Flying electric generators (FEGs) are proposed to harness kinetic energy in the powerful, persistent high-altitude winds. Average power density can be as high as 20 kW/m(2) in an approximately 1000-km-wide band around ...
Heavy metals speciation analysis was carried out on sediment samples accumulated within soakaways in an old stormwater infiltration facility in Tokyo, Japan and on a soil core sample collected near the facility. Heavy ...
Sawhney Anil; Mund A(Gordon Breach Sci Publ Ltd, 1999)
The construction industry is growing at a fast pace-newer project delivery methodologies are being adopted; design of facilities is continuously improving, newer means, methods, and materials of construction are being used. ...
Wang Jiazhao; Chou Shu; Liu Hao; Wang Guoxiu; Zhang Chao; Chew Sau; Liu Hua-Kun(Elsevier Inc, 2009)
Highly flexible and bendable free-standing polypyrrole (PPy) films were prepared using the electrochemical polymerization method. The paper-like films are soft, lightweight, mechanically robust, and highly electrically ...
Electron beam induced etching (EBIE) and deposition (EBID) are promising fabrication techniques in which an electron beam is used to dissociate surface-adsorbed precursor molecules to achieve etching or deposition. Spatial ...
Structural fire safety capacity of concrete is very complicated because concrete materials have considerable variations. In this paper, constitutive models and relationships for concrete subjected to fire are developed, ...
This paper addresses the design of H-infinity state feedback controllers for a class of nonlinear time-varying delay systems. The interesting features here are that the system in consideration is nonautonomous with ...
This paper presents an Hinfinity controller design approach for vibration attenuation of seismic-excited building structures with time delay in control input. The time delay is assumed to be uncertain time-invariant but ...
Hazelton Pamela; Clements Anne(Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, 2011)
Colonisation in the late 18th century and subsequent settlement in New South Wales, Australia has led to the native vegetation on the more arable soils being cleared, leaving only scattered remnants of the original vegetation. ...
This paper is concerned with a study of the influence of a time delay occurring in a PD feedback control on the dynamic stability of a rotor suspended by magnetic bearings. In the presence of geometric coordinate coupling ...
Key components of the miRNA-mediated gene regulation pathway are localized in cytoplasmic processing bodies (P-bodies). Mounting evidence suggests that the presence of microscopic P-bodies are not always required for ...
In recent years, many developments in logistics were connected to the need for information in an efficient supply chain flow. The supply chain is often represented as a network called a supply chain network (SCN) that is ...
Ling Steve; Lu H H C; Chan K; Lam Hak-Keung; Yeung B C W; Leung F H(IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2008)
A new hybrid particle swarm optimization (PSO) that incorporates a wavelet-theory-based mutation operation is proposed. It applies the wavelet theory to enhance the PSO in exploring the solution space more effectively for ...
Zhang Nong; Smith Wade; Jeyakumaran Jeku(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2010)
This paper presents a novel approach for the frequency domain analysis of a vehicle fitted with a general hydraulically interconnected suspension (HIS) system. Ideally, interconnected suspensions have the capability, unique ...
Smith Wade; Zhang Nong; Hu Wenlong(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
This paper extends recent research on vehicles with hydraulically interconnected suspension (HIS) systems. Such suspension schemes have received considerable attention in the research community over the last few years. ...