Abstract: Housing is a first line of defense, literally and figuratively. It is also a critical, although too-often overlooked, component of a community’s physical infrastructure. Variations in housing quality before a disaster ...

Abstract: This article describes a parameterization of the visible extinction coefficient of cirrus and frontal ice cloud in terms of the ice/water content. The parameterization is based on the discovery that the ice cloud particle ...

Abstract: This paper provides the latest estimates of the attributable heavy vehicle road wear cost (load-related road wear)—which is an approximation for the marginal cost of road wear—for thin bituminous-surfaced arterial roads ...

Abstract: The performance of Australia’s unbound granular pavements with a wearing surface of stone aggregate embedded in a thin bituminous binder seal is highly dependent on maintaining a serviceable surface for the road users. ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study on the dynamic stability of the steady frictional sliding of a linear elastic or viscoelastic half-space compressed against a rigid plane which moves with a prescribed ...

Abstract: A dynamic analysis is presented to explain damage to railroad cars and ladings resulting from impacts. In the analysis, a mathematical model consisting of the car body and freight in the car ...

Abstract: A key component in the calculation of reference crop evapotranspiration

Abstract: Automatic vehicle identification (AVI) is the process and technology by which vehicles arc uniquely identified without any action being required of the driver or by wayside observers. The present status of AVI systems for ...

Abstract: This paper describes an optical method that has been developed to accurately measure shrinkage during the cure of adhesives treated with UV light. The experiment was designed to measure changes ...