
Ecological engineering—the 7-year itch - ScienceDirect
Jun 15, 1998 · Ecological engineering, as a trans-discipline, has reached an important crossroads. The field, first elucidated by H.T. Odum and colleagues in several papers in the 1960s (Odum, 1962 Odum et al., 1963) and later by Ma (1985) in China was formally presented in the first book devoted to that subject in 1989 (Mitsch and Jørgensen, 1989).Thus, as of this 1996 …
A System of Systems Approach to Support the Sustainable …
Jan 1, 2023 · ScienceDirect Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Procedia CIRP 116 (2023) 708–713 2212-8271 © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
The vaiont slide — A geotechnical analysis based on new geologic ...
Engineering Geology, 24 (1987) 475--491 475 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam -- Printed in The Netherlands THE VAIONT SLIDE -- A GEOTECHNICAL ANALYSIS BASED ON NEW GEOLOGIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE FAILURE SURFACE* A.J. HENDRON, Jr. and F.D. PATTON Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana, 2230 Civil …
Noise Control Design - ScienceDirect
Jan 1, 2009 · The acoustics environment during space operations is characterized in Section 2.4, “Acoustics,” in Chapter 2 of this book. Limiting the acoustic exposure levels in the crew compartment and habitat to the defined requirements is deemed essential to achieve a safe, functional, effective, and comfortable acoustic environment for the crew.
A practical reliability allocation method considering modified ...
Sep 1, 2014 · Reliability allocation is a very critical step of product development process for setting achievable reliability goals. The majority of existing methods allocate system level failure rate target to subsystems or components instead of …
Third world entry into the electronic age - ScienceDirect
Jan 1, 1984 · The leadership of Western nations in technology development, especially in telecommunications continues to be strengthened. But where does the third world fit into this high-tech scenario.
Cyclic undrained behavior of silty sand - ScienceDirect
Jan 1, 1995 · ELSEVIER 0267-7261(94)00035-2 Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 14 (1995) 115-123 1995 Elsevier Science Limited Printed in Great Britain.
Innovative reliability allocation using the maximal entropy ordered ...
Nov 1, 2009 · In resolving the FOO technique and average weighting allocation problems, the proposed approach is based on the traditional reliability allocation method, which uses Yager’s OWA (1988) and the ME-OWA (Fuller and Majlender, 2001, Cheng and Chang, 2006, Chang et al., 2008) operators. Yager (1988) first introduced the concept of OWA operators to solve the …
A Pore Pressure Model for Cyclic Straining of Clay
Sep 1, 1992 · Written discussions on this paper should be submitted before April 1, 1993, to the Japanese Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Sugayama Bldg. 4F, Kanda Awaji-cho 2-23, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101, Japan.
Liveness of an extended S3PR - ScienceDirect
Jun 1, 2010 · Most existing prevention methods tackle the deadlock issue arising in flexible manufacturing systems modeled with Petri nets by adding monitors and arcs. Instead, this paper presents a new one based on a characteristic structure of WS 3 PR, an extension of System of Simple Sequential Processes with Resources (S 3 PR) with weighted arcs. The numerical …