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Soil mechanics

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Numerical investigation of the role of masonry typology on shear strength

The force-displacement behavior of masonry elements depends on the properties of their constituents, mortar and unit, as well as on their typology, i.e., the shape and size of the units and the patterns they generate. Up until now, only few numerical studi ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Efficient numerical representation of the impacts of flexible plant reconfiguration on canopy posture and hydrodynamic drag

Amir Mehdi Razmi

This study considered a new approach for representing flexible canopies within large-eddy simulation that captures the impacts of reconfiguration on both the canopy posture and the canopy drag. The unsteady change in plant posture in response to the passag ...

2019

A coarse-mesh methodology for modelling of single-phase thermal-hydraulics of ESFR innovative assembly design

Andreas Pautz, Konstantin Mikityuk, Carlo Fiorina, Stefan Radman

The GeN-Foam multi-physics code enables coupled thermal-hydraulic, neutronic, and thermal-mechanical analysis of fast reactor cores with 3-D unstructured deformable meshes. Advances within the Horizon2020 ESFR-SMART project, as well as trends towards highe ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Exposed Column Base Connections for Minimizing Earthquake-induced Residual Deformations in Steel Moment-Resisting Framess

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Hiroyuki Inamasu

This paper proposes a new exposed column base (XCB) design concept for steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) that promotes anchor rod yielding rather than plastic hinging at the bottom of the first story columns. A mechanics-based numerical model is first d ...

2019

In situ tension-tension strain path changes of cold-rolled Mg AZ31B

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Steven Van Petegem

The mechanical behavior of cold-rolled Mg AZ31B is studied during in-plane multiaxial loading and tension-tension strain path changes performed on cruciform samples using in situ neutron diffraction and EBSD. The results are compared with uniaxial tension ...

2019

A nodal discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the poroelastic wave equation

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven, Khemraj Shukla

We use the nodal discontinuous Galerkin method with a Lax-Friedrich flux to model the wave propagation in transversely isotropic and poroelastic media. The effect of dissipation due to global fluid flow causes a stiff relaxation term, which is incorporated ...

2018

Distributed hydrostatic pressure measurement using phase-OTDR in a highly birefringent photonic crystal fibre

Luc Thévenaz, Li Zhang, Kenny Hey Tow

We demonstrate a distributed hydrostatic pressure measurement based on phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry in a highly birefringent photonic crystal fibre with a 0.4 bar pressure resolution and a 10 cm spatial resolution. ...

Optical Society of America2018

Anisotropic behaviour of Opalinus Clay through consolidated and drained triaxial testing in saturated conditions

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Valentina Favero

This paper investigates the anisotropic hydro-mechanical behaviour of Opalinus Clay shale, the host material currently being considered for the construction of a nuclear waste repository in Switzerland. Consolidated and drained triaxial tests on Opalinus C ...

2018

3-D micro-architecture and mechanical response of soil cemented via microbial-induced calcite precipitation

Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis

We introduce the application of microbial-induced calcite precipitation via the ureolytic soil bacterium Sporosarcina Pasteurii in freeze-dried form, as a means of enhancing overall MICP efficiency and reproducibility for geotechnical engineering applicati ...

2018

Hazard and risk assessment of earthquake-induced landslides-case study

Landslides as secondary seismic effects are causing some patterns of soil failure that are often considered among the most destructive ones. In fact, the impact from triggered landslides has sometimes exceeded damage directly related to strong shaking and ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2018

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