Abstract: This Discussion is submitted with the understanding that the authors would respond only to the technical issues with appropriate proofs and not address unrelated items and attack others’ work. ...

Abstract: Demographic estimates and short‐ as well as long‐term projections for minority students between the ages of fifteen and nineteen years are discussed. These estimates and projections indicate significant shifts in the ...

Abstract: The disturbed state concept (DSC) and the dissipated energy approach can provide simplified, fundamental, and mechanistic methods for the identification of the initiation and growth of liquefaction in saturated soils under ...

Abstract: A number of models for thermomechanical stress analysis and fatigue failure of materials are reviewed and their capabilities and limitations are identified. The unified disturbed state concept ...

Abstract: The widely used Terzaghi theory for deformation or consolidation in porous materials is based on the effective stress, a rather fictitious quantity, carried by the soil skeleton through the particle contact area, which is ...

Abstract: A new approach to the life assessment for linear bearings using three-parameter Weibull distribution is discussed and theoretical basic dynamic load ratings are calculated for linear motion ball ...

Abstract: A new nondimensional number (η) to predict the dominant failure mechanism of fiber reinforced composites under compression loading is presented. Results from previous experimental investigations ...

Abstract: An understanding of the mechanical behavior of saturated interfaces between structural and geologic materials and joints in rock, subjected to cyclic earthquake-type loading, is important for safe and improved analysis and ...