Abstract: A new optimization method for optimal charge scheme calculation is proposed to reduce undesired phenomenon in ring blasting, including brow damage, overcrushing, and bulking yield, which are caused by the unreasonable ...

Abstract: In order to study the effect of gradient and length of long and steep downgrade on the traffic accidents, the data of 1276 traffic accidents which occurred in 5 different typical downgrades (76.68 km in total length) were ...

Abstract: To advance our knowledge of the response of midlatitude westerlies to various external forcings, we investigate the meridional shift of midlatitude westerlies over arid central Asia (ACA) during the past 21 000 years, which ...

Abstract: This paper provides a new goaloriented (GO) method for reliability analysis of repairable systems with multiple fault modes. First, formulas of operators describing components with multiple fault modes are derived based ...

Abstract: A dry three-dimensional mesoscale model was used to study the diurnal cycle of mountain-valley winds in the southern San Joaquin Valley during a summer day. A scheme for interpolating potential temperature was developed ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new goal-oriented (GO) method for reliability analysis of repairable systems with multiple-input and multi-function component (MIMFC). First, a new GO operator combination, which is composed of a new ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new reliability optimization allocation for multifunction systems with multistate units based on goal-oriented (GO) methodology. First, this optimization allocation method is expounded in terms of ...