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José-Luis Molina, Santiago Zazo, Fernando Espejo, Carmen Patino-Alonso, Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez and Domingo Zarzo
Floods are probably the most hazardous global natural event as well as the main cause of human losses and economic damage. They are often hard to predict, but their consequences may be reduced by taking the right precautions. In this sense, hydraulic inf...
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Enrique Bonet and María Teresa Yubero
In Spain, irrigated agriculture is the most water-intensive sector, consuming around of 80% of water resources. Moreover, irrigation water distribution systems are the infrastructure by which one-third of water resource losses take place. Monitoring and ...
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Enrique Bonet, Beniamino Russo, Ricard González, Maria Teresa Yubero, Manuel Gómez and Martí Sánchez-Juny
Freshwater scarcity has driven the integration of technological advancements and automation systems in agriculture in order to attempt to improve water-use efficiency. For irrigation canals, water-use efficiency is, in great measure, limited by the perfo...
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Eszter Nagy, Brigitta Voneki, Lívia Vásárhelyi, Imre Szenti, Márk Fráter, Ákos Kukovecz and Márk Ádám Antal
Purpose: Recently, a novel approach to apicoectomy has emerged, involving the use of a hollow trephine with a surgical guide. This innovative technique creates a semicircular section, in contrast to the conventional straight cut (with a bur). The semicir...
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Tiago Reis, Cláudia Barbosa, Margarida Franco, Catarina Batista, Nuno Alves, Pablo Castelo-Baz, José Martin-Cruces and Benjamín Martin-Biedma
This study aimed to evaluate by microCT the preparation of the artificial teeth (ATs), TrueTooth®, versus natural teeth (NTs): (1) the time and number of pecking movements needed for preparation; (2) the root canal volume increase; (3) if the pulp-colore...
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Amir Ibrahim, Abdel Hamed M. Khater, Christina F. Gad and Elzahry Farouk M. Elzahry
Canal lining and rehabilitation aim to distribute water, reduce losses, and ensure that water reaches the ends of the canals. Recognizing the need to improve the management of the irrigation system and maintain the width of strategic adjacent roads to ca...
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Muhammad Sanaullah, Xiuquan Wang, Sajid Rashid Ahmad, Kamran Mirza, Muhammad Qasim Mahmood and Muhammad Kamran
The fate of agriculture in Pakistan is predominantly concerned with excessive water mining threats to the subsurface water resources. The current study integrates the Visual MODFLOW-2000 application to estimate the water balance of an aquifer bounded by ...
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Ying Shen, Shengfa Yang and Jie Liu
Rough-bed open-channel flows (OCFs) are ubiquitous in rivers and canals. However, the scaling and energy contents of very-large-scale motions (VLSMs) in such flows remain unclear. In this study, the above characteristics of VLSMs are experimentally inves...
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Renjie Teng, Xin Gu, Xiaozhou Xia and Qing Zhang
This work presents a comprehensive coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical model to explore the frost heave mechanism of the concrete-lined canal under a freeze?thaw environment. Unlike previous models that regard concrete as a homogeneous material, this model ...
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Vesna Nikolic Jokanovic, Du?an Jokanovic, Radovan Savic, Tijana Vulevic, Aleksandar Andjelkovic, Katarina Lazarevic, Ranka Kovacevic and Natalija Momirovic
In the spacious inundation area on the left bank of the lower course of the Sava River in Serbia, there is an abandoned meander Special Nature Reserve, ?Obedska bara?, which represents a very important floodplain in this part of Europe. This area is char...
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