Urban flooding caused by short and high-intensity rainfall events presents increasing challenges for cities, threatening infrastructure, public safety and economic activity. Accurately representing infiltration processes in hydrodynamic models is cri...
Contact materials in high-voltage vacuum interrupters require properties such as high conductivity, density and hardness to minimize arc heat damage. In this study, Cu–Cr–Mo alloy contact materials were examined for their usage as high-voltage contac...
This research used a newly developed, full-scale infiltration testing (FSIT) procedure to determine the saturated surface infiltration rate of 16 existing permeable pavement installations in the Netherlands that have been in service for a number of y...
In order to prepare a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer composite (CFRP) with ideal microstructure and properties, a new vacuum pressure infiltration CFRP method is proposed based on an analysis of existing CFRP preparation process methods. Research on...
This article addresses the challenge of simulating rainstorm waterlogging in urban-scale areas where reliable drainage pipe network data are often lacking. Although methods have been developed to tackle this issue, there remains a gap in their effect...
The variation of pore gas pressure caused by rainfall infiltration is an important factor that leads to slope failures. The purpose of this study is to propose a new slope stability analysis method that considers pore gas pressure and examines the ef...
As an alternative to the use of tracers, easy-to-measure soil moisture dynamic parameters (e.g., water content) provide in situ estimates of the infiltration rate reduction state of a soil medium. For instance, managed aquifer recharge operations con...
As a result of long-term groundwater overexploitation, the thickness of the vadose zone in the NCP has significantly increased, leading to changes in moisture transport patterns and groundwater recharge processes. This research gathers data on soil w...
In the present study, the determination of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) and soil sorptivity (S) from one-dimensional vertical infiltration data of eight different soils were investigated using three methodologies. Specifically, the nonl...
Adequate infiltration through Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavements (PICPs) is critical to their hydraulic performance. Detected by monitoring infiltration performance, reduced infiltration rates can indicate that maintenance is required. Measure...
Metal matrix syntactic foams (MMSF) are foam composites obtained by filling hollow and/or porous particles into a metal matrix. MMSF are promising materials in defense, aerospace, automotive, marine and engineering applications. Mechanical and physic...
In this study, the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFSs) is adopted to model Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI) in a fibrous preform. The preparation of dense fiber-reinforced silicon carbide composites is considered. The reaction flux at the solid s...
The Paris Agreement requires the world to put the best efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, due to the global warming problems. As a promising technology corresponding to this greenhouse gas treatment, the CO2 methanation process a.k.a power to gas (PtoG...
Fatty infiltration of the rotator cuff muscles is very common following rotator cuff tears and is one of the most important factors in determining treatment. Current clinical practice relies on subjective evaluation of fatty infiltration through cate...
The use of geophysical characterization of karst systems can provide an economical and non-invasive alternative for extracting information about cavities, sinkholes, pathways for water infiltration as well as the degree of karstification of underlyin...
Permeable pavements are a type of sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) technique that are used around the world to infiltrate and treat urban stormwater runoff and to minimize runoff volumes. Urban stormwater runoff contains significant concentra...
Understanding the differences in the infiltration processes of soda saline–alkali soils with varying degrees of salinization and their underlying mechanisms is of great significance for the rational use of regional soil and water resources. Thi...
One of the primary factors for generating heating and cooling loads in apartment houses is infiltration. However, the evaluation method for infiltration rates has not been well established for the apartment houses in Korea. The existing method measur...
Infiltration trenches are compensatory techniques that consist of a reservoir filled with granular material. Their function is to store and infiltrate runoff water generated by rainfall. The objective of this work was to evaluate the hydraulic perfor...
Performing infiltration experiments on sieved and repacked soil columns seems a generally underrated topic from a methodological point of view. This study assessed how the descriptive parameters of the infiltration process were influenced by (i) the...
Soil moisture is the main limiting factor for crop growth and the sustainable development of oases in arid desert areas. Therefore, the temporal and spatial variation and infiltration laws of oasis soil moisture should be studied. The objective of th...
We report for the first time on the antimicrobial activity of MgB2 powders produced via the Reactive Liquid Infiltration (RLI) process. Samples with MgB2 wt.% ranging from 2% to 99% were obtained and characterized, observing different levels of grain...
Model calibration refines design-stage inputs to align with real-world building performance. Accurate parameter selection, especially for highly sensitive variables like air leakage, is crucial. This study compared two building energy model calibrati...
Capillary barrier covers consist of fine-grained soil layer overlying coarse-grained soil layer, which are widely used as surface covers for mine tailings, solid waste landfills, and low-level radioactive waste repositories. On one hand, the capillar...
(1) Background: Simulation of soil water infiltration process and analysis of its influencing factors are important for water resources management. (2) Methods: In this study, the relative contributions of the soil water retention characteristics (SW...
An evaluation and interpretation of the obtained results focusing the hydraulic conductivity of anthropogenic saturated soil, k, has been performed on an urban area vadose zone. Four methods have been used to quantify the hydraulic conductivity: the...
Surface irrigation systems are among the most common yet often inefficient methods due to poor design and management. A key factor in optimizing their design is the accurate prediction of the water advance and infiltration relationships’ coeffi...
Drainage asphalt pavement provides excellent drainage performance and driving safety, where the permeability of the pavement is the critical performance. When analyzing the permeability of drainage asphalt pavements, the previously used two-dimension...
Water infiltration in soil is a complex process that still requires appreciation of interactions among three phases (soil particles, water and air) to enable accurate estimation of water transport rates. To simulate this process, the Green–Ampt...
A variety of studies recently proved the applicability of different dried, fine-grained dredged materials as replacement material for erosion-resistant sea dike covers. In Rostock, Germany, a large-scale field experiment was conducted, in which diffe...
Rainfall-induced landslides are widespread in Indonesia, particularly in West Java, where volcanic residual soils are typically stable but may become unstable during heavy rainfall. This study aims to back analyze the geotechnical factors contributin...
Fine sediment infiltration and subsequent clogging in a gravel bed affect several fluvial, ecological, and biological processes, resulting in the degradation of the river ecosystem. Despite many experimental and a few numerical studies, the process i...
Soil water movement is important in fields such as soil mechanics, irrigation, drainage, hydrology, and agriculture. The Richards equation describes the flow of water in an unsaturated porous medium, and analytical solutions exist only for simplified...
Internal soil erosion caused by water infiltration around defective buried pipes poses a significant threat to the long-term stability of underground infrastructures such as pipelines and highway culverts. This study employs a coupled computational f...
AgW materials exhibit excellent properties and are widely used as contact materials in low- and medium-voltage switches. In this study, a pre-sintering and infiltration method was employed to pre-sinter W powder with Cu, Ni, and (Cu+Ni) additions in...
The present investigation utilized artificial neural networks (ANN) and gene expression programming (GEP) in comparison with the two-point method (TPM) to develop a generalized solution for predicting infiltrated water volume (∀Z) across vario...
Straw mulching is a key method for controlling soil and water losses. Mulching costs may be reduced by applying it in strips rather than over entire areas. However, the effect of different straw mulching methods on the effectiveness of reducing soil...
Coffee agroecosystems are considered to have the potential to impact soil hydrological functions positively, such as water infiltration and soil moisture retention; however, it is not clear how hydrodynamic soil properties regenerate after land-use c...
Rainfall infiltration is a key factor affecting the stability of the slope. To study the impact of rainfall on the instability mechanism and stability of slopes, this paper employs numerical simulation to establish a rainfall infiltration slope model...
Titanium and titanium alloys have excellent physical properties and process properties and are widely used in the aviation industry, but their high-temperature oxidation resistance is poor, and there is a thermal barrier temperature of 600 °C, wh...
Cell phone images of pervious pavement surfaces were used to explore relationships between surface infiltration rates (SIR) measured using the ASTM C1701 standard test and using a simple falling head test. A fiber-reinforced porous asphalt surface an...
In this paper, we focus on one-dimensional vertical infiltration, assuming constant diffusivity and a quadratic relationship between hydraulic conductivity and water content. Under these assumptions, Richards’ equation reduces to Burgers’...
Tree planting and natural regeneration are the main approaches to achieve global forest restoration targets, affecting multiple hydrological processes, such as infiltration of rainfall. Our understanding of the effect of land use history and vegetati...
Knowledge of soil hydraulic properties after forest restoration is essential for understanding the recovery of hydrological processes, such as water infiltration. An increase of forest cover may improve water infiltration and soil hydraulic propertie...
A nonlinear mathematical model is developed for unsteady groundwater flow in a three-layer heterogeneous aquifer system, comprising a confined aquifer, a covering layer, and a weakly permeable barrier. The model incorporates infiltration and evaporat...
Reservoir water and rainfall are the two main factors affecting the seepage of earth-rock dams, but the seepage measurement includes the seepage discharge caused by the reservoir water and rainfall. Only by obtaining the seepage discharge caused by t...
The high topological silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics can be prepared by stereolithography (SLA) combined with liquid silicon infiltration (LSI) techniques. This paper aims to enhance the performance of SiC ceramics prepared by SLA and LSI techniques v...
The boundary element method (BEM) is used by applying Cauchy’s formula to the boundary of the water movement domain under a dam. By approximating the border with a polygon through linear interpolation, the relationships between the complex velo...
Pretherapeutic serological parameters play a predictive role in pathologic risk factors (PRF), which correlate with treatment and prognosis in cervical cancer (CC). However, the method of pre-operative prediction to PRF is limited and the clinical av...
The laboratory methods used for the soil water retention curve (SWRC) construction and parameter estimation is time-consuming. A vertical infiltration method was proposed to estimate parameters α and n and to further construct the SWRC. In the...
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