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Applied Mechanics Against the Arts of Geotechnical and Coastal Engineering

open access: yesEngineering Transactions, 2015
This essay deals with interactions between applied mechanics and geotechnical and coastal engineering. Its aim is to answer some basic questions concerning the influence of applied mechanics on the above specializations and vice versa, as well as to ...
A. Sawicki
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Estimating the hydrodynamic forces during eggbeater kicking by pressure distribution analysis

open access: yesHeliyon, 2018
This study investigates the reliability and validity of the estimation of the hydrodynamic forces during eggbeater kicking (a water-treading technique) by pressure distribution analysis (PDA).
Eisuke Kawai   +2 more
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Contribution to the knowledge of early geotechnics during the 20th century: Alec Westley Skempton [PDF]

open access: yesHistory of Geo- and Space Sciences, 2019
Sir Alec Westley Skempton (4 June 1914–9 August 2001) was an English civil engineer and Professor of Soil Mechanics at Imperial College London from 1955 and Head of Department until he retired in 1981.
A. Lara-Galera   +3 more
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Experimental study on the mechanical and failure behaviors of deep rock subjected to true triaxial stress: A review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mining Science and Technology, 2022
It has become an inevitable trend of human development to seek resources from the deep underground. However, rock encountered in deep underground engineering is usually in an anisotropic stress state (σ1>σ>σ3) due to the influences of geological ...
Heping Xie   +4 more
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Optimization of positional parameters of close-formation flight for blended-wing-body configuration

open access: yesHeliyon, 2018
In the present study, we study formation flight with two flying wing configurations. A low speed wind tunnel test is conducted to validate the accuracy of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
Tao Yang   +4 more
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Quantum Measurement and Weak Values in Entropic Dynamics

open access: yes, 2017
The problem of measurement in quantum mechanics is studied within the Entropic Dynamics framework. We discuss von Neumann and Weak measurements, wavefunction collapse, and Weak Values as examples of bayesian and entropic inference.Comment: Presented at ...
Caticha, Ariel, Vanslette, Kevin
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Predicting the Future Burden of Renal Replacement Therapy in Türkiye Using National Registry Data and Comparative Modeling Approaches

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic kidney disease is a growing public health problem worldwide, and the number of patients requiring renal replacement therapy is steadily increasing. Türkiye has experienced a similar rise in both the incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy over the past decades; however, national‐level projections of future ...
Arzu Akgül   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dang Dinh Ang: Nonlinear analysis and mechanics (on the occasion of his eightieth birthday)

open access: yesVietnam Journal of Mechanics, 2006
Professor Dang Dinh Ang is having his eightieth birthday this year. In honor of the occasion, the Institute of Applied Mechanics and the Institute of Mechanics of The Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, and the Laboratoire de Mechanique des ...
Nguyen Van Dao, Nguyen Dung
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Teaching Fluid Mechanics for Undergraduate Students in Applied Industrial Biology: from Theory to Atypical Experiments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
EBI is a further education establishment which provides education in applied industrial biology at level of MSc engineering degree. Fluid mechanics at EBI was considered by students as difficult who seemed somewhat unmotivated. In order to motivate them,
Absi, Rafik   +5 more
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Evading quantum mechanics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Quantum mechanics is potentially advantageous for certain information-processing tasks, but its probabilistic nature and requirement of measurement back action often limit the precision of conventional classical information-processing devices, such as ...
A. Peres   +11 more
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