Abstract: The Indian drought and flood area indexes (DAI and FAI, respectively) have been suggested to be related to the Hale cycle of sunspot numbers by Bhalme and Mooley (1981). They studied the dependence between sunspot numbers, ...

Abstract: Overall thermal transfer value (OTTV) is taken as a parameter for controlling the building energy use in many places such as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR, formerly Hong Kong) and Singapore. However, ...

Abstract: This paper aims to compare the tribo-mechanical properties and structure–property relationships of a wear resistant cobalt-based alloy produced via two different manufacturing routes, namely sand ...

Abstract: Manufacturing process routes of materials can be adapted to manipulate their microstructure and hence their tribological performance. As industrial demands push the applications of tribological ...

Abstract: Based on the unified strength criterion, a characteristic theory for solving the plastic plane stress and plane strain problems of an ideal rigid-plastic body is established in this paper, which ...

Abstract: A novel treatment of a direct procedure for elastic-plastic analysis and shakedown is presented and its application to problems in three-dimensional rolling contact with or without case-hardened ...

Abstract: Analytically predicted results of blade-vortex interaction (BVI) airloads, using the second- generation comprehensive helicopter analysis system (2GCHAS), are presented with the experimental results ...

Abstract: The unsteady flow past a disc‐type valve in an axisymmetric tube has been calculated numerically from the governing Navier‐Stokes equations. The flow is assumed to be laminar and incompressible, and the fluid possesses ...

Abstract: The impact and fatigue resistance of overlay coatings is significantly influenced by the residual strain (or stress) field induced during coating deposition, post-treatment, and in-service loading. ...