[1] The fine-scale seismic structure of the central Mexico subduction zone is studied using moderate-sized (M4-6) intraslab earthquakes. Regional waveforms from the Mapping the Rivera Subduction Zone (MARS) seismic array are complicated and contain detailed information about the subduction zone structure, including evidence of lateral heterogeneity. This waveform information is used to model th...

Coastal California has evolved through a series of plate tectonic interactions that significantly affected the geologic, thermal, and hydrocarbon maturation histories of the area. Numerical solutions for steady-state heat transfer are used to estimate temperature suppression resulting from plate subduction along coastal California, and to model thermal refraction within the Pismo basin. Numeric...

Zone-plate-based scanning transmission soft X-ray microspectroscopy (STXM) is a well established technique for high-contrast imaging of sufficiently transparent specimens (e.g. ultrathin biological tissues, polymer materials, archaeometric specimens or magnetic thin films) with spatial resolutions in the regime of 20 nm and high spectroscopic or chemical sensitivity. However, due to the relativ...

Chemical interesterification of rubber seed oil has been investigated for four different designed orifice devices in a pilot scale hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) system. Upstream pressure within 1-3.5bar induced cavities to intensify the process. An optimal orifice plate geometry was considered as plate with 1mm dia hole having 21 holes at 3bar inlet pressure. The optimisation results of interest...

This work examines the effects of uncertain material and geometry properties on the dynamic characteristics of a simply supported plate. The forced responses of the plate are predicted using the polynomial chaos expansion method. The stochastic system equations are transformed to a set of deterministic equations using Galerkin projection. In order to improve the computational efficiency when at...

A new fundamental solution of deflection for plate buckling problems is first derived through the separation of in-plane stresses into an essential part and a disturbed part and by use of the resolution theorem of differential operator. A set of new boundary element formulas for the analysis of postbuckling problems of elastic plates are presented. On the basis of these formulas, in-plane and o...

Permanently attached, distributed sparse arrays of piezoelectric transducers have been proposed as a cost-effective solution for rapid interrogation of large, plate-like structures for structural health monitoring. Many proposed methods using these arrays rely on guided wave imaging techniques to interpret and graphically display information for damage detection and localization. Guided wave im...

Abstract In cordilleran-type orogens, subduction geometry exerts a fundamental control on the tectonic behavior of overriding plate. An integrated low-temperature, large thermochronological data set is used in this study to investigate burial and exhumation history plate northern Patagonia (40°–45°S). Thermal inverse modeling allowed us establish that ?2.5–4-km-thick section originally overlaid...

Abstract: The influence of droplet size on exergy destruction rate in flow of highly concentrated oil-in-water emulsions was investigated experimentally in a cone and plate geometry. The oil concentration was fixed at 74.5% by volume. At this dispersed-phase (oil) concentration, two different droplet size emulsions were prepared: fine and coarse emulsions. The fine and coarse emulsions were mix...

This paper addresses the problem of grasping and manipulating three-dimensional objects with a reconngurable gripper equipped with two parallel plates whose distance can be adjusted by a computer-controlled actuator. The bottom plate is a bare plane, and the top one carries a rectangular grid of actuated pins that can translate in discrete increments under computer control. We propose to use th...