Abstract: This article adopts two data mining techniques, support vector machine (SVM) and least-squares support vector machine (LSSVM), for prediction of soil electrical resistivity based on soil properties and thermal resistivity. ...

Abstract: This article uses the relevance vector machine (RVM) for the prediction of the overconsolidation ratio (OCR) of fine-grained soils based on piezocone penetration test data. RVM provides an empirical Bayes method of function ...

Abstract: The structure of the stratified turbulent upper mixed layer of the ocean has been numerically investigated by using the turbulence closure model of Gibson and Launder, under the action of an impulsive wind stress τ0 and ...

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Abstract: A linear, two-dimensional, continuously stratified, viscous model has been developed to study the inertial oscillations generated by a propagating wind field. The model, an extension of that of Kundu and Thomson, includes ...

Abstract: Inelastic mechanisms leading to failure in interior reinforced concrete beam–column (RCBC) connections, designed on the concept of strong column–weak beam philosophy, primarily result from failure of the joint region and ...

Abstract: The excitation of coastal inertial oscillations by a rapidly varying wind is investigated. It is shown that the mean-square response to a completely random forcing is ??2 ? ? ?δ2dt, where ?δ is the response to impulsive ...

Abstract: Nearly two months of current meter data taken during the summer of 1973 at eleven depths at a station off the coast of Oregon in 100 m of water have been analyzed. The spectra show an 8% increase in the frequency of the ...

Abstract: It has been shown that the phase angle of the complex correlation coefficient is a good measure of the average relative angular displacement (veering) between a pair of two-dimensional vector series. The correlation ...

Abstract: AbstractThe interfacial strength between a clay substrate and a polymer coating develops with contributions from factors at different length scales. At molecular length scale, the primary contribution comes in the form of ...