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Discussion of “Optimum Design and Management of Pressurized Branched Irrigation Networks” by Raziyeh Farmani, Ricardo Abadia, and Dragan Savic
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Built for Speed
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The Drone Racing League holds contests between pilots flying UAVs through obstacle courses. The league's aspirations are more than just providing exhilarating races, however. It is working to innovate drone technology at ...
Resilient Technologies Battling Climate Change
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Resilience technology can endure and overcome the ever-changing climate and natural disasters occurring in our world. As the world's temperature continues to rise, there has been an increase in the intensity and frequency ...
Automating the Risk Out of Farming
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The farming and agriculture industry has had its fair share of problems over the last decade. Bottlenecks in the supply chain and the lack of risk management and flexibility led to increasing food waste, and the labor ...
Education from a Distance
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: When the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused schools across the country to close their classrooms, colleges and universities shifted to online education. Just as many professional spaces had to adjust to working from ...
Cleaning With UV Light
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in China in early 2020, the autonomous disinfecting robots from UVD Robots saw massive interest from companies looking to sanitize and sterilize their places of business.
Three-Dimensional and Rotational Aerodynamics on the NREL Phase VI Wind Turbine Blade
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: This work undertakes an aerodynamic analysis over the parked and the rotating NREL Phase VI wind turbine blade. The experimental sequences from NASA Ames wind tunnel selected for this study ...
Unsteady Flow Structure and Global Variables in a Centrifugal Pump
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: A relationship between the global variables and the dynamic flow structure numerically obtained for a low specific speed centrifugal pump is presented in this paper. A previously developed ...
Future Civil Engineering in Seismic Zones
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper discusses the problem of cities organizing to prepare for earthquakes. Design methods to provide buildings with greater resistance are described. Civil engineering recommendations included in the Mexico City ...
Nonoalco Tlatelolco: A Human Experience
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The work carried out by the Tlatelolco Democratic Reconstruction Program included the demolition of eight buildings, the reconstruction in structure and foundation of 32 buildings, and the renovation of the finishings in ...