Effective emission control technologies and novel propulsion systems have been developed for road vehicles, decreasing exhaust particle emissions. However, work has to be done on non-exhaust traffic related sources such as tyre–road interaction tyre wear. Given that both are inevitable in efforts assessing minimising wear should considered. The amount of is because internal (tyre structure, man...

to properly plan for construction, repair, maintenance, and reconstruction of highways the minimum acceptable roadway condition is needed information. this, along with other pavement management tools, will help select the most desirable roadway alternatives. in this research the minimum acceptable conditions are developed based on an opinion survey of non-technical but high-level decision maker...

the growing demand for enhanced esthetic appearance has led to great developments in bleaching products. the exposure of hard tissues of the tooth to bleaching agents can affect the roughness of the enamel surface. the freshly bleached enamel surface exposed to various surface treatments such as fluoride and other remineralizing agents have been assessed in this study. the aim of this experimen...

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We review recent theoretical progress on the dynamics of brittle crack fronts and its relationship to the roughness of fracture surfaces. We discuss the possibility that the intermediate scale roughness of cracks, which is characterized by a roughness exponent approximately equal to 0.5, could be caused by the generation, during local instabilities by depinning, of diffusively broadened corruga...

Robin Faivre 1,2,*, Jérôme Colin 1 and Massimo Menenti 2,3 1 ICube Laboratory, UMR 7357 CNRS-University of Strasbourg, F-67412 Illkirch Cedex, France; [email protected] 2 Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRS), Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands; [email protected] 3 State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital...

The authors use a coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave model (SWAN) to simulate winds in a particular region on the continental shelf in the Mediterranean Sea. After showing that the model does a good job in reproducing the observed wind and wave patters, the authors use different parameterizations for the atmospheric bottom roughness length: in one case it depends on wind intensity ("uncoupled" simul...