Abstract: Governments around the world are seeking to transfer their traditional responsibility for research and development to the private sector. This paper investigates the factors that will impede the effectiveness of privately ...

Abstract: This study investigates the hydraulic conductivity (K) of binary mixed soils containing two different-sized silica particles, with the ultimate goal of developing the porosity (n) and equivalent particle size (deq) estimating ...

Abstract: In recent years it has been shown experimentally by a number of workers that simple, Newtonian liquids can slip against solid surfaces when the latter are both very smooth and lyophobic. It ...

Abstract: Lubrication of contacting and sliding surfaces in MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) is particularly challenging because of the predominance of surface forces at the microscale. The current paper ...