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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"maintenance of structures"”.
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Damage Detection and Sensor Placement Strategies for Structures Under Frequency-Domain Dynamics
<p>Identification and monitoring of damage have a growing importance in the maintenance of structures. With advances in high performance computing, numerical modeling tools are becoming more common in anomaly detection and structural damage localization. However, many methods presuppose that …
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Jakie to uczucie być pracownikiem migrującym? Etnografia afektywnego zarządzania i doświadczeń cudzoziemców uczących angielskiego w Chinach
… international migration to the People’s Republic of China, specifically the experiences of people performing (illegalized) work as English teachers there. Based on seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Shenzhen from 2014 to 2019, I explore the situation of these migrants as …
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Multifunctional Composites Using Carbon Nanotube Fiber Materials
… capabilities are not utilized in the designs of current composites. In this dissertation, a smart materials strategy is employed to mitigate the weak interlaminar properties of composite materials and to make composites more multi-functional materials.</p><p>The first step in our strategy to …
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An analysis of the impact of chloride-induced corrosion on reinforced concrete structures in the port of Cape Town
Corrosion of steel reinforcement is a main deterioration mechanism for reinforced concrete structures in the marine environment, where chloride ingress causes severe and widespread damage. These structures make up a substantial proportion of infrastructure globally and are costly to construct and …
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Tolerancia de Estructuras Geométricas y Combinatorias
… Abstract In this thesis we introduce the concept of tolerance of a structure or property, combinatorial or geometric, associated to a set S. The tolerance of a structure or property is a measure of stability of the structure or property under perturbations of S. The computation of tolerance can be …
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Giudizio immediato sullo stato di degrado dei ponti in c.a. basato su indagini low-cost
The structural engineer is often involved to express an opinion on the state of efficiency of the existing structures. This is partly because, in Italy, a large part of structures was built before the middle of the last century. Indeed, the 14th General Census of Population and Housing in 2001, …