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LOADS ON WIND TURBINES ACCESS PLATFORMS WITH GRATINGS
No full textThe present paper deals with loads on wind turbine access platforms. The many planned new wind turbine parks together with the observed damages on platforms in several existing parks make the topic very important. The paper gives an overview of recently developed design formulae for different types of entrance platforms. Moreover, the paper present new results on loads on grates based on both drag coefficient measurements and preliminary results on
slamming from large scale tests. As expected both investigations show that platforms with grates give a significant reduction in the loads compared to closed plate platforms. The grate multiplication factor, defined as the peak load on the grate platform relative to the peak load on a closed plate platform was found approximately equal to the solidity of the grate
Erosione indotta da onde e correnti di marea attorno a pali di grande diametro
Full text linkQuesta nota descrive, sulla base di esperimenti di laboratorio svolti all’Università di Aalborg (DK), l’erosione localizza attorno a pali di grande diametro indotta da onde e correnti di marea.
Gli esperimenti sono stati condotti in un canale a fondo mobile dotato di generatore d’onda e sistema di ricircolo bidirezionale; l’erosione è stata misurata da un profilatore laser automatico.
I risultati vengono forniti in forma grafica in termini di volumi erosi e profondità massima.
Le condizioni di erosione all’equilibrio sono ottenute sulla base delle misure applicando una semplice regola di scala che considera l’ingombro del palo, la durata dell’esperimento e la mobilità dei sedimenti.
I volumi di erosione all’equilibrio V sono risultati pari a V/D^3 ≈ 16 (con D diametro del palo) in presenza di corrente di marea e V/D^3 ≈ 13 per corrente unidirezionale. La profondità di equilibrio risulta S/D ≈ 1.3 per entrambe le condizioni
Scour around monopile foundations for off-shore wind turbine in presence of steady and tidal currents
No full textThis note describes the scour induced by tidal currents around piles under live-bed conditions, on the basis of physical model tests carried out at Aalborg University (DK). Fine sand was placed in a flume equipped with a reversible pump. Scour was leveled by an automatic laser profiler. Experimental time evolution of scour is satisfactorily given by a simple rule, function of the volume occupied by the pile, the test duration and the sediment mobility. Such rule allows for a quantitative description of erosion in equilibrium conditions, although with some uncertainty. The scour depth S is S/D≈1.3 (D is the pile diameter). For unidirectional currents, eroded volume V at the pile is V/D3≈13, the hole having an assymmetrical shape. For tidal currents, two cases are distinguished, when tidal period is much longer or much shorter than time scale of erosion: in the first case the hole is asymmetric and keeps “drifting with the tide” with volume V/D3≈16; in the second case the hole is symmetric and is stable, with volume V/D^3≈13
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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