The strength of clay-rich sandstone decreases significantly when in contact with water due to softening effects.This scenario can pose a severe threat to the stability of water diversion tunnels during construction and operation periods.To address the issues related to water-induced softening in clay-rich sandstone zones in a water diversion tunnel
Neural architectures have accelerated the advancement in various domains by enabling automatic pattern detection, image classification, audio recognition, and face recognition etc.However, they are computationally expensive to design and expert knowledge in various domains is required.In this paper, a swarm intelligence algorithm is proposed to sea
To address the increasing interest towards more environmentally friendly naval transportation and the introduction of IMO2020 restrictions on pollutant emissions onboard ships, the present work details the preliminary design of a mini gas turbine engine, i.e., a gas turbine engine with an output power up to 5 MW, for onboard energy generation.In co
We are at an exciting moment in time with the advancement of many vaccines, including a PH-PRO shigella vaccine for the world.It is instructive to look at the long road that some vaccines have traveled to recognize the remarkable accomplishments of those who were pioneers, appreciate the evolution of scientific and applied technology, and inform th
The motion of nonholonomic mobile manipulators (NMMs) is inherently constrained by joint limits, joint velocity limits, self-collisions and singularities.Most motion planning algorithms consider some of the aforementioned constraints, however, a unified framework to deal with all of them is Ball - Elastic Goods - Sliding Short lacking.This paper pr