The safety of bridge piers located in navigation waterways is often threatened by passing vessels nowadays.Empirical formulas such as those provided by AASHTO Guide Specification are currently extensively used to predict impact forces using equivalent static methods.However, here the important dynamic effects involved in an impact event cannot be c
Many cognominal parts exist in JT models exported by FORAN V70 R2.0 software, and this leads to an increase in time consumption and the space analysis results becoming hard to process when using clearance analysis software to perform distance computing for such JT models.Aiming at this problem, an algorithm for merging component nodes is read more
Abstract The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Urocerus japonicus (Hymenoptera: Siricidae), the Japanese horntail, for the territory of the EU.U.japonicus is not listed in Annex II of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 but was identified as an actionable pest in a commodity risk assessment of Pinus thunber
Background The Ebo Forest area is a highly threatened centre of diversity in the Littoral Region of Cameroon, globally important for conservation with many threatened species including 68 threatened species of plant, yet not formally protected.The tropical African evergreen forest tree genus Uvariopsis Engl.& Diels (Annonaceae) is characterised by