Abstract: This study investigates the problem of a circular elastic membrane clamped or adhered at its boundary and subjected to uniform transverse pressure. Many analytical solutions for this classical problem have been developed ...

Abstract: This paper presents a micromechanical finite-element (FE) model for predicting the viscoelastic properties (dynamic modulus and phase angle) of asphalt mixtures, typical stone-based composites. The two-dimensional (2D) ...

Abstract: Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of gravity currents on different bottom slopes are presented in this paper. After the buoyancy closed in a lock is instantaneously released, the produced gravity currents go ...

Abstract: In this study, we generalize the classic thermal theory to account for both entrainment and detrainment effects occurring in the acceleration and deceleration phases of gravity current motion. Although the original thermal ...

Abstract: In this study the author derived the thermal theory for non-Boussinesq gravity currents produced from an instantaneous buoyancy source propagating on an inclined boundary. For Boussinesq gravity currents on a slope, it is ...

Abstract: Three-hourly present weather reports from ?15?000 stations around the globe and from the Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set from 1975 to 1997 were analyzed for diurnal variations in the frequency of occurrence for ...

Abstract: Present and past weather reports from ?15?000 stations around the globe and from the Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set from 1975 to 1997 were analyzed for the frequency of occurrence for and the percentage of the ...

Abstract: Monthly and 3-hourly precipitation data from twentieth-century climate simulations by the newest generation of 18 coupled climate system models are analyzed and compared with available observations. The characteristics ...

Abstract: In situ observations of surface air and dewpoint temperatures and air pressure from over 15 000 weather stations and from ships are used to calculate surface specific (q) and relative (RH) humidity over the globe (60°S?75°N) ...

Abstract: This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) micromechanical finite-element (FE) network model for predicting elastic damage behavior of the idealized stone-based materials. Stone-based composite materials have multiphase ...