Recycle Aggregate Concrete (RAC) is a common “green” product used for a variety of purposes, although the durability and strength of the material still need more research to adequately determine influences on these parameters. The failure pattern, punching bearing capacity, and deflection variation of wallboard of both ordinary concrete and RAC with various rebar reinforcement diameters and spa...

A novel acoustic sensor is described that utilizes two coincident, distributed, shaded PVDF piezopolymer sensors to provide high-resolution acoustic source bearing estimates. Sensor shading is accomplished by shaping the charge collection electrodes deposited on the sensing layer. When these two sensor shadings are matched via a derivative in space, the ratio of their signal outputs is linearly...

The paper presents the suitability of flyash-limephosphogypsum composite for its use in road pavements. The content of lime and phosphogypsum was varied from 2 to 10% and 0.5 to 4% respectively in flyash. The specimen prepared was cured for 7, 28, 56 and 90 days with burlap method of curing. Compaction tests were conducted on different flyash-lime-phosphogypsum composite and these results were ...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of proprioceptive training on foot progression angle, weight-bearing ratio, and knee adduction moment in patients with degenerative osteoarthritis of the knee. [Subjects] The subjects were 37 patients diagnosed with Kellgren-Lawrence grade 2 or 3 degenerative knee osteoarthritis. They were randomly allocated to three groups: a prop...

This paper presents the results of a series of small-scale model tests and numerical analyses conducted on circular and ring model footings located near geogrid reinforced sand slopes. Layers of geogrid were used as reinforcement. For numerical analyses Finite Element Method (FEM) was used. The effects of reinforcement depth, size, number of layers, and the horizontal distance between reinforce...

Bearings play an important role in mechanical transmission. Many disasters are due to bearing faults. This has driven the need in research for early bearing fault detection. The goal is to extract the periodic impulse signals from the very noise signal which are indicative of a bearing fault. This is done by enhancing impulsive signals while suppressing other signals. This paper used a new meth...