Abstract: Highway operation and maintenance (O&M) systems exhibit characteristics of multisubsystem correlations and interactions among multiple disaster-causing factors over time. Traditional risk-centered approaches, which ...

Abstract: Relationships between drilling parameters and the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of rocks are typically established through measurement while drilling (MWD) by analyzing either drilling speed or specific energy. This ...

Abstract: A two-dimensional (2D) finite-volume Eulerian-Lagrangian method (FVELM) on unstructured grid is proposed for solving the advection equation in free-surface scalar transport models. A backtracking band is defined along the ...

Abstract: Reservoir flood control operation (RFCO) is a large scale multiobjective problem with complex constraints that require powerful algorithms to solve it. As a new metaheuristic evolutionary algorithm, shuffled frog leaping ...

Abstract: Direct integration algorithms are effective methods to solve the temporally discretized differential equations of motion for structural dynamics. Numerous researchers have worked out various algorithms to achieve desirable ...

Abstract: Accurate calculation of power generation output is crucial to the operation and management of reservoir. The calculation of power generation output is related to the downstream water level, which usually is obtained by ...

Abstract: Optimization of short-term reservoir operation normally involves ramping constraints of outflows and water elevations at short time steps (e.g., hourly). Random search algorithms, such as genetic algorithms, have been ...

Abstract: An open-source program implementing a block-structured adaptive mesh refinement method was adopted for the fine structure numerical simulation of detonation initiation in supersonic combustible mixtures. Simulations were ...