Abstract: The effect of interphase stiffness on microstresses and macromechanical behavior has been investigated for transverse loading of an hexagonal-array unidirectional fiber composite. The interphase is ...

Abstract: Electrodynamic tether systems orbiting the Earth are prone to libration instability because of periodic changes in the geomagnetic field, plasma density, and lunisolar gravitational attractions in addition to nonperiodic ...

Abstract: An inverse method for ultrasonic scattering data is proposed, to characterize a planar crack of general shape contained in an elastic solid. The method is based on an integral representation ...

Abstract: In this paper a method for analyzing the global properties of generalized cell mappings involving a very large number of cells is presented. The procedure of the algorithm is devised by taking ...

Abstract: An analytical solution for groundwater flow through a circular tunnel in anisotropic soils is derived based on conformal mapping and can be used to calculate the water flow rate into the tunnel and predict the pore water ...

Abstract: In this study, a two-stage chance-constrained fractional programming (TCFP) method is developed for dealing with water quality management problems associated with stochastic inputs. Two-stage chance-constrained fractional ...

Abstract: Our experiments show that active carbon fiber (ACF) might be a good substitute for activated carbon (AC) as the refrigeration capacity Qf and adsorption time of ACF are three times more and ...

Abstract: Micro-electromechanical systems and nano-electromechanical systems have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. The flow and heat transfer behaviors of micromachines for separation ...