Abstract: With the further interconnection of the power grid, the scope of blackouts have become more extensive. Identification of vulnerable lines has important theoretical and practical significance for preventing cascading failures and ensuring the safety and stable operation of the system. The current res...
Abstract: Continuous power supply scheme of traction cables is explored for urban railways, in which the power runs through the whole line, and two main substations are set with the same phase power supply devices, one for primary use and one for standby. The feeding section distance is modeled and solved in ...
Abstract: The power supply distance is an important indicator to measure the power supply capacity of a traction system, and has a practical impact on the stability and economic operation of the system. The urban rail AC power supply system uses the cable structure of the traction network, which has the outst...
Abstract: Traditional visual SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) without loop detection may lead to error accumulation. Even if there exits loop detection, it is unable to be applied to the lightweight applications because of its low accuracy and efficiency. Thus, a visual SLAM with loop detection op...
Abstract: Given that azimuth calculation is fundamental to angle-of-arrival (AOA) localization, the spherical approximation method and normal cylindrical projection-plane method for azimuth calculation on geodetic coordinates are proposed firstly. Furthermore, the AOA localization equations based on spherical...
Abstract: Aiming at the short cruising range of the battery rail engineering vehicles (BREVs) and the large starting current of the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), a new method of controlling the starting current of the PMSM driven by the hydraulic pump/motor was proposed based on the characteristi...
Abstract: For the traditional data-driven methods of remaining useful life prediction, health indicators are generally built with some hand-crafted feature extraction methods. However, in the big data era, hand-crafted feature extraction methods require specific expert knowledge and time-costing. In order to ...
Abstract: To ensure that the maintenance contractor obtains the maximum present value of revenue, the road network maintenance scheduling problem was explored under different payment modes of the client. First, three payment modes, i.e., time-based payment mode, progress-based payment mode and maintenance-cos...
Abstract: There is a coupling relationship between overnight train operation and maintenance window setting of high-speed railways. Their collaborative optimization contributes to meeting passenger travel demands at night and improves the allocation of railway transportation resources. Taking the corridor-typ...
Abstract: In order to accurately calculate the deflection of a new type of composite box girder with corrugated steel webs (CSWs), Reddy high-order theory is used to analyze the slip deformation of the steel-concrete interface and the high-order shear deformation effect of the whole section; the isoparametric...
Abstract: In order to alleviate the lateral deflection or overturning of the beam under various factors, and improve the rigid blocking defect of the existing anti-offset equipment, a lateral-movement limiting device of beam body based on the elastic anti-deflection and plastic unloading concept is designed b...
Abstract: In order to study the influence of turbulence integral scale on the fluctuating wind pressure and its distribution characteristics on the rectangular windward surface of a high-rise building, rectangular models with 2∶1 and 1∶2 width-depth ratios were put in a wind tunnel to obtain statistical featu...
Abstract: To study the spatial distribution characteristics of dynamic response of military heavy-haul railway subgrade, using highly nonlinear analysis program ANSYS/LS-DYNA3D, a 3D explicit dynamic model of a track-subgrade-foundation system was established with the 3D consistent viscous-spring artificial b...
Abstract: In order to objectively evaluate the safety and stability of deep foundation pit excavation in watery sandy pebble stratum, eight evaluation indexes, such as ground settlement, building settlement and groundwater level, are selected to evaluate the excavation safety according to the structural defor...
Abstract: The rockburst prediction results of a tunnel in the Lhasa−Linzhi railway cannot meet the actual situation on site by applying the existing criteria directly. In order to formulate the rockburst intensity classification scheme and stress criterion for the whole line of the Lhasa−Linzhi railway, the m...
Abstract: In order to determine the fracture surface location of the reinforced retaining wall, a polyline fracture surfaceform was proposed based on the horizontal slice method. The fracture surface of the reinforced retaining wall is viewed to be composed of several line segments, one connected with another...
Abstract: Paleosol containing calcareous concretion is widely distributed in the shear zone of loess landslides and affects the shear failure characteristics of landslides. Based on ring shear tests, the shear characteristics of paleosol with different contents of calcareous concretions under different normal...
Abstract: As a special type of debris flows closely relevant to forest fire, the generation of post-fire debris flow often shows a spatial variation. It is of great significance to analyze the spatial development characteristics and its influencing factors for hazard mitigation and reduction. By means of fiel...
Abstract: Precast concrete shear wall structure is one of the most common structures for China’s high-rise residential buildings. Reliable vertical connection is critical for the structure to ensure safety. According to the number of vertically distribution reinforcement connections or lap joints (connection ...
Abstract: Permeable asphalt concrete (PAC) possesses good capacity of drainage and noise reduction due to its large porosity. Nevertheless, it is prone to suffer water damage. Coarse crumb rubber (CCR) and styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer (SBS) were used to prepare composite modified asphalt. Freeze-...
Abstract: In order to study the strain rate sensitivity of porous cotton cloth-phenolic bearing retainer, the hardness and elastic modulus of the porous cotton cloth-phenolic bearing retainer were measured by nanoindenter when the strain rate ranged from 0.01 s−1 to 0.05 s−1. And then the viscoelastic propert...
Abstract: In order to explore the difference in deformation behaviors of polypropylene engineered cementitious composite (PP-ECC) beam and reinforced concrete (RC) beam, bending resistance tests were performed on four PP-ECC beams and four RC beams using two loading systems, i.e., step loading and cyclic load...
Abstract: This work aims to study the propagation behavior of Ⅰ - Ⅱ mixed mode micro-cracks in the ultra-dense asphalt concrete in cold regions. Based on the Eshelby equivalent inclusion theory and the maximum circumferential stress fracture criterion, the relationship between the declination angle β and the...
Abstract: The initial deflection angle of high-speed trains caused by inaccurate positioning sharply can aggravate wheel-rail contact relationships and affect traffic safety, especially when passing through weak areas such as turnouts. In order to study the dynamic performance of vehicles passing through high...
Abstract: Elastic contact deformation between the wheel and rail is pivotal in the computation of the wheel-rail contact force in the vehicle-track coupled dynamics. Based on the Hertz contact theory, the nonlinear contact stiffness is used to depict the relation of the wheel-rail normal contact force and the...
Abstract: The torsion parameter of the conductor is one of its basic mechanical properties. Moreover, the tension-torsioncoupling effect of iced transmission lines will greatly affect the accuracy of galloping analysis. To analyze this effect, the torsional test was carried out for the typical 7-strand alumin...
Abstract: In order to overcome the limitations of the existing evaluation model of high-speed train passenger interface, such as single index, subjective randomness of weighting method and lack of quantitative analysis. Firstly, a satisfaction survey was conducted on the new type double deck high-speed test s...