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This course discusses fundamental traffic flow characteristics and traffic flow variables. Their definitions are presented, and visualization/analysis techniques are discussed and empirical facts are presented. The empirical relation between the flow variables and the bottleneck capacity analysis are discussed. Shockwave analysis and a review of macroscopic traffic flow models are presented. Traffic flow stability issues are discussed as well as numerical solution approaches. The lectures also show how macroscopic models are derived from microscopic principles. This course provides an overview of human factors relevant for the behavior of drivers. The car-following model and other approaches to describe the lateral driving task will be discussed. The lectures also pertains to general gap acceptance modeling and lane changing. Microscopic models for pedestrian flow behavior are discussed and an in depth discussion of microscopic simulation models will be presented.
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- Transportation
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- Traffic flow -- Simulation methods Traffic engineering Traffic flow -- Mathematical models Traffic flow
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Energy storage will be of major importance when more and more energy is produced using fluctuating renewable sources like wind and solar power. This course concerns two energy storage methods: storage in the form of the artificial fuel hydrogen, and storage in the form of batteries. In the transition to a sustainable-energy future, both hydrogen and batteries will likely play increasingly important roles. Hydrogen has the advantage of effectively limitless scale up potential while batteries have the advantage of high energy efficiency. Methods for sustainable and renewable hydrogen production include solar, wind power, direct photo-electrolysis of water, thermal and nuclear methods as well as biological options. The students will learn about such production methods of hydrogen using renewable energy sources, and separation technologies for clean hydrogen. The application of hydrogen requires cheap, safe, lightweight and easy to handle storage of hydrogen. The course presents current options for storage of hydrogen, including light metal hydrides, large adsorption surface, and nanostructured materials, as well as gaseous and liquid hydrogen storage. It will be explained that the ultimate solution still needs to be found. Students will get an overview of most recent advances and bottlenecks, synthesis and characterization techniques. The electrical energy storage in batteries concerns the principles of (rechargeable) batteries, mainly Li-ion, and the relation of the performance with material properties. The relation between properties at the atomic level with the real life battery performance will be displayed. The principles will be explained in terms of basic electrochemistry and thermodynamics. The course will present recent advantage in the field of Li ion batteries. In addition super-capacitors, allowing fast (dis)charge and based on similar principles, are part of the course.
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- Building Services Engineering, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering
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- Storage batteries Renewable energy sources Hydrogen as fuel Energy storage Hydrogen -- Storage
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Conducting innovative research is working on the edge of the known and the unknown. In creating new technology the result is never guaranteed. Society faces a tremendous challenge in order to develop in a more sustainable way. What role is there for technology in this process of change? How could we stimulate innovations in technological systems?
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This version of the subject Technology Dynamics and Transition Management was tought in co-operation with the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. At the heart of this module lies a model of technology development from a social perspective, which will be applied to water problems in present-day China.
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- Technology
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- Water resources development China Indonesia -- Java Technological innovations Technology -- Social aspects
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Companies and governments have to decide upon technological strategies, i.e. which products are to be developed and which processes and infrastructures are required for the future. Several tools to consider technological strategies are dealt with in this course.
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- Technology
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- Water resources development Globalization Indonesia -- Java Technology transfer Technological innovations -- Management Sustainable development
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Companies and governments have to decide upon technological strategies, i.e. which products are to be developed and which processes and infrastructures are required for the future. Several tools to consider technological strategies are dealt with in this course.
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- Technology
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- Sustainable development Technological forecasting Technological innovations -- Forecasting Technological innovations -- Management
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By independent study of the book Sustainable Development for Engineers (K.F. Mulder, 2006) students acquire basic knowledge about sustainable development.
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- Environmental Engineering
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- Sustainable engineering Sustainable development Environmental engineering
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The course deals with background and application of various wastewater treatment technologies. Both high-tech and low-tech systems are discussed, which are applicable in industrialized and developing countries. Anaerobic treatment systems, focusing on resource recovery are extensively discussed. Modern technologies for (extensive) nutrient removal / recovery are dealt with as well as membrane techniques for wastewater treatment.
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- Environmental Engineering
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- Water -- Purification Sewage -- Purification
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This course discusses the evolution and role of urban public transportation modes, systems, and services, focusing on bus and rail. It covers various topics, including current practice and new methods for data collection and analysis, performance monitoring, route design, frequency determination, vehicle and crew scheduling, effect of pricing policy and service quality on ridership.
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- Transportation
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- Urban transportation -- Management Local transit Urban transportation -- Planning
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Modeling, control design, and simulation are important tools supporting engineers in the development of automotive systems, from the early study of system concepts (when the system possibly does not exist yet) to optimization of system performance. This course provides a theoretical basis to model-based control design with the focus on systematically develop mathematical models from basic physical laws and to use them in control design process with specific focus on automotive applications. You will learn the basics of mathematical modeling applied to automotive systems, and based on the modeling framework different type of controller and state estimation methods will be introduced and applied. Starting from a pure state-feedback concept down to optimal control methods, with special attention on different automotive applications. Different methods for state reconstruction is also introduced and discussed in the course. Exercises play an important rolethroughout the course. This course is aimed at learners with a bachelor's degree or engineers in the automotive industry who need to learn more about mathematical modelling of automotive systems.
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- Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Transportation
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- Automobiles -- Design construction -- Mathematical models Motor vehicles -- Dynamics
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- MOOC
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Documentaries have an incredible power to raise awareness and create transformative changes in consciousness both at the personal and global levels. Over the last [13] years, we've watched hundreds of social change documentaries and cataloged the best of them on the site. There's now so many that we realized we needed to filter this down even further. So what follows is our list of the very best 100 - hand-picked for their quality, insight and potential to inspire positive change. All of the films have been selected because they are either free to watch online, or can be rented online. There are several films we would have loved to add to this list, but they currently don't have an accessible way to view them. As that changes, we'll be updating this list over time. Enjoy!
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- Social change Documentary films
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The Hong Kong Philharmonic (HK Phil) is one of Asia's leading orchestras. From the 2012/13 season, Jaap van Zweden has become Music Director of the orchestra. The HK Phil annually touches the lives of over 200,000 music lovers through more than 150 performances including its extensive education activities for children and adults alike, and free concerts such as the popular Swire Symphony under the Stars, and regular broadcasts and telecasts, bringing the joy of classical music to the Hong Kong community. Outside of Hong Kong, the HK Phil has made a number of critically acclaimed tours in Asia and Europe.
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- Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra China -- Hong Kong Music -- Performance
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An awesome virtual tour you might want to check out is the one offered by the Museo Galileo. Located in the city of Florence, the museum houses some of the most important instruments in scientific history. Virtual tours of the museum might actually be the best way to see the museum as it can be a bit tricky to actually physically visit the place. It is a pretty small building and tends to be very popular over the summer months.
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- Museo Galileo Science museums Scientific apparatus instruments Italy -- Florence Exhibitions
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This tour takes you around the Museum of Mines of Mercury Monte Amiata in Santa Fiora, Italy. View the exhibits and mock-ups from the history of mining from the comfort of your own home.
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- Mercury mines mining Mercury miners History Exhibitions Italy -- Monte Amiata Region
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Also brought to you with the help of Google, this virtual tour is pretty cool too. Take a tour of the German Oceanographic Museum without ever having to get off your backside. Physically located in Stralsund, Germany, the museum is jam-packed full of exhibits about the wonders of the deep. This really is an interesting virtual tour if you cannot leave the house for whatever reason.
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- Oceanography -- Museums Germany Deutsches Meeresmuseum Exhibitions
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An awesome virtual tour of a science and tech museum comes as the courtesy of The Museum of Natural Sciences in Belgium. Containing tons of Dinosaurs and other interesting scientific exhibits, this virtual tour is definitely worth a gander.Like the NHM in London, this tour was partially developed with the help of Google's Cultural Institute.
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- Belgium Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique Natural history museums Science museums Exhibitions
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If you love all things natural history, you might want to take a virtual tour of the world-renowned Natural History Museum (NHM) in London. Developed in part by Google, the tour is a great, and interesting way to tour the museum if making the trip is difficult. Sadly "Dippy" the Diplodocus is no longer in residence, but the virtual tour is still very impressive indeed.
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- Natural History Museum (London Engl) Natural history museums Exhibitions Engl -- London
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If computer history is more your bag, then you might want to take the National Museum of Computing's virtual tour. Take a tour of the history of the ongoing development of computing from, fittingly, your own computer.The museum is home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers and follows this world-changing tech's history from the 1940s to the present day.
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- Computers Belgique History Exhibitions
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A world-class museum that offers virtual tours is Oxford University's History of Science Museum. The tour lets you explore their magnificent exhibits in ultimate comfort -- your own sofa.You'll get to explore their fantastic exhibits and artifacts of some of the most important scientific discoveries in science history. The museum, ever ahead of the times, has been offering virtual tours since 1995, so you can trust the quality of it today.
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- Science museums University of Oxford. Museum of the History of Science History Science
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NASA's famous Langley Research Center in Virginia, as well as its Glenn Research Center, also provides some cool virtual tours of their facilities. With these tours, you'll get to see some of the most important technological inventions in mankind's history without ever having to leave your own home.
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Washington D.C.'s world-class National Museum of Natural History is one great museum that offers an amazing virtual tour. It is one of the most popular museums in the world, and its virtual tour lets you see its amazing exhibits from the comfort of your own home.While not quite the same as actually visiting it for yourself, their virtual tour takes you on a 360-degree tour around the museum, starting at its rotunda. Some of the highlights include the Hall of Mammals, Insect Zoo, and its Dinosaurs and Hall of Palaeobiology.One real benefit of virtual tours like this is the ability to see some of their great past exhibits that are now long gone.
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- Natural history museums National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Exhibitions
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The Casino Nobile, which is already a “museum” from an architectural and decorative standpoint, contains a small but excellent museum devoted to pieces of statuary from the Torlonia collection found in the Villa (much of the collection still belongs to the family and is conserved in the palace in Via della Lungara) and several chance finds that have enabled a further strand of the Villa’s history to be added to the collection.The pieces displayed give a close idea of how the Torlonia family, in particular Giovanni (1756–1829) and his son Alessandro (1800–80) were for almost a century leading figures in the field of art collecting, a practice that had originated in at least the fifteenth century when distinguished families in Rome began to adorn their residences with fine works of art and furnishings. The works exhibited are not all from the same provenance: they were in part produced by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, a noted eighteenth-century sculptor, restorer and antiques dealer, following Giovanni Torlonia’s purchase in 1800 of all the works in Cavaceppi’s studio; others come from finds on the properties belonging to the family; and yet others are pieces of the Villa’s furniture that managed to survive various spoliations. This nucleus of works was added to following a sensational discovery of several artworks in the basement of the Theatre in 1997. These were originally displayed in the principal palace but were removed from there at an unknown time and for an unknown reason. The discovery was of three large plaster reliefs by Antonio Canova, a woman’s head in the style of Michelangelo, several pieces of furniture from the Villa’s demolished chapel, and a splendid marble pediment taken from the tomb of Claudia Semne on Via Appia Antica. The final section of the museum is the reconstructed Bedchamber of Giovanni Torlonia (1872–1938), with the pieces of furniture that were used by Benito Mussolini during the period he resided in the Villa (1925–43).
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- Museo del Casino dei principi (Rome Italy)
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The House of Claude Monet , located in Giverny , Normandy (near Ile-de- France), for a virtual visit of the place as if you were there. The opportunity to discover the place where the author of the Water Lilies lived , before going there once the confinement ended and venturing into the famous gardens of the artist, immortalized in numerous works, spearheads of the impressionist movement. Claude Monet lived there between 1883 and 1926, or forty-three years. True passionate about gardening and colors, the artist conceived " his flower garden and his water garden like real works ". By walking in his garden and in his house, even virtually, you have the opportunity to always feel " the atmosphere that reigned in the master of impressionism " and to marvel "in front of the flower arrangements and in front of the water lilies who were his most fruitful sources of inspiration
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- Homes Monet Claude 1840-1926 France -- Giverny Fondation Claude Monet à Giverny
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This famous museum of American art offers two online exhibitions. The first deals with American fashion and exhibits many clothes and the second is a collection of works by the painter Johannes Vermeer. It is also possible to visit other historic monuments virtually such as the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame de Paris or the Palace of Versailles.
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- Art -- Exhibitions Art museums National Gallery of Art (U.S.) United States
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It is one of the most popular museums in Korea and is made up of six floors of contemporary art from Korea and around the world. It also contains an outdoor park with many sculptures.
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- Kungnip Hyŏndae Misulgwan Art museums Korea (South) -- Seoul Art -- Exhibitions
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This non-profit organization is the first modern museum in Brazil. The works of art placed on transparent plexiglass frames give the impression of a work hanging in the air.
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- Art -- Exhibitions Brazil Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubri Art museums
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Specializing in modern art, the museum contains the Guggenheim spiral staircase, available on this virtual tour. From there, it is possible to discover works of art from the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary eras.
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- Art -- Exhibitions New York (State) -- New York Art museums Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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This museum is dedicated to the archeology and history of the pre-Hispanic heritage of Mexime. There are 23 exhibition halls filled with ancient artifacts, including some from the Mayan civilization.
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Many European works of art dating from the 8th century can be found in this California art museum, including a huge collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, manuscripts and photographs.
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- Art -- Exhibitions J. Paul Getty Museum Art museums California
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The museum's collections are made up of more than 7 million objects from all continents. They illustrate human history from its beginnings to today.
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- Art -- Exhibitions Museums Art museums British Museum Engl -- London
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This gallery is a palace which contains the art collection of the Medicis, one of the most famous families in Italy.
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- Galleria degli Uffizi Art museums Italy -- Florence Art -- Exhibitions
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This museum is one of the largest in Germany. It houses a large collection of antiques and many historic objects.
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- Museums Pergamonmuseum (Berlin Germany) Art Ancient
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It contains the largest collection of works of art by Vincent Van Gogh. In total, more than 200 tables, 500 drawings and 750 letters are available to the public.
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- Gogh Vincent van 1853-1890 Art museums Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
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This museum is one of the most famous in the world. In the Galerie d'Honneur, the main masterpieces of Dutch painting are on display, like those of the painters Vermeer and Rembrandt.
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- Art -- Exhibitions Art museums Rijksmuseum (Netherls)
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This museum offers to visit one of the most famous galleries, that of Claude Monet's Water Lilies. Arranged in a single piece, the paintings can be observed in detail thanks to the 360 ° vision.
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- Art -- Exhibitions France -- Paris Painting Modern Art museums Musée de l'Orangerie
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This virtual tour will take Internet users inside the museum but also into the gardens. Comments are disseminated during the visit in order to obtain historical information on this prestigious building.
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- Quai d'Orsay (Paris France : Building) France Decorative arts
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More than 32,000 works (paintings, sculptures, street art) in high definition are available to visitors. For each of these works is associated a small explanatory text, as in a real museum.
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- Art -- Exhibitions France -- Paris Art Primitive Art museums Musée du quai Branly
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The famous Louvre museum can be visited online. If it is not fully accessible, Internet users can move around in the area of Egyptian antiquities and that of the medieval Louvre. The Apollo gallery is also available to observe all the details of the golden ceiling.
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- Art -- Exhibitions France -- Paris Musée du Louvre Art museums
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Sometimes conventional reinforcement isn't enough. The basics of prestressed concrete. Prestressing reinforcement doesn't necessarily make concrete stronger. But, it does increase the serviceability of concrete members by reducing the amount of deflection under load. This video explains the two most common types of prestressed concrete: pre-tensioned and post-tensioned. Prestressed concrete is used in all kinds of structures from bridges to buildings to silos and tanks. It’s a great way to minimize cracking and take fuller advantage of the incredible strength of reinforced concrete.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Prestressed concrete Reinforced concrete
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This video discusses the purpose and function of elevated water storage tanks. The job of finding enough water, making it safe to use, and then reliably distributing it to the system customers with almost no downtime is a monumental task that requires a lot of infrastructure. And, probably the most visible component of a public water system is the elevated storage tank, also known as a water tower.
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- Building Services Engineering
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- Tanks Water towers Water-supply
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Expansive soils cause more property damage per year than earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined. Expansive soils are a slow-moving geologic phenomenon, which makes them not very news-worthy. However, they still cause a tremendous amount of damage to buildings and the public infrastructure we rely on every day.
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- Building Services Engineering, Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and Building and Real Estate
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- Foundations Soil mechanics Swelling soils
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A few things that can go very wrong when you put steam in a pipe. We talked about the damaging effects of water hammer, but there’s another state of H2O equally if not more dangerous when put in pipes. In this episode, we’re talking about steam hammer and differential shock.
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- Building Services Engineering
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- Piping Fluid dynamics Pipelines
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Water hammer can work in both directions, and I only discussed one of those in the previous video (https://youtu.be/xoLmVFAFjn4). This episode revisits that demonstration to show how water hammer can form a vacuum pressure in a pipe. Momentum carrying fluid away from a valve wants to keep going even after the valve is closed. This generates a negative pressure than can cause major damage!
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- Building Services Engineering
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- Valves Water hammer Hydraulic control Hydraulic transients Relief valves Fluid mechanics
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Hydraulic transients (also known as water hammer) can seem innocuous in a residential setting, but these spikes in pressure can cause major damage to large pipelines and industrial pipe networks. In this video, we briefly discuss how water hammer occurs and how engineers mitigate the effect.
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- Building Services Engineering
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- Water hammer Hydraulic transients Fluid mechanics
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This video explains why ridges move, and other musings on thermal movement of large civil works. Most people have a certain intuition about thermal expansion, but you may not have considered how engineers design to accommodate it on large civil structures. The video gives a quick overview on this important consideration that engineers must account for when designing infrastructure like pipelines, bridges, and even sidewalks.
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- Structural Engineering
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- Structural analysis (Engineering) Expansion (Heat)
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This video shows the basics of fluid cavitation, including demonstration from AvE. If you subject a fluid to a sudden change in pressure, some interesting things can happen. You can cause tremendous damage to moving parts, or you can harness this destructive power in many beneficial ways.
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- Hydrodynamics Cavitation Fluid mechanics
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This video shows how simple reinforcement is used to prevent collapse of rock tunnels. Tunnels play an important role in our constructed environment as passageways for mines, conveyance for utilities, and routes for transportation. Rock bolts are a type of reinforcement for stabilizing rock excavations, usually made from steel bars or bolts. This simple construction method dramatically reduces the cost of making tunnels through rock safe from collapse.
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- Structural Engineering
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- Underground construction Rock bolts Tunneling Tunnels
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Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering and physics classrooms across the world. Both resonance from vortex shedding and aeroelastic flutter contributed to the failure. When you push the envelope, you have to be vigilant because things that didn’t matter before start to become important (e.g. wind loads on lighter structures). Unanticipated challenges are a cost of innovation and that’s something that we can all keep in mind.
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- Structural Engineering
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- Washington (State) -- Tacoma -- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) Suspension bridges Wind-pressure
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What's the difference between concrete and cement? Concrete is the most important construction material on earth and foundation of our modern society. At first glance it seems rudimentary, but there is a tremendous amount of complexity involved in every part of designing and placing concrete. This video is meant to be a bare-bones introduction to the topic, with a cool demonstration of concrete strength using a hydraulic press.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Concrete Cement
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This video shows more destructive testing to answer your questions about concrete. Concrete's greatest weakness is its tensile strength, which can be less than 10% of its compressive strength. So, we often reinforce it to create a composite material strong against all types of stress. This video briefly touches on conventional rebar and prestressed/post-tensioned reinforcement.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Reinforced concrete Concrete
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