The Zhanghe irrigation system (ZIS) is located in the Yangtze River Basin approximately 200 km west of Wuhan in Hubei Province. The reservoir was designed for multiple uses—irrigation, flood control, domestic water supply, industrial use, aquaculture, and hydropower. Over a period of more than 30 years …

Based on the soil data established previously by a team of researchers at the Technical University of Istanbul, a wave amplification study is conducted for the town of Avcılar, Istanbul, located at about 120 km west of the epicentre of the Kocaeli earthquake of August 17, 1999. It is determined, through …

A new method to study sudden ankle inversions during human walking and jumping is presented. Ankle inversions of 258wereelicited using a box containing a trap door. During the gait task, subjects walked at a speed of 4 km/h. At a pre-programmed delayafter left heel strike, an electromagnet released the …