Abstract: Electrode wear is inherent in the resistance spot welding process. It determines the electrical and mechanical contact condition and thus strongly affects the resistance spot weld quality. A ...

Abstract: An approach to the development of sustainable buildings was explored in this paper. Sustainable buildings ultimately aim to operate at zero net energy consumption. Therefore, they are an important component in modern urban ...

Abstract: Shield tunnels are widely used in urban underground construction. The stability of the tunnel face has become a crucial issue in shield tunneling. In this paper, the anisotropy of friction angles is taken into account in ...

Abstract: Biocompatible polymeric material with well-defined, interconnected porous structure plays an important role in many biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering, controlled drug release, ...

Abstract: This paper presents a dynamic thermal tensioning method to control the welding induced distortion under production variation. The new method determines the optimal thermal tensioning parameters ...

Abstract: he prognostic equation for the radial velocity field observed with a Doppler radar is derived to include the effects of atmospheric refraction and earth curvature on radar-beam height and slope angle. The derived equation, ...

Abstract: The method of statistical analysis of wind innovation (observation minus forecast) vectors is refined upon the work of Hollingsworth and Lönnberg (HL). The new refinements include (i) improved spectral representations of ...

Abstract: The method of statistical analysis of wind innovation (observation minus forecast) vectors is extended and applied to the innovation data collected over North America for a 3-month period from the Navy Operational Global ...

Abstract: As design problems become more complex and design lead time more pressing, designers need effective support tools to expand their design space exploration. In this paper, a hierarchical ...