abstract treating soil with insecticides is thought to be an effective method for termite control. speed of action and repellency of insecticides are important factors for discussing their barrier effects as soil-treatment termiticide. microcerotermes diversus (silvestri) is the most economically destructive termite in structures in ahwaz region, because the species feed on anything with cellul...

Ground settlement is often the most serious concern when tunneling under an old city with numerous historic monuments. A successful engineering design under these conditions would require getting the most out of the ground strength parameters and avoiding any weakening maneuver throughout the operation. Knowing that surface settlement is highly affected by tunneling parameters in EPB shield tun...

a comprehensive study of schottky barrier mosfet (sbmosfet) scaling issue is performed to determine the role of wafer orientation and structural parameters on the performance of this device within non-equilibrium green's function formalism. quantum confinement increases the effective schottky barrier height (sbh). (100) orientation provides lower effective schottky barrier height in comparison ...

Two-dimensional (2-D) device simulation is used to investigate the tunneling current of metal ultra-thin-oxide silicon tunneling diodes with different oxide roughness. With the conformal nature of ultrathin oxide, the tunneling current density is simulated in both direct tunneling and Fowler–Nordheim (FN) tunneling regimes with different oxide roughness. The results show that oxide roughness dr...

The study of downtime and subsequently machine utilization in a given project is one of the major requirements of an accurate estimation of TBM performance and daily advance rate. Interestingly, while it is very common to report the components of downtime when discussing a tunneling project in the literature; there has not been a great amount of in-depth studies on this topic in the recent year...

We demonstrate that including continuous and discrete tunnel barrier height distributions in otherwise traditional tunneling formalisms enables straightforward modeling of several phenomena important to tunneling. Random barrier height inhomogeneities significantly impact the tunneling conductance, as evidenced by ideal tunneling models extracting faulty barrier parameters, with the incurred er...

ground settlement is often the most serious concern when tunneling under an old city with numerous historic monuments. a successful engineering design under these conditions would require getting the most out of the ground strength parameters and avoiding any weakening maneuver throughout the operation. knowing that surface settlement is highly affected by tunneling parameters in epb shield tun...