Observations of bridge abutment scour lead to a practical new approach for estimating realistic scour IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering depths at bridge abutments. Prior design approaches usually led to unrealistically deep estimates of abutment scour depth. The observations presented stem from flume experiments conducted with abutments with approach embankments subject to a range of erodibilit...

Damage detection of mechanical structures such as bridges is an important research problem in civil engineering. Using spatially distributed sensor time series data collected from a recent experiment on a local bridge in Upper State New York, we study noninvasive damage detection using information-theoretical methods. Several findings are in order. First, the time series data, which represent a...

We study the flow spectrum S(G) and the integer flow spectrum S(G) of odd regular graphs. We show that there are signed graphs where the difference between the integer flow number and the flow number is greater than or equal to 1, disproving a conjecture of Raspaud and Zhu [7]. Let G be a (2t + 1)-regular graph. We show that if r ∈ S(G), then r = 2 + 1t or r ≥ 2 + 2 2t−1 . This result generaliz...

This paper addresses the issue of robust VDSL transmission in the presence of bridged taps in the local loop. The impact of bridged taps on transmission performance is described and evaluated for various frequency-division duplexing plans. It is shown that using only 4 bands will under several realistic circumstances result in very poor performance. The conclusion is that a robust duplexing pla...

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY Analysis on Topology of DVR Used in Low-voltage Distribution Grid Yanlei Zhao, Chuanxiao Wang , Jingjing Yan School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, 255049, China [email protected] Abstract Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is a series-connected transient voltage compensation eq...

This thesis deals with the fully automatic generation of semantic annotations for medical imaging data by means of medical image segmentation and labeling. In particular, we focus on the segmentation of the human brain and related structures from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. We present three novel probabilistic methods from the field of database-guided knowledge-based medical image se...

In the flat area of Northwest China, subgrade engineering, as a more economical and efficient structural form, plays leading role in railway engineering. Therefore, wind sand prevention engineering needs to be studied. To prevent control damage scientifically, we must correctly understand types principles measures. At present, main measures protect from are vegetation measures, such planting gr...

Wireless Structural Control (WSC) systems can play a crucial role in protecting civil infrastructure in the event of earthquakes and other natural disasters. Such systems represent an exemplary class of cyber-physical systems that perform close-loop control using wireless sensor networks. Existing WSC research usually employs wireless sensors installed on small lab structures, which cannot capt...