Abstract: Repair of after-service gas turbine hot section superalloy components provides considerable saving in life-cycle cost of engines. Whereas a number of methods have been used in the past to repair ...

Abstract: A linear hydrostatic model of the flow of stably stratified air over a three-dimensional mountain with an elliptical horizontal cross section is considered. Analytical expressions for the surface pressure perturbation are ...

Abstract: Annual flood losses in the United States continue to worsen in spite of 75 years of federal flood control and 30 years of the National Flood Insurance Program. This trend is unnecessary and is due primarily to federal ...

Abstract: Progressive design-build (PDB) has been successfully administered and executed in the private, airport, transit, and water/wastewater sectors. Although these sectors have experienced successes with PDB, there is limited ...

Abstract: Statistical postprocessing techniques such as model output statistics are used by national weather centers to improve the skill of numerical forecasts. However, many of these techniques require an extensive database to ...

Abstract: The financial losses resulting from various incidents on typical building construction sites are reported. Field data was collected on three sites over a period of nine months. Incidents were recorded by three observers ...

Abstract: Ensemble temperature forecasts from the North American Ensemble Forecast System were assessed for quality against observations for 10 cities in western North America, for a 7-month period beginning in February 2007. ...