Of the many great technological leaps made in the middle of the 20th century, one of the ones with perhaps the greatest ...

Why do glass and other amorphous materials deform more easily in some regions than in others? A research team from the University of Osaka, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

Around the world, tens of thousands of dams, weirs, and culverts fragment rivers and block fish migration routes, posing serious threats to aquatic biodiversity. Although many fish passages have been ...

Abstract: Due to the low efficiency of internal combustion engine (ICE) and throttling losses of load-sensing (LS) system, conventional excavators, which employed ICE with LS system as a power source, ...

Abstract: This paper aims to design a tunnel road energy harvesting system, which is applied in the occasions around road tunnels such as the decelerating zones in front of road tunnels or downhill.