Superhydrophobic surfaces are abundant in nature. Several surfaces such as wings of butterfly, legs of water strider, feet of gecko and the lotus leaf show extreme water repellence behaviour. Self-cleaning, stain-free fabrics, spill-resistant protective wears, drag reduction in micro-fluidic devices etc. are few applications of superhydrophobic surfaces. In order to design robust superhydrophob...

Discarded waste rubber has become a major problem to the environment due increase of usage in modern world. As solution, can be embedded rubberized concrete by partially replacing fine and coarse aggregates. Due nature rubber, there is high potential for have impact absorbent properties. Most firing rang walls are made with normal bricks Sri Lanka. Therefore, this study focuses on investigating...

Post-mortem and in-situ evidence is presented in favor of the generation high-velocity solid dust during explosion-like interaction runaway electrons with metallic plasma-facing components FTU. The freshly-produced source secondary de-localized wall damage through impacts that lead to formation craters, which have been reproduced dedicated light gas gun impact tests. This novel mechanism, poten...

An experimental study was done to determine the diameter and velocity of blood drops falling on a surface by measuring the size of bloodstains they produced and counting the number of radial spines projecting from them. Bloodstains were formed by releasing drops of pig blood with a range of diameters (3.0-4.3 mm) and impact velocities (2.4-4.9 m/s), onto four different flat surfaces (glass, ste...

the trajectory planning, which is known as a movement from starting to end point by satisfying the constraints along the path is an essential part of robot motion planning. a common way to create trajectories is to deal with polynomials which have independent coefficients. this paper presents a trajectory formulation as well as a procedure to arrange the suitable trajectories for applications. ...

there are various ways for estimating velocity of money in economic literature and each has its own specific weaknesses and strengths. particularly, since a great deal of financial innovations and changes have recently taken place affecting the velocity of money, many traditional methods can no langer calculate the equilibrium velocity of money, and they are no longer dependable from the econom...

All impact analyses performed so far for the composite plates, have treated central impacts. Furthermore, investigations on influences of the in-plane biaxial compression, tension, or tension-compression preloads on various responses of the low-velocity impact, especially the indentation, have not been performed so far. In the present research, a finite element formulation is presented for resp...