[EN] Design codes include serviceability limit state (SLS) provisions for stress, crack,
and deflection control in concrete structures, which may limit the structural
design. When drawing on reinforced ultra-high performance ...
Real Herráiz, Julia Irene; Sánchez Bernabé, María de la Encarnación; Real-Herraiz, Teresa Pilar; Sánchez, F.J.; Zamorano-Martín, Clara(Techno-Press, 2012)
Concrete sleepers are essential components of the conventional railway. As support elements, sleepers are always subjective to a variety of time-dependent loads attributable to the train operations, either wheel or rail ...
Montalbán Domingo, María Laura; Baydal Giner, Beatriz; Zamorano Martín, Clara; Real Herráiz, Julia Irene(TECHNO-PRESS, 2014-12)
Rails are key elements in railway superstructure since these elements receive directly the train load transmitted by the wheels. Simultaneously, rails must provide effective stress transference to the rest of the track ...
Díaz-Escobar, Evelyn; Barreda-Gómez, Ángela Inmaculada; Griol Barres, Amadeu; Martínez, Alejandro(American Institute of Physics, 2022-11-14)
[EN] Anapole states¿characterized by a strong suppression of far-field scattering¿naturally arise in high-index nanoparticles as a result of the interference between certain multipolar moments. Recently, the first-order ...
Lozano Sauza, Rodrigo; Magal Royo, Teresa; Jordá Albiñana, María Begoña(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2013-12)
[EN] This paper highlights the need for using specialised on-line collaborative environments by designers and product engineers who in-creasingly use Web 2.0 technology to search for information. Although there are ...
Chavez-Santiago, Raul; García Pardo, Concepción; Fornés Leal, Alejandro; Vallés Lluch, Ana; Vermeeren, Guenter; Joseph, Wout; Balasingham, Ilangko; Cardona Marcet, Narciso(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-05)
Biomedical implantable sensors transmitting a variety
of physiological signals have been proven very useful in the
management of chronic diseases. Currently, the vast majority of
these in-body wireless sensors communicate ...
Palomares Lloret, Salvador(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-12-03)
In this dissertation will be made experiments about the performance evaluation of an Hybrid of PV/T. This system is a new prototype using the solar energy, that consist in a hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) that provide ...
[EN] With technological advancement, implanted medical devices can treat a wide range of chronic diseases such as cardiac arrhythmia, deafness, diabetes, etc. Cardiac pacemakers are used to maintain normal heart rhythms. ...
Rius Mercado, Manuel; Bolea Boluda, Mario; Mora Almerich, José; Ortega Tamarit, Beatriz; Capmany Francoy, José(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2015-05-18)
We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, a chirped microwave pulses generator based on the processing of an incoherent optical signal by means of a nonlinear dispersive element. Different capabilities have been ...
Yamaguchi, Yuji; Matsugi, Takehiko(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-05-25)
[EN] The Shobuzako Kofun, located in Okayama prefecture (western Japan), is a key-hole tomb set on a low rolling hill dating to the 5th century AD. Its stone chamber and burial goods are in very good condition because the ...
[EN] Nowadays, the turbocharger has become one of the key components for automotive spark-ignition engine
improvements (fed with both liquid and gaseous fuels), as a support for the boosting and downsizing concept to ...
This is part I of a series of two papers dedicated to the presentation of a novel, large throughput, experimental procedure to determine the three-dimensional distribution of the etch rate of silicon in a wide range of ...
[EN] The objective of the Project is to define an experimental protocol for the accessibility assessment of the transport vehicles, by analysing the evolution of the effort and time variables consumed by a target group ...
[EN] Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a very powerful tool to study the behavior of electrochemical systems. According to Ohm¿s generalized law, the impedance concept is only valid if the linearity condition ...
[EN] Radon is a gas produced from the radioactive natural disintegration of radium and uranium, which is present in soils and different building materials. Due to its gaseous nature, it emanates to the surface and penetrates ...
Spiousas, Ignacio; Torrent Martí, Daniel; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José(American Institute of Physics, 2011-06-13)
This letter demonstrates the mechanical tuning of modes confined in two-dimensional acoustic cavities based on anisotropic metafluids. The employed metafluids have been designed with effective parameters such that the ...
Mitu, Leonard Gabriel; Ferrándiz Bou, Santiago; Rosca, Ilena Constanza; Bejinaru Mihoc, Gheorghe(Editura Stiintifica F. M. R, 2013-06)
[EN] In literature, polymeric materials have a number of properties which are divided
into three broad groups: 1. intrinsic properties arising from the chemical structure of the material, 2. technological properties ...
Leite, L.; Bonet Senach, José Luís; Pallarés Rubio, Luis; Miguel Sosa, Pedro; Fernández Prada, Miguel Ángel(Elsevier, 2013-03)
This paper presents an experimental research on 32 columns tested with unequal eccentricities at the ends. The purpose of this research is twofold: first, the contribution to the knowledge of these components and second, ...
High penetration of renewable energy requires high reliability to compensate the intermittency of the sources, which is generally tackled by using energy storage systems. However, the selection of the storage technology ...