The processing of woody biomass waste piles for use as fuel instead of burning them was 11 investigated. At each landing slash pile location, a 132 kW grapple excavator was used to transfer 12 the waste piles into a 522 kW horizontal grinder. Economies of scale could be expected when 13 grinding a larger pile, although the efficiency of the loading operation might be diminished. Here, 14 three ...

Piliated and nonpiliated Neisseria gonorrhoeae organisms were added on top of confluent layers of HEC-1-B cells, each maintained on a microporous Transwell-COL membrane. The bacteria released into the lower chamber were characterized with respect to the following virulence determinants: pili, which mediate adherence to target host cells; PilE, the major pilus subunit protein; and PilC, which is...

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) sponsored research performed at the University of Florida resulted in developing a wireless monitoring and real time static capacity estimate technology for driven piles. This new technology, Embedded Data Collector (EDC), uses two levels of instrumentation, embedded in the body of precast prestressed concrete piles near the head and tip. Strain and a...

We study the motion of strongly inelastic particles in a narrow vibrating tube using molecular dynamics simulation. At low frequency of the vibration, we observe qualitative changes of the motion, as the depth of the pile increases. The center of mass of the particle cloud can be described by a superposition of modes of different frequencies. For certain values of the depth, a single mode domin...

We present a method how to detect the WH → lνbb̄ in the high luminosity LHC environment with the CMS detector. This study is performed with fast detector response simulation including high luminosity event pile up. The main aspects of reconstruction are pile up jet rejection, identification of b-jets and improvement of Higgs mass resolution. The detection potential in the SM for mH0 ≤ 130 GeV/c ...

Solid particles in protoplanetary disks that are sufficiently super-solar in metallicity overcome turbulence generated by vertical shear to gravitationally condense into planetesimals. Super-solar metallicities result if solid particles pile up as they migrate starward due to aerodynamic drag. Previous analyses of aerodynamic drift rates that account for mean flow differences between gas and pa...

A numerical method is presented herein to study soil-pile interaction systems in a stratified media. The method is based on a coupling of the finite element method and the boundary element method. The near field is modeled by the finite elements whereas the far field is modeled by the boundary dement formulation using the multi-layer dynamic fimdamental solution that satisfies the radiation con...

ABSTRACT: The problem of lateral load induced on piles under earthquake has been plaguing professional engineers, geo-technical investigators and researchers alike for quite some time. The normal practice is to ensure that the fixed base shear of column does not exceed the static shear load capacity of piles. The inertial and stiffness effect of pile is usually ignored in dynamic earthquake ana...

The numerical prediction of vibration in buildings due to underground railways involves modelling many physical phenomena. Not least these is the dynamic soil-structure interaction that exists between various elements system. majority existing models assume railway tunnel and building’s foundation negligible, with two sub-systems behaving as though they are uncoupled. This paper presents some i...