Abstract: A scratch test consists in pulling a diamond stylus across the surface of a weaker material; it is widely applied in several fields of science and engineering, including polymer damage, metal wear, thin-film quality control, ...

Abstract: The problem of a plane crack in an anisotropic layered material under the action of impact loading is considered in this paper. The problem is reduced in the Laplace transform domain to a ...

Abstract: Simultaneous measurements of temperature and wind profiles in the surface boundary layer (below 10-m elevation over a beach and below 100-m elevation over an inland site) under the effect of the sea breeze were made near ...

Abstract: Three consecutive early summer studies on the upper Texas coast have produced data that afford a much clearer view of the land and sea breeze system than was previously held. Networks of surface observations, pibal and ...

Abstract: A scratch test consists in pulling a diamond stylus across the surface of a weaker material; it is widely applied in several fields of science and engineering, including polymer damage, metal wear, thin-film quality control, ...

Abstract: Alumina-based die-attach and encapsulation for high-temperature (300–500 °C) electronic packaging were investigated. The alumina paste material comprises aluminum dihydric phosphate as a binder and alumina powder as a ...

Abstract: Importance‐sampling technique has been used in recent years in conjunction with Monte Carlo simulation method to evaluate the reliability of structural systems. Since the efficiency of the importance‐sampling method depends ...

Abstract: This paper presents the analysis of singularity and motion capability of a mobile platform articulated by offset powered caster wheels. Specifically, it presents the analysis of the equations ...

Abstract: This paper presents an analytical method to estimate the power spectral densities (PSDs) of traffic-induced ground vibrations. Random vibration method is used in the analysis. Ground vibrations are assumed to consist of ...

Abstract: Synthesis plays a critical role in determining the ideation effectiveness in conceptual design. When synthesis is formulated as a reasoning activity, there are several fundamental reasoning principles in formal logic that ...