This study was designed to calibrate and evaluate the subsurface drain flow component of the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM; Version 2.5) for four tillage-systems: chisel plow (CP), moldboard plow (MB), no-tillage (NT), and ridge-tillage (RT). Measured subsurface drain flow data for 1990 was used for model calibration. Main parameters calibrated were lateral saturated hydraulic conductivi...

Many studies have evaluated nitrate-N leaching from tile-drained agricultural soils, but little longterm research has been performed on well-drained soils commonly throughout the Midwest. Equilibrium tension lysimeters installed at a depth of 1.4 m were used to measure year-round (12 months) nitrate-N leaching below chisel-plow (CP) and no-tillage (NT) continuous corn (Zea mays L.) agroecosyste...

To take advantage of conservation tillage systems (including direct drilling and non-inversion) in central Iran, it is important to study the effects of different cultivation practices on soil structural stability as a physical indicator. A four-year study was conducted to investigate the effects of seven tillage systems on aggregate properties of a clay-loam soil (Calcic Cambisol) with continu...

We describe Chisel—a tool that synthesizes a program slicer directly from a given algebraic specification of a programming language operational semantics. This semantics is assumed to be a rewriting logic specification, given in Maude, while the program is a ground term of this specification. We present the tool on two types of language paradigms: high-level, imperative and low-level assembly l...

Due to lack of practical and scalable security verification tools and methodologies, very few of the existing hardware-software security architectures have been thoroughly checked at the design time. To address this issue, our project develops a security verification methodology that is applicable to different hardware-software security architectures during the design phase. The verification fr...

Equilibrium-tension lysimeters were used to evaluate and compare dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) leaching from a prairie and fertilized no-tillage and chisel-plowed corn agroecosystems on Plano silt loam (fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls) in south central Wisconsin during four monitoring periods, March through April 1996, 1997, and 1998, and from January 1999 through S...

This work performs the analysis and simulation investigations of penetration behaviors of chisel-shape projectile. In analysis, the projectile is assumed to be a rigid body and the target plate is elastic-plastic material. By introducing the velocity potential function, the velocity field in target is first obtained. Then, the momentum equation is solved for determining the pressure and stress ...