Abstract: Orbital forcing alone is not sufficient to explain the massive northward penetration of monsoon rains in Africa shown by data during the mid-Holocene (6000 yr ago). Feedbacks associated with changes in SSTs and land surface ...

Abstract: The present work presents a theoretical approach for the analysis of textured annular “damper” seals. The data for the seal were extracted from the work of and (ASME J. Tribol.121(1), pp. ...

Abstract: Several long-span, prestressed, segmental box girder bridges were built in the early 1980s and many of them are affected by long-term residual deformations. Although some models have been proposed to describe their structural ...