Abstract: This paper studied the mass conservation and constancy-preserving conditions of the advection scheme in the Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF) model. Equations were derived to examine the conditions for achieving ...

Abstract: Due to increased government regulations on environment, health, and safety, the cost of on-site bridge painting has quadrupled over the past several years. The construction industry faces a great challenge in how to control ...

Abstract: Ductile performance of beam structures often is achieved by material yielding or progressive failure of components. A new structural concept was developed and validated in this study to provide ductile responses of beam ...

Abstract: Using deep learning to recover depth information from a single image has been studied in many situations, but there are no published articles related to the determination of construction site elevations. This paper presents ...

Abstract: Some molecules change shape upon receiving photons of certain frequencies, but here we study lightinduced deformation in ordinary dielectrics with no special optical effects. All dielectrics deform in response to light of ...

Abstract: We perform a constructal design of heat conduction in a blade-configured disk-shaped domain with uniform heat generation and periphery heat-sink by introducing a transition line from two-path ...

Abstract: This paper presents a machining accuracy analysis for computer-aided fixture design verification. While discussing the utilization of CNC machine tools and machining centers, machining errors are ...

Abstract: The spatial Burmester problem is studied in this work, focusing on the synthesis of CCCC and RCCC linkages for rigid-body guidance, where R stands for revolute, C for cylindrical pair. The ...

Abstract: Modeling large spatial deflections of flexible beams has been one of the most challenging problems in the research community of compliant mechanisms. This work presents a method called chained spatialbeam constraint model ...

Abstract: A thin and miniature piezoelectric panel speaker has been developed in this paper. The system is modeled using the energy method in conjunction with the finite element method. The electrical ...