Cable System Management requires an assessment of the health of the cable systems. It is increasingly common for the assessment of aged cable systems to be made through the application of diagnostics measurements. Papers and standards have established benchmarks for diagnostic measurements that help utility engineers to reach a condition assessment. Generally, extremes of healthy and non-health...

Structures consisting of cables and membranes have been of interest to engineers due to their higher ratio of strength to weight and lower cost compared to other structures. One of the challenges in such structures is presence of holes in membranes, which leads to non-uniform stress and strain distributions, even under uniform far-field deformations. One of the approaches suggested for controll...

In order to detect distributed ground surface deformation, an elastic helical structure Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) sensing cable is shown in this paper. This special sensing cable consists of three parts: a silicone rubber rope in the center; a couple of parallel wires coiling around the rope; a silicone rubber pipe covering the sensing cable. By analyzing the relationship between the impe...

The purpose of this work was to validate and apply a commercial computational fluid dynamics code with a hybrid RANS/LES turbulence computational model for a flow past a bluff body ultimately to help in the design of the caisson anchoring system during construction of a new adjacent span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. INTRODUCTION The new Tacoma Narrows Bridge will be designed as a suspension br...

Time domain reflectometry (TDR) technology is an ideal cable length measurement method. The traveling wave propagation velocity is the key to the measuring accuracy of the TDR cable length measurement system. The cable crimp levels effect on traveling wave propagation velocity is analyzed theoretically, and the corresponding experiment is done. The experimental results are match to the theoreti...

In the mining of close coal seam, stress concentration under residual pillar in upper seam leads to serious deformation roadway surrounding rock lower seam. Hence, it poses a huge challenge maintenance entry rock. Based on this, an approach control technology, directional pre-splitting, and roof-cutting pressure relief, was applied. The utilizing pre-splitting relief were studied by numerical s...

In order to study the optimal coal pillar width and surrounding rock control mechanism of gob-side entry under inclined seam condition, 130205 return air adjacent 130203 gob in Yangchangwan No. 1 well is taken as a typical engineering background. By means background analysis, theoretical analysis based on inside outside stress field, numerical simulation by FLAC3D software, situ industrial test...

Associating anchor text with pages, to which links are pointing, is a well-known approach to improve retrieval quality. It was used in the first version of Google [Brin and Page 1998]. On one hand, using the anchor text alone allows one to obtain a system with decent performance [Anh and Moffat 2010; Hiemstra and Hauff 2010]. We also know that the anchor text is a strong relevance signal from o...

Sign language is used by many people who were born deaf or who became deaf early in life as their first and/or preferred language. There is no writing system for sign languages; texts are signed on video. As a consequence, texts in sign language are hard to navigate, search and annotate. The BiBiKit project is an easy to use authoring kit which is being developed and enables students, teachers,...