Investigation on the long-term thermal response of precast high-strength concrete (PHC) energy pile is relatively rare. This paper combines field experiments and numerical simulations to investigate the long-term thermal properties of a PHC energy pi...
This study addresses the challenges of uneven recovery in strongly water-sensitive reservoirs through the development of a time-dependent two-phase flow model capturing the dynamic evolution of permeability and relative permeability. Based on laborat...
The purpose of this parametric study was to develop a numerical simulation model calibrated with experimental data to predict the flexural behavior of prestressed concrete (PSC) girders subjected to long-term prestress losses. The model is capable of...
Tunnel anchorages are critical components in long-span suspension bridges, transferring immense cable forces into the surrounding rock mass. Although previous studies have advanced the understanding of their pullout behavior through field tests, labo...
The creep mechanical behavior of the slip zone soil is distinctive and assumes a vital role in the identification and prediction of landslide evolution, but the rock content and structure dictate its creep properties. This study examines the Outang l...
To obtain new information about surface waves, it is proposed to use an underwater acoustic wave gauge, and an assessment of its effectiveness can be performed using a numerical simulation and field experiment. A new device, an underwater acoustic wa...
The salt layer, characterized by its low permeability and excellent damage self-healing properties, is an ideal geological body for CO2 geological storage. However, the relatively high permeability of mudstone interlayers may reduce the safety of CO2...
In recent years, the twin-barge float-over method has been widely used in offshore installations. This paper conducts numerical simulation and experimental research on the twin-barge float-over installation of offshore wind turbines (TBFOI-OWTs), foc...
Salt rock is considered as an ideal energy storage medium, and compressed air energy storage by a salt cavern can improve the utilisation efficiency of renewable energy. Salt rock in China mostly contains different interlayers, among which mudstone i...
Deep borehole heat exchangers (DBHEs) extract heat from the medium-depth geothermal energy with the depth of 2–3 km and provide high-temperature heat source for the medium-depth geothermal heat pump systems (MD-GHPs). This paper focuses on the...
Dissolved CO2 in karst water is the key driving force of karstification. Replenishment of CO2 concentrations in karst water occurs by meteoric water that percolates through the vadose zone, where CO2 produced from microbial activity is dissolved. CO2...
Under the long-term dynamic load influence of trains, shield tunnel structures are damaged. With the increase in operating number, cumulative damage gradually increases. When cumulative damage increases to a certain value, the tunnel lining produces...
The results of numerical experiments with a chemistry–climate model of the lower and middle atmosphere are presented to study the sensitivity of the polar stratosphere of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres to sea surface temperature (SST) va...
Ion erosion has a significant impact on the long-term service performance of lining structures in the subsea tunnel and seriously affects its sustainability. Indoor tests are usually used to study the erosion behavior of lining concrete specimens to...
In order to study the long-term bearing capacity of concrete pile composite foundation in the Salt Lake area, based on the Tehran Isfahan high-speed railway project in Iran, the full (semi) immersion drying test and rapid freeze-thaw test was carried...
Tropical estuarine hydrodynamic processes are governed by complex interactions between tides, monsoons, and fluvial runoff. To obtain long-term (≥30 years) hydrodynamic conditions of the Mekong River Estuary, this study established a Finite Volume...
Several previous experiments showed that the leapfrog–hopscotch and the adapted Dufort–Frankel methods are the most efficient among the explicit and stable numerical methods to solve heat transfer problems in building walls. In this paper...
Thermal modeling of building components plays a crucial role in designing energy efficiency measures, assessing living comfort, and preventing building damages. The accuracy of the modeling process strongly depends on the reliability of the physical...
Traditional methods for predicting surrounding rock grades ahead of tunnel faces encounter challenges: image-based approaches are susceptible to environmental interference, while parameter-based classification may disrupt construction. This study pro...
Fiber amplifiers are essential devices for optical communication and laser physics, yet the intricate nonlinear dynamics they exhibit pose significant challenges for numerical modeling. In this study, we propose using a bi-LSTM neural network to pred...
Long-term evolutions of parabolic partial differential equations, such as the heat equation, are the subject of interest in many applications. There are several numerical solvers marking the state-of-the-art in diverse scientific fields that may be u...
In this study, a diagnostic model for lower atmospheric ducts was developed using the polar weather research and forecasting model. A five-year simulation was then conducted across the entire Arctic region to investigate the temporal and spatial char...
The water environment greatly affects the creep deformation of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). Hence, a humidity–stress–damage coupling numerical model was used for investigating the time-dependent deformation of RAC in the water envir...
We present a method for parametrizing sub-grid processes in the shallow water equations. We define coarse variables and local spatial averages and use a feed-forward neural network to learn sub-grid fluxes. Our method results in a local parametrizati...
Constructing subways in soft soil strata by shields may cause large displacement of ground and tunnels during and after construction. To evaluate the corresponding short-term and long-term displacement, this paper presented a three-dimensional numeri...
This study presents a simulation procedure for the wear of metallic materials exposed to long-term cumulative contact forces and introduces a numerical analysis procedure using the discrete element method (DEM) to predict the wear damage. Since the D...
This paper analyzes the long-term response of unlined energy storage located at shallow depth to improve the distance between a wind farm and storage. The numerical approach follows the hybrid scheme that combined a mechanical constitutive model to e...
Time-dependent magnetization losses critically affect the performance of permanent magnets during their service lifetime. Quantifying these losses remains challenging, as existing analytical models and simulation tools lack suitable functions for acc...
The collapse of abandoned room-and-pillar mines is often violent and unpredictable. Safety concerns often resulted in mine closures with no post-mining stability evaluations. As a result, large amounts of land resources over room-and-pillar mines are...
Previous studies have pointed out that spectral nudging is still insufficient in improving the long-term simulation ability of numerical models. In response to this problem, this study started with the Luzon Strait and its adjacent areas and discusse...
One of the concerns about the use of passive Infrared Thermography (IRT) for structural health monitoring (SHM) is the determination of a favorable period to conduct the inspections. This paper investigates the use of numerical simulations to find ap...
Numerical models can be powerful tools for evaluating the best scenarios for the construction of artificial nourishments to mitigate coastal erosion. Until recent decades, when looking at medium- to long-term simulations, cross-shore and alongshore p...
Understanding the success of romantic relationships remains a complex scientific challenge with significant implications for modern Western societies. In particular, the mechanisms underlying successful relationships—those that are both long-te...
Coastal wetlands are affected by both natural processes and human activities. In the present study, the impacts of natural processes on wetland area variations along the Jiangsu coast in the East China Sea were investigated using a long-term high-res...
Submarine landslides have attracted widespread attention, with the continuous development of ocean engineering. Due to the recent developments of in-situ investigation and modelling techniques of submarine landslides, significant improvements were ac...
This research studies a metapopulation model where each patch is considered a form of fragmentation of the environment produced by the spatio-temporal variability of anthropogenic noise. A deterministic mathematical model is proposed that describes t...
Being a heat source or sink, aquifers have been used to store large quantities of thermal energy to match cooling and heating supply and demand on both a short-term and long-term basis. The current technical, economic, and environmental status of aqu...
In this study, to discuss the influence of concussion risk from the long-term use of American football helmets on collegiate teams, accident cases during the game are replicated based on game videos by simulations using whole-body numerical models an...
Gas generation and migration are important processes that must be considered in a safety case for a deep geological repository (DGR) for the long-term containment of radioactive waste. Expansive soils, such as bentonite-based materials, are widely co...
Valley contraction poses a significant threat to high-arch dams, making the prediction of valley deformation a critical task in assessing the long-term performance of dams. The Baihetan dam is currently undergoing compression due to valley contractio...
This study proposes an integrated fatigue life assessment methodology to accurately evaluate the time-domain evolution in tubular joint fatigue damage in offshore wind turbine (OWT) jacket structures under long-term combined wind and wave actions. A...
Groundwater Heat Pumps (GWHPs) are increasingly adopted for air conditioning in urban areas, thus reducing CO2 emissions, and this growth needs to be managed to ensure the sustainability of the thermal alteration of aquifers. However, few studies hav...
Coal mine underground reservoirs play a significant role in energy utilization while also contributing to energy security. Prolonged immersion in mine water reduces the long-term strength of coal, subsequently leading to continuous creep damage in co...
Ultra-shallow prefabricated underpass tunnel technology has been widely adopted in urban transportation construction owing to its advantages of rapid construction and minimal environmental impact. However, the deformation behavior of tunnel joints un...
This study aimed to overcome the difficulty of conducting the horizontal-well cavity leaching test in the field and to investigate the long-term stability of the horizontal-well salt-cavity natural gas storage. The simulation test design is combined...
Permeable pavement (PP) is used worldwide to mitigate surface runoff in urban areas. Various studies have examined the factors governing the hydrologic performance of PP. However, relatively little is known about the relative importance of these gove...
Yearly generation maintenance scheduling (GMS) of generation units is important in each system such as combined heat and power (CHP)-based systems to decrease sudden failures and premature degradation of units. Imposing repair costs and reliability d...
Long-term fiber tissue remodeling and the progressive thickening of the aortic valve leaflets called calcific aortic stenosis lead to cardiac blood outflow obstruction. This disease is the most prevalent heart valve pathology in developed countries....
Due to the growing number, diversity and spreading of magnetic field sources, an increasing need to determine the field levels of human exposure has arisen. Some of the most encountered sources are the overhead power lines (OPL) and the determination...
Hydropower dams are subjected to soft water penetration during their service lives. Concrete deterioration due to calcium leaching will decrease the durability of concrete and affect dam safety. The long-term performance of concrete dams due to calci...
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