The stepped spillway design is associated with significant flow resistance and associated energy dissipation on the steps, yielding smaller, more economical downstream dissipation structures. A number of design guidelines were developed for steep stepped spillways typical of concrete gravity dams. The focus of this study is on embankment stepped spillways. A large set of air-water flow data is ...

Because of the influence of energy consumption of wireless sensor network, the location information of nodes in wireless sensor networks is very important, the current general localization algorithm is not suitable for harsh environment. This paper proposes a scheme based on the ranging node localization to improve the overall performance of the network. The routing algorithm is designed to dir...

In this paper, robust fault detection is addressed based on evaluating the residual energy that it is compared against worst-case value (threshold) generated considering parametric modelling uncertainty using interval models. The evaluation of the residual/threshold energy can be done either in the time or frequency domain. This paper proposes methods to compute such energy in the two domains. ...

Vascular growth and remodeling during embryonic development are associated with blood flow and pressure induced stress distribution, in which residual strains and stresses play a central role. Residual strains are typically measured by performing in vitro tests on the excised vascular tissue. In this paper, we investigated the possibility of estimating residual strains and stresses using physio...

The experience of past prominent earthquakes establishes the fact that the structure’s catastrophes and casualties can be dramatically decreased through the use of self-centering systems. A promising post-tensioned self-centering yielding braced system (PT-SCYBS) has been developed, comprising of two main components, including the post-tensioned wires, exhibiting the desirable self-centering pr...

In this paper, a dynamic fuzzy energy state based AODV (DFES-AODV) routing protocol for Mobile Adhoc NETworks (MANETs) is presented. In DFES-AODV route discovery phase, each node uses a Mamdani fuzzy logic system (FLS) to decide its Route REQuests (RREQs) forwarding probability. The FLS inputs are residual battery level and energy drain rate of mobile node. Unlike previous related-works, member...