Raffles City in Hangzhou China -The Engineering of a 'Vertical City' of Vibrant Waves-

Wang, Aaron J. Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat Korea 2017 International journal of high-rise buildings Vol.6 No.1

This mixed-use Raffles City (RCH) development is located near the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, located southwest of Shanghai, China. The project incorporates retail, offices, housing, and hotel facilities and marks the site of a cultural landscape within the Quianjiang New Town Area. The project is composed of two 250-meter-tall twisting towers with a form of vibrant waves, along with a commercial podium and three stories of basement car parking. It reaches a height of 60 stories, presenting views both to and from the Qiantang River and West Lake areas, with a total floor area of almost 400,000 square meters. A composite moment frame plus concrete core structural system was adopted for the tower structures. Concrete filled steel tubular (CFT) columns together with steel reinforced concrete (SRC) beams form the outer moment frame of the towers' structure. The internal slabs and floor beams are of reinforced concrete. This paper presents the engineering design and construction of this highly complex project. Through comprehensive discussion and careful elaboration, some conclusions are reached, which serve as a reference guide for the design and construction of similar free-form, hybrid, mix-use buildings.

Numerical studies on shear connectors in push-out tests under elevated temperatures

Aaron J. Wang 국제구조공학회 2011 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.39 No.3

Three-dimensional thermal and mechanical coupled finite element models are proposed to study the structural behaviours of shear connectors under fire. Concrete slabs, steel beams and shear connectors are modelled with eight-noded solid elements, and profiled steel deckings are modelled with eight-noded shell elements. Thermal, mechanical and geometrical nonlinearities are incorporated into the models. With the proper incorporation of thermal and mechanical contacts among steel beams, shear connectors, steel deckings and concrete slabs, both of the models are verified to be accurate after the validation against a series of push-out tests in the room temperature or under the standard fire. Various thermal and mechanical responses are also extracted and observed in details from the results of the numerical analyses, which gives a better understanding of the structural behavior of shear connectors under elevated temperatures.

Multi-Dimensional Hybrid Design and Construction of Skyscraper Cluster -Innovative Engineering of Raffles City Chongqing-

Wang, Aaron J. Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat Korea 2017 International journal of high-rise buildings Vol.6 No.3

Designed by star architect of Moshes Safdie, Raffles City Chongqing includes a total of 6 mega high-rise towers 250 to 380 m tall, a sky conservatory, a 5-storey high shopping mall and a 3-storey basement car parking. Located at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jailing Rivers, the site for the project is imbued with a significance that is immediately symbolic, both as a sign of Chongqing's important past and as a vivid indicator of the city's thriving present and future. The design for the project to be situated at this gateway takes as its governing idea the image of powerful sails upon the water. The outer facades of the project's eight towers - the transparent surfaces that will face the water to the north - are meant to recall a fleet of ancient Chinese ships, with their huge rectangles of white canvas filled by the wind. This is a $1.13million\;m^2$ mega scale integrated project of office, retail, hotel, service residence and high-end residence with the transportation hub and traffic circulation at various levels of the project. This paper presents the multi-dimensional hybrid design, engineering and construction of this mega scale project. The innovations and the cutting-edge technology used in this project are introduced and discussed benchmarking the design and construction of the skyscraper cluster in a major city like Chongqing of China.

Numerical studies on shear connectors in push-out tests under elevated temperatures

Wang, Aaron J. Techno-Press 2011 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.39 No.3

Three-dimensional thermal and mechanical coupled finite element models are proposed to study the structural behaviours of shear connectors under fire. Concrete slabs, steel beams and shear connectors are modelled with eight-noded solid elements, and profiled steel deckings are modelled with eight-noded shell elements. Thermal, mechanical and geometrical nonlinearities are incorporated into the models. With the proper incorporation of thermal and mechanical contacts among steel beams, shear connectors, steel deckings and concrete slabs, both of the models are verified to be accurate after the validation against a series of push-out tests in the room temperature or under the standard fire. Various thermal and mechanical responses are also extracted and observed in details from the results of the numerical analyses, which gives a better understanding of the structural behavior of shear connectors under elevated temperatures.

The Evolution of Seismic Engineering and Design of Ultra Tall Buildings in China Innovations and Sustainability

Wang, Aaron J. Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat Korea 2016 International journal of high-rise buildings Vol.5 No.3

With the booming of construction and property industries in China, the demand for high-rises and mega-scale buildings with more integrated building functions, open- and tailor-shaped outlooks, better connections to municipal infrastructures, and higher grades of building importance has been increasing in the past two decades. The seismic design and engineering of such modern mega-buildings face engineering challenges such as hazard mitigation of extreme actions and surroundings, integrated structural frameworks and building skins, complex connections, and overall construction efficiency. It is the work of a new generation of civil and structural engineers to enhance engineering efficiency and achieve overall engineering, environmental, and economical effectiveness for these high-rise projects. This paper elaborates the above topics through case studies on the design and construction of four such developments in China. Some rethinking is conducted on evolution in modern seismic engineering and design through innovation to achieve an acceptable level of overall sustainability and building effectiveness.

Multi-stage crypto ransomware attacks: A new emerging cyber threat to critical infrastructure and industrial control systems

Aaron Zimba,Zhaoshun Wang,Hongsong Chen 한국통신학회 2018 ICT Express Vol.4 No.1

The inevitable integration of critical infrastructure to public networks has exposed the underlying industrial control systems to various attack vectors. In this paper, we model multi-stage crypto ransomware attacks, which are today an emerging cyber threat to critical infrastructure. We evaluate our modeling approach using multi-stage attacks by the infamous WannaCry ransomware. The static malware analysis results uncover the techniques employed by the ransomware to discover vulnerable nodes in different SCADA and production subnets, and for the subsequent network propagation. Based on the uncovered artifacts, we recommend a cascaded network segmentation approach, which prioritizes the security of production network devices.

Recent Advances in Cryptovirology: State-of-the-Art Crypto Mining and Crypto Ransomware Attacks

( Aaron Zimba ),( Zhaoshun Wang ),( Hongsong Chen ),( Mwenge Mulenga ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2019 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.13 No.6

Recently, ransomware has earned itself an infamous reputation as a force to reckon with in the cybercrime landscape. However, cybercriminals are adopting other unconventional means to seamlessly attain proceeds of cybercrime with little effort. Cybercriminals are now acquiring cryptocurrencies directly from benign Internet users without the need to extort a ransom from them, as is the case with ransomware. This paper investigates advances in the cryptovirology landscape by examining the state-of-the-art cryptoviral attacks. In our approach, we perform digital autopsy on the malware’s source code and execute the different malware variants in a contained sandbox to deduce static and dynamic properties respectively. We examine three cryptoviral attack structures: browser-based crypto mining, memory resident crypto mining and cryptoviral extortion. These attack structures leave a trail of digital forensics evidence when the malware interacts with the file system and generates noise in form of network traffic when communicating with the C2 servers and crypto mining pools. The digital forensics evidence, which essentially are IOCs include network artifacts such as C2 server domains, IPs and cryptographic hash values of the downloaded files apart from the malware hash values. Such evidence can be used as seed into intrusion detection systems for mitigation purposes.

Photodissociation Dynamics of the Thiophenoxy Radical at 248, 193, and 157 nm

Harrison, Aaron W.,Lim, Jeong Sik,Ryazanov, Mikhail,Wang, Gregory,Gao, Shumin,Neumark, Daniel M. American Chemical Society 2013 The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, s Vol.117 No.46

<P>The photodissociation dynamics of the thiophenoxy radical (C<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>S) have been investigated using fast beam coincidence translational spectroscopy. Thiophenoxy radicals were produced by photodetachment of the thiophenoxide anion followed by photodissociation at 248 nm (5.0 eV), 193 nm (6.4 eV), and 157 nm (7.9 eV). Experimental results indicate two major competing dissociation channels leading to SH + C<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>4</SUB> (o-benzyne) and CS + C<SUB>5</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB> (cyclopentadienyl) with a minor contribution of S + C<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB> (phenyl). Photofragment mass distributions and translational energy distributions were measured at each dissociation wavelength. Transition states and minima for each reaction pathway were calculated using density functional theory to facilitate experimental interpretation. The proposed dissociation mechanism involves internal conversion from the initially prepared electronic excited state to the ground electronic state followed by statistical dissociation. Calculations show that SH loss involves a single isomerization step followed by simple bond fission. For both SH and S loss, C–S bond cleavage proceeds without an exit barrier. By contrast, the CS loss pathway entails multiple transition states and minima as it undergoes five membered ring formation and presents a small barrier with respect to products. The calculated reaction pathway is consistent with the experimental translational energy distributions in which the CS loss channel has a broader distribution peaking farther away from zero than the corresponding distributions for SH loss.</P><P><B>Graphic Abstract</B> <IMG SRC='http://pubs.acs.org/appl/literatum/publisher/achs/journals/content/jpcafh/2013/jpcafh.2013.117.issue-46/jp403229h/production/images/medium/jp-2013-03229h_0008.gif'></P><P><A href='http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/jp403229h'>ACS Electronic Supporting Info</A></P>

ABEP Performance of ISDF Relaying M2M Cooperative Networks

Xu, Lingwei,Wang, Jingjing,Wang, Han,Gulliver, T. Aaron Korean Society for Internet Information 2016 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.10 No.12

In this paper, the average bit error probability (ABEP) performance of the incremental-selective decode-and-forward (ISDF) relaying mobile-to-mobile (M2M) cooperative networks over N-Nakagami fading channels is investigated. The exact ABEP expressions are derived, and the power allocation problem is formulated.The derived ABEP expressions are verified by Monte Carlo simulations. The simulation results showed that the propagation parameters, such as the fading coefficient, and the power-allocation parameter, have a significant influence on the ABEP performance.

ABEP Performance of ISDF Relaying M2M Cooperative Networks

( Lingwei Xu ),( Jingjing Wang ),( Han Wang ),( T. Aaron Gulliver ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2016 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.10 No.12

In this paper, the average bit error probability (ABEP) performance of the incremental-selective decode-and-forward (ISDF) relaying mobile-to-mobile (M2M) cooperative networks over N-Nakagami fading channels is investigated. The exact ABEP expressions are derived, and the power allocation problem is formulated.The derived ABEP expressions are verified by Monte Carlo simulations. The simulation results showed that the propagation parameters, such as the fading coefficient, and the power-allocation parameter, have a significant influence on the ABEP performance.