Abstract: This paper presents a novel modeling approach for the mechanics of multisegment, roddriven continuum robots. This modeling approach utilizes a highfidelity lumped parameter model that captures the variation in curvature ...

Abstract: Many earth structures, including foundations, retaining walls, and road embankments, exhibit signs of distress, such as excessive vertical or lateral movements and cracking. Rotation or tilting and cracking of the structural ...

Abstract: The possibility that the evolution of the ENSO phenomenon is determined by the reflection of extra-equatorial Rossby waves from the western boundary into the equatorial waveguide has been a subject of recent debate. ...

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Abstract: Winter-month data obtained at United States Antarctic stations during the ICY are used to compute coefficients for regression equations relating the 100-mb. temperatures and heights to the 50-mb. heights. It is found upon ...

Abstract: Although recent El Niño events have seen the occurrence of strong intraseasonal winds apparently associated with the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO), the usual indices of interannual variability of the MJO are uncorrelated ...

Abstract: The development of a process to emplace a refractory metal liner inside a gun tube is described. The process consists of filling the liner with an elastomeric material and then slipping this ...

Abstract: Historical XBT data are used to construct a mean climatology of the three-dimensional geostrophic circulation in the northeast tropical Pacific (southwest of Mexico and Central America) and are diagnosed based on linear ...

Abstract: Historical XBT data are used to construct a mean climatology of the three-dimensional geostrophic circulation in the northeast tropical Pacific (southwest of Mexico and Central America) and are diagnosed based on linear ...