Performance data on earth dams and levees continue to indicate that piping is one of the major causes of failure.Current criteria for prevention of piping in earth dams and levees have remained largely empirical.This paper aims at developing a mechanistic understanding of the conditions necessary to prevent piping and to enhance the likelihood of s
Preparing academically rich collections for access by scholars and students is challenging, costly and time consuming.Concerns for maintenance, preservation, and access are paramount.Typical of 20th century read more archival collections, one is likely to encounter deteriorating and brittle documents, photographic prints and negatives, and obsolete
Chagas disease affects about 5 million people across the world.The etiological agent, the intracellular parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T.cruzi), click here can be diagnosed using microscopy, serology or PCR based assays.However, each of these methods has their limitations regarding sensitivity and specificity, and thus to complement these existing dia
Simulation refers to the artificial representation of a complex real-world process with sufficient fidelity to achieve a particular objective, usually for the purposes of training or performance testing.While simulation has been important from early times (as in the rehearsal of animal hunting activities or preparing for warfare), incredibleindiato
Abstract In this paper, transient thermomechanical stress intensity factors for functionally graded cylinders with complete internal circumferential cracks are obtained using the weight function method.The finite difference method is used to calculate the time dependent temperature read more distribution and thermal stresses along the cylinder thic