In response to the increasing threat of powerful earth-penetrating weapons, underground protective structures typically employ composite structural systems with reinforced steel layers. However, current numerical studies often simplify the entire str...
A multilayer liquid-containing protective structure is composed of a liquid tank, ceramic, a honeycomb sandwich and homogeneous steel. This structure has superior resistance to combined blast wave and fragment loading. Due to the relatively complicat...
To study the mechanical deformation characteristics and anti-explosion mechanisms of steel-structure protective doors under chemical explosion shock wave loads, numerical simulations of loads and door damage were carried out using the AUTODYN and LS-...
The modern technology of heat-protective clothing is increasingly aimed at maintaining the active function of materials. Adding heat-preserving components into the volume of heat-insulating fibrous materials changes their structure and properties. In...
The use of agricultural tractors is a major concern in agriculture safety due to the high level of risk of loss of stability combined with the frequent absence of passive safety devices such as rollover protective structures (ROPSs). Indeed, although...
In the agricultural sector, the loss of stability related to the use of self-propelled agricultural machinery (SPAM) has caused and continues to cause accidents, often with fatal outcomes. The probability of occurrence of this risk can be reduced by...
Steel structures quickly lose stability during a fire, which is why fire protection measures are used to increase their fire resistance limits. Structural fire protection in the form of boards or covers can achieve structural stability values ranging...
Cases of fire with highly flammable, combustible liquids and combustible gases with high potential heat emission at oil and gas facilities are assumed to develop as a hydrocarbon fire, which is characterized by the temperature rising rapidly up to 10...
Studies overviewed in the paper have yielded a number of new scientific results including the following: suggested is a technique for conducting experimental investigations of electrochemical characteristics of hull structures of ships and floating f...
A novel protective structure, based on shrimp chela structure and the shape of odontodactylus scyllarus, has been shown to improve impact resistance and energy absorption. A finite element model of NiTi alloy with shape memory was constructed based o...
The escalating proliferation of space debris poses an increasing risk to spinning satellites, elevating the probability of hazardous collisions that can result in severe damage or total loss of functionality. To address this concern, a pioneering inf...
The calendar safety life of the surface protection system in aircraft structures is the time limit for it to be used without functional failure at a certain level of reliability and confidence. The reliability of such protection systems and the opera...
At a time of growing epidemic hazards caused by a very rapid evolution of dangerous pathogens, there is a pressing demand for bioactive textiles. Therefore, the development of high-quality knitted structures that could be used as bioactive protective...
To improve the adaptability of the robot pan–tilt to the high-temperature environment, a design scheme for a composite thermal protection structure composed of aerogel felt, hollow glass, and skin is proposed. The effects of aerogel felt thickn...
Explosive shock wave protection is an important issue that urgently needs to be solved in the current military and public security safety fields. Non-metallic protective structures have the characteristics of being lightweight and having low secondar...
As the market share of electric vehicles continues to expand, fire accidents due to impacts from the power battery located at the bottom of the electric vehicles are receiving increasing attention. Lithium-ion batteries, as the mainstream choice of p...
Jet fires are the second most common fire scenario after spill fires. This type of fire is characteristic of gas and gas–oil fires occurring on oil platforms and gas production and processing plants. The consequences of such fires are character...
This study compared the advantages and disadvantages of various corrosion protection methods for steel rebars and clarified the advantages of the cathodic protection (CP) method in the application of corrosion protection in marine structures. The adv...
Fire protection is required to protect metal structures of oil and gas facilities from fires. Such fire protection should provide high fire resistance limits: 60, 90, 120 and more minutes. Specialists of LLC “RPC PROMIZOL ” developed a mu...
Due to impinging jets, the hydraulic load in a plunge pool can be very large and may cause serious damage to the slope and bottom protection structures. Conventional research mainly focuses on the stability of the plunge pool floor, and studies on sl...
Engineers have dedicated considerable attention over the past ten years to studying the influences of dynamic loads caused by both intentional and unintentional events on infrastructures. As a result, determining how buried structures react to explos...
Improvement in electric vehicle technology requires the lithium-ion battery system’s safe operations, protecting battery fire damage potential from road debris impact. In this research a design of sandwich panel construction with a lattice stru...
Intumescent fire-protective coatings provide lightweight protection for steel structures by forming porous insulating char layers during fire exposure. However, their effectiveness is constrained by poor component compatibility, insufficient char sta...
The selection of an appropriate coastal protection structure using multi-criteria analysis method AHP (analytic hierarchy process) was presented by a case study of a beach reconstruction in the Kostanj Bay (north-western part of Croatia). The newly d...
With the growing emphasis on bio-engineering techniques, the sustainable advantages of using trees as barriers against rockfalls have become increasingly evident. The key mechanism for forest protection against rockfalls is the dissipation of block k...
This study examines the response of a composite material protection plate with an asymmetrical sandwich structure under low-velocity impact. The protection plate with an asymmetrical sandwich structure is constructed with materials such as polypropyl...
W/Polydopamine (PDA) was prepared by adding W powder into the dopamine (DA) solution and adjusting the pH value of the solution. PDA contains several phenolic hydroxyl and amino groups, which provide abundant active sites for the complexation of meta...
Rock avalanches and landslides lead to gravitational flow into their runout areas, which poses increasing danger to settlement areas and infrastructure in the Alpine region as a result of climate change. In recent years, a significant increase in ext...
A skin structure for thermal protection is one of the most interesting components that needs to be considered in the design of a hypersonic vehicle. The thermal protection structure, if a dense structure is used, is heavy and has a large heat conduct...
Hybrid corrugated sandwich (HCS) plates have become a promising candidate for novel thermal protection systems (TPS) due to their multi-functionality of load bearing and thermal protection. For hypersonic vehicles, the novel TPS that performs some st...
A fireproof insulation board can be recycled, and the raw materials used in its production are very environmentally friendly, non-toxic and non-hazardous, and bring no harm to the human body and the surrounding environment. One practical application...
Traditional reinforcement cages are manufactured in a handicraft manner and do not use the full potential of the material, nor can they map from optimised geometries. The shown research is focused on robotically-manufactured, structurally-optimised r...
A switchable enhancement group delay in the terahertz band based on a novel sandwich topology protection structure with graphene is proposed in this paper. The notable phase transition of the reflected beam comes from the topological edge-protected m...
In the present work, an integrated coastal engineering numerical model is presented. The model simulates the linear wave propagation, wave-induced circulation, and sediment transport and bed morphology evolution. It consists of three main modules: WA...
The peak voltage depending on the load current can be affected by the external capacitors installed in the output stage of the LDO regulator. However, the capacitor-less LDO regulator proposed in this study was applied a current driving buffer struct...
Flexible passive protection structures are a sustainable and environmentally friendly solution for rockfall protection in mountainous regions, owing to their lightweight components and low environmental impact. Their energy dissipators absorb the imp...
Indoor landmarks play a crucial role in the process of indoor positioning and route planning for pedestrians or unmanned devices. Indoor structural landmarks, a type of indoor landmarks, can provide rich steering and semantic descriptions for indoor...
Ultra-fast fire, characterized by rapid heat release and associated overpressure, poses serious challenges to structural safety in industrial facilities. This study presents the design and evaluation of a protective block capable of resisting both th...
Intumescent coatings are widely used to enhance the fire resistance of structural steel. In contrast to traditional fire protection methods, this novel flexible intumescent protection offers several key advantages: universal compatibility with other...
The Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration (BTH) is striving to realize the transformation process from a low-efficiency to a high-quality development mode; however, it still has problems regarding reducing energy consumption and ecolo...
In this paper, the negative Poisson’s ratio and rigidity of a protective structure are improved to allow the structure to exert a negative Poisson’s ratio effect in multiple directions and to enhance the structural load-carrying capacity....
Conventional design paradigms for vehicle underbody armor face an inherent trade-off: enhancing blast protection invariably incurs a prohibitive weight penalty. Here, we investigate a mechanical pre-stressing strategy for high-strength steel V-shaped...
The immediate roof of Shanxi sedimentary bauxite is hard clay rock, which maintain stable difficultly in goaf. It is necessary to ensure the stability of the goaf during the mine production period. The relevant research objects did not involve soft r...
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Reducing the seismic vulnerability of heritage assets remains challenging, as cultural significance, uncertainties, ageing, and past alterations make it difficult to improve safety while respecting conservation principles. Structural control can comp...
With increasing digitization worldwide, machine learning has become a crucial tool in industrial design. This study proposes a novel machine learning-guided optimization approach for enhancing the structural design of protective helmets. The optimal...
PFCP-2-1 (polysaccharide-2-1 of Finger Citron-pickled products), a water-soluble polysaccharide enriched in galacturonic acid, was isolated from Laoxianghuang by hot water extraction and purified using DEAE-52 and agarose CL-6B chromatography. Struct...
The work is aimed at developing a procedure for applying the concept of lean construction to improve the technological process of applying fire protection coating on the steel structures of oil and gas facilities. The experience of implementing eleme...
In order to improve the conversion and transmission efficiency of the photoelectron, core–shell spheroid structure titanium dioxide/cadmium sulfide (TiO2/CdS) composites were synthesized as epoxy-based coating fillers using a simple hydrotherma...
Flood occurrence consequences are inextricably linked to the loss of human life and material damage. The latter has a direct economic impact and requires financial resources for repair or reconstruction in order to continue to provide protection. In...
In 2021, the electric vehicles (EVs) market reached a record-breaking 6.5 million vehicles, and it will continuously grow to USD 31 million in 2030. However, the risk of battery damage should be reduced using a lightweight crashworthy protection syst...
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