Abstract: The damaged excavation of the Antikythera mechanism presents the oldest astronomical analog computer in ancient Greece. Its interior mechanism is a complicated gear train with many subsystems in ...

Abstract: The mechanism for the planetary motions contained in the lost subsystem of Antikythera mechanism is a strict challenge of the reconstruction design. This work presents a systematic procedure of ...

Abstract: Regional frequency analysis based on L moments has been used to analyze low flow in the karst area of southwest China. The 7-day low flow was regarded as the statistical quantity. Data from 12 stream flow gauging sites of ...

Abstract: Incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion shows good robustness and low dependence on the model information. In this study, incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion is improved and utilized to solve the six-degrees-of-freedom ...

Abstract: Reinforced concrete (RC) columns are prone to shear failure under seismic loads, particularly in the case of short columns. However, this brittle failure may have more adverse effects on large-sized columns. To address ...