Abstract: The U.S. Department of the Interior has embarked on a series of reconnaissance‐level investigations throughout the western states to identify, evaluate, and respond to irrigation‐induced water quality problems. A series ...

Abstract: Western European roads and highways are of higher quality than corresponding facilities in the United States. To understand the reasons why that situation exists, and to identify actions that could be undertaken to improve ...

Abstract: One-dimensional ground response analyses (GRAs) are often used with an expectation that they provide unbiased estimates of site effects. Under that hypothesis, epistemic uncertainty in site response arises mainly from ...

Abstract: Fixedpitch quadrotors are popular research and hobby platforms largely due to their mechanical simplicity relative to other hovering aircraft. This simplicity, however, places fundamental limits on the achievable actuator ...

Abstract: Earthquake strong motion recordings from 29 sites with instrumented structures and free-field accelerographs are used to evaluate variations between foundation-level and free-field ground motions. The focus of the paper ...

Abstract: Graphite nanoplatelets (GNP) have recently become a commercially available alternative to graphene that has been widely studied as an additive to improve polymer properties. In particular, their use in improving the thermal ...