Large deposits of coal over vast expanse of lands attract mining companies, power stations and petrochemical companies and thus the development of coal towns with rail and road networks. High traffic volume of large quantities of coal across coal cities often result in the gradual accumulation of fine coal dust particles on road pavements, rail ballast and sleepers. The effect of coal dust on t...

in the present study, turbulent flow in channels of a plate heat exchanger with corrugated chevron plates has been simulated numerically using the commercial cfd package, fluent. unstructured mesh is used for discretizing the computational domain and simple algorithm is utilized to solve the pressure and velocity equations. there is a wide selection of different plate heat exchangers within the...

(1) Each pair of points can be joined by one and only one straight line segment. (2) Any straight line segment can be indefinitely extended in either direction. (3) There is exactly one circle of any given radius with any given center. (4) All right angles are congruent to one another. (5) If a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two ...

[1] We examine the frictional behavior of a range of lithified rocks used as analogs for fault rocks, cataclasites and ultracataclasites at seismogenic depths and compare them with gouge powders commonly used in experimental studies of faults. At normal stresses of ∼50 MPa, the frictional strength of lithified, isotropic hard rocks is generally higher than their powdered equivalents, whereas fo...

The state of stress induced by a shrink-fitted circular shaft in an elastically similar half-space, positioned so that the end of the shaft is flush with the remainder of the free surface, is studied. At deep interior points the classical plane strain (Lamé) solution obtains, and the transition to the free surface state is found. It is found that a residual interfacial axial shear develops and ...

This study investigated the relationship among measurements of friction, the biomechanics of gait, and actual slip and fall events. The goal was to develop a method for estimating the probability of slips and falls based on measurements of available friction and required friction. Five subjects wearing safety harnesses walked down a ramp at various angles with either a tile or carpeted surface ...

We consider the rate-independent problem of a particle moving in a three dimensional half space subject to a time-dependent nonlinear restoring force having a convex potential and to Coulomb friction along the flat boundary of the half space, where the friction coefficient may vary along the boundary. Our existence result allows for solutions that may switch arbitrarily often between unconstrai...