this paper highlights the effect of silt content on cone tip resistance in loose silty sand. in this study, twenty-seven cone penetration tests are performed in saturated silty sand samples with several different silt contents ranging from 10 to 50 percent. the samples are consolidated at three overburden stresses including 100, 200 and 300 kpa. it is shown that, as the silt content increases, ...

A configuration map is defined and computed, mapping all configurations of a part before an elementary manipulative operation to all possible outcomes. Configuration maps provide a basis for planning the operation sequences which occur in parts-feeder designs or in more general sensorless manipulation strategies for robots. Sequences of elementary operations are represented as matrix-products o...

We present an algorithm to determine communicator variables in parallel programs. If communicator variables are accessed in program order and accesses to other shared variables are not reordered with respect to communicators, then program executions are sequentially consistent. Computing communicators is an efficient and effective alternative to delay set computation. The algorithm does not req...

It is important to preprocess high-throughput data generated from microarray or mass spectrometry experiments in order to obtain a successful analysis. Outlier detection is an important preprocessing step. For outlier detection, upper and lower fences (Q3+1.5IQR and Q1 − 1.5IQR) of the differences are often used in statistics, where Q1=lower 25% quantile, Q3=upper 25% quantile, and IQR = Q3 − Q...

We give a sound and complete fence insertion procedure for concurrent finite-state programs running under the classical TSO memory model. This model allows “write to read” relaxation corresponding to the addition of an unbounded store buffer between each processor and the main memory. We introduce a novel machine model, called the Single-Buffer (SB) semantics, and show that the reachability pro...

Heat flow controls the design and operation of a wide range engineered geosystems. This study uses transient thermal probe measurements to determine evolution conductivity air-dry water-saturated sand–silt mixtures as function effective stress. Results confirm that soils varies with state stress, dry mass density, mineralogy, pore fluid properties highlight effect contact resistance on granular...

An experiment was conducted to study the effects of different soil media on seed germination and seedling growth of peach during 2001 and 2002 in Orakzai Agency. Different soil media alone and in combination used for seed germination of peach were Farm Yard Manure, Saw dust, Canal silt, FYM + Sawdust, FYM + Canal silt, Sawdust + Silt and FYM + Sawdust +Silt. Different media showed non significa...