The effect of the vertical component of earthquakes on the structural behaviour of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls is usually not considered by technical codes for ordinary buildings. Recent scientific literature, however, indicates that the earthqu...
This study discusses the impact of the vertical component of earthquake ground motion in the performance level of steel building subjected to earthquake excitations. Analyses are carried out for the strong column-weak beam philosophy because the stru...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred in Yangbi County, Yunnan Province on 21 May 2021, with a focal depth of 8 km, and strong ground motion with vertical components was monitored by Yangbi station (53YBX). A total of 14,122 houses were damaged in...
Common seasonal variations in Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinate time series always exist, and the modeling and correction of the seasonal signals are helpful for many geodetic studies using GPS observations. A spatiotemporal model was propos...
Nowadays, several methodologies, implemented for satellite or terrestrial surveys, reveal that daily and weekly site-positioning time series can exhibit linear trends plus seasonal oscillations. Such periodic components affect the evaluation of subsi...
The double friction pendulum (DFP) bearing is adapted from the well-known single friction pendulum (SFP) bearing. This type of bearings has been widely used for structural vibration controls. The main advantage of the DFP is its capacity to accommoda...
The vertical profiles of PM2.5 chemical components are crucial for tracing pollution development, determining causes, and improving air quality. Yet, previous studies only yielded transient and sparse results due to technological limitations. Compreh...
Daylight availability knowledge is the first step for an energetic and visually efficient building and city design. It can be estimated with the Vertical Sky Component (VSC), which is defined as the ratio of the vertical diffuse illuminance over the...
The formation and localization of sporadic E (Es) layers predicted by the ion vertical drift velocity and its vertical change in the lower thermosphere during nighttime are shown analytically and by numerical simulations. The consideration of the exi...
This paper presents a high-precision component-type vertical pendulum tiltmeter based on an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) that improves the utility and reliability of geophysical field tilt observation instruments. The system is designed for r...
In this study, the solution model based on the stochastic harmony search algorithm was proposed to obtain real ground motion (GM) records for nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures. Obtaining the GM record problem was formulated as a constrained en...
In this study, as a preliminary attempt to reveal the whipping response of large container ships in actual seaways, the stress monitoring data of an 8600 TEU large container ship were analyzed. The measurement lasted approximately five years, and usi...
Submarine rift systems represent critical tectonic features whose accurate bathymetric characterization remains challenging yet essential for understanding plate boundary dynamics. However, traditional bathymetric inversion methods based on altimetri...
Statistical analysis of the results of minisodar measurements of vertical profiles of wind velocity components in a 5–200 m layer of the atmosphere shows that this problem belongs to the class of robust nonparametric problems of mathematical st...
The plasmasphere, which is located above the ionosphere, is a significant component of Earth’s atmosphere, and the plasmasphere electron content (PEC) distribution is determined by different physical mechanisms to those of the ionosphere electron con...
Upwelling is a widespread phenomenon in the ocean and plays key roles in the marine environment, marine fishery and air–sea carbon exchange. In coastal regions, the upwelling is usually modulated by tides and complex topography, but the dynamic...
Dense direct-current (DC) bias routing and numerous radio-frequency (RF) choke inductors pose major challenges to the practical implementation of phase-shifter-free beam steering using PIN-controlled phase switching. To address this issue, a compact...
Magnetic flux vertical modulation method based on piezoelectric resonance can reduce the 1/f noise of tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) magnetic sensor and significantly improves the low-frequency magnetic field detectivity. However, the amplitude varia...
The strike of vertical fractures is a key geometric parameter for interpreting subsurface structures. However, conventional single-polarimetric ground-penetrating radar (SP-GPR) provides limited information on subsurface targets, making it difficult...
The vertical excitation energies of 13 porphyrins and metalloporphyrins were benchmarked using 28 double-hybrid (DH) density functionals within the full TD-DFT framework, in conjunction with the def2-TZVP basis set and CPCM solvation model. The asses...
Externally modulated DFB lasers (EML) and vertically illuminated photodetectors are presented. Because of their excellent high-speed behavior and operation wavelength of 1310 nm, the devices are of interest for intra-data center communication. Since...
The marine vertical centrifugal pump is an important piece of auxiliary equipment for ships. Due to the complex operating conditions of marine equipment and the frequent swaying of the hull, typical pump failures such as rotor misalignment, rotor unb...
Continuous time series data from geomagnetic observatories are increasingly contaminated by anthropogenic noise related to developing socio-economic activities. More and more sophisticated techniques of data processing are used to eliminate this nois...
Based on the information from an actual petroleum-contaminated site, a one-dimensional soil column was used to examine the vertical transportation diversities of different petroleum components under the influence of water table fluctuations, and the...
To effectively evaluate the construction homogeneity of asphalt pavement, the tomography image of a core sample of asphalt pavement was obtained via industrial computed tomography (CT) equipment. According to the characteristics of CT images, an impr...
This paper introduces a method to remove the unwanted interdependency between vertical and horizontal eye-movement components in electrooculograms (EOGs). EOGs have been widely used to estimate eye movements without a camera in a variety of human-com...
At present, extracting water-soluble organic matter (WSOM) from agricultural organic waste is primarily used to evaluate soil organic matter content in farmland. However, only a few studies have focused on its vertical behavior in the soil profile. T...
This study implemented and validated View Factor (VF) and Ray Tracing (RT) simulation models against four-season field-measured data to evaluate the accuracy of energy yield prediction in bifacial PV systems under three installation configurations: (...
The ternary blending strategy is a fundamental approach that is widely recognized in the field of organic optoelectronics. In our investigation, leveraging the inherent advantages of the ternary component blending methodology, we introduced an innova...
Visible light communication (VLC) channel quality depends on line-of-sight (LoS) transmission, which cannot guarantee continuous transmission due to interruptions caused by blockage and user mobility. Thus, integrating VLC with radio frequency (RF) s...
In this study, grapevine was used as the research material. This plant which epitomizes the opinion that vertical gardens can have a positive influence on human psychology with their beautiful view, e.g., the hanging gardens of Babylon about 2500 yea...
We describe an original integration technological platform for the miniaturization of micromachined on-chip optical microscopes, such as the laser scanning confocal microscope. The platform employs the multi-wafer vertical integration approach, combi...
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been widely used to estimate forest biomass. In this study, we aim to further explore this capability by correlating horizontal and vertical distribution of LiDAR data with components of biomass in a Picea cras...
Temperature sensitivity (Q10) of ecosystem respiration (ER) is a crucial parameter for predicting the fate of CO2 in terrestrial e cosystems under global warming. Most studies focus their attention in the variation of Q10 in one or two components of...
Renewable energy from photovoltaic power plants has increased in amount globally as an alternative energy to combat global climate change by reducing fossil fuel burning and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The agro-photovoltaic (APV) approach can be...
In vertical closed-loop systems, it is common to use single or double U-tube heat exchangers separated by longitudinal spacers. In addition, the helical-shaped pipe is another configuration that requires lower drilling lengths but it is less used. Th...
The present article outlines a research investigation carried out in a wind tunnel setting aimed at augmenting comprehension of the excitation mechanism of stay cable vibration in arid conditions. A multitude of wind tunnel experiments were thoroughl...
This work introduces a new method to calculate the water velocity components of a turbulent water column in the x, y, and z directions using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) motion response (referred to as the ‘WVAM method’). The water column velo...
This study explores the integration of wind power generation into urban infrastructure via a rooftop vertical-axis wind turbine. A rigorous experimental framework was established by installing a small-scale turbine on an urban building for performanc...
The ability to analyse countermovement jump (CMJ) waveform data using statistical methods, like principal component analysis, can provide additional information regarding the different phases of the CMJ, compared to jump height or peak power alone. T...
The dynamic contact behavior between multi-component droplets and the surface of iron ore dust was taken as the research object, analysis of the maximum spreading coefficient, maximum acting diameter, maximum acting area, and maximum bouncing height...
Forage maize is one of the most important feed crops for livestock production, and is mainly grown in northwest China. However, their growth is often stressed by limited soil water availability due to the arid climate. To provide more soil moisture,...
On 13 August 2019, a severe convective precipitation event affected the Shanghai region. At 850 hPa, a low-level shear line influenced Shanghai with surface convergence, while at 700 hPa, an inversion layer separated warm, moist lower air from colder...
This study investigates a severe summer convective hailstorm that occurred in Shanghai on 18 August 2019, using multisource meteorological datasets, with a particular focus on the innovative application of a single-polarization X-band array weather r...
In small-clustered vine cultivars, the conditions of success for a hanging form in order to guarantee a sufficient yield and quality level could go through establishing a permanent vertical cordon to enhance vine capacity and to retain a greater numb...
This study investigated the efficiency of macrophyte-based phytoremediation systems using Phragmites karka and Typha latifolia for the treatment of poultry–aquaculture wastewater and its suitability for irrigation reuse. Physicochemical paramet...
This article presents an investigation of ground movement measurements based on a combination of TerraSAR-X and Sentinel-1 data, in opposite tracks, aiming to detect ground de-formation of the remaining dikes of Germano mine, after the Fundão...
In the United States, corn (Zea mays L.) stover has been targeted for second generation fuel production and other bio-products. Our objective was to characterize sugar and structural composition as a function of vertical distribution of corn stover (...
Induced polarization (IP) effects in transient electromagnetic (TEM) measurement play a significant role in the detection of minerals, such as sulfide ore, clay ore, etc. However, due to the complex impacts caused by the polarization parameters, the...
To take full advantage of the multicomponent transient electromagnetic method, we summarize the advantages of multicomponent exploration based on simulation calculation. We have carried out experiments on the effectiveness of the method in the known...
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