Abstract: Natural gas and oil exploration and production from shale formations have gained a great momentum in many regions in the past five years. Producing hydrocarbons from shale is challenging because of low productivity of ...

Abstract: Transparent granular soil was recently found to be greatly useful for observations of the internal deformation in geotechnical model tests. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the stress–strain and stress–dilatancy ...

Abstract: This paper presents model tests on the displacement characteristics of flat-ended piles, pipe piles, and piles with a cone tip of 45º in a transparent granular soil. The testing setup consisted of transparent granular soil, ...

Abstract: Residual vibration control is crucial for numerous applications in precision machinery with negligible damping such as magnetically actuated systems. In certain magnetically actuated applications, ...

Abstract: The use of surfactants to alter the reservoir hydrocarbons affinity toward the injection fluids is an effective method to improve oil recovery for depleted reservoirs. However, the actual field applications of this technique ...

Abstract: A new gradation equation that can describe the particle-size distribution curves of soils with continuous gradation is presented. The results obtained for a large amount of test data from soil gradations prove that the ...

Abstract: Time integration with stress–strain updating is a key step for the application of elasto-viscoplastic models to engineering practice. Currently, the estimation robustness of algorithms is lacking, which poses difficulties ...