Among the many parameters affecting the design of hydraulic structures on fissured rocks are orientation of principal permeability axes and degree of anisotropy of fissured rocks. Geological explorations rarely provide this type of information. If at all the information is available, methods employed are computationally cumbersome and inefficient. A new concept of simple equations and geometric...

© 2006 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0602-010-2 T ancient Greeks were aware of the phenomenon of magnetic order in lodestone, a type of rock containing the ferromagnet magnetite Fe3O4. Magnetic moments in a ferromagnet tend to align and thereby sum to an easily observed macroscopic magnetic moment. The absence of such a moment even in ordered antiferromagnets is the reason their di...

This paper proposes rigorous geometrical treatment of bioelectrodynamics, underpinning two fast–growing biomedical research fields: bioelectromagnetism, which deals with the ability of life to produce its own electromagnetism, and bioelectromagnetics, which deals with the effect on life from external electromagnetism.

This paper presents an efficient meta-heuristic algorithm for optimization of double-layer scallop domes subjected to earthquake loading. The optimization is performed by a combination of harmony search (HS) and firefly algorithm (FA). This new algorithm is called harmony search firefly algorithm (HSFA). The optimization task is achieved by taking into account geometrical and material nonlinear...