Civil and Environmental Engineering: Recent submissions
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Applicability of construction dewatering techniques for randomly-fractured rock
( ICE Publishing , 2024 , Article)Through analyzing a significant number of case histories, ranges of applications of dewatering techniques for randomly-fractured rock are proposed in terms of the rock mass permeability and the required drawdown. The ... -
Residual shear strength of fine-grained soils and soil-solid interfaces at low effective normal stresses
( Canadian Science Publishing , 2015 , Article)A laboratory research program was undertaken to study the large-strain shear strength characteristics of fine-grained soils under low effective normal stresses ([1]3-7 kPa). Soils that cover a wide range of plasticity and ... -
Comparison of site-specific and empirical correlations for drained residual shear strength
( ICE Publishing , 2020 , Article)The discusser has an interest in the topic of the paper (Hayden et al., 2018) on the ability of empirical correlations to predict the residual friction angle of samples from a specific site. In fact, he provided one of the ... -
Optimization of Viscoelastic Metamaterials for Vibration Attenuation Properties
( World Scientific , 2020 , Article)Metamaterials (MMs) are composites that are artificially engineered to have unconventional mechanical properties that stem from their microstructural geometry rather than from their chemical composition. Several studies ... -
PREDICTING ROAD ROUGHNESS PROFILE USING DYNAMIC VEHICLE ACCELERATIONS AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
( Society of Acoustics , 2022 , Conference Paper)Road roughness can cause ride discomfort and contribute to the emission of ground-borne noise and vibration. A robust monitoring regime of road roughness is essential for the efficient maintenance of a country's road ... -
Reconstruction of Road Defects from Dynamic Vehicle Accelerations by Using the Artificial Neural Networks
( Springer Science and Business Media B.V. , 2023 , Conference Paper)Monitoring of roads is considered the first step in establishing a successful road maintenance program, which includes scheduling adequate maintenance to a certain road section at the right time. Road monitoring assesses ... -
MODAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ROAD ROUGHNESS RECONSTRUCTION USING DYNAMIC VEHICLE ACCELERATIONS AND ANNS
( National Technical University of Athens , 2023 , Conference Paper)Road networks are considered huge and critical infrastructures that support the development and growth of societies. These infrastructures deteriorate over time due to regular usage and/or external environmental factors. ... -
Investigating the effect of using softer rail-pads on ground-borne vibration from underground railways
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2023 , Article)In this study, a series of vibration measurements were performed on a section of one of the lines of the Doha Metro to explore the effect of changing rail-pads from conventional higher stiffness under-rail pads to lower ... -
Publisher Correction: Application of Metastructures for Targeted Low-Frequency Vibration Suppression in Plates (Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, (2023), 11, 3, (887-897), 10.1007/s42417-022-00614-9)
( Springer , 2023 , Other)The publication of this article unfortunately contained a mistake, the Figs. 12b and 14b were missing. Below you can find the complete Figs. 12b and 14b: The original article has been corrected. -
Road Profile Estimation Using Full/Quarter-Car Model with Artificial Neural Networks
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Conference Paper)The monitoring of road roughness is one of the first and most critical steps in road maintenance. Road networks need constant maintenance to function properly and avoid any hazardous accidents or blockage of the traffic ... -
Biolubricant Synthesis by Additization and Chemical Modification from Lipid-Rich Brackish Coelastrella sp. Using a Biorefinery Approach
( American Chemical Society , 2023 , Article)With a sizable market share and widespread use in automotive and industrial applications, biolubricants are produced from the oils of terrestrial plants that have undergone chemical modification or additive addition. ... -
Corrigendum to "Microalgae: A potential bioagent for treatment of emerging contaminants from domestic wastewater" [Chemosphere 351, March 2024, 1-16 141245] (Chemosphere (2024) 351, (S0045653524001383), (10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141245))
( Elsevier , 2024 , Corrigendum)Authors would like an amendment in the Acknowledgement section as per our open access funder policies. Kindly add the below statement in acknowledgement section. <Acknowledgement: The authors would like to acknowledge the ... -
Energy harvesting from railway slab-tracks with continuous slabs
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2023 , Article)This paper contributes to the literature and development of knowledge in the topic of energy harvesting by presenting the modelling and calculations of energy from vibration of railway tracks due to moving trains on ... -
Geosynthetic-reinforced soils above voids: Observation and prediction of soil arching
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)The assumption with the biggest impact on the design of geosynthetic-reinforced soils above voids is the presence and degree of soil arching, which affects the predicted applied stress on the geosynthetic. A series of ... -
Pure random orthogonal search (PROS): A plain and elegant parameterless algorithm for global optimization
( MDPI AG , 2021 , Article)A new, fast, elegant, and simple stochastic optimization search method is proposed, which exhibits surprisingly good performance and robustness considering its simplicity. We name the algorithm pure random orthogonal search ... -
Integration of Captivate and JOOMLA: Online demonstration and assessment elearning resources
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2010 , Conference Paper)The system uses Adobe Captivate [1] to create and generate the learning and assessments materials in PDF format to allow students to access the learning materials and to do the assessment interactively. Each assessment is ... -
IOT technologies and their applications in higher education
( Taylor and Francis , 2023 , Book chapter)Technology development has recently focused on significant improvements in the way we achieve and process information from objects and systems to make decision. The communication among these objectives and different kinds ... -
Differentiation among stability regimes of alumina-water nanofluids using smart classifiers
( Techno Press , 2022 , Article)Nanofluids have recently triggered a substantial scientific interest as cooling media. However, their stability is challenging for successful engagement in industrial applications. Different factors, including temperature, ... -
Robust and General Model to Forecast the Heat Transfer Coefficient for Flow Condensation in Multi Port Mini/Micro‐Channels
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2022 , Article)A general correlation for predicting the two‐phase heat transfer coefficient (HTC) during condensation inside multi‐port mini/micro‐channels was presented. The model was obtained by correlating the two‐phase multiplier, ... -
Self-ChakmaNet: A deep learning framework for indigenous language learning using handwritten characters
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)According to UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, 40% of the languages today are counted as endangered in the future. Indigenous languages are endangered because of the less availability of interactive learning ...