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Debido a los cambios climáticos que generan humedad en las zonas tropicales, el pavimento presenta cierta susceptibilidad a fallar por el desprendimiento de la película [...]

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La Administración Federal de Carreteras (FHWA, por sus siglas en inglés) del Departamento de Transportación Federal de los Estados Unidos estableció un programa innovador [...]

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Los segmentos de carreteras que unen las zonas de alta velocidad con las zonas de baja velocidad son conocidos como zonas de transición; es en estas zonas que los conductores [...]

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Las infracciones a la señal roja ("Red-Light Running", RLR) en una intersección con semáforo es un grave problema de seguridad. Un estudio de [...]

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Durante los pasados años, el gobierno federal ha requerido que las autoridades de transporte público informen sobre incidencias de seguridad en sus servicios de transportación. [...]

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Con el tiempo hemos observado como el sistema vial de Puerto Rico se ha desarrollado. Desde las vías de mayor importancia en décadas pasadas, como la PR-1, PR-2 y PR-3; [...]

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En esta ponencia se presenta la complejidad de la problemática de la inseguridad vial y las diferentes ramificaciones de manera específica y pragmática. [...]

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Editorial: La seguridad en la infraestructura vial: Un compromiso de todos

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Errata "Investigación de causas de explosiones en una planta de almacenamiento de combustible en Puerto Rico"

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El limo arenoso de las formaciones loéssicas se caracteriza por su alta sensibilidad a los cambios de humedad. Esta condición lo cataloga como internamente inestable. A [...]

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En este trabajo los autores resumen los resultados de un estudio paramétrico dedicado a evaluar, mediante análisis estáticos no lineales (pushover), parámetros [...]

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El presente artículo estudia la factibilidad de efectuar predicciones de sismos, así como el estado actual de los estudios relacionados con sustento científico. El artículo [...]

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O presente trabalho visou determinar e padronizar parâmetros do solo, para avaliação de áreas para disposição de resíduos provenientes das atividades humanas, levando-se [...]

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La valoración de la acción del viento sobre un edificio en la etapa de diseño requiere conocer la magnitud de las máximas velocidades de viento a las que estará expuesta [...]

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El frente costero urbano al sur de Punta Mogotes (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires) padece desde hace años un fenómeno de erosión progresiva debido a factores naturales y de [...]

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Editorial: La carencia de uniformidad en el riesgo de carreteras en zonas montañosas

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Curved graphs that relate the f/L ratio and the λ = qL3 /EIy parameter for clamped arches with the different calculation hypothesis are going to be proposed in this article. [...]

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A finite layer method for evaluation of the effects of seismic action on retaining walls is presented, which is based on the wave propagation theory and modal superposition. [...]

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The ultimate limit state criteria (yielding surfaces) applied to structural designs are easier in stress resultants. There are many difficulties to generating interaction [...]

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Motion of screw dislocations in BCC materials at low temperature is believed to be related to the formation of mobile kinks on the dislocation line. Therefore, the accurate [...]

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A mixed least-squares finite element scheme designed for solving the transient convection-diffusion equations expressed in terms of both the primal unknown and its flux, incorporating [...]

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This paper presents the design of an algorithm based on neural networks in discrete time for its application in mobile robots. In addition, the system stability is analyzed [...]

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The pyrolysis models undergoes a fast development due to the enhancement of both the computational power and the new test used to characterize the behaviour of materials under [...]

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Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems (DDDAS) appear as a new paradigm in the field of applied sciences and engineering, and in particular in simulation-based engineering [...]

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This article shows an efficient implementation of a dynamic semi-recursive formulation for large and complex multibody system simulations, with interesting applications in [...]

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The direct kinematics problem for parallel robots can be stated as follows: given values of the joint variables, the corresponding Cartesian variable values, the pose of the [...]

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In this paper we have developed the numerical solution of two problems of diffusion-convection (DC), using the finite element method of Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG). [...]

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Reinforced concrete elements subjected to membrane forces, i.e., elements subjected to in-plane shear and axial stresses are very common for modeling complex structures such [...]

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The motivation of this work is the modeling of the hardening precipitate and hardness evolutions of fully hardened heat treatable aluminium alloys during friction stir welding [...]

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Simulation problems involving non-linear materials imply in numerous cases divergence of the implicit method which use return mapping algorithms for modelling of the nonlinear [...]

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The verification of the slender compressed members of a structure is a well formulated and codified problem. However, the non-linearity of the design process, combined with [...]

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This article presents a new algorithm based on the Nelder-Mead simplex algorithmic method for identifying a local optimum, at least on unconstrained nonlinear mixed-integer [...]

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In recent years there has been extensive development of the fire computer models, and its use in the study of the fire safety, fire investigation, etc. has been increased. [...]

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In this work, results of efficiencies for first and second law of thermodynamics applied to four box-type solar cookers with internal reflectors are shown. The solar cooker [...]

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Currently, many structures existing in seismic areas are highly vulnerable because they have been built without the use of seismic design codes or by using outdated codes. [...]

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In this paper, the numerical method level set has been used to model the combustion process in an Otto two-stroke engine. The level set has been implemented in a CFD (Computational [...]

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In this work we use the Unusual Stabilized Finite Element Method (USFEM) associated to Rothes method for solving the redistancing problem in the Level Set Method . Rothes [...]

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In order to design or redesign urban transportation networks, the employment of mathematical models is very useful for predicting the effects of possible modifications of [...]

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Waffle-flat-plate structures have been widely used for residential and office buildings in the South of Europe between the seventies and nineties of the last century. These [...]

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Description of mechanical behavior of hard tissues by means of discrete models goes through various stages of analysis, which range from digital image processing to the specification [...]

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This work contributes to the study of nuclear plant thermal discharges in coastal areas by using a numerical model which solves the Navier-Stokes-Reynolds equations for shallow [...]

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This work shows the wave propagation in fluid-solid interfaces due to dynamic excitations, such interface waves are known as Scholtes waves. We studied a wide range of elastic [...]

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Freezing is an important step in the manufacturing process of ice-cream and sorbet, since the operating conditions have a strong influence on the micro-structure, and consequently [...]