The ridge and furrow farming system for rainfall concentration (RC) has gradually been popularized to improve the water availability for crops and to increase the water use efficiency (WUE), thereby stabilizing high yields. In the RC system, plastic-covered ridges are rainfall harvesting zones and furrows are planting zones. In this study, we optimized the mulching patterns for RC planting to m...

Re-life of aged load-bearing structures may be more efficient and economical than complete re-building. Nowadays, the strengthening an RC structure can designed using non-linear FE analysis, taking a realistic structural behaviour into account. Within current article, this process is demonstrated in connection with monolithic slab. The slab must strengthened due to change function which increas...

Subducting slabs may exhibit buckling instabilities and consequent folding behavior in the mantle transition zone, accompanied by temporal variations in dip angle, plate velocity, and trench retreat. Governing parameters include both viscous (rheological) and buoyancy (thermopetrological) forces. Numerical experiments suggest that many parameter sets lead to slab deflection at the base of the t...