From Cinderella's dilemma to rock slides

Land Slides and Rock Falls

Flexural Toppling Failure in Rock Slopes: From Theory to Applications

Toppling failure is one of the most common modes of failure of rock slopes in layered rock strata. Flexural toppling is one of the well-known modes of the failure. This type of failure occurs due to bending stress. In this article, a brief yet comprehensive review of toppling failure is presented. Firstly, the conditions and general mechanism of the failure are described. Then, experimental, th...

Notes to Accompany the Slides

Preamble The course is aimed at people who already know how to do elementary rigid-body dynamics using 3D vectors. It follows the treatment of spatial vectors appearing in the book Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms, which should be consulted for more details. Another source that may be useful is the Springer Handbook of Robotics, Chapter 2. Other materials relating to this course can be found on D...

13: Scattering from Rock and Rock Outcrops

In terms of target detection and classification, scattering from exposed rock on the seafloor, (i.e., individual rocks and rock outcrops) presents some of the most difficult challenges for modern MCM and ASW sonar systems in shallow water. Work on characterizing, modeling and simulating mean levels and other statistical measures of acoustic scattering from rocks and rock outcrops is therefore c...

Glass slides to DNA microarrays

on genomics, became aware of the potential commercial, technical, and social importance of the human genome project during the late 1990s. The human genome project was formally initiated in 19901 and was expected to last 15 years. It had the major goals of identifying all the genes in human DNA, determining the sequences of those genes, and storing the information in public databases. However, ...