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10 July 2022

In this paper, a traction load model parameter identification method based on the improved sparrow search algorithm (ISSA) is proposed. According to the load characteristics of the AC traction power supply system under transient disturbance, the mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Studies in the Energy Efficiency and Power Supply for Railway Systems)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,793 Views
17 Pages

Performance Evaluation of TBM Using an Improved Load Prediction Model

  • Xinghai Zhou,
  • Guofang Gong,
  • Yakun Zhang,
  • Weiqiang Wu and
  • Yuxi Chen

20 January 2023

Excavation load prediction is of great importance for the prior design and latter performance evaluation of tunnel boring machines (TBMs). In this paper, an improved load prediction model is developed based on classical Colorado school of mines model...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,472 Views
15 Pages

Managing Risks in the Improved Model of Rolling Mill Loading: A Case Study

  • Nelli Vladimirovna Syreyshchikova,
  • Danil Yurievich Pimenov,
  • Elena Nikolaevna Yaroslavova,
  • Munish Kumar Gupta and ,
  • Muhammad Aamir and
  • Khaled Giasin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This article reflects the main sources of risks for metallurgical enterprises in Russia, presenting the implementation of an innovative approach to increasing the competitiveness of an industrial enterprise, which is a typical representative of large...

(This article belongs to the Collection Business Performance)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,379 Views
19 Pages

24 May 2024

The effectiveness of implementing the total maximum daily load (TMDL) in the Gyeongan stream watershed was evaluated to assess its impact on water quality. The relationships between water quality and flow rate and load and water quality were reinterp...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,684 Views
26 Pages

8 July 2023

The active distribution network has been fully developed because it can achieve efficient energy utilization through the effective control of distributed generation, electrical energy storage, and active loads. However, the research on the reliabilit...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,130 Views
12 Pages

28 November 2022

To better utilize air-conditioning load in terms of demand side response potential and improve precision and speed, a control strategy of traditional temperature-control air conditioning, determining frequency load as the research object, and air con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Optimization of Electric Energy System)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,041 Views
13 Pages

A wet clutch is the key component to realize power uninterrupted in agricultural machinery operation. To reduce impact of the system and improve engagement quality, this paper studies and establishes the dynamic load characteristics model of a wet cl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Electric, Electronics, and Computer Science to Agricultural Machines)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,939 Views
17 Pages

Optimization of Load Distribution Method for Hydropower Units Based on Output Fluctuation Constraint and Double-Layer Nested Model

  • Hong Pan,
  • Zhengliang Luo,
  • Chenyang Hang,
  • Yuan Zheng and ,
  • Fang Feng and
  • Xiaonan Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 February 2024

During the load distribution of hydropower units, the frequent crossing of vibration zones as well as large output fluctuations affect the stability of the power station. A multi-objective double-layer intelligent nesting model that considers the con...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,783 Views
18 Pages

Material Point Simulation Method for Concrete Medium Fracture and Fragmentation under Blast Loading

  • Zheng Liu,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Xianqi Xie,
  • Mengyang Zhen and ,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Chen Ou and
  • Haowen Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 July 2023

The nature of the fracture and fragmentation processes in concrete medium under blast loading is the transformation of the medium from continuum to discontinuity. Coupled with the significant rate correlation of concrete medium, its mechanical behavi...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,706 Views
21 Pages

31 May 2023

To cope with the energy crisis and environmental pollution, the future development of the power system has to change towards a clean, low-carbon, flexible, and diversified direction. This paper proposes a decentralized power dispatching model based o...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,687 Views
28 Pages

Improved Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm with Machine Learning-Driven Short-Term Electricity Load Forecasting: A Case Study in Peninsular Malaysia

  • Farah Anishah Zaini,
  • Mohamad Fani Sulaima,
  • Intan Azmira Wan Abdul Razak,
  • Mohammad Lutfi Othman and
  • Hazlie Mokhlis

6 November 2024

Accurate electricity demand forecasting is crucial for ensuring the sustainability and reliability of power systems. Least square support vector machines (LSSVM) are well suited to handle complex non-linear power load series. However, the less optima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Techniques for Safe Operation and Control in Power and Sustainable Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
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21 Pages

The aim of this study is to address the limitations of fixed parameters and poor adaptability in traditional damage models for damage assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) columns under variable axial load. An improved damage model considering the i...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,899 Views
17 Pages

The gear drive generally operates in elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) contacts, and the existence of oil film effectively reduces wear and improves transmission stability. However, little research has been devoted to studying the effect of lubric...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tribology and Reliability of Mechanical Transmission)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,943 Views
34 Pages

21 June 2025

Improving the accuracy of power load forecasting is an important link in the optimization of power systems. Most of the existing studies in the short-term load forecasting task at present have the problem of insufficient extraction of multi-scale fea...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,918 Views
15 Pages

28 January 2025

Load disaggregation is the process of identifying an individual appliance’s power demand within aggregate electrical load data. Virtually all recently proposed disaggregation methods are based on neural networks, thanks to their superior perfor...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
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  • Open Access

13 November 2026

The creep equation of the classical Burgers model was originally derived for constant stress. Although series-based solutions have extended this model to trapezoidal cyclic loading, they require truncation of the series, which introduces approximatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,636 Views
16 Pages

10 May 2024

Power load prediction is fundamental for ensuring the reliability of power grid operation and the accuracy of power demand forecasting. However, the uncertainties stemming from power generation, such as wind speed and water flow, along with variation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Energy and Environment Development)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,082 Views
13 Pages

12 May 2021

Energy prediction used for building heating has attracted particular attention because it is often required in the development of various strategies to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, especially those undergoing thermal improvements. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Management and Technology for Energy Efficiency Development)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,417 Views
30 Pages

Forecasting Short-Term Electricity Load Using Validated Ensemble Learning

  • Chatum Sankalpa,
  • Somsak Kittipiyakul and
  • Seksan Laitrakun

16 November 2022

As short-term load forecasting is essential for the day-to-day operation planning of power systems, we built an ensemble learning model to perform such forecasting for Thai data. The proposed model uses voting regression (VR), producing forecasts wit...

(This article belongs to the Topic Short-Term Load Forecasting)
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  • Open Access
735 Views
31 Pages

Prediction of fatigue failure in concrete structures remains a major challenge due to progressive material degradation. Reliable prediction, therefore, requires modeling the 3D heterogeneous microstructure of concrete to explain the underlying mechan...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,489 Views
14 Pages

28 March 2018

This paper suggests an innovative approach for the ideal placement and categorization of capacitors in radial distribution networks (RDNs) by applying symmetric fuzzy and improved bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (IBFOA) solutions. The react...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,829 Views
24 Pages

20 September 2022

In a smart city environment, with increased demand for energy efficiency, information exchange and communication through wireless sensor networks (WSNs) plays an important role. In WSNs, the sensors are usually operating in clusters, and they are all...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems, Applications and Services for Smart Cities)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,792 Views
18 Pages

Non-intrusive load monitoring is the main trend of green energy-saving electricity consumption at present, and load identification is a core part of non-invasive load monitoring. A support vector machine (SVM) is commonly used in load recognition, bu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Machine Learning in Real World)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,351 Views
15 Pages

5 March 2013

This paper presents a new, accurate load forecasting technique robust to fluctuations due to unusual load behavioral changes in buildings, i.e., the potential for small commercial buildings with heterogeneous stores. The proposed scheme is featured w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Advanced Techniques for Forecasting in Energy Sector)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,471 Views
29 Pages

Improved Hydrological Loading Models in South America: Analysis of GPS Displacements Using M-SSA

  • Joëlle Nicolas,
  • Jérôme Verdun,
  • Jean-Paul Boy,
  • Louis Bonhomme and ,
  • Ayoub Asri,
  • Adélie Corbeau,
  • Antoine Berthier,
  • Frédéric Durand and
  • Peter Clarke
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 April 2021

Environmental loading, in particular from continental water storage changes, induces geodetic station displacements up to several centimeters for the vertical components. We investigate surface deformation due to loading processes in South America us...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS for Geosciences)
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  • Open Access

Study on Static–Dynamic Characteristics and Decoupling of Agricultural Heavy-Load Six-Dimensional Force Sensor Based on Improved XGBoost Model

  • Xiao Zhang,
  • Luobu Zhaxi,
  • Yawen Gan,
  • Zhibing Jiang and ,
  • Yan Ding,
  • Yanyan Liu,
  • Dong Yuan,
  • Jiping Zhu,
  • Wei Chen and
  • Jian Tong
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

12 November 2026

Precision operation is one of the crucial means to reduce costs and consumption in the agricultural production process. To enhance the operational efficiency of machinery, combined operation machines are often used for tillage operations. A large unb...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
1,148 Views
25 Pages

Power Spot Market Clearing Optimization Based on an Improved Low-Load Generation Cost Model of Coal-Fired Generator

  • Xujia Yin,
  • Hongxun Tian,
  • Ce Zhou,
  • Peng Zou and ,
  • Caihuan Wu,
  • Meng Qin and
  • Jun Shu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 August 2025

With the rapid expansion of variable renewable energy, coal-fired units are increasingly operated at low load, where non-convex cost characteristics pose challenges for spot market clearing. This study reviews and improves existing low-load generatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation, Decision-Making and Market Simulation of a New Type of Power System)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,463 Views
24 Pages

A Combined Model Incorporating Improved SSA and LSTM Algorithms for Short-Term Load Forecasting

  • Mingchong Han,
  • Jianwei Zhong,
  • Pu Sang,
  • Honghua Liao and
  • Aiguo Tan

To address the current difficulties and problems of short-term load forecasting (STLF), this paper proposes a combined forecasting method based on the improved sparrow search algorithm (ISSA), with fused Cauchy mutation and opposition-based learning...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,497 Views
13 Pages

24 December 2021

Electricity loads are basic and important information for power generation facilities and traders, especially in terms of production plans, daily operations, unit commitments, and economic dispatches. Short-term load forecasting (STLF), which predict...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,955 Views
19 Pages

28 April 2025

This paper proposes a hybrid forecasting method (VMD–KPCA–xLSTM–Informer) based on variational-mode decomposition (VMD), kernel principal component analysis (KPCA), extended long short-term memory network (xLSTM), and the Informer m...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,770 Views
35 Pages

7 December 2023

Artificial intelligence algorithms (AIAs) have gained widespread adoption in air conditioning load prediction. However, their prediction accuracy is substantially influenced by the quality of training samples. To improve the prediction accuracy of ai...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,058 Views
15 Pages

Time Series Foundation Model for Improved Transformer Load Forecasting and Overload Detection

  • Yikai Hou,
  • Chao Ma,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Yinggang Sun and ,
  • Haining Yu and
  • Zhou Fang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 January 2025

Simple load forecasting and overload prediction models, such as LSTM and XGBoost, are unable to handle the increasing amount of data in power systems. Recently, various foundation models (FMs) for time series analysis have been proposed, which can be...

(This article belongs to the Section F3: Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,052 Views
22 Pages

9 July 2024

Short-term power load forecasting plays a key role in daily scheduling and ensuring stable power system operation. The problem of the volatility of the power load sequence and poor prediction accuracy is addressed. In this study, a learning model int...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,025 Views
42 Pages

31 October 2025

In the context of global efforts toward energy conservation and emission reduction, accurate short-term electric load forecasting plays a crucial role in improving energy efficiency, enabling low-carbon dispatching, and supporting sustainable power s...

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  • Open Access
526 Views
22 Pages

Energy pile technology integrates geothermal energy exploitation with pile foundation bearing, yet accurately evaluating its thermo-mechanical performance remains theoretically challenging. To address the limitations of traditional load-transfer meth...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,134 Views
24 Pages

24 May 2024

The accuracy requirements for short-term power load forecasting have been increasing due to the rapid development of the electric power industry. Nevertheless, the short-term load exhibits both elasticity and instability characteristics, posing chall...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,933 Views
19 Pages

With the rapid global proliferation of electric vehicles (EVs), their integration as a significant load component within power systems increasingly influences the stable operation and planning of electrical grids. However, the high uncertainty and ra...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,354 Views
18 Pages

4 February 2021

This paper is based on small-scale laboratory tests (1:10) of a rigid inclusion-improved soil under normal gravity. A low area improvement ratio (2.4%) under monotonic and cyclic loading was used. 3D numerical calculations are performed to model thes...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,552 Views
22 Pages

24 February 2021

The collective impacts of rapid urbanization, poor pollution management practices and insufficient sanitation infrastructure have driven the water quality deterioration in Little Akaki River (LAR), Ethiopia. Water quality modeling using QUAL2Kw was c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Quality Changes of Lakes and Rivers)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,378 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Energy Coupling Load Forecasting in Integrated Energy System with Improved Variational Mode Decomposition-Temporal Convolutional Network-Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Model

  • Xinfu Liu,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Yanfeng Cao and ,
  • Mengxiao Wang,
  • Wenhao Hu,
  • Chunhua Liu,
  • Peng Liu and
  • Guoliang Liu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 November 2024

Accurate load forecasting is crucial to the stable operation of integrated energy systems (IES), which plays a significant role in advancing sustainable development. Addressing the challenge of insufficient prediction accuracy caused by the inherent...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
822 Views
26 Pages

Improving the Prediction of Suspended Sediment Loads Through a Hybrid Red Fox–XGBoost Model for Diverse Flow Regimes in Illinois State

  • Mostafa Sadeghzadeh,
  • Sepideh Karimi,
  • Jalal Shiri,
  • Hadi Arvanaghi and ,
  • Naser Shiri and
  • Gerard Arbat
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 February 2026

Suspended sediment load (Qs) is an important parameter in the analysis of hydrological processes and management of water resources. Direct methods of measuring Qs are costly and require precise instruments, which makes their application limited, espe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in Water Resource Management: Integrating Advanced Analytics, AI, and System Modeling)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,016 Views
16 Pages

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) involves uremic toxin-driven tubular injury and systemic vascular dysfunction, in which mitochondrial impairment and apoptotic cell loss contribute to progressive tissue deterioration. Accordingly, a targeted EV platform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Stem Cells and Extracellular Vesicles in Regenerative Medicine)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,509 Views
25 Pages

15 January 2024

Load forecasting is a research hotspot in academia; in the context of new power systems, the prediction and determination of load reserve capacity is also important. In order to adapt to new forms of power systems, a day-ahead automatic generation co...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
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  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,194 Views
19 Pages

17 March 2020

Structures made of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) may be subjected to dynamic loads during their service life. Understanding the dynamic material properties of RCC and the performance of RCC structures is essential for better analysis and design of...

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  • Open Access
276 Views
52 Pages

28 September 2026

Integrated Energy Systems (IESs) are characterized by strong nonstationarity, seasonal heterogeneity, and stochastic fluctuations in electric, cooling, and heating loads, making accurate and reliable probabilistic forecasting challenging. To address...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Machine Learning and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,064 Views
16 Pages

22 September 2022

Functional recovery following traumatic brain injury (TBI) is limited due to progressive neuronal damage resulting from secondary injury-associated neuroinflammation. Steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as dexamethasone (DX), can reduce neuroinfl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovation in Local Drug Delivery 2.0)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,534 Views
16 Pages

1 August 2017

In this study, a two-stage stochastic programming (TSP) model was developed for supporting regional waste load(chemical oxygen demand (COD)and NH3-N) allocation in four main pollution departments (industry, municipal, livestock breeding, and agricult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling of Water Systems)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,431 Views
13 Pages

Mitoxantrone-Loaded Nanoferritin Slows Tumor Growth and Improves the Overall Survival Rate in a Subcutaneous Pancreatic Cancer Mouse Model

  • Giamaica Conti,
  • Martina Pitea,
  • Riccardo Ossanna,
  • Roberta Opri and ,
  • Giada Tisci,
  • Elisabetta Falvo,
  • Giulio Innamorati,
  • Esther Ghanem,
  • Andrea Sbarbati and
  • Giulio Fracasso
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

Pancreatic cancer (PC) represents an intriguing topic for researchers. To date, the prognosis of metastasized PC is poor with just 7% of patients exceeding a five-year survival period. Thus, molecular modifications of existing drugs should be develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in "Biomedical Materials and Nanomedicine")
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,831 Views
32 Pages

28 February 2025

Accurate power load forecasting plays an important role in smart grid analysis. To improve the accuracy of forecasting through the three-level “decomposition–optimization–prediction” innovation, this study proposes a predictio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,514 Views
21 Pages

An Improved Model for Design Fatigue Load of Highway Bridges Considering Damage Equivalence

  • Huawei Fu,
  • Xuhong Zhou,
  • Qishi Zhou,
  • Ping Xiang and ,
  • Zhibin Zhou and
  • Qiang Fu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 February 2022

Reasonable fatigue load should be determined before bridge fatigue analysis. However, the design frequency calculation method of the standard vehicle does not always make sense when the standard vehicle load model that is provided by existing standar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Civil Engineering Materials: Design, Characterization, Corrosion and Durability)

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