Oil leakage causes soil contamination and induces changes in the physical and mechanical properties of soils. In areas contaminated with oil products such as gasoline, the implementation of civilian operations requires determination and prediction of soil behavior in the existing conditions. In this research work, the effect of oil contamination by gasoline obtained from the National Oil Compan...

We investigate the timescales for stochasticity and chaotic mixing in a family of triaxial potentials that mimic the distribution of light in elliptical galaxies. Some of the models include central point masses designed to represent nuclear black holes. Most of the boxlike orbits are found to be stochastic, with mean Liapunov times that are 3 − 6 times the period of the long-axis orbit. In mode...

Orbital motion in triaxial nuclei with central point masses, representing supermassive black holes, is investigated. The stellar density is assumed to follow a power law, ρ ∝ r −γ , with γ = 1 or γ = 2. At low energies the motion is essentially regular; the major families of orbits are the tubes and the pyramids. Pyramid orbits are similar to box orbits but have their major elongation parallel ...

1996 ii The thesis of Brett Alan Warneke is approved. Figure 3-7 Cross-sectional diagram of an aluminum trace running between oxide plates and contacting a polysilicon piezoresistor. The oxide and first metal overetch into the silicon substrate causes the trace Figure 3-8 SEM of a Skeleton Crew accelerometer with bond wires providing 9.6 µgm of additional proof mass. The plate has been bent up ...

This paper constructs an analytic form for a triaxial potential that describes the dynamics of a wide variety of astrophysical systems, including the inner portions of dark matter halos, the central regions of galactic bulges, and young embedded star clusters. Specifically, this potential results from a density profile of the form ρ(m) ∝ m−1, where the radial coordinate is generalized to triaxi...

Shape is a fundamental property of atomic nuclei. The spherical ground-state equilibrium shapes of closed-shell ‘‘magic’’ nuclei give way to deformed, usually prolate shapes in the midshell regions. Although a variety of shapes may be found for excited nuclear states, the propensity for axial symmetry appears to be pervasive. Yet, there is a lack of suitable observables that are able to indicat...

We propose a simple method of explicit description of families of closed geodesics on a triaxial ellipsoid Q that are cut out by algebraic surfaces in R. Such geodesics are either connected components of spatial elliptic curves or of rational curves. Our approach is based on elements of the Weierstrass–Poncaré reduction theory for hyperelliptic tangential covers of elliptic curves, the addition...

due to the existence of fibrous materials such as plastic fragments, the strength anisotropy of municipal solid waste (msw) materials is the main source of differences between their mechanical response in direct shear and triaxial apparatus. as an extension of earlier research on the mechanical behavior of msw using a large traixail apparatus, results presented in shariatmadari et al. [1] and k...