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Ali Reza Ghanizadeh, Mandana Salehi, Anna Mamou, Evangelos I. Koutras, Farhang Jalali and Panagiotis G. Asteris
This paper investigates the effect of subgrade soil stabilization on the performance and life extension of flexible pavements. Several variables affecting soil stabilization were considered, including subgrade soil type (CL or CH), additive type and cont...
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William Villegas-Ch, Angel Jaramillo-Alcázar and Sergio Luján-Mora
This study evaluated the generation of adversarial examples and the subsequent robustness of an image classification model. The attacks were performed using the Fast Gradient Sign method, the Projected Gradient Descent method, and the Carlini and Wagner ...
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Jing Yang, Wenqi Guo, Chengsen Zhao, Biqing Zhou, Wenhao Yang, Shihe Xing and Fenghua Ding
Reducing soil nitrogen leaching losses and improving nitrogen-use efficiency with effective fertilization management strategies are extremely important for sustainable agricultural development. A 2-year field study was executed with the same nitrogen inp...
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Sara Brysch, Vincent Gruis and Darinka Czischke
Building costs play a significant role in determining the affordability of a housing project, and these depend to a large extent on design choices. This paper is based on the premise that collaborative design processes, or co-design, used in collaborativ...
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Md. Amzad Hossain, Md Nawshad Arslan Islam, Martin De La Torre, Arturo Acosta Zamora and Ahsan Choudhuri
This paper presents the flow and flame characteristics of a highly turbulent reactive flow over a backward-facing step inside a windowed combustor. Flow and combustion experiments were performed at Re = 15,000 and Re = 30,000 using high-resolution 10 kHz...
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Abdu Salam, Qaisar Javaid, Masood Ahmad, Ishtiaq Wahid and Muhammad Yeasir Arafat
Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are organized into clusters in a flying sensor network (FSNet) to achieve scalability and prolong the network lifetime. There are a variety of optimization schemes that can be adapted to determine the cluster head...
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Olimpia Daniela Frent, Laura Gratiela Vicas, Narcis Duteanu, Nicoleta Sorina Nemes, Bogdan Pascu, Alin Teusdea, Claudia Mona Morgovan, Mariana Eugenia Muresan, Tunde Jurca, Annamaria Pallag, Ana Maria Vlase, Laurian Vlase, Ioana Dejeu, George Emanuiel Dejeu and Eleonora Marian
The objective of this study was to develop microspheres (Ms) from natural materials, chitosan (Ch) and sodium alginate (Na-Alg), that protect Ruta graveolens L. (RG) extract against temperature, pH, and the oxidative impact of degradation. The microspher...
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Tianqi Pei, Caoyang Yu, Yiming Zhong, Junjun Cao and Lian Lian
This paper combines the piecewise Cubic Hermite (CH) interpolation algorithm and the weighted least square support vector machine (WLS-SVM) to improve identification accuracy for marine crafts built based on the characteristic model. The characteristic m...
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Ramasubbareddy Somula, Yongyun Cho and Bhabendu Kumar Mohanta
In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed human life by improving quality of life and revolutionizing all business sectors. The sensor nodes in IoT are interconnected to ensure data transfer to the sink node over the network. Owing to...
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Alessio Nicosia, Francesco Giuseppe Carollo and Vito Ferro
Flow resistance in gravel-bed channels is not only affected by the shape and size of the roughness elements, but also by their arrangement on the channel bed surface (position to flow streamlines, spacing between elements, and their protrusion from the c...
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