Proceedings of the 2016 International Forum on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Session: Civil, Hydraulic Engineering and Environment Engineering

63 articles
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Experimental Study on Wave Overtopping Force before a Vertical Breakwater

Han Li, Jinsong Gui, Dongxu Wang
On the breast wall of a vertical breakwater, the measured wave forces have large deviations from the calculated values according to the current standard as a result of overtopping. In order to explore the reason of this deviation, the wave forces on vertical breast wall with overtopping have been measured...
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Research about sewage discharge environmental effect by physical model

Hang Yu, Xinhai Wang
The sewage diffusion is an environmental material for marine environmental protecting. It plays an important role in port engineering now. Its effect under deep water was carried out between different diffuser design parameters based on the hydraulic model test, and sewage marine disposal project in...
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Effect of Moderate Altitude Exposure on Human Thermal Physiological Parameters and Heat Losses in different activities

Haiying Wang, Songtao Hu
The effect of moderate altitude on human thermal regulation and heat loss may influence human thermal sensation and comfort. This paper aims to clarify this effect and its impact on thermal sensation. Experiments were conducted in a decompression chamber where the air parameters were controllable. Barometric...
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Stability Analysis on Factors of Jointed Rock Slopes

Debin Ren, Zheng Dong, Xiaotong Yang, Shipeng Li
The paper aims to research how the main parameters of the rock slopes with joint planes covered: Shear modulus, unit weight and the angles between the joint planes influence the stability and the failure modes of the slopes. The methods are to imitate the jointed rock slopes by the large-scale finite...
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Research on Electrostatic-filtration Radon Elimination Techniques in Underground Space

Li Yuan, Shibin Geng, Bowen Luo, Jingjing Wu, Jing Wang
Radon and its progeny, lung carcinogens recognized by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization(WHO), are often obtained to high concentrations in underground space. Based on its decay law, radon and its progeny with bound and unbound state will cause serious damage...
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Disscusion on the Unloading - Seepage Coupled Model of Damaged Rock

Erping Zhao, Bo Lu, Xiaobing Jia
It is common to encounter the excavation unloading of rock mass in the actual practice of construction work for tunnels, underground powerhouse, dams and mining, etc. The damage and fracture of the internal structure as well as the change of seepage for rock due to the excavation and unloading of rock...
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Distribution and accumulation of heavy metals in some tissues of three endemic wild fish species in Dianchi Lake, China

Xiangqi Meng, Qiang Li, Dong Ren, Yang Liu, Bin Huang, Xuejun Pan
The present paper dealt with the concentrations and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr) in three endemic wild fish in Dianchi Lake, China. The mean concentration in fish organ tissues (head, scale and skin) does not have an obvious ordering. This showed that the metal concentrations...
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Analysis of the impact of heavy metal on the Chinese aquaculture and the ecological hazard

Yanshuang Wang, Ping Fang
This paper is an overview of Chinese aquatic products heavy metal pollution and heavy metals pollution in water of China. I have a interpretation of the toxic effects of heavy metals on aquatic organisms, and the harmful effects of heavy metals on the water environment, and induction several of heavy...
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A Study on the Model For Mesoscopic Heterogenous Rocks Under Uniaxial Tensile Loading

Yunhua Zhu
Stress redistribution induced by excavation often results in tensile zones in the surrounding rock mass. It is of great theoretical and practical significances to analyse the localizations of deformation and damage and to study the complete stress-strain relation for mesoscopic heterogenous rocks under...
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Analysis of Testing Methods for Chloride Ion Permeability in Marine Concrete

Qingzhang Zhang, Ba Xi
Chloride ion permeation is the most important factor for durability of concrete in marine environment. Therefore, it is the basic on durability design of concrete structures to choose reliable and accurate testing method for chloride ion permeability in concrete. In this paper, according to transport...
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Study on Comprehensive Influence on Wind Environment of Piloti in Residential Blocks in Guangzhou, China

Tianyu Xi, Jianhua Ding, Hong Jin
To get good outdoor ventilation and create shadow areas, piloti is commonly used in tropical and subtropical climate zones, but there are few studies reveal the comprehensive influence of piloti on wind environment in residential blocks, and furthermore, a coupled simulation method, which offers high...
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Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis on Seismic Behavior of Joints of Crisscross Section Column Composed of Core Concrete-Filled Steel Tube and Steel Beam in Different Axial Compression Ratio

Yafeng Xu, Yue Zhang
This dissertation makes a study of joints of crisscross section column composed of core concrete-filled steel tube and steel beam. The study is mainly focused on the Seismic Behavior of joints. Four models are designed by using finite element structural analysis software abaqus, which are joints with...
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Research on Indoor Thermal Environment of Residential Building in Yubei

Xiaoli Li, Haiyan Yan, Wenfang Wang
A village of Yubei, the typical area of north of Henan Province was selected. A field study was conducted in the traditional adobe house and newly built brick house, indoor and outdoor temperature, relative humidity and other indoor thermal environment parameters were obtained in winter. The results...
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The Research of Integration Design Method of Prefab Aluminum Architecture

Ling Dong, Yu Wang
As a kind of excellent light precast construction materials, aluminum alloy has the advantage of light weight, high accuracy, corrosion resistance, recyclable, etc. This thesis mainly does research on the integration method based on BIM of prefab aluminum architecture, including assembly, performance...
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Subjective Evaluation of Cooling Fan Sound based on Grade Scoring and Paired Comparison

Lifang Yang, Rui Zhu
As an essential equipment, the fan is widely used in industrial and civil fields for gas compression and gas delivery. Though the cooling fan can keep us comfortable temperature, it bring the annoying noise. Usually noise reduction will first be conducted to the cooling fan, however, the sound quality...
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Research on Information Maintenance and Management System of Bridge Group over Wei-River

Liangliang Zhai
After analysing the advantages and disadvantages of the existing bridge management system, method about the establishment of optimized bridge maintenance and management system have been put forward. Analysed from three aspects including business process, disease gallery and standardization of data collection,...
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Mechanical properties analysis of emulsified asphalt cold regeneration under layer based on the orthogonal design

Yanhai Yang, Shuai Dong, Ye Yang
To study the mechanical properties of emulsified asphalt cold recycled materials, and recommend reasonable structural parameters. Using orthogonal experiment design method the ABAQUS finite element analysis software to simulate, range method is used to analyze the simulation results. When the emulsified...
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Estimating the temporal evolution of the median floc size during flocculation in a turbulent flow: An empirical expression

Zhongfan Zhu, Ying Wang
The Flocculation of cohesive fine-grained sediment plays an important role in the geophysical process in estuarine and coastal zones through the complete processes of sediment transport, deposition, re-suspension and consolidation. There have been many experiments studying the temporal evolution of the...
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Analysis The new evaluation standard for Green Building in China

Jixue Zou, Dong Jing
Green energy-saving building is the inevitable trend of the sustainable development of the construction industry, green building evaluation standard system of green building development to an important role. In this paper, the Chinese version of the green building evaluation criteria GB/T50378-2014 and...
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Denitrifying and Phosphorus Removal Process and Its Affecting Factors

Zijin Qin, Liping Qiu, Shoubin Zhang, Jiabin Wang, Kang Xie
Denitrifying phosphorus removal process is to complete domestication and enrichment of denitrifying phosphate-accumulating organisms by using anaerobic/anoxic alternate environment instead of the traditional anaerobic/aerobic environment. Then, nitrogen and phosphorus can be removed simultaneously at...
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Detection of Internal Erosion and Piping in Embankment Dams

Yu Wang, Ning Guo, Shijun Wang, Yanchang Gu
A physical modeling was established to analyze the mechanism of initiation, continuation, and progression to form a breach for internal erosion and piping. The method accounts for the nature of the soils including sandy gravels, fine-grained sands and silty clay in the dam core and the foundation. Guidance...
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Further Understanding of Deformation Safety Monitoring Index of Concrete Arch Dams

Yanchang Gu, Yu Wang, Qiong Pang, Yunxing Wu
Based on the analysis of deformation characteristics of arch dams of LiJiaxia hydropower station, Dong Jian hydropower station and Feng Le reservoir, the deformation laws are acquired, and the further understandings of deformation safety monitoring index under different conditions are provided to monitor...
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Research on the Moisture Content of Fine Silty Sand Affecting the Compressive Failure Behavior of the Concrete Expanded-Plates Pile

Yongmei Qian, Zixuan Huang, Tongjian Lu, Ruozhu Wang
The according to the results of the early theory research of concrete expanded-plates pile and the simulation analysis, discusses the influence of moisture content of fine silty sand for failure behavior and compressive bearing capacity, and put forward the tentative plan which further researches the...
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Experimental Research Scheme on Fine-Silt Sand Moisture Content Affecting the Failure Behavior of Soil surrounding the CEP Pile

Yongmei Qian, Yang Yu, Xiaopeng Su, Ruozhu Wang
Due to the moisture content of fine-silty sand soil has a significant influence for the failure behavior of the soil surrounding the CEP(concrete expanded-plates) pile. In view of the domestic research situation of the CEP pile in current time,this paper preliminarily determines the scheme of half circle-section...
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Influence of Rice Husk Ash on the properties of Concrete: a Review

Gaifei Peng, Juan Yang
Rice husk ash (RHA), produced by burning rice husk under controlled conditions, due to its high activity and high specific surface area, can be applied to concrete by replacing cement, such as in normal concrete and high-strength / high-performance concrete. In addition, its application in ultra-high...
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Analysis of shear mechanical properties of corrugated steel web lining concrete composite beam

Chen Cheng, Bing Li, Wen Zhou Wang, Fulin Yang
The structure of composite beam A and composite beam B is formed by the combination of corrugated steel web plate and lining concrete. A finite element model was established to study the distribution between steel plate and lining concrete in elastic stage, and to analyze the failure process of interface...
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Application of Differential Transform Method in Richards' Equation

Zhong Xinran, Ying Dai, Xi Chen
An approximate analytical solution of Richards' equation was derived by the differential transform method (DTM) in this paper. The basic idea is that the Richards' equation can be converted to an ordinary differential equation (ODE) by introducing the Boltzmann variable. Then DTM was applied to solve...
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Study on the social integration and family relocation decision of urban migrants based on Structural Equation Model

Hongsheng Chen, Xingping Wang, Zhenjun Zhu
In the background of rapid urbanization in China, it is an important task to improve the level of social integration and solve the problem of discrete distribution of floating family members. A Structural Equation Model (SEM) of family relocation decision related to rural factors, urban factors and social...
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Experimental Study on the Shear Strength of Trapezoidal Corrugated Steel Webs with Longitudinal Stiffeners

Guoqing Zhang
The shear strength of trapezoidal corrugated steel webs is an important parameter for the design of girder bridges with trapezoidal corrugated steel webs. Five I-shaped steel beams with different longitudinal stiffeners were tested to preliminarily investigate the shear behavior of trapezoidal corrugated...
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Numerical Modeling on Assemble-type Composited Wall

Yuanyuan Zhao, Quan Yuan
A numerical modeling were built by ABAQUS to do push-over analysis, and the results were consistent with test results in load-displacement curve and frame stress nephogram. Furthermore, the influence of the changing key parameters were analyzed by numerical simulation to understand the axial compression...
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Experimental Study on Assemble-type Composited Wall

Yuanyuan Zhao, Quan Yuan
For assemble-type composited wall, 4 pieces of wall which are 1/2 scale models were made. By pseudo-static tests under low cyclic loading, the aseismic behavior indexes were compared and analyzed, including failure characteristics, bearing capacity, stiffness, deformation, ductility, energy dissipation...
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Damage index of the longitudinal connection of simple supported-to-continuous girder bridges constructed with prestressed hollow slabs

Jing Liu, Jinquan Zhang, Wanheng Li, Bo Diao
Simple supported-to-continuous girder bridges are commonly and widely used in bridge engineering in China. For this type of bridges, normally, the longitude connections are casted in-site by concrete. The quality of the casted concrete is difficult to control. After a large number of field surveys, damages...
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Influence of longitudinal connections of simple support-to-continuous girder on the behavior of high-way bridges

Jing Liu
Nowadays, in the Chinese high-way constructions, simple supported-to-continuous girder bridges are commonly used. One issue that involved in the construction of this type of bridges is the longitude connections that are casted in-site. The quality of the casted concrete is difficult to control. After...
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Experimental Research on Behavior of Angle Shear Connectors

Guoqing Zhang, Meichai Zhang
The reasonable design of shear connectors is the key to ensure the integral forced performance of steel-concrete composite beam. This paper presents an experimental research on the capacity of angle shear connectors. Six push-out specimens with different height and thickness of angles were included in...
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Mechanical damage numerical analysis of filter bags in bag type dust collector

Yanghou Chen
This paper presents a new reason of the mechanical damage principle of pulse bag type dust collector bag. Three dimensional main structure of dust collector is established. And finite element numerical simulation is given. Also according to the actual situation of customer feedback, the flow field distribution...
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Numerical Simulation and Assessment Research of Reinforced Concrete Slabs Damage under the Effect of Explosion Shock Wave

Changlin He, Qigao Hu, Jinghan Liu
In order to assess the damage of reinforced concrete slabs under the effect of explosion shock wave, finite element models were built with LS-DYNA. Different models under four working conditions in TNT equivalence, reinforcement and slab thickness were considered. Equivalent plastic strain was brought...
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Research on Seismic Behavior of High-pier and Long-span Rigid Frame-continuous Combination Bridge With Corrugated Steel Webs

Wenzhou Wang, Yili Wang, Zhan Yang, Bin Li
Based on a long-span rigid frame-continuous combination bridge with corrugated steel webs, the seismic behavior of finite element model built by Midas Civil is analyzed through Pushover method, and the result is compared with the result from nonlinear time-procedure analysis. The outcome indicates that...
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Application of Pushover Analysis in Bridge Piers

Fulin Yang, Yunlei Zhang, Tao Zheng, Bin Li
This paper summarizes basic principles and assumptions of pushover analysis, and then introduces two important factors which may make the results of analysis different: lateral load patterns and calculation of maximum displacement. Subsequently, the paper selects two kinds of lateral load pattern to...
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Parameter Analysis on shear lag effect of composite girder with steel truss webs

Cong Lei, Junliang Tian, Suisheng Li, Yingjie Guo, Wenjuan Liu
In order to fully understand the shear lag effect variation of concrete composite girder with steel truss webs, the 3D finite element model is established with general finite element software ANSYS, considering three typical load models of mid-span concentrated load, two points symmetrical load and uniform...
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The Review and Proposals of Wood-concrete Composite Beams

Li Li, Wenhui Xie, Xianlin Zhou
The wood-concrete composite beams consist of the wooden beams and concrete slabs by using shear connectors together into a whole load.With the development of society and economy as well as the accumulation of experience in scientific research,people have a further understanding and mastering about the...
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Seismic Performance Analysis of Large-scale Underground Commercial Space Structure

Li Li, Deyun Ding, Ji Zhao
Base on the underground central business district project in the south economic development zone of Changchun, this research studied seismic performance of a large-scale complex underground commercial space structure under the severe earthquake action. A three-dimensional dynamic model was established...
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A Comparison of Regeneration Dynamics Following Gap Creation in a Degraded Grassland

Haiming Kan, Tiejun Sun, Juying Wu, Zhuo Pang, Wei Hu
Seven treatments were implemented in a degraded steppe in north China to evaluate the effects of gap creation on two native species regeneration. Shoot gaps and root gaps (10cm, 20cm and 40cm in diameters), no gaps (control). Shoot gaps were formed by removing vegetation without restricting the re-growth...
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Liquefaction and Settlement Analysis of Silt Soil Foundation in High Earthquake Intensity Region

Huanqiang Zhang, Xiaohui Xiang
The under-crossing tunnel of east external ring of Kunming is one of the most important projects of the Kunming south railway station hub construction. Two layers of silt soil are found in tunnel mileage K2+100-K2+200 and one of them is just under the tunnel floor. Since the project is on high seismic...
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Strategies of ecological restoration based on the processes of ecological degradation

Meirong Tian, Jixi Gao, Zhaoping Yang
The ecological degradation have been aggravated under the background of global climate change and increasing social-economic development. It is important to ascertain the process and mechanism of ecological degradation, which is considered prerequisite of choosing effective restoration measures. This...
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Visible light induced Photocatalytic Degradation of AOII Dye on Bi2O3

Shuhu Xiao, Siyu Wang, Hongbin Qu, Kun Zhang, Han Hu
Visible light induced photocatalytic oxidation degradation of Acid Orange II dye was discussed. Bi2O3 was chosen as the photocatalyst. SEM showed that Bi2O3 powders were of about 7 to 8 um in size. It was porous and AOII could be effectively adsorbed on the surface of Bi2O3. And then the absorbed AOII...
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An Emerging Method of the Non-contact Displacement Measurement by Video

Jichen Ma, Junjiang Xiao, Ruolei Liu, Jinlong Zhu
It is demonstrated an emerging measuring method of the Video Displacement Non-contact Measuring System. Through cameras and camcorders in mobile phones, the algorithm based on histogram characteristic of images is built and optimized in computing methods, obtaining displacement and deflection of the...
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Experimental Validation and Constitutive Relationship of Steel Material under Elevated Temperature and High Strain Rate

Shi Yan, Hang Wu, Baoxin Qi
Based on the temperature rise caused by adiabatic process and the viscosity of the metal under the impact of steel, the Johnson-Cook constitutive relation of structural steel in civil engineering was modified. Applying the Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) testing technique, the impact experiment under...
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Design Study on Ventilation and Sun-shading System of the Ecological Reconstruction of Guangzhou South logistics complex Building

Xuejing Chen
This article is a design study on the ecological reconstruction of Guangzhou South logistics complex Building, on the basis of keeping the original architectural structure. Through the simulation of computer software and application of effective architectural approaches, this article puts forward a targeted...
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Experimental Study on Anti-splitting Tensile Properties of the Chopped Basalt Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Shengji Jin, Xin Zhang, Jian Zhang, Xinpu Shen
In order to study the basic mechanical properties of chopped basalt fiber reinforced concrete (BFRC) and the impact of basalt fiber reinforced concrete by fiber content Experiments are conducted to examine the splitting tensile strength of this new composite construction material at different fiber volume...
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Test method of damage mechanism of the half-section concrete expanded-plates pile with undisturbed soil model

Wei Tian, Yongmei Qian, Xiaopen Su, Ruozhu Wang
Owing to many limitations of the traditional soil-pile model test scheme and large pile-soil solid test plan, the failure mechanism research of concrete expanded-plates pile is limited, so this paper will introduce a new test scheme. The test scheme can be a true simulation of the work together with...
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The undisturbed soil experiment of the comparison about the failure of the half and whole cross-section piles under the resistance compression

Wei Tian, Yongmei Qian, Tongjiang Lu, Ruozhu Wang
In this paper, adopting the small scale model experimental method, made the test pile with half and whole cross-section, and through the homemade soil device to extract the undisturbed soil to carry out the load experiment. Observe the failure process of the soil around the pile body, at the same time,...
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Study on the curing behavior of chloride ion in sea sand concrete

Jing Chen, Yi Jiang, Jiang Chen
Study on chloride ion adsorption and combined with the characteristics of sea sand concrete,through the determination of free chlorine ion content in sea sand concrete. The sea sand concrete microstructure and Friedel salt were characterized by using X-ray diffraction (XRD) , scanning electron microscopy...
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Railway Long-span Continuous Beam-arch Bridge Combining Joint Stress Distribution Rules

Xin Dang
On the background of Lanzhou-Chongqing railway Guangyuan Jialing river (82+172+82) m long-span continuous beam-arch combination bridge, the beam-arch joint stress distribution rules of a railway continuous beam-arch bridge has been studied, which the main span is over 150m, the construction and services...
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The Enrichment Culture, Screening and Purification of Oil Degradation Bacteria from Contaminated Seawater and Drilling Mud

Wu Zhang, Yanyan Ji, Ling Li, Hongyan Yang
It is urgent to find a reliable technique to settle the problem along with growing of petroleum hydrocarbon pollution in the sea. Compared to other traditional methods, biological treatment has a significant advantage. It is the key factor that gets bacteria with high efficiency of hydrocarbon degradation....
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Research on the optimal design of cutting and excavation control for a loess landslide based on numerical simulation

Baoqin Lin, Xingang Wang
Based on the numerical simulation method, a research on the optimal design of cutting and excavation control was conducted for Zhonglou Mountain Landslide in North Shaanxi, China. Three excavation slope angles, namely, 53ø, 54ø and 55ø, were chosen for numerical simulation calculation and comparative...
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Study on Establishing the Country Park's Resources Evaluation System

Zhifeng Kuang, Zhiyuan Li
In recent years, the construction and development of Country Parks in China has been rapidly and widely which gradually aroused people's concerns. But there was lack of Country Park's Resources Evaluation System(which would be called the CPRES in this paper) in China to provide reference in the process...
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Numerical analysis of surrounding environment deformation caused by excavation of foundation pit

Jingde Liu
The environment deformation caused by the excavation of a foundation pit is numerical analyzed using the hardening soil model. The simulation results show that the deformations of supporting structures of this foundation pit and the surrounding environment can meet the requirements of deformation control....
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Preparation Technology of Polyurethane Foam Concrete

Jiansuo Ma, Miaomiao Zhou, Huanqin Cai, Runshan Bai
Polyurethane foam concrete is prepared by solventless two-component polyurethane materials, cement, KC-15 composite blowing agents and calcium stearate foam stabilizer. It discussed the synthesis mechanism and studied the preparation process for the preparation of polyurethane foam concrete in the paper....
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Evaluation Method of Integrated Security for Highway Subgrade after Earthquake

Cong Li, Hejun Chai, Dongyuan Gou
Evaluation of integrated security situation for highway subgrade comprehensively and accurately has been able to provide the basis for repair of damaged subgrade in reconstruction stage after earthquake. Five indexes have been selected to figure characteristics of subgrade: damage condition, structural...
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Optimal reservoir operation in electric power market transaction model

Yingqin Chen
Electric power market transaction is one of the important measures for the reform of the electric power system in China. In this paper, the characteristics of the optimal reservoir scheduling in the electric power market transaction model are analyzed, and the optimal operation model of the reservoir...
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Comparison analysis of micropile and slab foundation for transmission tower

Huajuan Wang
Transmission tower is constructed quickly in China and the foundation of tower should be studied for economical and security reasons. A simplified analytical is presented for the mechanism of the new micropiles foundation, which have many advantages in design and construction stage, such as accurate...
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The analysis of improving effect of parallel hole cut blasting on the basis of test results

Xingjun Fan
In order to realize the fast excavation in hard rock roadway with large footage, according to experience and parallel hole cut blasting theory, a diamond central interval charging parallel hole cut blasting experiment scheme was designed, and a series of test was finished in Beishan test site. But through...
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Start up of the EGSB reactor under the condition of poor nutrition and Microbial community analysis by next generation sequencing

Runhua Liao, Yan Jiang, Weipan Wang, Jie Du, Yueming Li, Bin Fan
The objective of this study was to investigate the successful start-up of poor nutrition simulated wastewater with sodium acetate carbon source in an EGSB reactor, and EGSB reactor inoculated the flocculent sludge from the anoxic zone in the municipal sewage treatment plant. The results demonstrated...