Abstract: In order to achieve high accuracy and surface quality during traverse grinding of long, slender workpieces, multiple workpiece steadies with soft supporting pads should be used. Due to the ...

Abstract: To estimate pipe roughness and nodal demand parameters in water distribution networks, a method based on head loss adjustment is proposed. By using weighted least squares (WLS), model-simulated head losses are adjusted to ...

Abstract: This paper has two goals. First, it is aimed at providing a fundamental understanding of the oscillatory behavior of an interface crack between two dissimilar materials from the viewpoint of ...

Abstract: Eshelby’s tensor for an ellipsoidal inclusion with perfect bonding at interface has proven to have a far-reaching influence on the subsequent development of micromechanics of solids. However, the ...

Abstract: In the saltation regime where bed-shear stress is low, bed load moves by sliding, rolling, and saltating along the bed, while in the sheet-flow regime where bed-shear stress is high, it travels by a combination of saltation ...

Abstract: Determining the noncircular critical slip surface is the key problem in slope stability analysis. Essentially, this problem is a path search, and therefore, ant colony optimization is an extremely suitable method to use ...

Abstract: Two key issues in landslide forecasting are finding the critical slip surface and determining its parameters. Generally, these issues are two parts of one problem. To solve this problem, a new two-phase search method is ...

Abstract: Determining the noncircular critical slip surface is the key problem in slope stability analysis. Essentially, this problem is a path search, and therefore, ant colony optimization is an extremely suitable method to use ...