The hydromechanical behavior of compacted clayey soils is significantly influenced by its microstructure. microstructural void ratio a key parameter that strongly associated with the state. objective this study to provide practical and reliable estimation approach for predicting evolution clay subjected wetting drying paths. In paper, 12 was investigated quantitatively using mercury intrusion p...

This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of municipal waste compost and manure on soil chemical and physical properties quality and crop production in Sari city (north of Iran). In this study, the effect of compost and manure (cow and sheep) on the quality of soil organic material with experimental measurements was investigated. An experiment was conducted in a completely randomized desi...

Microand nano-scale hydrogel lines can be fabricated on substrates by top-down approaches such as lithography and micro/nano-imprint. When in contact with a solvent, the hydrogel lines swell under the constraint of the substrate, often resulting in distorted shapes or instability patterns. In this paper, using a nonlinear finite element method, the effects of material and geometry on swell-indu...

The swell propagation model built on geometric optics is known to work well when simulating radiated swells from a far located storm. Based on this simple approximation, satellites have acquired plenty of large samples on basin-traversing swells induced by fierce storms situated in mid-latitudes. How to routinely reconstruct swell fields with these irregularly sampled observations from space vi...

AIMS Because ceramide accumulates in several forms of cardiovascular disease and ceramide-induced apoptosis may involve the volume-sensitive Cl(-) current, I(Cl,swell), we assessed whether ceramide activates I(Cl,swell). METHODS AND RESULTS I(Cl,swell) was measured in rabbit ventricular myocytes by whole-cell patch clamp after isolating anion currents. Exogenous C(2)-ceramide (C(2)-Cer), a me...

In this contribution a new procedure for parameter identification for the material characterisation of rubber blends is proposed which is based on genetic algorithms. Such a model has to consider the effect of wall slippage on the viscous properties as well as the identification of a new material parameter regarding die swell. As basis serves an experimental investigation of the viscous propert...