and Intelligent Sensors Systems)
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2 Citations
1,094 Views
29 Pages

15 April 2026

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from heterogeneous sensors for remote sensing and Earth-observation applications. To achieve a better balance between global contextual modeling and local structural preser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Spatial Information Science and Cartography in the Big Remotely Sensed Data Era)
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1 Citations
519 Views
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19 August 2026

Small objects in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery often occupy only a few pixels, making their responses vulnerable to downsampling, cluttered backgrounds, and cross-scale feature misalignment. Most detector improvements handle backbone represen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cross-Modal Learning and Dynamic Scene Analysis: New Advances in Semantic Alignment, Retrieval, and Prediction)
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17 Citations
4,399 Views
22 Pages

3 February 2021

This paper aims to present a method for quantitative damage identification of a simply supported beam, which integrates the frequency response function (FRF) and model updating. The objective function is established using the cross-signature assuranc...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,471 Views
21 Pages

28 August 2021

This paper proposes a Configuration method for energy storage (ES), in which the ES inertia of ES is equal to an equal capacity synchronous generator. The purpose is to enhance the frequency modulation capability of double-fed induction generator (DF...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontier in Special Power Conversion Systems and Control)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,776 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2020

Vibration-based structural health monitoring is an efficient way to diagnose damage and structural integrity at the earliest stage. In this paper, a new strategy is developed for damage localization and estimation, as well as damage properties identi...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
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5 November 2026

This paper proposes a physics-informed identification framework for the spatial and dynamic responses of dual-element pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensors using variable circular-aperture excitation. The dynamic half is carried through to experimental...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,589 Views
17 Pages

Synchrosqueezing Transform Based on Frequency-Domain Gaussian-Modulated Linear Chirp Model for Seismic Time–Frequency Analysis

  • Pingping Bing,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Haoqi Zhang,
  • Li Zhu and ,
  • Guiping Zhu,
  • Jun Zhou and
  • Binsheng He
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28 June 2023

The synchrosqueezing transform (SST) has attracted much attention as a post-processing technique since it was proposed. In recent years, improvements to SST have been made. However, the existing methods are mainly based on the time-domain signal mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics in Geophysical Research)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,586 Views
19 Pages

14 October 2021

Structural engineering simulations have required increasingly complex computational models to replace physical tests accurately. This work focuses on the numerical analysis of vehicle body structures, whose size and complexity make the use of very ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Finite Element Analysis of Mechanical Behaviors and Properties of Engineering Materials and Structures)
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4 Citations
3,011 Views
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Dynamic Load Test and Contact Force Analysis of the AERORail Structure

  • Fangyuan Li,
  • Zhenwei Guo,
  • Yunxuan Cui and
  • Peifeng Wu

3 February 2023

The flexible structure of the new type of aerial track studied in this paper is formed by strings and tracks, which have obvious dynamic characteristics under the action of vehicle moving loads and is also an important factor affecting its performanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance)
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16 Citations
7,139 Views
36 Pages

13 January 2025

Given that numerous countries are located near active fault zones, this review paper assesses the seismic structural functionality of buildings subjected to dynamic loads. Earthquake-prone countries have implemented structural health monitoring (SHM)...

(This article belongs to the Section Structural and Earthquake Engineering)
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2 Citations
1,624 Views
18 Pages

An Integrative Model of Online Activity Frequency, Problematic Internet Use, Nomophobia and Phubbing Among University Students

  • Pablo-César Muñoz-Carril,
  • Inés M. Bargiela,
  • Iris Estévez and
  • María-Lidia Platas-Ferreiro

Digital behaviour in higher education must be approached not only as a psychological phenomenon but also as a pedagogical issue with direct implications for academic wellbeing and learning processes. The present study evaluates an integrated model th...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
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2 Citations
2,094 Views
15 Pages

8 November 2022

Pavement structure bearing capacity is an important evaluation parameter in pavement design, construction, maintenance management, and reconstruction, and is generally expressed by the pavement deflection value. Some of the current road bearing capac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Behavior and Degradation Processes of Advanced Materials)
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1 Citations
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Modification of the Tribomechanical Cutting Regime in Longitudinal-Torsional Ultrasonic Milling: From Adhesion to Controlled Fragmentation

  • Oussama Beldi,
  • Tarik Zarrouk,
  • Ahmed Abbadi,
  • Mohammed Nouari and ,
  • Wenfeng Ding,
  • Mohammed Abbadi,
  • Jamal-Eddine Salhi and
  • Mohammed Barboucha
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13 April 2026

Machining Nomex honeycomb structures presents a major challenge due to their thin-walled architecture, orthotropic behavior, and sensitivity to adhesion and delamination. This study develops a three-dimensional numerical model using Abaqus/Explicit t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends and Technologies in Manufacturing Engineering)
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DSFNet: Directional Spatial–Frequency Collaboration Network for Underwater Optical Image Enhancement

  • Weibin Li,
  • Jiahui Li,
  • Jingchun Zhou,
  • Dehuan Zhang and ,
  • Guoqing Zhang and
  • Qiuping Jiang
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10 October 2026

Underwater optical images frequently suffer from wavelength-dependent attenuation and scattering, resulting in color distortion, contrast reduction, and structural-detail loss. Recent methods have already explored directional modeling and spatial&nda...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications and Development of Underwater Robotics and Underwater Vision Technology, 2nd Edition)
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1 Citations
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SynerCD: Synergistic Tri-Branch and Vision-Language Coupling for Remote Sensing Change Detection

  • Yumei Tong,
  • Panpan Zheng,
  • Wenbin Tang,
  • Shuli Cheng and
  • Liejun Wang

12 November 2025

RSCD faces persistent challenges in high-resolution imagery due to complex spatial structures, temporal heterogeneity, and semantic ambiguity. While deep learning methods have significantly advanced the field, most existing models still rely on stati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Task Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Classification, Segmentation, and Change Detection)
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2 Citations
9,256 Views
31 Pages

Default probability is a fundamental variable determining the credit worthiness of a firm and equity volatility estimation plays a key role in its evaluation. Assuming a structural credit risk modeling approach, we study the impact of choosing differ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial High-Frequency Data)
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54 Citations
7,389 Views
17 Pages

Microwave Deicing Efficiency: Study on the Difference between Microwave Frequencies and Road Structure Materials

  • Longting Ding,
  • Xuancang Wang,
  • Wengang Zhang,
  • Shuai Wang and ,
  • Jing Zhao and
  • Yongquan Li
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23 November 2018

A method of deicing using microwave heating is proposed to make scientific and economical road deicing in a cold area, and to make up for deficiencies in the existing methods for melting snow and ice. This paper proposes to define microwave deicing e...

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4 Citations
3,080 Views
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Tongchuan City, located in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, has limited groundwater resources. Rational planning and exploitation of groundwater are crucial to the sustainable development of the city, for which investigating the distribution of gro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Magnetotelluric Analysis)
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17 Citations
3,570 Views
22 Pages

Laser Scanning and Ambient Vibration Study of Juma Mosque in Khiva (Uzbekistan) with Subsequent Finite Element Modeling of Its Minaret

  • Shakhzod Takhirov,
  • Bakhodir Rakhmonov,
  • Ravshanbek Nafasov,
  • Abbos Samandarov and
  • Sevara Sultanova

17 March 2023

This paper presents the results of a multiyear program conducted in Khiva, by a research team from the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and Urgench State University, Urgench (Uzbekistan). It was focused on the Juma (Djuma) Mosque in Itchan Ka...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of GIS, BIM and Linked Digitisations in Urban Heritage)
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Structural Optimization of Vented Brake Rotors with a Fully Parameterized Model

  • Yao-Tien Huang,
  • Ying-Chieh Liu,
  • Kun-Nan Chen and
  • Yueh-Mei Lai

19 February 2022

Vented brake rotors used in an automobile behave similarly to centrifugal fans, drawing cool air from the inboard side, passing it through the disc vents, and exhausting it from the periphery. A vented brake rotor with a better heat dispersing abilit...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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3 Citations
2,102 Views
14 Pages

12 June 2024

The uplift of underground structures induced by soil liquefaction can damage underground structure systems. Numerical simulations have shown that uplift is positively correlated with the energy of horizontal input motion. However, the effects of vert...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seismic Resistant Analysis and Design for Civil Structures)
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2 Citations
1,373 Views
23 Pages

23 September 2025

Rapid urbanization reduces green space and increases urban stressors, yet the mechanisms linking urban forests to residents’ subjective well-being remain incompletely understood. This study examines how perceived access, perceived quality, visi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forest and Human Well-Being)
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Sustainable Tourist Well-Being and Travel Frequency: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stress in Nature-Based Destinations

  • Manuel Antonio Abarca Zaquinaula,
  • Gabriela Elizabeth Revelo Salgado and
  • Francisco Javier Montalvo Márquez

26 May 2026

Tourism is increasingly recognized as a driver of well-being and sustainability in nature-based destinations, yet the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. This study investigates how travel frequency influences tourist authentic ha...

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2 Citations
1,808 Views
25 Pages

One of the primary challenges in cable-stayed bridges is to assess the service performance of stay cables in response to applied loads and ensure that they meet safety requirements. This paper proposes a new strategy to analyze the time-varying relia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies and Equipment in Civil Engineering (Building, Bridge, and Tunnel Engineering))
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11 June 2026

Rockfall from slope unstable rock masses is a typical geological hazard induced by brittle failure, with abrupt occurrence, limited macroscopic deformation before failure, and a short warning lead time. Conventional static analysis methods are useful...

(This article belongs to the Topic Geotechnics for Hazard Mitigation, 2nd Edition)
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91 Citations
37,025 Views
16 Pages

31 August 2016

Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) has become a popular urban planning approach to preventing crime and mitigating fear of crime through the improvement of physical neighborhood environments. CPTED is widely used to improve deterio...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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9 Citations
4,509 Views
22 Pages

21 August 2021

The huge influence of the sampling rate on the performance of the digital PID control of a voltage source inverter (VSI) is revealed. It is shown that an appropriately chosen continuous-time model of a digital controller with the PWM power converter...

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7 Citations
4,649 Views
19 Pages

22 January 2025

Over the last ten years, continuous attention has been paid to the use of digital games in vocabulary learning. Their effectiveness and availability have been widely discussed. However, the experiences of language learners and the underlying patterns...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
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24 Citations
6,669 Views
22 Pages

Barriers to the Implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for Sustainable Building in a Developing Economy

  • Ahmed Farouk Kineber,
  • Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke,
  • Mohamed Elseknidy,
  • Mohamed Magdy Hamed and
  • Fakunle Samuel Kayode

3 January 2023

Sustainability principles need to be applied at all the stages of the decision-making process concerning the building of urban housing to realize maximum benefits without compromising the project’s function. This paper aims to investigate the a...

(This article belongs to the Collection The Impact of Digitalization on the Quality of Life)
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1 Citations
497 Views
28 Pages

3 June 2026

Structural health monitoring (SHM) of additively manufactured (AM) small and complex components is investigated using a sensor-based signal processing and machine-learning framework. Guided-wave responses acquired from piezoelectric transducers are a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Based Intelligent Fault Diagnosis)
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  • Open Access
466 Views
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Pulse RFI Mitigation for SAR Data Based on Reduced Rank Approximate

  • Bingxu Chen,
  • Weiwei Fan,
  • Siyu Chen,
  • Zongsen Lv and
  • Feng Zhou

1 August 2026

Radio frequency interference (RFI) caused by spectrum allocation issues can adversely affect the normal operation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Compared to traditional RFI, pulsed RFI (PRFI) typically has higher power and wider bandwidth, making...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Formation, Super-Resolution, Deblurring, and Feature Enhancement for Satellite Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,482 Views
30 Pages

27 May 2025

Lamb waves offer a series of desirable features for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) applications, such as the ability to detect small defects, allowing to detect damage at early stages of its evolution. On the downside, their propagation through m...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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2 Citations
1,408 Views
24 Pages

Emotional Well-Being and Environmental Sensitivity: The Case of ELF-MF Exposure

  • Liran Shmuel Raz-Steinkrycer,
  • Stelian Gelberg and
  • Boris A. Portnov

7 January 2026

Extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MFs) generated by high-voltage power lines raise concerns about their potential impact on health and well-being. Previous research suggests that chronic exposure to ELF-MFs can contribute to sleep disturba...

(This article belongs to the Section Health, Well-Being and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,529 Views
28 Pages

26 March 2018

In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Hyperbolic EGARCH (A-HYEGARCH) model to estimate the long memory of high frequency time series with potential structural breaks. Based on the original HYGARCH model, we use the logarithm transformation to ensure...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,761 Views
16 Pages

During bridge service, material degradation and aging occur, affecting bridge functionality. Bridge health monitoring, crucial for detecting structural damage, includes finite element model modification as a key aspect. Current finite element-based m...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,888 Views
12 Pages

20 March 2024

High-frequency workpieces have the characteristics of complex intra-class textures and small differences between classes, leading to the problem of low recognition rates when existing models are applied to the recognition of high-frequency workpiece...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,681 Views
29 Pages

25 February 2023

Currently, machine learning techniques are widely used in structural seismic response studies. The developed network models for various types of seismic response provide new ways to analyse seismic hazards. However, it is not easy to balance the appl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Mechanical Vibrations)
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2 Citations
3,552 Views
22 Pages

Integrated Finite Strip Computation for Modelling and Frequency Analysis of Hybrid Laminated FRP Structures

  • Hamidreza Naderian,
  • Moe M. S. Cheung,
  • Elena Dragomirescu and
  • Abdolmajid Mohammadian

This paper proposes an efficient numerical technique for simulating hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge systems. An integrated finite strip method (IFSM) is proposed to evaluate the free vibration performance of cable-stayed FRP bridges. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Computational Modelling in Mechanics of Materials and Structures)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,532 Views
12 Pages

21 January 2023

As the core equipment of the high-pressure diaphragm pump, the working conditions of the check valve are complicated, and the vibration signal generated during operation displays non-stationary and nonlinear characteristics. In order to accurately de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis Methods Based on Information Theory or Machine Learning: From Theory to Application)
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518 Views
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2 September 2026

RF-based UAV recognition is important for low-altitude security because it enables passive sensing from electromagnetic emissions without requiring target visibility or illumination. Compared with active sensing, passive RF sensing offers a wider obs...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

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