The following thesis presents a stability study of a floating wind turbine platform, composed by two concentric cylinders, for offshore application. The theoretical bases of the linear theory and the derivation of the ...

In this paper, we present the evaluation and experimental results of secured robot control in a P2P system. The control system is based on JXTA-Overlay platform. We used secure primitives and functions of JXTA-Overlay for ...

Material point method (MPM) is widely used in geotechnical engineering, owing to its powerful capability of modelling large deformation problems. But the static equilibrium problems involving very large deformation and ...

Derived from simplifications of the Saint-Venant equations, the kinematic wave model has the ability to describe the behavior of surface runoff in watersheds. This paper aims to obtain the numerical simulation of the flow ...

A great deal of attention has been given in the last years to the study of the influence of incorporating nanosized particles and particularly nanoparticles with a flat-like morphology such as nanoclays or layered double ...

The construction industry not only consumes more raw materials and energy than any other economic activity, but also generates the largest fraction of waste, known as construction and demolition waste (CDW). This waste has ...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been applied in the leather footwear industry. Due to the fact that the goal of the study is to point those steps in the footwear cycle which contribute most to the total environmental ...

In this work, we aim at investigating the applicability of machine learning (ML), namely, a linear regression (LR) model for estimation of flows latencies in packet-switched 5G xHaul networks. The analysis is performed in ...

A meshless local collocation method using radial basis functions (LRBFCM) has been developed to model the thermomechanical phenomena during the process of DC casting. The model uses elastic-viscoplastic constitutive ...

In structures with reduced monitoring budgets, the high cost of commercial metering devices is always an obstacle for monitoring structural health. This might be an issue when temperatures must be measured for both structural ...