Abstract: In this study, a series of numerical pullout tests was performed using the discrete-element method (DEM) to investigate the micromechanical behavior of geogrid pullout and the effect of geogrid tensile stiffness. Geogrid–soil ...

Abstract: The seasonal variations of heavy rainfall days over Taiwan are analyzed using 6-yr (1997?2002) hourly rainfall data from about 360 rainfall stations, including high-spatial-resolution Automatic Rainfall and Meteorological ...

Abstract: To evaluate the impacts of the urban heat island (UHI) effect on precipitation over a complex geographic environment in northern Taiwan, the next-generation mesoscale model, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, ...

Abstract: Acoustic sensitivity analysis is an essential technique to determine the direction of structural-acoustic optimization by evaluating the gradient of the objective functions with respect to the design variables. However, ...