Reader-friendly Edible Binarycodes and Sensors Based on Smart Hydrogel

Food and medicines are two of the most essential categories of goods for human beings, providing vital nourishment and healthcare. However, as these products are commercialized and distributed on a global scale, consumers face the threat of counterfeit and deteriorated products. In response, this dissertation presents four prototypes consisting...

Indicators and methods for assessing acoustical preferences and needs of students in educational buildings: A review

Sounds (e.g., human activity, nature, building systems) are one of the indoor environmental stimuli that may have positive and/or negative effects on students’ well-being and performance in educational buildings. Students in educational buildings have individual acoustical preferences and needs as portrayed by occupant-related indicators, for...

An Edible Humidity Indicator That Responds to Changes in Humidity Mechanically

Elevated humidity levels in medical, food, and pharmaceutical products may reduce the products' shelf life, trigger bacterial growth, and even lead to complete spoilage. In this study, we report a humidity indicator that mechanically bends and rolls itself irreversibly upon exposure to high humidity conditions. The indicator is made of two...

Acoustic emission-based indicators of shear failure of reinforced concrete structures without shear reinforcement

Existing concrete bridges require efficient assessment due to increasing traffic load and degrading material. For reinforced concrete structures without shear reinforcement, a typical failure mode is shear, which often means a total loss of structural capacity and does not have an obvious warning beforehand. To indicate the shear failure before...

An indicator system for evaluating operation and maintenance management of mega infrastructure projects in China

Mega infrastructure projects provide a basic guarantee for social development, economic construction, and livelihood improvement. Their operation and maintenance (O&M) management are of great significance for the smooth operation and the realization of the value created by the projects. In order to provide an approach for effectively...

Flash flood early warning coupled with hydrological simulation and the rising rate of the flood stage in a mountainous small watershed in Sichuan province, China

Flash floods in mountainous areas have become more severe and frequent as a result of climate change and are a threat to public safety and social development. This study explores the application of distributed hydrological models in flash floods risk management in a small watershed in Sichuan Province, China, and aims to increase early...

An integrated methodology for the supply reliability analysis of multi-product pipeline systems under pumps failure

As the main way for the long-distance transportation of refined products, multi-products pipelines are of vital importance to the regional energy security. The supply reliability evaluation of multi-product pipeline systems can improve the effective response to unexpected disruptions and guarantee the reliable oil supply. Based on reliability...

A Bayesian Network Approach for Condition Monitoring of High-Speed Railway Catenaries

The growing variety of data from condition monitoring of high-speed railways offer unprecedented opportunities to improve railway infrastructure maintenance. For condition monitoring of railway catenaries, this paper proposes a data-driven approach that uses a Bayesian network (BN) to integrate the inspection data from catenaries into a key...