Buckling failure analysis of storage tanks under the synergistic effects of fire and wind loads

Fire-induced domino effect is one of the main threats to hazardous material storage tanks, and many attempts have been conducted to assess the vulnerability of storage tanks exposed to fire to evaluate domino effect risk. However, past research ignored the influence of wind load on the thermal buckling behavior of storage tanks exposed to...

Influence of solder condition on effective thermal conductivity of two-directional random fibres: Pore-scale simulation

It is indicated that the solder joint of the metal fibrous materials is a critical factor impacting the heat conduction. To reveal the mechanism by which solder joint sizes, solder joint skips, solder flux materials, and filling media affect the thermal conductivity of fibres, pore-scale numerical simulation is employed to study the thermal...

New innovations in pavement materials and engineering: A review on pavement engineering research 2021

Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly supports the rapid development of the global social economy. New theories, new methods, new technologies and new materials related to pavement engineering are emerging....

A rapid and high-precision mountain vertex extraction method based on hotspot analysis clustering and improved eight-connected extraction algorithms for digital elevation models

Digital Elevation Model (DEM)-based mountain vertex extraction is one of the most useful DEM applications, providing important information to properly characterize topographic features. Current vertex-extraction techniques have considerable limitations, such as yielding low-accuracy results and generating false mountain vertices. To overcome...

Influence of Pressure on the Mechanical and Electronic Properties of Wurtzite and Zinc-Blende GaN Crystals

The mechanical and electronic properties of two GaN crystals, wurtzite and zinc-blende GaN, under various hydrostatic pressures were investigated using first principles calculations. The results show that the lattice constants of the two GaN crystals calculated in this study are close to previous experimental results, and the two GaN crystals...

Mapping Atlas of Shenzhen - Urban Villages

This publication is in response to the call of 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen) (UABB) “Cities, Grow in Difference”, from the perspective of urbanism: the synthesis of factors that collectively determine the spatial use of the city. <br/>This atlas is based on master graduation theses of Delft University of Technology ...

An experimental investigation on wave runup along the broadside of a single point moored FPSO exposed to oblique waves

Structural modulation and electronic structural features in the charge ordered state of La0.5Sr1.5MnO4