Abstract: To improve performance and lower cost, conventional wood-frame construction has evolved to incorporate increasing numbers of manufactured components. Through recent work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ...

Abstract: Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) have major impacts on receiving waters. It is important to investigate the potential impacts of climate change on CSOs. The main objective of this study was to develop projections on the ...

Abstract: The forward modeling of the dispersion curve of a layered medium calculated from the spectral characteristics of Rayleigh waves requires an efficient algorithm for predicting the surface displacements of the medium under ...

Abstract: The no-slip boundary condition is part of the foundation of the traditional lubrication theory. It states that fluid adjacent to a solid boundary has zero velocity relative to the solid surface. ...

Abstract: The warming weakening of permafrost strength as a result of different scenarios of climatic warming ranging from 0 to

Abstract: This paper presents the design and experimental results of a new micro gas turbine architecture exploiting counterflow within a single supersonic rotor. This new architecture, called the supersonic rimrotor gas turbine ...

Abstract: The roughness prediction models in the International Roughness Index (IRI) currently incorporated into the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (M-E PDG) have been developed by means of ordinary least squares (OLS). ...

Abstract: Pavement management systems rely on accurate distress measurements to support transportation agency officials in making decisions on budget planning and allocation as well as on the design of maintenance and rehabilitation ...