In order to attain high precision positioning and navigation results with GPS, cycle slips must be correctly repaired at the data preprocessing stage. Over the past decade a number of methods have been developed to detect and repair cycle slips. These methods invariably require user intervention for problematic cycle slips in portions of data, tuning of input parameters to data, or introduction...

This paper presents an incompressible two-dimensional heat and mass transfer of an electrically conducting micropolar fluid flow in a porous medium between two parallel plates with chemical reaction, Hall and ion slip effects. Let there be periodic injection or suction at the lower and upper plates and the nonuniform temperature and concentration at the plates are varying periodically with time...

The main objective of this study is to provide a parametric evaluation of the pull-out work of smooth steel fibers embedded in cementitious matrices. The various parameters controlling the behavior of the bond stress versus slip relationship are analyzed; their effects on the entire pull-out load versus slip response and the corresponding pull-out energy up to full debonding and~or up to total ...

in reinforced concrete design, there are situations where transfer of shear across a specific plane needs to be considered. examples of such situation include corbels, bearing shoes, ledger beam bearing, and a host of connection between precast concrete elements. in this study, the shear transfer behavior of reinforced concrete is investigated experimentally by conducting test on 6 precracked p...

This paper presents a tactile sensor that provides transient event information at the jinger-object interface. The multi-element stress rate sensor consists of piezoelectric polymer strips molded into the surface of the rubber “skin“ covering the robot finger tip. These piezoelectric elements provide localized information important to manipulation control. We provide experimental results confir...

This study focuses on modeling the probe dynamics in scratching and indenting thin solid films at microand nanoscales. The model identifies bifurcation conditions that define the stick-slip oscillation patterns of the tip. It is found that the local energy fluctuations as a function of the inelastic deformation, defect formation, material properties, and contact parameters determine the oscilla...

We present a simplified drift-flux model (DFM) describing a multiphase (gas-liquid) flow during drilling. The DFM uses a specific slip law, without flow-regime predictions, which allows for transition between single and two phase flows. With this model, we design an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) for estimation of unmeasured states, production parameters and slip parameters using real time measu...

In this study combined heat and mass transfer by mixed convective flow along a moving vertical flat plate with hydrodynamic slip and thermal convective boundary condition is investigated. Using similarity variables, the governing nonlinear partial differential equations are converted into a system of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The transformed equations are then solved us...

This paper concern with the investigation of peristaltic transport of a micropolar fluid in an asymmetric channel in the presence of induced magnetic field. The effect of slip velocity on the boundaries of the flow field is taken into account. The analysis is carried out by using long wave length and low Reynolds number assumptions. Mathematical expressions for axial velocity, stream function, ...

S U M M A R Y We use observations of earthquake source parameters over a wide magnitude range (M W ∼ 0–7) to place constraints on constitutive fault weakening. The data suggest a scale dependence of apparent stress and stress drop; both may increase slightly with earthquake size. We show that this scale dependence need not imply any difference in fault zone properties for different sized earthq...