Galvanic corrosion protection by embedded zinc anodes is an accepted technique for the of reinforcing steel in concrete. currents flow between anode and reinforcement due to potential difference that range a few hundred mV. The ion distribution was studied on two reinforced concrete specimens admixed with 3 wt.% chloride/wt. cement galvanically protected surface applied EZ-anode. On both specim...

The expanding Electric Vehicle (EV) market presents a new opportunity for electric vehicles to deliver wide range of valuable grid services. Indeed, the emerging Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology with bi-directional flow power provides access mobile energy storage demand response, frequency regulation and balancing local distribution system. This reduces electricity costs at peak hours can be pr...

methods are proposed to develop idealized moment-curvature response curves of slender rectangular rc wall sections with uniformly distributed longitudinal reinforcement, using limit states, namely, cracking of concrete in tension, tensile yielding of reinforcement layers, and compression failure of concrete. it is recommended that tensile yielding of an inner layer of reinforcement is considere...

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a multi-billion-dollar collection of ongoing and planned Chinese projects in Pakistan ranging from infrastructure development to the establishment special economic zones sharing technical expertise by China. For China, it an integral part its ambitious Belt Road Initiative (BRI) through which aims establish hegemony Eurasia Africa. Pakistan, opport...

Sharing personal activities on social networks is very popular nowadays, where the activities include updating status, uploading dining photos, sharing video clips, etc. Finding travel interests hidden in these vast social activities is an interesting but challenging problem. In this work, we attempt to discover travel interests based on the spatial and temporal information of geotagged photos....

In regions with high penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), grid congestion is mostly caused by power feed-in generators. this context, conventional approaches for solving the problems are Active Power Curtailment (APC) DER and reinforcement. wake increased generation, it not only interest how to obtain reinforcement, but also consider APC during planning. The challenge such plannin...

With the rise of China and the implementation of the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” strategy, research on geo-economics between China and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries has become increasingly important. Current studies mainly focus on influencing factors, while there is little consideration about how these influencing factors act on geo-economic relationships. Ther...