The shape of deposits obtained from drying drops containing colloidal particles matters for technologies such as inkjet printing, microelectronics, and bioassay manufacturing. In this work, the formation of deposits during the drying of nanoliter drops containing colloidal particles is investigated experimentally with microscopy and profilometry, and theoretically with an in-house finite-elemen...

Origin of Lunar Basalts: A Geophysical Interpretation J. Arkani-Hamed Lunar Pyroclastic Soils of the Apollo 17 Double Drive Tube 74001/2 A. Basu, D. S. McKay, and S. J. Wentworth Lunar Explosive Volcanism: The Remote Sensing Perspective C. R. Coombs and B. R. Hawke The Optimal Lunar Resource: Ilmenite-rich Regional Pyroclastic Deposits C. R. Coombs, B. R. Hawke, and B. Clark Pyroclastic Volcani...

Tephra is a product of large and explosive volcanic events and can travel thousands of kilometers before deposition. Consequently, tephra deposits are common in terrestrial, lacustrine, marine, and glacial environments. Because tephra deposition is a geologically synchronous event, tephras constitute important isochrones in the Quaternary sequence, not only in Japan but also throughout the nort...

In recent years, in order to reducing die design and manufacturing costs, Multi point forming technique has gained an increasing interest because of its high flexibility. In this process, the conventional fixed shape solid die sets are replaced with a pair of opposite matrices of controllable elements. In this paper, the fundamental principles of multi-point forming was described and the possib...

To reveal the genesis of Makeng-style iron polymetallic deposits from SE China in paleo-Pacific tectonic domain, a new analytical method LA-ICPMS garnet U-Pb dating and rare Earth element analysis was conducted for Makeng, Luoyang, Dapai Pantian deposits. The results nine skarn samples these suggested that mainly formed during 137–130 Ma, which is consistent with zircon molybdenite Re-Os ages. ...

bentonite deposits of economic interest are widespread in tashtab mountains (khur), east of isfahan province, iran. several bentonite deposits have been developed in this area as a result of eocene volcanic alteration. these deposits are classified as khur bentonite horizon. xrd analyses reveal that alteration products consist of na-montmorillonite, kaolinite, quartz, calcite, and crystobalite....

A large-scale trial embankment provided with partially penetrating prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) was installed in consolidating marine clay deposits at East-Port said industrial zone project Egypt. The constructed a bottom area of 150x150m and height 5.5m to evaluate the efficiency improvement system verify design parameters. An intensive instrumentation built-up including shallow settlem...

In this paper we present a multi-criteria optimization of element partition trees and resulting orderings for multi-frontal solver algorithms executed for two dimensional h adaptive finite element method. In particular, the problem of optimal ordering of elimination of rows in the sparse matrices resulting from adaptive finite element method computations is reduced to the problem of finding of ...

Multiuser detection techniques provide attractive performance characteristics for CDMA systems. A recently proposed blind adaptive multiuser detector provides near-far resistance without requiring any more information than a conventional detector. In this paper, an optimum and two suboptimum multi-element blind adaptive receivers are proposed. These receivers exploit the spatial distribution of...

We present a novel broad-band miniature antenna and employ it in a multi-element geometry with diversity capabilities for wireless communications. This antenna (diameter 0.2 and thickness 0.06 ) consists of two stacked circular patches that create two cylindrical slots resonating at two slightly different frequencies, fed by a strategically positioned coaxial probe. An extensive parametric stud...