E ective prevention and treatment management of spinal disorders can only be based on accurate estimation of muscle forces and spinal loads during various activities such as lifting. The infeasibility of experimental ...

IN this paper, a new approach to formulate a class of scheduling problems is introduced, which can be applied to many other discrete problems with complicated structures. The concept of graph circular coloring is applied ...

A CFD code has been developed to describe the salt solution density current, which propagates three-dimensionally in deep ambient water. The height and width of the dense layer are two dominated length scales in a 3-D ...

Generating an orthoimage from high-resolution satellite images is an important undertaking for various remote sensing and photogrammetric applications. In this paper, a method is proposed that uses Arti cial Neural ...

The objective of this article is to study gas temperature estimation in a partially lled rotating cylinder. From the measured temperatures on the shell, an inverse analysis is presented for estimating the gas temperature ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a widely used and e cient technique for enhancing oil extraction from heavy oil sands deposits. Application of this technique has been extended from cemented rocks to uncemented materials, such ...

A numerical modeling procedure was used to quantify calibration chamber size and boundary e ects for cone penetration testing in sand. In the numerical analyses, chamber diameter and boundary conditions were varied to ...

The goal of this paper is to introduce some new robust gaits of the snakeboard. This is achieved by de ning two parameters; the ratios of the frequencies and amplitudes of the snakeboard's sinusoidal shape variable ...

In this paper, the data transfer operators are developed in three-dimensional elasto-plasticity using the Superconvergent Patch Recovery (SPR) method. The transfer operators are de ned for mapping of the state and internal ...

Damping e ects on THE vibration behavior of a sandwich cylindrical shell with a passive constrained viscoelastic layer are investigated in the time-domain. Equations of motion in terms of transverse modal coordinates in ...