This study proposes a general reduced vehicle model for simulating truck-bridge pier collisions.The model was calibrated using high-fidelity finite element (FE) simulations based on Kimono LS-DYNA of three types of trucks (i.e., light, medium, and heavy) impacting with rigid bridge piers.Key parameters influencing the vehicular impact force, such a
In 1993, a new retail complex called “Beurstraverse” was opened in the core of Rotterdam’s downtown commercial centre.In design, this complex differs sharply from that of the adjacent shopping precinct.An instant success, it was nicknamed the “Koopgoot”, or “shopping trench”.As an excavated passage under the Coolsingel, the major thor
Objective Congenital haemangiomas (CHs) are rare, benign vascular tumours that are fully developed at birth.Three subtypes of CHs have been described based on clinical behaviour: rapidly involuting CHs (RICHs), non-involuting CHs (NICHs) and partially involuting CHs (PICHs).We explore in our study clinical, evolutionary and paraclinical characteris
In this study, we comment about a ORG SEA SALTED PISTACHIOS wrong proof, at least incomplete, of the closed Newton Cotes error formulas for integration in a closed interval [a,b].left[a,b].These error formulas appear as an intuitive generalization of the simple proof for the error formula of the trapezoidal rule, and their proofs present one contro