Abstract: This paper examines the temporal patterns of historical droughts and floods and associated natural-anthropogenic variations in the middle Yangtze River Basin. Analyses are based principally on yearly meteorological data ...

Abstract: Failure characteristics of rocks under different loading and unloading conditions have been an important subject of laboratory tests. This study aims to investigate the influence of the height to diameter (H/D) ratio on ...

Abstract: In deep underground mine, besides the high static in situ stress, openings such as stopes, drifts, and shafts in underground mine are also frequently subjected to dynamic waves coming from blasting and earthquake. The ...

Abstract: The rapidly growing markets for distributed and centralized gridconnected photovoltaic (PV) systems require the reliable and available information for reflecting and predicting the electricity generation of PV systems. In ...