Drilling and blasting have numerous applications in the civil and mining engineering. Due to the two major components of rock masses, namely the intact rock matrix and the discontinuities, their behavior is a complicated process to be analyzed. The purpose of this work is to investigate the effects of the geomechanical and geometrical parameters of rock and discontinuities on the rock mass blas...

In this paper we introduce the Bézier variant of genuine-Durrmeyer type operators having Pólya basis functions. We give a global approximation theorem in terms of second order modulus of continuity, a direct approximation theorem by means of the Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness and a Voronovskaja type theorem by using the Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness. The rate of convergence for funct...

Srivastava and Gupta proposed in 2003 a general family of linear positive operators which include several well known operators as its special cases and investigated the rate of convergence of these operators for functions of bounded variation by using the decomposition techniques. Subsequently, researchers proposed several modifications of these operators and studied their various approximation...

the growing interest in using natural fibers as reinforcing agents of polymer-based composites is mainly due to their advantages such as lower cost, lower density, ease of preparation, lower energy requirements for processing, biodegradability, wide availability and relative non-abrasiveness over traditional reinforcing fibers such as glass and carbon. in this study, wood-plastic composite (wpc...

the aim of this paper is to show how some measures of noncompactness in the banach space of continuous functions defined on two variables can be applied to the solvability of a general system of functional integral equations . the results obtained generalize and extend several equations . an illustrative example is also presented .

The aim of this research is to calculate the elastic constants and Bulk modulus of Cu-20 wt% Ni random Nanoalloy. The molecular dynamics simulation technique was used to calculate the mechanical properties in NPT ensemble. The interaction between atoms as well as cohesive energy in the Nanoalloy modeled systems was calculated by Morse et al. two body potential. Also the temperature of the syste...

Resilient modulus and California Bearing Ratio (CBR) in unbound granular materials are the key technical characteristics of layers in a flexible pavement design. Among the factors affecting these two parameters, the aggregate gradation is the most important. Using particle size distribution curve developed by AASHTO, together with other considerations mentioned in the related regulations have y...

the deformation modulus of a rock mass is an important input parameter in any analysis of rock mass behavior for geotechnical projects such as dams. the determination of this parameter by in situ tests are time consuming and expensive. therefore, different researchers have proposed empirical relationships for estimating the value of rock mass deformation modulus. this work has been done by usin...

In this note, we introduce the Durrmeyer variant of Stancu operators that preserve the constant functions depending on non-negative parameters. We give a global approximation theorem in terms of the Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness, a Voronovskaja type theorem and a local approximation theorem by means of second order modulus of continuity. Also, we obtain the rate of approximation for absol...