Interior/Geological Survey through Grant 14-080001-Gl441, administered through the North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute as Project No. 6582 (D.E.T.), and by the National Science Foundation, Grants fJHE-g411000 (R.C.E.) and CHE-8711595 (D.E.T.). A portion of this work was performed a t the Regional Instrumentation Facility for Surface Science, originally funded by the National Science...

After the issuance of Foundation Law, every that existed before Law was required to adjust its Articles Association with provisions Law. If not, there will be legal implications for Foundation, or in other words, is legally weak which also have an impact on assets/wealth Foundation. Moving from results observations, service team found problems asset status/wealth caused by less than optimal man...

In the present study, nonlinear vibration of coupled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in presence of surface effect is investigated based on nonlocal Euler-Bernoulli beam (EBB) theory. CNTs are embedded in a visco-elastic medium and placed in the uniform longitudinal magnetic field. Using von Kármán geometric nonlinearity and Hamilton’s principle, the nonlinear higher order governing equations are deriv...

Foundation paper piecing is a popular technique for constructing fabric patchwork quilts using printed patterns. But, the construction process imposes constraints on geometry of pattern and order in which pieces are attached to quilt. Manually designing foundation pieceable patterns that meet all these challenging. In this work we mathematically formalize use formalization develop an algorithm ...

This research presents, buckling and free vibration analysis of fiber metal-laminated (FML) plates on a total and partial elastic foundation using the generalized differential quadrature method (GDQM). The partial foundation consists of multi-section Winkler and Pasternak type elastic foundation. Taking into consideration the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT), FML plate is modeled and...

This paper summarizes an engineering experience of solving the problem of thermal cracking in mass concrete by using a large project, Zhongguancun No.1 (Beijing, China), as an example. A new method is presented for controlling temperature cracks in the mass concrete of a foundation. The method involves controlled cycles of water circulating between the surface of mass concrete foundation and th...