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Zuhier Alakayleh, Xing Fang and T. Prabhakar Clement
This study aims at furthering our understanding of the Modified Philip?Dunne Infiltrometer (MPDI), which is used to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity Ks and the Green?Ampt suction head ? at the wetting front. We have developed a forward-mode...
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Jiaqiang Wang, Caiyun Yin, Weiyang Liu, Wenhao Xia and Songrui Ning
Soil salinity affects nutrient uptake by cotton. The cotton bud stage is a very important period in the process of cotton planting and directly affects the yield of cotton. The nutritional status of the bud stage directly affects the reflectance spectra ...
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Hongsi Gao, Xiaochun Zhang, Xiugui Wang and Yuhong Zeng
The assessment of crop water productivity (CWP) is of practical significance for improving regional agricultural water use efficiency and water conservation levels. The remote sensing method is a common method for estimating large scale CWP, and the asse...
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Alex Brisbois and Rebecca Dziedzic
Installing pumps as turbines (PaTs) in water distribution networks can recover otherwise wasted energy, as well as reduce leakage caused by high water pressure. However, a barrier to their implementation is the lack of information on their performance in...
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Xingxing Liu, Weidong Lu, Kaifeng Liu, Fengyan Xu, Zhibin Ling and Kong Yue
This paper comprehensively investigates the moment-rotation relationship of straight mortise-tenon joints commonly used in Chinese antique timber buildings, focusing on analyzing the local compression mechanism at the tenon end-mortise and the tenon neck...
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Athiq Ulla Khan, Nanjundaswamy Sateesh Kumar, Alireza Bahrami, Yasin Onuralp Özkiliç, Mohammed Imran, Essam Althaqafi and Saiful Islam
The performance of self-compacting concrete (SCC) is gaining popularity in construction due to its exceptional strength and durability. However, the properties of combined steel and concrete at elevated temperatures lack experimental data from previous r...
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M. Servatan, S. M. Hashemi and A. Varvani-Farahani
This study presents a finite element-based ratcheting assessment of additively manufactured aluminum 4043 samples undergoing asymmetric loading cycles. The Chaboche material model in ANSYS was utilized and the effects of mesh and element type were examin...
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Baocheng Zhou, Xin Su, Hongjun Yu, Wentian Guo and Qing Zhang
With the development of agricultural mechanization and information technology, automatic navigation tractors are becoming a more common piece of farm equipment. The accuracy of automatic navigation tractor path tracking has become critical for maximizing...
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José P. Coelho, Maria Paula Robalo, Inês S. Fernandes and Roumiana P. Stateva
This study presents an optimization strategy for recovery of oil from Japonica Luna rice bran using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2), based on design of experiments (DoE). Initially, a 24-1 two level fractional factorial design (FFD) was used, and pr...
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Sergio J. C. do Carmo and Francisco Alves
The present work describes a method to determine excitation function curves and, therefore, cross-sections, making use of the irradiation of liquid targets at distinct energies in a biomedical cyclotron. The method relies on the derivative of experimenta...
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