Abstract: Under the operation service problem of public transit in China, this work studied the impacts of the operating efficiency and service effectiveness of public transit based on stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and the ...

Abstract: The development is presented of an analytical model for the prediction of the stochastic nonlinear wave loads on the support structure of bottom-mounted and floating offshore wind turbines. Explicit expressions are derived ...

Abstract: The triad instability of the large-scale, first-mode, baroclinic Rossby waves is studied in the context of the planetary scale when the Coriolis parameter is to its lowest order varying with latitude. Accordingly, rather ...

Abstract: To reduce the wear, an optimization method of hypoid gears with the objective of minimizing the pinion sliding ratio is proposed. First, the sliding ratio model of the hypoid gear is established on the basis of the spatial ...

Abstract: Controlled quasikeyhole plasma arc welding process adjusts the amperage of the peak current to establish a keyhole in a desired time. This keyhole establishment time is the major parameter that controls the consistence of ...

Abstract: The hydrometeorological processes that control flash flooding are examined through analyses of space?time rainfall variability and flood response in the Milwaukee metropolitan region. The analyses focus on four flood events ...

Abstract: Plasma arc welding (PAW) has several advantages over traditional gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process. However, due to its sensitivity to welding parameters, this process has not been widely used in industry, especially ...

Abstract: cean heat uptake is explored with non-eddying (2°), eddy-permitting (0.25°), and eddy-resolving (0.125°) ocean circulation models in a domain representing the Atlantic basin connected to a southern circumpolar channel with ...

Abstract: Compared with traditional cast-in-place piers, prefabricated piers have many advantages and been applied in an increasing number of bridge structures in recent years. However, inferior seismic performance hinders the ...

Abstract: The lubrication characteristics and fatigue life are numerically analyzed under full film and mixed lubrication regimes, in which the threedimensional sinusoidal surfaces with changeable wavelengths in x and y directions ...