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Improvement of Natural Ventilation of Post-earthquake Transition Settlements in Dujiangyan, Sichuan HUANG Luhong1.a, LONG Enshen1.a, WANG Ziyun1.a, ZHOU Bo1.a, HUANG Luhong2.b and SONG Yuning2.b 1College of Architecture and Environment, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 2College of Geography and Resource Science , Sichuan Normal University a.flockhuang@163.com , b.Chengdu, China Keywords-earthquake; post-earthquake transition settlements; planning; building design; ventilated environment Abstract—In the summer of 2010, we performed some on-site measurements to investigate the outdoor air temperature and wind velocity of Happy Homeland, a typical post-earthquake transition settlement of Sichuan.
A lot of design variables contribute to heat island effect, such as urban structure, size of the city, population and density of built-up area, ratio of buildings height to distance between them (Hereinafter referred to as ratio of H-D), width of roads, building materials, surface materials and sky view factor [4].In order to enhance the natural ventilation and reduce the heat island effect in transition settlements, this article proposes planning and design improvement which focuses on raising ratio of H-D, widening width of roads but raising volume fraction as well.
[12] Bronius Kavolelis, Rolandas Bleizgys, Jonas Cesna, “Natural ventilation of animal sheds due to thermal buoyancy and wind,” journal of environmental engineering and landscape management, vol.16(4), 2008, pp. 188–194.

The researches above mainly based on survey data, but to conduct a survey requires a major investment in human and material resources, furthermore the sample data could hardly cover all passengers.
Acknowledgements This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (60870012), the Science and Technology Research and Development Plan of Railway Ministry (2012X011-A).
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Coupled THM Model and Simulation of the Yucca Mountain and FEBEX Case Study within DECOVALEX-THMC Framework Xiaoyan Liu1, a, Chengyuan Zhang1,b and Quansheng Liu1,c 1 State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan,430071, China a liuxy@whrsm.ac.cn, bzhangcy@whrsm.ac.cn, cliuqs@whrsm.ac.cn Keywords: DECOVALEX; THM coupled simulation.
Introduction This paper presents coupled thermal-hydrological-mechanical (THM) modeling and simulation results for DECOVALEX-THMC, Task_D, conducted by the Wuhan Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Task_D_THM includes two subtasks that involve analysis of coupled THM processes in two generic repositories [1,2], as follows: ① Task_D THM1: A generic repository located in saturated crystalline rock, where emplacement tunnels are backfilled with buffer material (FEBEX type). ② Task_D THM2: A generic repository located in unsaturated volcanic rock, with emplacement in open gas-filled tunnels (Yucca Mountain type).
Acknowledgments This work was supported by Chinese academy of science (CAS) under the project of kzcx2-yw-116 and National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the project 40520130315 and 50574087.
Liu, Chinese Journal of rock mechanics and engineering, Vol. 25(2006), p.709-720

Table 2 Heavy metal concentrations in the iron tailings Heavy metals Pb[mg·kg-1] Cu[mg·kg-1] Cr[mg·kg-1] Zn[mg·kg-1] Ni[mg·kg-1] Mn[mg·kg-1] As[mg·kg-1] concentrations 172.1 38.45 16.42 1076 7.411 13388 3.150 Materials and Methods Soil Sampling.
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Experimental Setup Experimental materials in the study on anaerobic digestion process of shrimp pond sediment by the batch reactor were setup.
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Neural Network Modeling for Monitoring Petroleum Pipelines Ighodaro Osaroboa,b and Akaeze Chikab aSchool of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom bDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Benin, P.M.B 1154, Benin City, Nigeria osaighodaro@gmail.com Keywords.
June 2000, final year project, Computer science Dept., University of Lagos
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Active limit equilibrium method of the stability analysis for soil slopes Ying Huang1,a, Zulian Zhang1,b and Kesheng Jin1,c 1Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China ahuangying3764@sina.com, bzhangzulian2008@sina.com, cteacher_jin2006@126.com Keywords: Soil slopes, Stability analysis, Active limit equilibrium, Critical moisture content Abstracts.
Acknowledgements This work was financially supported by the Country Natural science Foundation of China (50868009, 51168022) and the Yunnan Province Department of Education Foundation (2011Y354).
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Morgan 1, a, Giyoung Kim 2, b, Daniel Ess 1, c, Aparna Kothapalli 3, d, Byoung-Kwon Hahm 3, e, and Arun Bhunia 3, f 1 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 47907 2 National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, RDA, 249 Seodun-dong, Suwon, Republic of Korea 441-100 3 Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 47907 a mmorgan@purdue.edu, bgiyoung@rda.go.kr, cess@purdue.edu, dakothapa@purdue.edu, e hahm@purdue.edu, fbhunia@purdue.edu Keywords: Biosensor, Fiber-optic, Food safety, Salmonella enteritidis Abstract.
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Hungary 3Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geochemical Research, 1112 Budapest Budaörsi út 45.
In addition, the sodium present in the arc tube can take place a reaction between the discharge tube material and the sodium to form β-alumina (Na2O*11Al2O3), which compounds could provide a path of rapid sodium loss through the alumina wall and sodium aluminate (NaAlO2) [1, 5].
The sodium diffusion profiles developed by the heat treatment were measured by XPS and SIMS, which techniques enable to study the topmost few atomic layers of the material, hence very thin layers can be characterized.
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