Search results for " ferro"

Towards Low-Cost Pavement Condition Health Monitoring and Analysis Using Deep Learning

2020

Governments are faced with countless challenges to maintain conditions of road networks. This is due to financial and physical resource deficiencies of road authorities. Therefore, low-cost automated systems are sought after to alleviate these issues and deliver adequate road conditions for citizens. There have been several attempts at creating such systems and integrating them within Pavement management systems. This paper utilizes replicable deep learning techniques to carry out hotspot analyses on urban road networks highlighting important pavement distress types and associated severities. Following this, analyses were performed illustrating how the hotspot analysis can be carried out to…

SUP R DSS: A sustainability-based decision support & system for road pavements

2019

Road pavement community members are increasingly becoming aware of the need to incorporating the principles of sustainable development into the sector. Policies are also going in this direction and as a consequence in the recent years researchers and practitioners are coming up with new materials, technologies and practices designed to reduce the negative impacts of their activities in the surroundings. Within this framework the road pavements sector is witnessing a paradigm shift towards the development of pavement technologies incorporating high-content of recycled materials, as well as best practices to decrease the overall carbon footprint. These are all promising solutions that to the …

Design considerations of high RAP-content asphalt produced at reduced temperatures

2018

In many countries recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) for road surface layers is limited to a maximum of 10–30%. This is due to technical limitation of common asphalt plant but also to specifications that are still restrictive when it comes to increasing RAP in surface courses. The mistrust in this practice is mainly related to uncertainty in performance of these mixes as well as to existing fundamental issues with the mix design, especially when production temperatures are lowered. This paper analyses some of the factors affecting the design of warm asphalt mixtures for surface course layers containing 50% RAP, and suggests a framework to justify the common assumption of full ble…

J. Vidal-Beneyto (1927-2010)

2010

General route to dissymmetric heteroannular-functionalized ferrocenyl 1,2-diphosphines: selective synthesis and characterization of a new class of tr…

2006

Several monosubstituted-cyclopentadienyl anions (A-Li) and [1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)-4-tert-butylcyclopentadienyl]lithium (B-Li) react with FeCl2 to afford a novel class of multidentate ferroceny...

Photogrammetric UAV technologies aimed at monitoring of infrastructures

2022

The research has three key concept: the first one is the application of data analysis using limited data sets to understand historical and future road maintenance interventions; the second one is the application of image based 3D modelling and analysis of pavement distresses; the third one is the application of deep learning to detect and pinpoint pavement distresses

Low-pressure ferroelastic phase transition in rutile-type AX2 minerals: cassiterite (SnO2), pyrolusite (MnO2) and sellaite (MgF2)

2019

The structural behaviour of cassiterite (SnO2), pyrolusite (MnO2) and sellaite (MgF2), i.e. AX2-minerals, has been investigated at room temperature by in situ high-pressure single-crystal diffraction, up to 14 GPa, using a diamond anvil cell. Such minerals undergo a ferroelastic phase transition, from rutile-like structure (SG: P42/mnm) to CaCl2-like structure (SG: Pnnm), at ≈ 10.25, 4.05 and 4.80 GPa, respectively. The structural evolution under pressure has been described by the trends of some structure parameters that are other than zero in the region of the low-symmetry phase’s stability. In particular, three tilting-angles (ω, ω′, ABS) and the metric distortion of the cation-centred oc…

Long-lived dynamic heterogeneity in a relaxor ferroelectric

1998

The polydispersive dielectric response of the relaxor ferroelectric lead magnesium niobate was investigated using nonresonant spectral hole-burning experiments. Using large alternating electric fields, specific parts of the relaxation-time distribution could be addressed selectively. This provides evidence for the dynamic heterogeneity of the dipolar reorientation process. The refilling of single as well as of double holes was much slower than the time scale set by the pump frequencies. Upon refilling, the holes exhibited no signs of spectral broadening. The present findings suggest a speedup of polarization response associated with a domain-wall depinning that is induced by the hole-burnin…

Impacts of roundabouts in suburban areas on congestion-specific vehicle speed profiles, pollutant and noise emissions: an empirical analysis

2019

Abstract Increasing concern about global warming and air quality has meant an increasing use of energetic and environmental indicators in roundabout design. This research compares different suburban roundabouts in terms of traffic performance, pollutant and noise emissions through an integrated empirical assessment. Field measurements were carried out with a light duty vehicle in single-lane (SL), compact two-lane (CTL) and multi-lane (ML) roundabouts using Portable Emission Measurements Systems, On-Board Diagnostic scan tool and Sound Level Meter, to measure real-world exhaust emissions, engine activity and acoustic data, respectively. Afterwards, predictive discrete choice models that cor…

Modello fuzzy di calcolo della distanza di visibilità per il sorpasso su strade extraurbane ad unica carreggiata bidirezionale

2002

Lo studio di modelli teorici che ben rappresentino, nella loro articolazione, le manovre di guida in sede stradale è da sempre un esercizio tanto praticato quanto complesso. La difficoltà di delineare compiutamente tali manovre, di definirne l’interazione cinematica dei veicoli coinvolti è comprovata dalla varietà di modelli presenti in letteratura. Con il presente lavoro ci si propone di pervenire alla formulazione di un modello originale di calcolo della distanza di visibilità per il sorpasso su strade bidirezionali ad unica carreggiata, il quale tenga debitamente conto del coacervo delle variabili cinematiche, meccaniche, geometriche, ambientali e di traffico, così come del comportamento…