Laboratory study on the effects of hydraulic and granulometric parameters on the response of granular soil to internal erosion [PDF]
, 2019 Erosion is a major environmental problem to agricultural land as well as to civil engineering infrastructures. Rainwater infiltration into granular soils can lead to the migration of fine particles by suffusion.
BENDANI, Karim +2 more
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From uni- to multi-axial fretting-fatigue crack nucleation: Development of a stress-gradient-dependent critical distance approach [PDF]
International Journal of Fatigue, 2014 Fretting fatigue is characterized by combined high stress gradients induced by contact loading and more homogeneous stress gradients induced by bulk fatigue stressing. The stress gradients computed at the "hot-spot" located on the surface at the trailing contact border are very high, usually above 10 GPa/mm.
Fouvry, Siegfried +2 more
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Optomechanical deformation and strain in elastic dielectrics
, 2012 Light forces induced by scattering and absorption in elastic dielectrics lead to local density modulations and deformations. These perturbations in turn modify light propagation in the medium and generate an intricate nonlinear response. We generalise an
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Contrasting responses to catchment modification among a range of functional and structural indicators of river ecosystem health [PDF]
, 2009 1. The value of measuring ecosystem functions in regular monitoring programs is increasingly being recognised as a potent tool for assessing river health.
Barbour +76 more
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A Turbulent Constitutive Law for the Two-Dimensional Inverse Energy Cascade
, 2005 We develop a fundamental approach to a turbulent constitutive law for the 2D inverse cascade, based upon a convergent multi-scale gradient (MSG) expansion.
Eyink, Gregory L.
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Ecological Indicators, 2010 Abstract Quantifying relative habitat quality is an important means of ecosystem assessment, and an essential step in the development and validation of indices of biotic integrity (IBI). Variables included in multi-metric IBIs are selected on the basis of their correlation with a human disturbance gradient, and the IBI is tested by examining ...
Rebecca C. Rooney, Suzanne E. Bayley
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A variational approach for the deformation of a saturated porous solid. A second-gradient theory extending Terzaghi's effective stress principle [PDF]
Archive of Applied Mechanics (Ingenieur Archiv), 2000 15 ...
DELL'ISOLA, Francesco +2 more
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Design of FerroElectric MEMS energy harvesting devices [PDF]
, 2016 Waste heat is a widely available but little used source of power. Converting a thermal gradient into electricity is conventionally done using the Seebeck effect, but devices that use this effect are naturally inefficient.
Blach, Noah T. +2 more
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Equivalent thermo-mechanical parameters for perfect crystals
, 2010 Thermo-elastic behavior of perfect single crystal is considered. The crystal is represented as a set of interacting particles (atoms). The approach for determination of equivalent continuum values for the discrete system is proposed.
A.I. Lurie +16 more
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Optical vortex trap for resonant confinement of metal nanoparticles [PDF]
, 2008 The confinement and controlled movement of metal nanoparticles and nanorods is an emergent area within optical micromanipulation. In this letter we experimentally realise a novel trapping geometry near the plasmon resonance using an annular light field ...
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