Mining activities impact the nearby environment, causing the so-called mining hazards. The land subsidence phenomena caused by the dewatering of the mines are listed among the mining-induced catastrophic geohazards slowly affecting extensive areas around the opencasts. These large-scale...

India is among the top ten countries with the highest percentage of landslide fatalities for the past few years. Intense rainfall during the 2009 monsoon in the hilly district of Nilgiris, in the state of Tamilnadu in India, triggered landslides at more than 300 locations which affected road and...

Ireland has a target of meeting 40% of its electricity requirement with renewable energy by 2020. It is estimated that Ireland has a practical wind energy resource of 613 TWh, which is about 21 times the total electricity requirement in Ireland at the end of 2008. Therefore wind energy is worth...

We established a three-dimensional finite element model of thermoelectric module based on low-temperature thermoelectric material bismuth telluride and medium-temperature thermoelectric material filled-skutterudite. The material properties of the thermoelectric materials such as the Seebeck...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a new solution for wheel‐robot's adhesion and passing‐obstacles mechanism and the optimal design of magnetic adhesion unit with finite element methods. The new mechanism makes the robot have a simpler structure, finer passing obstacles and...