The majority of fatalities in building fires are attributed to asphyxiation caused by toxic gases. Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is one of the toxic gases that can be released during a fire, posing a lethal risk to humans even at low concentrations. However...
Traceability is considered a promising solution for product safety. However, the data in the traceability system is only a claim rather than a fact. Therefore, the quality and safety of the product cannot be guaranteed since we cannot ensure the auth...
Rust is a new system-level programming language that prioritizes performance, safety, and productivity. However, as evidenced in many previous works, unsafe code fragments broadly exist in Rust projects. The use of these unsafe fragments can fundamen...
Buildings designed in accordance with Earthquake Codes are expected to survive slight earthquakes without damage, moderate earthquakes with limited and repairable damage, and severe earthquakes without collapse and loss of life. These definitions can...
Structural damages occur in modern structures during operations due to environmental and human factors. The damages accumulating with time may lead to a significant decrease in structure performance or even destruction; natural symmetry is broken, re...
In an electrical safe microenvironment, all kinds of electrical appliances can be operated safely to ensure the safety of life and property. The significance of safety hazard factors detection is to detect safety hazards in advance, to remind the adm...
The fatigue problem of hangers is fatal for the safety of the whole bridge structure. The objective of this study is to present a strain monitoring-based method to assess the fatigue performance of stiff hangers in highway arch bridges and predict th...
The traditional route to achieving adequate structural performance in the event of fire is through ensuring that structural elements attain fire resistance ratings. The magnitude of these ratings typically varies in function of the building use, size...
The drone industry has opened its market to ordinary people, making drones prevalent in daily life. However, safety and security issues have been raised as the number of accidents rises (e.g., losing control and colliding with people or invading secu...
In order to comprehensively evaluate the safety and reliability of a missile, this paper gives a process of how to perform fatigue assessment for release devices—such as explosive bolts—considering road roughness during its carrying on different clas...
The agricultural front-end loader is an implement attached to the front of tractors to transport various agricultural materials, including soil. Since they are subjected to various loads due to the working environment, their safety analysis in consid...
Digital electronic detonators, as a civil explosive, are of prime importance for people’s life and property safety in the process of production and operation. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Pu...
Long-distance natural gas pipelines with internal corrosion defects are susceptible to fatigue failure under operational pressure fluctuations, posing significant risks to infrastructure integrity and safety. To address this, the present study employ...
The seaworthiness of a ship plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of life and property and the prevention of marine pollution. One meaning of seaworthiness is the fundamental ability to sail safely to a destination, as well as being fit and re...
To address the health monitoring and safety assessment challenges of telescopic cranes, this study proposes a comprehensive, online structural performance assessment method based on digital twins, applicable throughout the entire service life cycle o...
The building construction industry accounts for 5% of global energy use and 10% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A primary source of these emissions is the manufacture of building construction materials such as steel, cement, and glass. As a...
Fatigue fracture is the predominant failure mode in welded joints, where complex stress distributions and stress gradient effects at critical joint regions present major challenges for fatigue design. In civil engineering, the diversity of welded joi...
s the global population is growing and changing the globalization direction towards large city areas the needs for the development of infrastructure and housing will increase. In order to have a safe and sustainable construction the infrastructure ne...
Drones are widely used in a number of key fields and are having a profound impact on all walks of life. Working out how to improve drone safety through fault detection is key to ensuring the smooth execution of tasks. At present, most research focuse...
The International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code) was adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and entered into force on 1 January 2017. It provides a comprehensive treatment of topics relevant to ships operating...
Core flow distribution is closely related to the thermal–hydraulic performance and safety of reactors. For natural circulation reactors with a limited driving force, flow distribution optimization is of particular significance, which can be con...
Using lightweight concrete (LWC) reduces the dead weight of the concrete structure by 25–30% compared to ordinary concrete. However, harmful and corrosive substances penetrate the lightweight concrete matrix due to its high permeability, result...
In recent decades, the seismic performance of existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings has played a key role. Nevertheless, the performance and reliability verification of important structural elements such as floors has often been neglected. Floo...
Smart cities use advanced infrastructure and technology to improve the quality of life for their citizens. Collaborative services in smart cities are making the smart city ecosystem more reliable. These services are required to enhance the operation...
The embedded-ring wind turbine foundations were widely applied in the early development stage of wind power industries because of its properties such as easy installation and adjustment. However, different damages occurred on some embedded-ring wind...
Fatigue analysis and life cycle prediction of a naval craft or a commercial ship are one of the most critical phases of structural integrity calculations. Many structural failures have occurred due to insufficient structural design, production method...
This paper presents a global performance-based seismic assessment of an existing reinforced concrete hospital building retrofitted with dissipative bracing systems. The study aims to evaluate the overall effectiveness of different dissipative configu...
It is well understood that the dominant approach in the seismic design of structures is to reduce the initial cost while meeting the required safety level, as dictated by compliance codes. Nevertheless, this approach often overlooks the long-term cos...
Background: Cognitive deficits following ischemic stroke significantly impair quality of life, highlighting the need for effective interventions. This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of extended N-Pep-12 dietary supplementation in enhancing c...
This study integrates Eco-design principles and the Life Cycle approach in an MCA to evaluate the sustainability performance of manufacturing routes. The assessment is applied to conventional production across five use cases involving complex geometr...
In Chile, office buildings are typically reinforced concrete (RC) structures whose lateral load-resisting system comprises core structural walls and perimeter moment frames (i.e., dual wall-frame system). In the last 20 years, nearly 800 new dual wal...
24 June 2020
Lebanon hosts over one million refugees displaced from Syria as a result of the armed conflict—of whom, approximately 15% are adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years of age. Many female adolescent migrants report a decrease in quality of life...
Surveys on the optimum seismic design of structures reveal that many investigations focus on minimizing initial costs while satisfying performance constraints. Although reducing initial costs while complying with earthquake design codes significantly...
A large part of the European building stock was built before implementing the recent energy and structural codes, resulting in buildings characterized by deficiencies in terms of comfort, energy savings and structural safety. The retrofitting and reh...
Combining global experience, comprehensive aging knowledge, and predictive methodologies provides ideal prerequisites for the long-term operation strategy (LTO) of a nuclear power plant (NPP). Applying management strategies with an understanding of t...
29 August 2022
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a complex, lifelong disease. Its effects span across different areas of life and vary strongly. In Switzerland, there is an intense discussion on how to optimize quality of care and patient safety. Patients should be more i...
In this study, parameters that should be monitored during the service life of a bridge and the relationship between the parameters and damage are investigated in order to predict the fatigue damages in steel-concrete composite bridge girders with wel...
As climate change concerns, urban congestion, and environmental degradation intensify, cities prioritise cycling as a sustainable transport option to reduce CO2 emissions and improve quality of life. However, rampant bicycle theft and poor security i...
Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prevalent disorder of gut–brain interaction (DGBI) with a negative impact on quality of life and healthcare expenditure. This study aimed to investigate sex-based differences in a large cohort of...
This work aims to provide an effective structural solution, minimizing the discomfort during the works’ execution, for how to retrofit the Day-Hospital building of the National Cancer Institute “G. Pascale Foundation” in Naples. The...
Recent destructive earthquakes in Turkey (2023) with devastating effects have reawakened the discussion about seismic activity in Brazil and the vulnerability of the Brazilian buildings. Despite the lower magnitudes, national records should not be di...
Background: During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many veterinary practices around the world have shifted to a low or no-contact consultation model to ensure the safety of their team members and clients, and comply with public health orders, while co...
Studies suggest a relationship between exposure to endocrine disrupters, such as mercury (Hg), and premature puberty. Hg exposure from Thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccine, administered at specific intervals within the first six months of life,...
As a key technology in smart healthcare monitoring systems, wireless body area networks (WBANs) can pre-embed sensors and sinks on body surface or inside bodies for collecting different vital signs parameters, such as human Electrocardiograph (ECG),...
Many in-service bridges with steel–concrete composite beams are currently aging and experiencing performance deterioration. Under long-term cyclic loads from traffic on bridges, headed shear studs in steel–concrete composite beams are vulnerable to f...
The probability of extreme events such as an earthquake, fire or blast occurring during the lifetime of a structure is relatively low but these events can cause serious damage to the structure as well as to human life. Due to the significant conseque...
Suspended monorail systems are increasingly adopted in urban rail transit due to their small land requirements and environmental benefits. However, welded details in track beams are prone to fatigue cracking under repeated service loads, posing risks...
The construction sector faces increasing pressure to decarbonize, as embodied emissions from structural materials often dominate the environmental footprint of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. Although reinforcement ratios are key drivers of struc...
Detailed information about concrete behavior in real structures is an important issue in controlling its performance during its service life, and the use of embedded sensors to obtain desired information such as temperature, onset of the cracking pro...
Lipids are essential components of cell structure and play important roles in signal transduction between cells and body metabolism. With the continuous development and innovation of lipidomics technology, many studies have shown that the relationshi...
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