AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF DISTANCE AND SHELTERING AREA OF A GROUP OF LINEARLY ARRANGED SACRIFICIAL PILES ON REDUCING LOCAL SCOUR AROUND A CIRCULAR BRIDGE PIER UNDER CLEAR-WATER CONDITIONS

One of the major problems associated with bridge piers is ensuring their safety against local scouring caused by the erosive action of flow.Numerous countermeasures have been developed and tested to solve this problem, among which sacrificial piles are highly recognized due to their high performance, economy, durability, and Water Hose Check Valve

The liver executes 500+ functions, such as protein synthesis, xenobiotic metabolism, bile production, and metabolism of carbohydrates/fats/proteins.Such functions can be severely degraded by drug-induced liver injury, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatitis B and viral infections, and hepatocellular carcinoma.These liver diseases, which represe

Aiming at the problem of the coexistence of nonlinearity and uncertainty in the control systems, a novel control method which combines the double hidden layer fuzzy emotional recurrent neural network (DHLFERNN) and the recursive terminal sliding mode control (RTSMC) is proposed.Firstly, a novel double hidden layer fuzzy emotional recurrent neural n

Educators within Higher Education (HE) and K-12 share in the need for high quality educational resources to assist in the pursuit of teaching and learning.Although there are numerous differences between the two levels of education, there are commonalties in the perceptions of the purpose, practical uses, and challenges that abide in the use of Open

Poor adhesion of nickel surface limits its further application in the aerospace field.In this study, plasma modification was conducted on the surface of the nickel plate pretreated by sandblasting, and then ultrasonic vibration was applied during the adhesively bonding process of the CFRP(Carbon fibre-reinforced polymer)/Ni joints.The bonding stren