Abstract: The dynamic impedance functions for a rigid hemispherical foundation embedded in a uniform viscoelastic half‐space are obtained by an integral equation approach. Numerical values for the vertical, torsional, horizontal, ...

Abstract: Railway track is one of the most important parts of the railway system, and monitoring its condition is essential to ensure the safety of trains and reduce maintenance cost. An adaptive regularization approach is adopted ...

Abstract: On-power fueling is an important feature of the CANDU® reactor. Fueling is a routine operation with a large number of channel fueling visits made each year with the fueling machines acting as the key system. Hence, safety ...

Abstract: Electricity and freshwater are fundamental demands both for life consumption and industrial production. In this paper, a power and water combined system is proposed, with a humidification dehumidification (HDH) desalination ...

Abstract: 34-yr record of shortwave top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiative cloud forcing is derived from UV Lambertian equivalent reflectivity (LER) data constructed using measured upwelling radiances from the Nimbus-7 Solar Backscatter ...

Abstract: AbstractLand-use changes (LUCs) strongly influence regional climates through both the biogeochemical and biogeophysical processes. However, many studies have ignored the biogeophysical processes, which in some cases can ...

Abstract: Ozone estimates from observations by the NOAA-16 Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet (SBUV/2) instrument and Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS-N) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) are used to describe the ...

Abstract: AbstractThe Pan and Parapan American Games (PA15) are the third largest sporting event in the world and were held in Toronto in the summer of 2015 (10?26 July and 7?15 August). This was used as an opportunity to coordinate ...