Abstract: In high-rise building construction in urban areas, completed floors used as material storage provide usable spaces to support construction activities. A binary mixed-integer linear programming (BMILP) problem has been ...

Abstract: Oil sand is a dense granular material with interlocking fabric. As a strain-softening material, oil sand exhibits a more complex creep behavior than that of strain-hardening geomaterials. The creep behavior of oil sand ...

Abstract: The ground behavior near circular tunnels in cohensionless soils, including the initial elastic response, the intermediate yielding, and the ultimate collapse, is explored in detail. Different modes of tunnel behavior are ...

Abstract: Soil exhibits creep behavior, in which the deformation of soil develops with time at a state of constant effective stress. A series of triaxial compression creep tests was performed on a saturated till to investigate the ...

Abstract: A government-funded research project was initiated to investigate the suitability and potential benefit of applying land use forecasting models in Hong Kong. Part of the project involves the development of a new technique ...

Abstract: The use of modular construction has gained wide acceptance in the industry. For a specific construction facility layout problem such as site precast standardized modular units, it requires the establishment of an on-site ...

Abstract: This paper describes a methodology for the measurement of the capillary pressure curve of dense nonaqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) in a water-saturated sandstone induced fracture. Details of specimen preparation, capillary ...

Abstract: The prediction of air quality parameters is of great interest in environmental studies today due to the health impact caused by airborne pollutants [e.g., sulfur dioxide