Abstract: Kevlar® KM2 fiber is a transversely isotropic material. Its tensile stress-strain response in the axial direction is linear and elastic until failure. However, the overall deformation in the ...

Abstract: The traditional ball-type automatic balancer consisting of several balls moving on a circular orbit is widely used in the optical disk drive industry for vibration reduction. Under proper working ...

Abstract: Active wild fires over continental landmasses occur in the warm, dry summer. In contrast, in a study by Yen and Chen it was observed that the fire occurrence in Taiwan exhibits an annual variation with a peak in the cool, ...

Abstract: Previous studies examining the seasonal contrast and spatial structure of the interdecadal variation in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) atmospheric circulation and the relationship between this interdecadal variation and ...

Abstract: It has been observed that the low-level monsoon circulation, especially the Somali jet, exhibits a 40?50 day oscillation and obtains its maximum intensity in this oscillation when the migrating transient monsoon trough ...

Abstract: An inverse annual variation is observed between surface pressure on the highest mountain, which has an elevation of approximately 4000 m, and in the lowlands of Taiwan (a subtropical island in east Asia). This inverse ...

Abstract: Previous studies have shown diagnostically and statistically that the interannual variation of the Indian monsoon is closely correlated with the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST). It seems likely that the ...

Abstract: Twelve years (1985?96) of monthly house fire reports for 22 districts in Taiwan, a maritime subtropical island of east Asia, were analyzed to characterize its fire nature. The major effort focused on the identification of ...

Abstract: An effort is made to explore the interannual variation of stationary eddies for the past 13 summers (1979?1991). Equatorial ? ? t diagrams of sea surface temperature (SST), outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), the potential ...

Abstract: Located in northern Taiwan, Taipei is a metropolis surrounded by hills and mountains that form a basin in which two river valleys funnel the surface airflow of this basin to the open sea. Because of the southwest monsoon, ...