Abstract: Adhesion plays a significant role in the friction and wear in the case where the contact surfaces are continuous and smooth such that roughnessbased factors are negligible. Therefore, imposing an external load to overcome ...

Abstract: Spherical contact under combined normal and tangential loading has been investigated by many researchers, and some physically based criteria were proposed to capture the sliding inception, e.g., ...

Abstract: decline of surface wind speed (wind stilling) has been observed in many regions of the world. The greater Beijing metropolitan area in China is taken as an example for analyzing the urbanization impact on wind stilling. ...

Abstract: Heavy rainfall-induced inundation is becoming more serious in urban areas making it necessary to urgently appraise and redesign the infrastructure system to drain the storm water more efficiently. For the complex urban ...

Abstract: Rock mass often exhibits anisotropic properties. Even isotropic rocks will behave anisotropically if cut by regular joint sets. Many rock masses can be regarded as orthogonal anisotropic linear elastic bodies. To date, ...

Abstract: AbstractThis study investigates the dependency of the evaluation of the Integrated Multisatellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) rainfall product on the gauge density of a ground-based rain gauge ...

Abstract: Meteorological and hydrological droughts can bring different socioeconomic impacts. In this study, we investigated meteorological and hydrological drought characteristics and propagation using the standardized precipitation ...

Abstract: This study provides a solution for determining stress and displacement measurements of layered soil under the interaction of two adjacent strip footings by using conformal transformation methods (CTMs) in complex variable ...