Abstract: Economic development results in the gradual substitution of the traditional risks largely related to rural poverty with the modern risks characterizing industrialization and agricultural modernization. In the world today, ...

Abstract: The stability of Hill’s equation with three independent parameters, two of which are small, is analyzed using a perturbation method. It is shown that, except for periodic terms of a special ...

Abstract: Microtunneling projects have special process characteristics. The production time of microtunneling projects is needed for project estimating and scheduling. The production time has three basic components: (1) preparation ...

Abstract: Time-mean endwall heat transfer and flow-field data in the endwall region are presented for a turbulent juncture flow formed with a symmetric bluff body. The experimental technique employed ...

Abstract: A study of flow behavior of transitory stall in two-dimensional diffusers at low Mach numbers is reported. The changes in flow patterns from stall inception to full-stall are described; the ...

Abstract: Vehicle heating requires a substantial amount of energy. Electric vehicles (EVs) generate little waste heat, and using battery energy for heating may consume a substantial fraction of the energy ...

Abstract: Parametric design charts are proposed for the central-lever steering linkage, generated for simplified reference configuration mechanisms, the geometry of which is defined by only four parameters. ...