Abstract: The United States has more than 615,000 bridges. US national bridge inspection standards developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) require routine inspections of these bridges every 24 months regardless ...

Abstract: During the course of expansion in turbines, steam first supercools and then nucleates to become a two-phase mixture consisting of a very large number of minute droplets suspended in the parent ...

Abstract: In this paper, a systematic approach is considered for the development of a low noise shock tunnel facility. For this purpose, an optimal hypersonic nozzle and test section configuration is presented along with a previously ...