Abstract: Determination of overall factor of safety of a design involves repeated calculation of factor of safety at critical points in the design. For a given stress state at a point, the factor of ...

Abstract: This paper presents a numerical procedure based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to analyze the failure process of a rock medium by predicting the initiation of microcracks. The subsequent propagation of cracks has ...

Abstract: Stone column is a convenient technique employed to enhance the liquefaction resistance of sandy soil subjected to seismic loading. After the end of an earthquake, the pore water pressures that generated during the earthquake ...

Abstract: Stability of underground working depends on geomechanical properties of rocks as well as geometrical and operational parameters of excavation. In this study, a fuzzy rule-based method, minimizing the subjectivity in rock ...

Abstract: An infrared thermography (IRT) based procedure, that relies on detecting temperature differences due to air voids, is developed to detect improperly compacted concrete. Unlike previous attempts to detect isolated delaminations, ...

Abstract: Nonsimilarity solutions in closed-form, for a sufficiently energetic line-explosion, in the presence of a constant axial current, are obtained. The gaseous medium is of constant pressure and its ...

Abstract: The paper pertains to the development of a methodology for the identification of optimal design parameters for a system of beams resting on a stone column–improved soft soil. The simulation optimization–based methodology ...