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Rui Wang and Guoliang Yu
In this study, the bedform dimensions of an alluvial bed in a unidirectional flow were experimentally investigated. A series of flume experiments was conducted; 700 sets of flume and field data were used in developing formulae for predicting the bedform ...
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Carlos Enrique Valencia Murillo, Miguel Ernesto Gutierrez Rivera, Nicolas Flores Samano and Luis David Celaya Garcia
This contribution presents a finite element shell model capable of performing linear vibration analyses of shell-type structures made of functionally graded material (FGM). The model is based on the seven-parameter spectral/hp finite element formulation,...
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Qiangru Shen, Jingcheng Chen, Changqi Yue, Hui Cao, Chong Chen and Wangping Qian
Bridges are generally affected by thermal loads which include the daily cycle, seasonal cycle and annual cycle. Thermal loads mode and thermal effects on bridges, especially for concrete girders, are quite essential but complicated. To investigate the te...
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Arno Duijster, Arno Volker, Frenk Van den Berg and Carola Celada-Casero
The applicability of laser ultrasonics for the determination of grain size and phase composition in steels under different temperatures was investigated. This was done by obtaining the velocity and attenuation of propagating ultrasonic waves in a simulat...
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Temitope Esther Olatunde Shonde, Moses Adeolu Adebayo, Ayomide Ajoke Bhadmus, Idris Ishola Adejumobi, Olaniyi A. Oyatomi, Benjamin Faloye and Michael T. Abberton
The capability of winged bean to support food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa is recurrently being affected by several constraints, which include a lack of genetic improvement. The dearth of adequate information on the level of available gen...
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John A. Luczaj, Amber Konrad, Mark Norfleet and Andrew Schauer
Ground water contamination from septic systems and the application of dairy cattle manure has been a long-standing problem in rural northeastern Wisconsin, especially in areas with thin soils over karstified Silurian dolostone bedrock, where as many as 6...
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Konstantin Shishmarev, Tatyana Khabakhpasheva and Kristina Oglezneva
The paper considers the visco-elastic response of the ice cover in a channel under an external load moving with constant speed along the center line. The channel has a rectangular cross-section with a finite depth and width. The fluid in the channel is i...
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Ning Sun, Xiaokai Li, Shanggao Li, Dake Hu, Mengjiao Hu, Faming Zhang, Yiyan Zhong, Menglong Dong and Zinan Li
The surrounding rock stability of large underground caverns in a pumped storage power station is one of the most crucial problems in hydropower project design and construction. In the construction of hydropower projects in Southwest China, many undergrou...
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Felice Festa, Nicla Lopedote, Chiara Rotelli, Massimo Caulo and Monica Macrì
Myofascial pain syndrome is the most common cause of TMD, characterised by trigger points of skeletal muscles in the masticatory region. Patients with myofascial pain suffer from orofacial pain and headaches. Parafunctional activity such as unconscious t...
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Miguel Castilla-Barbosa, Orlando Rincón-Arango and Manuel Ocampo-Terreros
The zeta potential of soils is an electric potential in the double-layer interface and is a physical property exhibited by any particle related to electrochemical attractive forces. On the other hand, the chemical aging phenomenon is seen as the chief me...
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