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Yang, Z. (author), Zhang, P. (author), Moraal, J. (author), Li, Z. (author)By modifying friction to the desired level, the application of friction modifiers (FMs) has been considered as a promising emerging tool in the railway engineering for increasing braking/traction force in poor adhesion conditions and mitigating wheel/rail interface deterioration, energy consumption, vibration and noise. Understanding the...journal article 2022
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Urgilez Vinueza, A.R. (author), Handwerger, Alexander L. (author), Bakker, M. (author), Bogaard, T.A. (author)Slow-moving landslides move downslope at velocities that range from mm year<sup>−1</sup> to m year<sup>−1</sup>. Such deformations can be measured using satellite-based synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR). We developed a new method to systematically detect and quantify accelerations and decelerations of slowly deforming areas...journal article 2022
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Herzog, Alexander (author), Wagner, Max (author), Benkner, Simon (author), Zandi, Babak (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Khanh, Tran Quoc (author)We report on the degradation dynamics and mechanisms of the commercially available chip-on-board (COB) high-power light-emitting diode (LED) modules with an electrical power of 175 W. Due to the associated thermal load, the temperature dependence of the aging processes is additionally analyzed within the scope of this work. The aging tests...journal article 2022
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Starkova, Olesja (author), Gagani, Abedin I. (author), Karl, Christian W. (author), Rocha, I.B.C.M. (author), Burlakovs, Juris (author), Krauklis, Andrey E. (author)Polymers and polymer composites are negatively impacted by environmental ageing, reducing their service lifetimes. The uncertainty of the material interaction with the environment compromises their superior strength and stiffness. Validation of new composite materials and structures often involves lengthy and expensive testing programs....journal article 2022
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Anupam, K. (author), Liu, X. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), van Aggelen, M. (author)Membranes of sufficient bonding characteristics could improve the integrity of the multi-layer structures on orthotropic steel deck bridges (OSBDs), enhancing thus the structural response of these systems and, ultimately, their service life. In this research, full-scale experiments were performed at the LINTRACK accelerated pavement testing...journal article 2022
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Gluth, Gregor J.G. (author), Ke, Xinyuan (author), Vollpracht, Anya (author), Weiler, Lia (author), Bernal, Susan A. (author), Dombrowski-Daube, Katja (author), Geddes, Daniel A. (author), Grengg, Cyrill (author), Nedeljković, Marija (author)The current understanding of the carbonation and the prediction of the carbonation rate of alkali-activated concretes is complicated inter alia by the wide range of binder chemistries used and testing conditions adopted. To overcome some of the limitations of individual studies and to identify general correlations between mix design...journal article 2022
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Demirel, Omer Burak (author), Yaman, Burhaneddin (author), Shenoy, Chetan (author), Moeller, Steen (author), Weingärtner, S.D. (author), Akçakaya, Mehmet (author)Purpose: To develop a physics-guided deep learning (PG-DL) reconstruction strategy based on a signal intensity informed multi-coil (SIIM) encoding operator for highly-accelerated simultaneous multislice (SMS) myocardial perfusion cardiac MRI (CMR). Methods: First-pass perfusion CMR acquires highly-accelerated images with dynamically varying...journal article 2022
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Mathew, R. (author), Winterwerp, J.C. (author)Sediment mobility and memory effects distinguish transport and morphodynamics in fine sediment settings from sandy settings. This paper focuses on the morphodynamic modeling of fine sediment systems, and an adaptation of modeling procedures more commonly used in sand-dominated systems. An extensive dataset of short-term transport and...journal article 2022
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Xiao, Hong (author), Zhang, Zhihai (author), Chi, Yihao (author), Wang, Xiaoyu (author), Wang, Haoyu (author), Jiang, Ziqing (author)The sand intrusion in railway tracks in sandy regions can significantly change the mechanical behaviour of tracks and thus threaten the safety of train operation. This paper presents substantial field tests on both sandy and clean railway tracks to study the effect of sand intrusion on the longitudinal resistance of ballast bed and the...journal article 2022
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Sañudo, Roberto (author), Miranda, Marina (author), Alonso, Borja (author), Markine, V.L. (author)Sleeper spacing has been a taboo subject throughout the railway’s history. Safety concerns related to the structural integrity have been the main causes of not addressing this matter. There are no specific and clear recommendations or guidelines in relation to this matter and the distances do not go more than 0.8 m. In order to go beyond this...journal article 2022
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Cesare, Stefano (author), Dionisio, Sabrina (author), Saponara, Massimiliano (author), Bravo-Berguño, David (author), Massotti, Luca (author), De Teixeira Da Encarnação, J. (author), Christophe, Bruno (author)The Next Generation Gravity Mission (NGGM), currently in a feasibility study phase as a candidate Mission of Opportunity for ESA-NASA cooperation in the frame of the Mass Change and Geo-Sciences International Constellation (MAGIC), is designed to monitor mass transport in the Earth system by its variable gravity signature with increased...journal article 2022
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Krauklis, Andrey E. (author), Karl, Christian W. (author), Rocha, I.B.C.M. (author), Burlakovs, Juris (author), Ozola-Davidane, Ruta (author), Gagani, Abedin I. (author), Starkova, Olesja (author)Service lifetimes of polymers and polymer composites are impacted by environmental ageing. The validation of new composites and their environmental durability involves costly testing programs, thus calling for more affordable and safe alternatives, and modelling is seen as such an alternative. The state-of-the-art models are systematized in...review 2022
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Ismail, Tevfik F. (author), Strugnell, Wendy (author), Coletti, C. (author), Bozic, M. (author), Weingärtner, S.D. (author), Hammernik, Kerstin (author), Correia, Teresa (author), Küstner, Thomas (author)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading single cause of morbidity and mortality, causing over 17. 9 million deaths worldwide per year with associated costs of over $800 billion. Improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of CVD is therefore a global priority. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has emerged as a clinically...review 2022
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Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Shao, Yingxuan (author), Zhang, Ning (author), Tawfek, Abdullah M. (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Sun, Renjuan (author), Tian, Changjin (author), Šavija, B. (author)Engineered cementitious composites (ECCs) belong to a broad class of fibre-reinforced concrete. They incorporate synthetic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibres, cement, fly ash and fine aggregates, and are designed to have a tensile strain capacity typically beyond 3%. This paper presents an investigation on the carbonation behaviour of engineered...journal article 2022
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Cabrera Quiros, L.C. (author), Gedik, E. (author), Hung, H.S. (author)This paper focuses on the automatic classification of self-assessed personality traits from the HEXACO inventory during crowded mingle scenarios. These scenarios provide rich study cases for social behavior analysis but are also challenging to analyze automatically as people in them interact dynamically and freely in an in-the-wild face-to...journal article 2022
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Park, Seongyeon (author), Kim, Hajin (author), Ahmad, T. (author), Ahmed, N. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author), Hofstee, H.P. (author), Kim, Youngsok (author), Lee, Jinho (author)Sequence alignment forms an important backbone in many sequencing applications. A commonly used strategy for sequence alignment is an approximate string matching with a two-dimensional dynamic programming approach. Although some prior work has been conducted on GPU acceleration of a sequence alignment, we identify several shortcomings that limit...conference paper 2022
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Ross, Robert (author), Koopmans, Gerben (author)Testing materials and devices for a specific failure mechanism usually yields a characteristic distribution of failure times. However, failure of power electronics (PE) can be due to a manifold of mechanisms. Even in a single PE device multiple failure processes may compete. For instance, modules may contain various components that fail...book chapter 2022
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Vos, J. (author), Farah, H. (author)Road designers need to have insights where deceleration and acceleration are expected related to the position of the curve, and in in which amount so that drivers are able to safely decelerate and accelerate respectively into and out of a freeway curve. For this, empirical speed data is needed. Therefore, Floating Car Data in 153 curves in...journal article 2022
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Arvanitis, P. (author), Betting, Jan Harm L.F. (author), Bosman, Laurens W.J. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author), Strydis, C. (author)Mice and rats can rapidly move their whiskers when exploring the environment. Accurate description of these movements is important for behavioral studies in neuroscience. Whisker tracking is, however, a notoriously difficult task due to the fast movements and frequent crossings and juxtapositionings among whiskers. We have recently developed...conference paper 2022
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Zhang, Y. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author)This paper identified carbonation products in the slag-rich cementitious systems upon three different exposure conditions, namely, long term exposure in the field, indoor natural exposure, and accelerated carbonation testing. Overall, mineralogy of the carbonation products was found to be fundamentally similar under different exposure...journal article 2022