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The steel tubular-sheet pile wharf is widely used in deep-water wharves abroad due to its construction convenience, adaptability to complex geology, and cost-effectiveness. However, understanding the complex interaction between steel pipe piles, steel sheet piles, and soil in this structure is still in the research stage. China lacks sufficient knowledge about the force characteristics of this structure, particularly in terms of earth pressure theory. Therefore, it is essential to conduct research to improve the calculation of earth pressure in this structure. Based on on-site monitoring data from a 100,000-ton steel tubular-sheet pile wharf, it was observed that the soil pressure on the front wall increases nonlinearly with depth but decreases beyond a certain excavation depth range. This study compares and analyzes results from theoretical formula calculations, numerical simulations, and on-site monitoring data of soil pressure, proposing correction parameters for earth pressure calculation. Based on this analysis, correction parameters for earth pressure calculation within the excavation depth range are proposed. Parameters for soil pressure calculation above the excavation depth range are adjusted, considering a cement mixing pile cohesion of 60 kPa and an internal friction angle of 18°, which better aligns with the actual conditions of this structure.

A gravity balancing assistant arm design in 3-D is a mechanical mechanism consisted of springs, rigid rods, joints and sliders, which can be modified to the geometry and inertia of the arm of stroke patients. This mechanism is designed without any controllers and motors, based solely on mechanical principles, to achieve a relative balance of gravitational potential energy and elastic potential energy, thereby reducing the burden on the arm of a stroke patient to facilitate rehabilitation. To achieve this function, first, the center of gravity of the patient’s arm will be positioned, and then the mounting position of the spring on the assistant arm will be determined. In this paper, the following objectives will be achieved: (i) the calculation of the gravitational potential energy and the elastic potential energy in the mechanism (ii) the simplification of the potential energy equation and the elimination of the coefficient of the items related to the angle. (iii) The comparison between 2-D and 3-D cases of the mechanism. (iv) The motion process of simulating the mechanism using MATLAB (v) Using MATLAB to create the energy plots (vi) Using SolidWorks to construct the prototype of the mechanism (vii) Describe the practical application and future extensions of this mechanism.

How to make sustainable development in the new era has been becoming the most important issue in China. This research explains why China could rapidly increase in the past, and how to fulfil a sustainable development under the resource and environmental constraints in the future by employing an endogenous growth model which includes “learning by doing” factors. Our model explains a learning mechanism called “learning by doing” and the knowledge reserve needed for the sustainable development. The empirical estimation results shows: under threats of environmental pollution and restrictions on natural resource depletion, an sustainable development is possible. Human capital use and technological advances crucially support the maintenance of sustainable growth, and the learning-by-doing effect increases the explanatory power of capital for knowledge production. The sustainable development awareness of consumers determines the economic growth quality. The explanation of the environmental pollution parameter could be extended to a policy simulation variable to measure the practical management level and the contamination controlling effect.