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Yuxiang Tang, Xinmei Xiang, Jing Sun and Yongshan Zhang
This study presents a generic model for constructing shear-wave velocity (VS) profiles for various conditions that can be used for modeling the upper-crustal modification effects in ground motion simulations for seismic hazard analysis. The piecewise P-w...
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Sara Touhami, Filippo Gatti, Fernando Lopez-Caballero, Régis Cottereau, Lúcio de Abreu Corrêa, Ludovic Aubry and Didier Clouteau
In this paper, we present SEM3D: a 3D high-fidelity numerical earthquake simulator that is tailored to predict the seismic wave field of complex earthquake scenarios from the fault to the epicenter site. SEM3D solves the wave-propagation problem by means...
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Ramses Mourhatch and Swaminathan Krishnan
Seismic wave-propagation simulations are limited in their frequency content by two main factors: (1) the resolution of the seismic wave-speed structure of the region in which the seismic waves are propagated through; and (2) the extent of our understandi...
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Ramses Mourhatch and Swaminathan Krishnan
Kinematic source inversions of past earthquakes in the magnitude range of 6?8 are used to simulate 60 scenario earthquakes on the San Andreas fault. The unilateral rupture scenario earthquakes are hypothetically located at 6 locations spread out uniforml...
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Ramses Mourhatch and Swaminathan Krishnan
Kinematic source inversions of past earthquakes in the magnitude range of 6?8 are used to simulate 60 scenario earthquakes on the San Andreas fault. The unilateral rupture scenario earthquakes are hypothetically located at 6 locations spread out uniforml...
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M. MENDINA,R. TERRA
We study the sensitivity of convective precipitation to soil moisture in a continental region in Central Amazon based on Atmospheric General Circulation Model (AGCM) simulations and further analyze the physical processes involved, in particular those rel...
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Victoria V. Svotina, Maria V. Cherkasova, Andrey I. Mogulkin, Andrey V. Melnikov and Oleg D. Peysakhovich
To develop elements of a system for contact-free transportation of objects in space has now become an urgent task for the contemporary space-related activities. The purpose of work that is presented hereinafter was to conduct ground tests of the ion sour...
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Romil Mishra, Arvind Kumar Mishra and Bhanwar Singh Choudhary
Blasting is a cost-efficient and effective technique that utilizes explosive chemical energy to generate the necessary pressure for rock fragmentation in surface mines. However, a significant portion of this energy is dissipated in undesirable outcomes s...
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Maozhen Xia, Haining Lu, Jianmin Yang and Pengfei Sun
Deep-sea mining vehicles (DSMVs) are highly prone to sinking and slippage when traveling on extremely soft seafloor sediments. In addition, DSMVs can be vulnerable to dangerous situations such as overturning due to the non-homogeneous characteristic of t...
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Yuming Wu, Aohua Tian and Hengxing Lan
Numerical simulation is one of the methods to assess landslide movement processes, which is beneficial for engineering design and urban planning. With the development of computer technology, GIS has gradually become the mainstream platform for landslide ...
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Phoebe Hänsel, Marcus Schindewolf, Anette Eltner, Andreas Kaiser and Jürgen Schmidt
The silty soils of the intensively used agricultural landscape of the Saxon loess province, eastern Germany, are very prone to soil erosion, mainly caused by water erosion. Rainfall simulations, and also increasingly structure-from-motion (SfM) photogram...
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Xiaochen Zhang, Ziyang Song, Qianbo Huang, Ziyi Pan, Wujing Li, Ruining Gong and Bi Zhao
As automated driving system (ADS) technology is adopted in wheelchairs, clarity on the vehicle?s imminent path becomes essential for both users and pedestrians. For users, understanding the imminent path helps mitigate anxiety and facilitates real-time a...
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Jingmin Zhang, Xiaokui Yue, Haofei Zhang and Tiantian Xiao
This paper investigates the air?ground cooperative time-varying formation-tracking control problem of a heterogeneous cluster system composed of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Initially, the structure of the UAV?UG...
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Daniel Soto-Guerrero, José Gabriel Ramírez-Torres and Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello
Insects are good examples of ground locomotion because they can adapt their gait pattern to propel them in any direction, over uneven terrain, in a stable manner. Nevertheless, replicating such locomotion skills to a legged robot is not a straightforward...
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Yingxiao Li, Ping Ma and Ju Huo
In the final approach stage of rendezvous and docking of a spacecraft, the pose parameters of the target spacecraft need to meet docking or berthing capture conditions. Visible light visual measurement systems are increasingly employed in spacecraft grou...
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Beom-Joon Park and Hyun-Joon Chung
The growing trend of onboard computational autonomy has increased the need for self-reliant rovers (SRRs) with high efficiency for unmanned rover activities. Mobility is directly associated with a successful execution mission, thus fault response for act...
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David Zuehlke, Madhur Tiwari, Khalid Jebari and Krishna Bhavithavya Kidambi
As interest in Moon exploration grows, and efforts to establish an orbiting outpost intensify, accurate modeling of spacecraft dynamics in cislunar space is becoming increasingly important. Contrary to satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where it takes ...
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Feng Wang, Peng Huang, Rongxin Zhao, Huayong Wu, Mengjin Sun, Zijie Zhou and Yun Xing
Debris poses multifaceted risks and jeopardizes various aspects of the environment, human health, safety, and infrastructure. The debris trajectory in turbulent wind flow is more dispersed due to the inherent randomness of the turbulent winds. This paper...
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Junxiang Qin, Xiye Guo, Xiaotian Ma, Xuan Li and Jun Yang
Satellites will play a vital role in the future of the global Internet of Things (IoT); however, the resource shortage is the biggest limiting factor in the regional task of massiveequipment in the IoT for satellite service. Compared with the traditional...
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Tina Rezaei, Atefeh Mosahebi Mohammadi, Elham Mina, Mohammad Reza
On Gravity platform Dynamic Response is a support structure held in place by gravity. Given that the gravity platforms are supported by the sea bed but not attached to the ground, the motion of them is known as a rocking fluctuation. During the fluctuati...
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