Higher Institute of Applied Arts

Leveraging skybridge in coupled cylindrical storage tanks to mitigate seismic vibration

This study investigates the mitigation of excessive vibrations in two adjacent elevated storage tanks exposed to sequential nonstationary seismic excitations with time-varying frequency content. The coupling between the adjacent tanks is achieved through a sky-bridge structure th...

The Unfinished Revolution of Garden Cognition in China

This article serves as a presentation to my new book, 'Zhuozheng Yuan Kaolun' ('An Evidential Inquiry and Analytical Treatise on the Garden of the Inept Administrator'), written at the request of the 'Xinshu Ji' (New Book Season) WeChat official account. The original text is publ...