Abstract: rior to the twentieth century, there was a dearth of official local weather and climate observations for much of the United States outside of major cities. Useful information can be gleaned, however, from primary accounts, ...

Abstract: The low-velocity impact response of a hybrid titanium composite laminate, known as TiGr, was compared to that of graphite/epoxy composite. The TiGr material comprised of two outer plies of ...

Abstract: There are as many distinct shopping itineraries in a shopping center as there are shoppers, at some level of discrimination; yet clear patterns of flow and volume can be observed in aggregate movement over the network of ...

Abstract: Despite purported increases in infrastructure investment and widespread adoption of new technologies and management systems to support efficient and effective decision making, studies continue to document the poor condition ...

Abstract: The paper investigates flow through a representative tall solar chimney with internal bracing wheels. It presents experimental data measured in a 0.63-m-dia model chimney with and without seven ...

Abstract: Partially or totally buried concrete hazardous-waste tanks pose a difficult problem when evaluation of their integrity and concrete quality is required. A visual survey is very limited, and destructive sampling is usually ...

Abstract: The importance of automotive turbocharger performance is continuously increasing. However, further gains in efficiency are becoming progressively difficult to achieve. The bearing friction losses impact the overall efficiency ...

Abstract: A significant limitation of current asset management systems is lack of consideration of geotechnical issues. This paper presents a simple framework for managing geotechnical facilities using asset management principles. ...