Abstract: Analysis of pavement-subgrade system under traffic load has been traditionally done by static method, such as multilayer elastic theory. Although, in some instances, the static analysis method is sufficient and conservative ...

Abstract: An expert system based on a combination of forward chaining, backward chaining, and metarules has been developed for water treatment plant operations. The expert system was developed by interviewing a number of plant ...

Abstract: Based on statistics and analysis of globally granted patents in the oil and gas pipeline sector, this study presents a panoramic view of the technological development and innovation evolution in oil and natural gas pipelines ...

Abstract: A numerical simulation of a three-dimensional turbulent flow with longitudinal vortices embedded in the boundary layer on a channel wall is presented. The flow is described by the unsteady ...

Abstract: Quasi-periodic (QP) solutions of a damped nonlinear QP Mathieu equation with cubic nonlinearity are investigated by using the incremental harmonic balance (IHB) method with two time scales. The damped nonlinear QP Mathieu ...

Abstract: To minimize surgical stresses including blood loss and operation time to the patients during hepatic resection, we studied the feasibility of a combination of a partial liver freezing technique ...

Abstract: Several methods have been developed to identify forces moving on a beam from measured responses. The results from all of them exhibit fluctuations at the beginning and end of the time history, and they are results of the ...