Abstract: Hydrosuction sediment-removal systems (HSRS) remove deposited or incoming sediments from reservoirs using the energy represented by the difference between water levels upstream and downstream from a dam. HSRS are briefly ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new constrained viscoelastic (VE) layer treatment as a distributed supplemental damping mechanism for structural members. A steady-state solution of a cantilevered column utilizing this system is ...