Abstract: An F5 tornado that devastated Plainfield, Illinois, and environs on 28 August 1990, killing 29 people, is shown to be preduced by a thunderstorm characterized by highly anomalous could-to-ground (CG) lightning activity. ...

Abstract: The various approaches to long-range transport modeling are outlined, and some of their virtues and shortcomings are discussed. Emphasis is put on models describing sulphur transport on the synoptic scale or from a few ...

Abstract: Available Gaussian processes (GPs) are inappropriate when used to globally emulate and optimize nondifferentiable functions with jump discontinuities. This is a substantial limitation as many contemporary engineering ...

Abstract: Available Gaussian processes (GPs) are inappropriate when used to globally emulate and optimize nondifferentiable functions with jump discontinuities. This is a substantial limitation as many contemporary engineering ...

Abstract: Existing techniques of structural analysis for nonlinear composite wood systems under bending/compression loads are combined with probability‐based concepts in evaluating typical wall types of current construction. Material ...

Abstract: A well-to-wheel analysis is conducted for solar hydrogen production, transport, and usage in future passenger car transportation. Solar hydrogen production methods and selected conventional production ...

Abstract: Rotor-bearing systems with long, fast running rotors and rotational symmetry disturbed in stiffness, damping and moments of inertia are investigated. Since a magnetic bearing is used as an ...

Abstract: This paper describes a technique for improving dynamic performance of robots by recursively modifying the mechanical structure through prototyping and experimentation. In each recursion, a prototype ...

Abstract: A theoretical model is developed for predicting mechanisms of load transfer between a wood member and a metal die‐punched truss plate. The model, which treats a truss‐plate tooth as a beam on an inelastic foundation of ...