Mediterranean regions are likely to be the most vulnerable areas to wildfires in Europe.In this context, land-use change has promoted land abandonment and the consequent accumulation of biomass (fuel) in (progressively less managed) forests and (non-forest) natural land, causing higher fire density and severity, economic damage, and land degradatio
Fatigue failure is a critical concern for offshore wind turbines (OWTs).In cold-region seas, the presence of sea ice necesitates the consideration of ice loads in the long sleeve tee design of OWTs.This study focuses on the NREL 5MW monopile wind turbine and proposes a numerical analysis framework for asesing fatigue damage under wind-ice coupling
Recognition of people relying on biometric characteristics is a common phenomenon in our society.It has increased in recent years in most areas of life such as government, department, companies, and banks.Fingerprint identification is one of the most common and credible personal biometric identification methods.Extracting features are one of the mo
Abstract We carried out uniaxial compression tests on brittle red sandstone with different heights.The test results show that the uniaxial compressive strength of rock sample increases first and then tends to be stable with the increase of the size, which is approximately stable between 75 and 81 MPa.Both elastic energy and dissipated energy increa
Pulmonary sling is the anatomic variant defined by the aberrant origin of the left pulmonary artery from the right pulmonary artery.This patient presented with a mimic of pulmonary sling New York as a result of an extremely rare condition, arterial tortuosity syndrome (ATS).The patient was first diagnosed with pulmonary sling on prenatal echocardio