Abstract: It is shown that, in any secant polar stereographic projection, a small circle on a sphere projects into a circle. This property provides a simple relationship between KH, the horizontal component of curvature of a horizonal ...

Abstract: The diurnal variation of various meteorological parameters in the Planetary Boundary Layer at different latitudes was studied adopting the basic framework of the simple one dimensional model of Estoque and modifying it in ...

Abstract: A steady-state two-layer model has been developed for the baroclinic boundary layer. The lower layer is the constant flux surface layer (SL) in which the eddy viscosity K varies with height and stability according to the ...

Abstract: The present study demonstrates the capability of two preprocessing techniques such as wavelets and moving average (MA) methods in combination with feed-forward neural networks—namely, back propagation (BP) and radial basis ...

Abstract: This paper presents a renovation strategy to upgrade the conventionally constructed chevron braced (both concentric and eccentric) steel frames in such a way that each set of the upgraded braces would uniquely display the ...

Abstract: An experimental investigation of the behavior of brick masonry under cyclic biaxial compressive loading is presented. The experimental investigation involved biaxial tests on 45 half‐scale brick masonry specimens. Three ...

Abstract: In this paper, the authors present a stress analysis technique based on a novel nested finite element methodology (NFEM). The NFEM is similar in concept to an earlier proposed multi-domain ...

Abstract: A new configuration for testing thin layers of solder is introduced and employed to study the effects of strain rate and thickness on the mechanical response of eutectic Sn-Pb solder. The ...