Abstract: This paper presents a study of the amplification of SV waves obliquely incident on a surface soil layer overlying rock formation. Special attention is placed on the influence of the saturation states of the soil layer and ...

Abstract: An attempt is made to establish an analytically based estimate of the influence zone surrounding the tip of a loaded pile in sand. In the framework of the cavity expansion theory and a confined local failure mechanism, ...

Abstract: A new equation has been formulated and found successful for modeling the wear rate of test specimens. It is capable of predicting the standard steady-state wear rate and the net steady-state ...

Abstract: The pressure and density dependence of the shear strength of sand poses a tricky problem in pile foundation design. In this study, a correlation is suggested to link the effective friction angle of sand with its initial ...

Abstract: A plane-strain analysis of dynamic indentation of an elastic-plastic multi-layered medium by a rigid cylinder was performed using the finite element method. Conversely to plane-strain static contact ...

Abstract: Dynamic equations of steady motion governing the behavior of threads over rotating arbitrary-axisymmetric rollers are derived. Various types of boundary conditions resulting in initial value or ...

Abstract: Molecular dynamics simulations of a rigid diamond tip sliding on a face-centered-cubic copperlike substrate were performed in order to examine the dependence of the friction coefficient on the ...

Abstract: The existence of initial shear stress can have a significant effect on the cyclic strength or liquefaction potential of sand. This effect is not yet fully understood because of a lack of convergence and consistency in the ...