Abstract: The hydraulic characteristics of a side sluice gate were studied experimentally. It was found that the specific energy remains constant along the side sluice gate. The coefficient of discharge for the side sluice gate is ...

Abstract: Steel strips as soil reinforcements have two significant advantages over reinforcements with a circular cross section like solid and hollow steel bars. First, the contact area of steel strips is more than that of steel ...

Abstract: In the present experimental study, 12 specimens were tested to assess and quantify the effects of bolt tightness on the overall behavior of a bolt-ball joint under uniaxial loading. A three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear ...

Abstract: Diffraction and refraction of nonlinear shallow water waves due to uneven bathymetry are studied by use of the Green–Naghdi (GN) equations in three dimensions. A numerical wave tank consisting of deep, transitional, and ...

Abstract: In this paper, a convergent, nearestneighbor, control protocol is suggested for agents with nontrivial dynamics. The protocol guarantees convergence to a common point in space even if each agent is restricted to communicate ...

Abstract: Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ...

Abstract: The thickness measurements showed that boilers of the Shahid Rajaee power plant have a non-uniform thickness in some regions of the final reheater tubes after 80,000 h of operation. Experimental ...