Introduction Baumgardner (1986, 1990, 1994a, 1994b) has advanced the proposition that the essential process responsible for the large-scale tectonic changes contemporaneous with the Genesis Flood was runaway subduction of the pre-Flood oceanic lithosphere. Precursory to the runaway would be some pattern of stress concentration and shear zone formation in the pre-Flood lithosphere, concentrated ...

Reactive transport modeling is an essential tool for the analysis of coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes in Earth systems, and has additional potential to better integrate the results from focused fundamental research on Earth materials. Appropriately designed models can describe the interactions of competing processes at a range of spatial and time scales, and hence are critic...

Geometric spreading of Pn and Sn waves in a spherical Earth model is different than that of classical headwaves and is frequency dependent. The behavior cannot be fully represented by a frequency-independent power-law model, as is commonly assumed. The lack of an accurate representation of Pn and Sn geometric spreading in a spherical Earth model impedes our ability to characterize Earth propert...

General thermo-mechanical behavior of composites reinforced by shape memory alloy fibers is predicted using a three-dimensional analytical micromechanical method to consider the effect of fibers activation. Composite due to the micromechanical method can be exposed to general normal and shear mechanical and thermal loading which cause to activate the shape memory alloy fibers within polymeric m...

one of the difficulties in using absolute altitudes is the separation between the mean open sealevel and geoid. theoretically, geoid is the base level in absolute altitudes, but practically, the mean open sealevel is used as a base level for absolute altitudes. the difference between these two levels is called as the seasurface topography. in this research, it is dealt the mean sea level modeli...

An artificial neural network (ANN) model is developed for the analysis, simulation, and prediction of the austenite reversion in the thermo-mechanical treatment of 304L austenitic stainless steel. The results of the ANN model are in good agreement with the experimental data. The model is used to predict an appropriate annealing condition for austenite reversion through the martensite to austeni...