Improvement of collaborative team performance between Western and Chinese partners in the China's building industry

Increasing international building construction projects happen in China, thus it is unavoidable for Western European architects to collaborative with Chinese developers. However, since cultural differences and language barriers may lead to low psychological safety and poor trust, slowing down the process and causing frustration in collaborative...

A 9-bit 33MHz Hybrid SAR Single-slope ADC

In this work a 9-bit, 33MHz hybrid SAR single-slope ADC for element-level digitization in 2D ultrasound transducer arrays is presented. This hybrid architecture consists of a 5-bit SAR ADC followed by a 4-bit single-slope ADC. In the comparator design, the dynamic comparator and the continuous-time comparator for the SAR and single-slope...

Effect of Gravity on the Vertical Force of an Oscillating Wedge at Free Surface

A wedge oscillating vertically at free surface with frequency ranging from wave frequencies and slamming frequencies has been studied. The focus of this work has been on the gravity effect on the vertical forces acting on the wedge, especially the definition of the limits of gravity-dominant and gravity-negligible conditions and quantification...