Analysis of the Spatial Pattern of Military River Defense on the Ming Great Wall: A Case Study of the Shanxi Section of the Yellow River by Tianlian WANG, Zhe LI

“…ObjectiveRiver defence plays a vital role in the development of the Ming Great Wall’s military defence system. …”
Get full text

Measurements and Modeling of the Responses of VLF Transmitter Signals to X‐Class Solar Flares at the Great Wall Station in Antarctica by Wei Xu, Xudong Gu, Binbin Ni, Shiwei Wang, Zhe Yang, Wen Cheng, Ze‐Jun Hu, Fang He, Bin Li, Xiang‐Cai Chen, Jian‐Jun Liu, Hong‐Qiao Hu

“…Thanks to the good coverage and quiet electromagnetic environment provided by the Great Wall Station (GWS, 62.22°S, 58.96°W) in Antarctica, our Very‐Low‐Frequency (VLF) receiver has recorded clean VLF signatures produced by three X‐class solar flares from March to May in 2022. …”
Get full text

A spatially periodic flow and heat transfer in a rectangular channel with one ribbed wall by Ris Vladimir, Galaev Sergey, Levchenya Alexander

Get full text

A Modified Cubic Law for Rough-Walled Marble Fracture by Embedding Peak Density by Baohua Guo, Chenlin Wang, Long Wang, Yan Chen, Tan Cheng

Get full text

Experimental Study on a Low-Rise Shear Wall with the Built-In Shear Steel Plate by Xingyu Song, Lin Zhao, Lingkun Chen, Yuan Duan, Yehao Jiang, Yuan Tian

“…In this paper, a new reinforcement scheme is proposed to improve the seismic performance of low-rise shear walls. …”
Get full text

Effect of the Wall-Back Inclination Angle on the Inertial Loading Distribution along Gravity-Retaining Walls: An Experimental Study on the Shaking Table Test by Shuzhi Ma, Hongbiao Jia, Xiaolang Liu

“…Such a distribution of acceleration amplification is of great importance to comprehend the safe design of retaining walls. …”
Get full text

Formulating the in-plane frictional resistances and collapse mechanisms for multi-storey masonry block walls by L.U. Argiento, A. Maione, C. Casapulla

“…In this paper a macro-block model accounting for frictional resistances is presented to assess the lateral strength of a multi-storey masonry block wall. …”
Get full text

Study on the Composite Performance of Sandwich Wall Panels with SGCCs by Huanzhi Jiang, Libo Xie, Fengyuan Chang, Yu Cao, Zhengxing Guo

“…This study provides theoretical and data support for the rational configuration of connectors in sandwich wall panels and is of great significance for building engineering applications. …”
Get full text

Plant cell wall chemistry: implications for ruminant utilisation by X. Li

“…The composition and characteristics of polysaccharides vary greatly among forages and plant cell walls. Plant cell walls are linked and packed together in tight configurations to resist degradation, and hence their nutritional value to animals varies considerably, depending on composition, structure and degradability. …”
Get full text

Genesis of the Bairendaba Ag-Zn-Pb Deposit, Southern Great Xing’an Range, NE China: A Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Study by Shunda Li, Keyong Wang, Yicun Wang, Xuebing Zhang, Hongyan Quan

Get full text

Bilocation - Dislocation - Xlocation : The Apocalypse of Place in Eamonn Wall’s Poetry by Pascale Guibert

“…Contemporary Irish-American poet Eamonn Wall, commuting between continents, has experienced a new form of exile, made of impermanence and mutation. …”
Get full text

Deformation of the Geocell Flexible Reinforced Retaining Wall under Earthquake by Yalin Zhu, Kun Tan, Yin Hong, Ting Tan, Manrong Song, Yixian Wang

“…As a new type of reinforced material, geocells are widely used in flexible reinforced retaining wall projects, and a lot of practical experience shows that the geocell retaining wall has a great effect on earthquake resistance, but theoretical research lags behind engineering practice, and the deformation and failure mechanism under earthquake need to be further studied. …”
Get full text

Damage and failure of Orban’s gun during the bombardment of Constantinople walls in 1453 by Aristotle Kakaliagos, Nikolaos Ninis

“…In this paper the bombardment of the Constantinople Theodosian Walls by the great cannon of Orban is numerically reproduced deploying Struc­tural Mechanics. …”
Get full text

Analysis of Stress Characteristics and the Engineering Application of the Self-Balancing Retaining Wall by Fei Gan, XiaoMing Ye, Ke Yin, Meilin Li, Jing Bi

“…The results show that the idea of using upper gravity retaining wall as the resistance of lower retaining wall is clever and reasonable that the self-balance retaining wall has a very wide scope of application relying on the anchor tensile conditions rarely and that the self-balance retaining wall has a great economic value with low cost. …”
Get full text

Commentary on “The Feasibility of Hybrid IMRT treatment planning for Left-sided Chest wall irradiation: A Comparative Treatment Planning Study” by Gautam Sarma, Hrishikesh Kashyap, Partha Medhi

“…With great interest, we read the article “The Feasibility of Hybrid IMRT treatment planning for Left-sided Chest wall irradiation: A Comparative Treatment Planning Study” by Haldar S et al. (1). …”
Get full text

Thickness of Ruth Glacier, Alaska, and depth of its Great Gorge from ice-penetrating radar and mass conservation by Brandon S. Tober, Michael S. Christoffersen, John W. Holt, Martin Truffer, Christopher F. Larsen

“…From there it funnels through the ‘Great Gorge,’ flanked by steep valley walls reaching over 1500 m. …”
Get full text

The Influence of Complex Subway Station Construction on High Retaining Walls and Appropriate Countermeasures by Kai Wang, Zhaoping Li, Xuezhao Xu, Leilei Shi, Fanbo Zhang

“…Anzhen Bridge Station of Beijing metro line 12, which adopts a separated-island platform constructed by the undermining method, passes along the retaining wall of the North Third Ring Road. …”
Get full text

Uptake of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Conjugated with DNA by Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Joseph Harvey, Lifeng Dong, Kyoungtae Kim, Jacob Hayden, Jianjie Wang

“…Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have been proposed to have great therapeutic potential. …”
Get full text

Study on the Failure Characteristics of Coal Wall Spalling in Thick Coal Seam with Gangue by Guosheng Li, Zhenhua Li, Feng Du, Zhengzheng Cao

“…The results show that, compared with coal wall spalling in coal seam without gangue, coal seam with the lower and middle gangue has a significant weakening effect on the wall spalling, and coal seam with the upper gangue has little effect on the wall spalling. …”
Get full text

Numerical Study on Deformation Capacity of Steel Plate Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls by Zhi Zhou, Jiang Qian, Wei Huang

“…The lateral resistance and deformation capacity of the shear wall are greatly improved. This paper investigates the deformation capacity of the SPRC shear wall under cyclic loads. …”
Get full text