Introduction: The north polar sand sea of Mars is the type locality for the silca-rich TES Surface Type 2 (ST2) unit [1], but the nature of ST2 is not well constrained. Possible compositions for ST2 include highSi volcanic glass, zeolites, and high-Si amorphous phases [1-4]. As no major volcanic edifices have been conclusively identified in the north polar region (NPR), it has been suggested th...

The origin of the well-known ‘grain size gap’ within range 1–10 mm in fluvial gravels is explored a laboratory experiment to ascertain effect hydraulic sorting. A widely graded sand/gravel mixture was fed into flume containing bed composed same sediment mixture. rate feed varied but water flow remained constant throughout at that sustained size-selective bedload transport with negligible suspen...

Soils are called problematic soils when they do not have sufficient bearing strength to provide a founda-tion for the structures be built on them and these types of need improved with appropriate methods depending their properties. Improvement applied strengthen often cause financial burden. Recently, there studies about use waste rubber tires, which pose an environ-mental risk during storage, ...

The oscillatory motion of a fluid carrying micron-sized particles inside a capillary tube is investigated experimentally. It is found that initially uniformly distributed particles can segregate and accumulate to form regularly spaced micron-sized particle clusters. The wavelength of the microclusters is compared to data for macroscale sand-ripple patterns and found to obey the same universal s...

Unlike green sand, chemically bonded sand cannot be used again and again without reclamation because in this system, the mixed sand gets it`s strength through chemical reaction which is irreversible in nature. Each sand particle is coated with this reacted chemical, which behaves like an inert element after usage once. This inert coating also called “Dead” binder needs to be removed from the us...

Weak and strong convergence theorems of three-step iterations are established for nonself asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in uniformly convex Banach space. The results obtained in this paper extend and improve the recent ones announced by Suantai 2005, Khan and Hussain 2008, Nilsrakoo and Saejung 2006, and many others.

For an operator bimodule X over von Neumann algebras A ⊆ B(H) and B ⊆ B(K), the space of all completely bounded A, B-bimodule maps from X into B(K,H), is the bimodule dual of X. Basic duality theory is developed with a particular attention to the Haagerup tensor product over von Neumann algebras. To X a normal operator bimodule Xn is associated so that completely bounded A, B-bimodule maps from...

In the present paper, uniformly large-scale wurtzite-structured ZnO nanorod arrays (ZNAs) were deposited onto a wood surface through a one-step solvothermal method. The as-prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetry (T...

We present an interactive sand art drawing system using one RGB-D sensor, such as Kinect. Our system supports the common sand drawing functions, such as sand erosion, sand spilling, and sand leaking. To use hands to draw virtual sand on a drawing plane, we design four key gestures which enable drawing manipulation actions for sand. The basic idea is that the gesture of one hand controls the dra...