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Development of Rotary-Wing Mars Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Mars, which is adjacent to Earth in the solar system and shares similar physical dimensions and topography. The Mars surface harbors a thin atmosphere, which enables the development of Mars spacecraft. However, the complex atmospheric conditions greatly impact the operation of Martian spacecraft. In the field of rotary-wing Mars UAV research, numerous scholars have conducted extensive investigations into the following aspects: (i) the feasibility of rotary-wing Mars UAVs’ flight; (ii) the vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) capabilities of rotary-wing Mars UAVs; (iii) the development of prototypes for rotary-wing Mars UAVs.
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18 Dec 2023
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Trends and Challenges in Railway Sustainability
Rail is expected to become the backbone of future mobility in the world as the cleanest and greenest high-volume transport. Rail generates the lowest CO2 emissions and energy consumption when in operation, with respect to the other transportation modes, but during construction and maintenance phases, its environmental impacts are significant and need to be carefully assessed and properly mitigated.
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18 Dec 2023
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Temporary Housing Design of Post-Disaster Scenarios
Disasters, whether natural or man-made, pose inevitable global challenges. Events such as COVID-19, earthquakes, extreme climatic conditions, and conflicts underscore the urgent demand for effective temporary housing solutions. These temporary housing units (THUs) serve as an aid in assisting displaced people to rebuild their lives as the recovery process unfolds. However, numerous temporary housing units present environmental, economic, and social issues that hinder their sustainability.
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18 Dec 2023
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Sustainable Stormwater Management Practices
Numerous efforts have been undertaken by Asian countries to mitigate the adverse effects of urbanization on stormwater management. However, traditional stormwater systems have become overwhelmed due to extensive development, resulting in excessive runoff and frequent floods. As a result, it is crucial to urgently adopt sustainable stormwater management practices (SSMPs) to effectively control water quantity and quality.
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18 Dec 2023
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LiDAR Calibration in Data Collection Vehicles
Accurately calibrating camera–LiDAR systems is crucial for achieving effective data fusion, particularly in data collection vehicles. Data-driven calibration methods have gained prominence over target-based methods due to their superior adaptability to diverse environments. However, current data-driven calibration methods are susceptible to suboptimal initialization parameters, which can significantly impact the accuracy and efficiency of the calibration process. Precise calibration is essential for achieving accurate data fusion between LiDAR and camera sensors. In general, calibration approaches can be classified into four categories: target-based approaches, feature matching-based approaches, statistics-based approaches, and deep learning-based approaches.
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18 Dec 2023
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Optimising Daylight and Ventilation Performance
Building envelopes serve as interfaces between indoor and outdoor environments and are significant components in improving human comfort and building energy efficiency. As a critical success factor for a sustainable building environment, adaptation aids in coping with variable environmental conditions (e.g., solar radiation and wind) instead of anticipating potential damages and uncomfortable conditions for humans.
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18 Dec 2023
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Working Principle of Hydraulic Control System
Hydraulic control systems are a feedback control system that uses hydraulic components as control and execution components, and hydraulic oil as the working medium for energy transmission. The movement of hydraulic actuators refers to the system output (including displacement, velocity, acceleration, and force), which is transmitted to the controller through feedback components. The input signal of the control component is adjusted according to the error size, so that the system output can automatically, quickly, and accurately track the system input instructions. Hydraulic control systems are classified into pump-controlled hydraulic control systems and valve-controlled hydraulic control systems based on their various control modes and valve components.
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18 Dec 2023
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Large Eddy Simulation of Propellers
Numerical computation methods for turbulence flow can be categorized into direct numerical simulation (DNS), large eddy simulation (LES), and Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) based on grid resolution scales. With improvement in computer performance and the development of parallel computing, DNS and LES have been increasingly utilized both in research and engineering.
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18 Dec 2023
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Masonry Walls with Stainless Steel Straps
Among all the active confinement techniques, the use of pre-tensioned stainless steel straps has recently gained much attention. The flexibility of the stainless steel straps allows us to bend and pass them through the thickness of the masonry, thus creating a three-dimensional strengthening system between the two opposite facings.
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18 Dec 2023
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Urban Building Height Estimation Using Multiple Source Images
The use of remote sensing imagery has significantly enhanced the efficiency of building extraction; however, the precise estimation of building height remains a formidable challenge. In light of ongoing advancements in computer vision, numerous techniques leveraging convolutional neural networks and Transformers have been applied to remote sensing imagery, yielding promising outcomes.
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