Abstract: Value capture offers a great potential to address the financial challenge threatening transit’s role in achieving transportation sustainability. Understanding property market responses to transit services is critical to ...

Abstract: Richardson extrapolation has been applied to turbulent pipe flow and turbulent flow past a backward facing step. A commercial CFD code is used for this purpose. It is found that the application ...

Abstract: Gas metal arc welding (GMAW) is the most widely used process for metal joining because of its high productivity and good quality, but analysis shows that the fundamental characteristic restricts ...

Abstract: In the United States, per capita vehicle miles traveled (VMT) displayed a general declining trend in the new millennium. This paper focuses on identifying the factors that drove the recent VMT trend. Using sample data from ...

Abstract: An experimental investigation was conducted to study the effects of clamped length and loading direction on the self-loosening behavior of bolted joints by using specially designed fixtures. The ...

Abstract: Both experimental investigation and finite element analysis were conducted to explore the mechanisms for the early stage self-loosening of bolted joints under transverse cyclic loading. The nuts ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional finite element (FE) model with the consideration of the helix angle of the threads was developed to simulate the second stage self-loosening of a bolted joint. The second ...

Abstract: Low-impact development (LID) is crucial to mitigate soil erosion during artificial disturbance in hilly lake environs. However, little research on LID practices focuses on their scenario functions on long-term soil erosion ...

Abstract: In analytical models for the slug test, it is assumed that the hydraulic head distribution within a formation is initially at equilibrium and that the hydrogeological boundaries can be defined deterministically. In practice, ...