In layered and blocky rock slopes, toppling failure is a common mode of instability that may occur in mining engineering. If this type of slope failure occurs as a consequence of another type of failure, it is referred to as the secondary toppling failure. “Slide-head-toppling” is a type of secondary toppling failures, where the upper part of the slope is toppled as a consequence of a semi-circ...

The impeller under consideration is a rotor wheel of centrifugal compressor, made 17-4PH martensitic precipitated hardening stainless steel. Its total operating lifetime was estimated to 80,000 h, but it fractured beforehand, 4 days after the scheduled overhaul without any observed pre-symptoms. important causes failure were its working conditions: moist H2S environment, applied shaft fitting s...

in this research, failure mechanism, soil deformation and effect of reinforcement below a strip foundation were studied using physical modeling and piv method. for this purpose, a comprehensive set of tests were undertaken on dense and loose sands and different geosynthetic materials such as geotextile and geogrid for soil reinforcing. in each step of loading, digital image of deformed soil was...

We construct an atlas of a gene expression databank, to visualize similarity relationships between expression data sets. Such an atlas could be used as an interface to the databank, for users searching for relevant background data or data for their own in-silico analyses. The two main research problems in constructing an atlas are (1) to preprocess the data to make different sets commensurable,...