Indirect Measurements of Bridge Vibrations as an Experimental Tool Supporting Periodic Inspections

Supporting Inspections With an Electronic Meeting System

Fagan inspections are a structured review of development documents that consists of individual preparation, a meeting and rework by the author of the document. The meeting is used to log the defects found in preparation and to search for more defects. The effectiveness and eficiency of the meeting is typically low as compared to that of the preparation. This paper describes the use of an EMS to...

Experimental Evaluation of an Instructional Supporting Tool in Distance Learning

This paper describes a controlled experiment concerning the use of a learning aid during an open and distance learning (ODL) course. The core issue of investigation is whether this instructional aid can support, guide, and scaffold the distant student in his/her study. For this purpose, a controlled experiment was conducted with the participation of 191 undergraduate students at the department ...

Indirect additive manufacturing as an elegant tool for the production of self-supporting low density gelatin scaffolds.

The present work describes for the first time the production of self-supporting low gelatin density (<10 w/v%) porous scaffolds using methacrylamide-modified gelatin as an extracellular matrix mimicking component. As porous scaffolds starting from low gelatin concentrations cannot be realized with the conventional additive manufacturing techniques in the abscence of additives, we applied an ind...

Tourism as an Economic Develpment Tool

Experimental comparison of sacrificial piles and submerged vanes as scour countermeasures around bridge pier

An experimental study has been conducted on the effectiveness of two types of flow-altering countermeasures placed around a cylindrical pier under clear water condition, which include sacrificial piles and submerged vanes. Their arrangements follow the optimal configurations recommended in the published articles with some modification. The temporal evolution of maximum scour depth and its equil...