Abstract: Engineering managers do not receive management training as part of their education. Training in management, situational leadership, in this instance, will give them a model to follow as they interact with others in the ...

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Abstract: This paper presents an empirical methodology that allows calculation of ground displacements behind corners of retained cut excavations. The increased stiffness of a retaining wall at the corner of an excavation normally ...

Abstract: A low friction tractor seat with nonlinear stiffness and dead-band damping was investigated both by simulation and experimentation. The objective was to determine if a practical, “soft” suspension ...

Abstract: The behavior of nonmilitary buildings subjected to blast is considered. Case studies from World War II are described, as well as more recent events from the detonation of large vehicle borne devices in the Middle East, ...

Abstract: his paper describes recent variations of the North Atlantic eddy-driven jet stream and analyzes the mean response of the jet to anthropogenic forcing in climate models. Jet stream changes are analyzed both using a direct ...

Abstract: This paper presents an integrated approach to the layout generation of 3D rectagonal objects and wiring area estimation. Problems of this type are encountered in various component layout tasks ...

Abstract: natural way to set up an ensemble forecasting system is to use a model with additional stochastic forcing representing the model error and to derive the initial uncertainty by using an ensemble of analyses generated with ...