As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly utilized in urban inspection and emergency rescue missions, path planning under strong wind conditions persists as a critical challenge. Traditional algorithms frequently exhibit deficiencies in env...
Strong winds can lead to more complex ice shedding oscillation processes for overhead conductors, inducing flashovers, strand breakages and other accidents. This study analyzes the aerodynamic parameters of several typical icing features and establis...
From a traditional point of view, the growth of a tropical cyclone (TC) requires that the vertical wind shear (VWS) should be weak. However, Typhoon Rammasun (2014) underwent a rapid intensification (RI) even in the presence of a strong VWS backgroun...
A modified lattice hydrodynamic model is proposed, in which the impact of strong wind and the optimal estimation of flux difference integral are simultaneously analyzed. Based on the control theory, the stability condition is acquired through linear...
Wind speed prediction (WSP) provides future wind information and is crucial for ensuring the safety of high-speed railway systems (HSRs). However, the accurate prediction of wind speed (WS) remains a challenge due to the nonstationary and nonlinearit...
The jumper wires of an extra-high voltage (EHV) transmission line in strong-wind areas in Northwest China frequently break down. We installed some acquisition devices to collect the data of the jumper wires and wind speed in the fault area of one 750...
High-speed railway (HSR) is a key transport mode for achieving carbon reduction targets and promoting sustainable regional economic development due to its fast, efficient, and low-carbon nature. Accurate wind speed forecasting (WSF) is vital for HSR...
The spread of fires on the facades of high-rise buildings is highly influenced by atmospheric wind conditions, particularly in strong wind environments. A strong wind environment refers to the situation where the wind speed reaches level 6 or above,...
This study investigates track sand deposition on the leeward side of subgrade windbreak walls along the Xinjiang section of the Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway. Numerical simulations and wind tunnel tests were conducted to compare flow-fiel...
How to accurately detect small targets from the complex maritime environment has been a bottleneck problem. The strong wind-wave backlight conditions (SWWBC) is the most common situation in the process of distress target detection. In order to solve...
The recently stipulated grid codes require wind generators to re-initiate normal power production after grid voltage sag. This paper presents a comparative performance of two commonly employed variable speed wind turbines in today’s electricity marke...
The strong wind environment causes the additional conductor of the overhead contact system (OCS) of the Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway to gallop, significantly impacting the safe operation of the train. This paper presents the design of an...
The response of large temporary working platforms for cross-sea bridges under the action of strong wind and waves with large tidal ranges is one of the key issues in offshore engineering. Based on a grand offshore bridge project in Fujian Province of...
Guided by entering the deep sea and achieving deep marine development in marine construction, the factors hindering marine construction cannot be ignored. Strong ocean winds have a devastating impact on tasks such as ship navigation, carrier aircraft...
The benefits of urban trees are very well known, but they can fall and cause damage, putting people’s lives at risk. There are few studies on the vulnerability of species to falling. In Lisbon (Portugal), fallen trees have been recorded since 1...
With the rapid development of big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and other technological advancements, digital twin (DT) technology is increasingly being applied to the field of bridge structural health monitoring. Achieving the precise implemen...
This study carries out a detailed full-scale investigation on the strong wind characteristics at a cable-stayed bridge site and associated buffeting response of the bridge structure during construction, using a field monitoring system. It is found th...
An aerial manipulator is a new kind of flying robot system composed of a rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a multi-link robotic arm. It gives the flying robot the capacity to complete manipulation tasks. Steady flight is essential for an a...
Global joint measurements of sea surface winds and currents are planned using satellite-based Doppler scatterometers operating in the Ka-band to achieve improved spatial resolution and retrieval accuracy. Still, the knowledge of sea surface Ka-band b...
Reliable short-term wind speed prediction is one of the core technologies in the strong wind warning system for railway applications, which is of great significance for ensuring the safety of high-speed train operations and ancillary railway faciliti...
This study investigates high-resolution numerical weather modelling and large eddy simulations (LESs) for wind resource assessment in complex coastal mountainous terrain. The main purpose is to investigate strong-wind events, where earlier research i...
This study aims to analyze the wind-induced effects and vibration control of a long-span cable-stayed bridge with a steel truss girder under strong marine wind conditions during its maximum single-cantilever state. During the cantilever construction...
Csanady’s (1973) model, used to explain the development of strong, wind-induced nearshore currents in long lakes, has been extended to explain the same phenomenon in flow-through semi-enclosed gulfs. As in the original theory, it is predicted that th...
Transmission towers are prone to collapse under strong wind load, resulting in significant economic losses. In order to investigate the collapse mechanism and failure modes of the transmission tower under strong wind load and whether the wind vibrati...
Blades in strong wind conditions are prone to various failures and damage that is due to the action of random variable amplitude loads. In this study, we analyze the failure of 1.5 MW horizontal axis wind turbine blades. The computational fluid dynam...
The growing demand for precise unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations in dynamic environments is often compromised by unmodeled wind disturbances, calling for robust and adaptive control strategies to ensure accurate trajectory tracking. This paper...
The displacement of bridge towers is relatively large under strong wind action. Changes in tower displacement can reflect the usage status of the bridge towers. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct performance warning research on tower displacement...
Affected by strong wind environments, the vibration of trains will significantly intensify, which will severely impact the running quality of trains. To address such challenges, an improved wind load model is proposed in this paper to simulate the sh...
Wind speed increases in pedestrian-level spaces around high-rise buildings tend to cause uncomfortable and even unsafe wind conditions for pedestrians. Especially, instantaneous strong winds can have a significant impact on the body sensation of pede...
In efforts to fulfill the objectives of taking part in pragmatic cooperation in the Arctic, constructing the “Silk Road on Ice”, and ensuring ships’ safety and risk assessment in the Arctic, the two biggest hazards, which concern sh...
Residual current analysis of multiple stations’ periodic observational data for sea currents, and multiple voyages, multiple seasons from 2018 to 2022, revealed the existence of a strong southwest current zone, 20–30 m underwater and with...
Many cities in coastal areas are prone to typhoon disasters due to their location on the Pacific storm path, and the direct effect of catastrophic winds can lead to the destruction of low-rise buildings and severe damage to high-rise structures. The...
Offshore sites show greater potential for wind energy utilization than most onshore sites. When planning an offshore wind power farm, the speed of offshore wind is used to estimate various operation parameters, such as the power output, extreme wind...
The downburst events have been a research focus for decades, as their associated disastrously strong winds pose a great threat to aviation, the shipping industry, agriculture, and the power industry. On 14 May 2021, a series of severe convection occu...
Ship pilots and maritime safety administration have an urgent need for more accurate and earlier warnings for strong wind gusts. This study firstly investigated the “Oriental Star” cruise ship capsizing event in 2015, one of the deadliest...
The objective of this study was to investigate the wear characteristics of the U-shaped rings of power connection fittings, and to construct a wear failure prediction model of U-shaped rings in strong wind environments. First, the wear evolution and...
Strong variability of Ka-band radar backscattering from short wind waves on the surface of water covered with surfactant films in the presence of internal waves (IW) was studied in wave tank experiments. It has been demonstrated that modulation of Ka...
Two-way fluid–structure interaction (FSI) simulation of wind turbines has gained significant attention in recent years due to the growth of offshore wind energy development. Strong coupling procedures in these simulations predict realistic beha...
High-rise buildings in cities adversely affect wind regimes by changing the air currents in their surrounding areas. In particular, extreme climate phenomena caused by climate change are stronger and more frequent, causing damage in cities. To better...
The treefall mounds and pits resulting from uprooting caused by strong winds is an indispensable microtopography for the regeneration of many tree species through improved light conditions and mineral soil exposure. These microtopographies are expect...
Southern Brazil is a region strongly influenced by the occurrence of extratropical cyclones. Some of them go through a rapid and intense deepening and are known as explosive cyclones. These cyclones are associated with severe weather conditions such...
We examine data assimilation coupling between meteorology and chemistry in the stratosphere from both weak and strong coupling strategies. The study was performed with the Canadian operational weather prediction Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM)...
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Greece was hit by an extreme heat wave, with a significant impact on human health and natural ecosystems in the period between 28 July and 11 August 2021. After the end of this unusual warm period, a rare occasion of multiple supercell storms was obs...
Wind is the most used renewable energy source (RES) in the European Union and Poland. Due to the legal changes in the scope of RES in Poland, there are plans to develop offshore wind farms at the expense of onshore ones. On the other hand, the succes...
Typhoon-induced hazards in South Korea exhibit strong spatial heterogeneity, requiring localized assessments to support impact-based early warning. This study develops a district-level typhoon hazard framework by integrating high-resolution meteorolo...
To address the frequent disasters caused by strong crosswinds in Xinjiang’s “Hundred Miles Wind Zone,” this study utilizes a CFD numerical simulation method, validated by wind tunnel tests with an error of less than 5%, to systemati...
Guided by the technical requirements for tunnel fire safety, an overview of tunnel piston wind, combustion models, and full-size and small tunnel fire tests is presented. Firstly, the theoretical model and numerical calculation methods for piston win...
With the rapid development of the construction industry, tower cranes are increasingly used in coastal engineering. However, due to the complexity of their operating environment, tower cranes are vulnerable to typhoons, thunderstorms, and other extre...
An isolation layer composed of isolators and steel dampers in base-isolated tall buildings can dissipate wind-induced energy via repeated elasto-plastic deformation. Its energy dissipation can be used to estimate its wind-induced responses and the fa...
In a series of papers, the initiation and development of forest fires are described in terms of the cellular automata-based Game Method for Modelling (GMM), modelling a particular area as an orthogonal grid of square cells whose values are changing w...
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