Weigh-in-motion (WIM) scales are installed on various higher order roads in South Africa to provide traffic loading information for pavement design, strategic planning and law enforcement.Some WIM systems produce anomalies that cannot be satisfactorily explained even by highly experienced professionals.Much of the problem relates to the difficulty
On the base of a rigorous mathematical model, the problem of the contact interaction of a heated flat punch of an elliptical section with a transversely isotropic elastic half-space is investigated.It is assumed that the Wood Lanterns half-space surface is the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic material, and also that there is a smooth (wit
Background: We aimed to evaluate the levels of social support in patients with postoperative esophageal carcinoma and potential effect of social support on generic and EC-specific quality of life.Methods: Overall, 803 Chinese patients with EC were recruited in the high-incidence region- Linzhou in Henan, China for the observation study.We obtained