Abstract: This paper describes a practical method to prevent the phenomenon of liquid-column separation in a pipeline by increasing the polar moment of inertia of the rotating parts of a pump-motor unit. Two examples are presented ...

Abstract: This paper aims to evaluate the stress-strain characteristics of tubular materials considering their anisotropic effects by hydraulic bulge tests and a proposed analytical model. In this analytical ...

Abstract: An approximated linear model of unsteady open-channel flow is necessary to design the water-level controller for irrigation open channels. Toward this end, this paper presents the matrix approach to derive the linear model ...

Abstract: To solve the problem of the low accuracy of the traditional qualitative method for highway asphalt pavement performance, a prediction model based on improved firefly algorithm (IFA)—support vector machine (SVM) is established ...

Abstract: Accurately predicting the burst strength is very important in the casing design for the oil and gas industry. In this paper, finite element analysis is performed for an infinitely long thick ...