In Japan, the asset management is now being introduced in the road engineering and many other areas of public infrastructure, in preparation for a predicted rapid increase in the cost of maintaining all public infrastructures. However, in the dam engineering, mechanical equipments with short service lives such as gates and valves has only been studied, but the applicability and effectiveness of...

In order to monitor dam safety condition better, a Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN) model is developed to overcome the shortcomings of the ordinary monitoring methods in this paper. Ordinary methods include comprehensive assessment methods and numerical simulation methods. Comprehensive assessment methods have shortcomings such as weight determination, scale difference, variables correlation, et...

Amniotic membranes (AMs) are widely used as a corneal epithelial tissue carrier in reconstruction surgery. However, the engineered tissue transparency is low due to the translucent thick underlying AM stroma. To overcome this drawback, we developed an ultra-thin AM (UAM) by using collagenase IV to strip away from the epithelial denuded AM (DAM) some of the stroma. By thinning the stroma to abou...

Current weather indifferent fields of science and engineering research purposes and different applications are studied. One of the applications of climate studies, the study of the flow over the weir dam and lower exhaust tunnel is aimed at preventing the risk of cavitations. Aeration is known as one of the most economical and practical way to deal with cavitations on rapid spill ways. In the s...

Calibration Functions for Estimating Soil Moisture from GPR Dielectric Constant Measurements Remke L. Van Dam a b a Michigan State University, Department of Geological Sciences , East Lansing , Michigan , USA b Queensland University of Technology, Science and Engineering Faculty, Institute for Future Environments , Brisbane , Queensland , Australia Accepted author version posted online: 04 Nov ...

Background: Equine wounds, particularly those involving the distal portion of the limbs, often undergo prolonged complex healing and may enter a non-healing state with obvious financial and welfare implications. Poor blood supply and lower levels of oxygen to the lower limbs lead to imbalance of growth factors related to wound healing. Decellular amniotic membrane has been widely used in soft t...

In dam construction, the actual depth to adequate foundation materials at a site is known with certainty only at the points of exploration. The foundation objective serves as a descriptive tool to convey design intent information to construction engineering staff and the contractor. The selection of the most effective approach, or approaches, usually depends on site geology and the amount of av...