Abstract: A model is proposed with a probabilistic evolution of damage in the material. The constitutive law is built through the development of a two‐level approach. The micro‐level is assumed to be constituted of elastic‐brittle ...

Abstract: Five satellite products of latent heat flux at the sea surface were compared to bulk fluxes calculated with data from 75 moored buoys, on almost 36 successive months from 1998 to 2000. The five products compared are the ...

Abstract: This paper describes the collapse during construction of a precast concrete girder bridge crossing Highway 15, north of Montréal. The bearing conditions for the girders at the time of collapse are discussed. The tie rods ...

Abstract: We study the creeping flow of an incompressible fluid in spiral microchannels such as that used in DNA identifying “lab-on-a-chip” installations. The equations of motion for incompressible, ...

Abstract: Nonlinear problems in structures are generally solved by using traditional finite‐element methods. The computations are often accurate, but they are also expensive. A simplified model could, however, be sufficient either ...

Abstract: The necessity of an improvement of flood risk management has been emphasized by the importance of the damages caused by several disastrous floods in recent years. An obligatory way to better understand and forecast these ...

Abstract: The seismic performance of 15 continuous four-span bridges with different arrangements of column heights and diameters and designed using the 2006 Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code provisions were studied using incremental ...

Abstract: A digital raingage recording system is described. The apparatus includes a tipping bucket raingage and an electronic system which prints out the time of day each time the bucket tips. The electronic system operates on ...

Abstract: Earlier work has suggested that internal wave reflection off sloping bottoms may cause significant diapycnal mixing in the deep ocean, and may also represent an important sink of internal wave energy. Most theories have ...

Abstract: The distribution of surface eddy kinetic energy (EKE) depicts main oceanic surface circulation features. The interannual variability of EKE and associated geostrophic velocity anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean were ...