Abstract: The installation of guardrails around a roof perimeter is an efficient way to protect construction workers against falls from heights, provided the guardrails are strong enough to arrest a fall. A guardrail’s strength ...

Abstract: tate hazard mitigation plans guide state and local agencies in actions they may take to reduce their vulnerability to extreme events. However, because they are written for a general audience, they must be written in a way ...

Abstract: he wave generation model based on the rapid distortion concept significantly underestimates empirical values of the wave growth rate. As suggested before, inclusion of the aerodynamic roughness modulations effect on the ...

Abstract: Tissue engineering (TE) is the use of a combination of biological cells, engineering and materials methods, and of suitable biochemical and physicochemical factors, in order to improve or replace biological functions. It ...

Abstract: Guardrails are an efficient way to protect construction workers against falls from height. For residential construction, job-built wooden guardrails are quite common. This article investigates the strength of temporary ...

Abstract: This paper addresses an advanced and unified thermomechanical constitutive model for soils. Based on experimental evidence showing the nonlinear and irreversible thermomechanical responses of saturated soils, the constitutive ...

Abstract: Data assimilation has been successfully used for meteorology for many years and is now used more and more for atmospheric composition issues (air quality analysis and forecast). The data assimilation of pollutants remains ...

Abstract: The vertical variability of reflectivity is an important source of error that affects estimations of rainfall quantity by radar. This error can be reduced if the vertical profile of reflectivity (VPR) is known. Different ...

Abstract: A method of detecting anomalous propagation echo in volume scan radar reflectivity data is evaluated. The method is based on a neural network approach and is suitable for operational implementation. It performs a classification ...