Abstract: The physical processes that govern the dynamic interaction between a soil continuum and an abutting or embedded structure are very complex and, often, highly nonlinear, requiring a numerical approach for the solution of ...

Abstract: The Monte Carlo method is used to study the impact of various cloud morphologies (roughness, voids, waves, and horizontal spreading) on radiative properties of finite, thin, model cirrus clouds. The cloud-top reflectance ...

Abstract: In this paper, a rate‐independent constitutive model for plain concrete is proposed for application to the analysis of impulse‐loaded structural members. The model combines a continuum damage approach, using a scalar damage ...

Abstract: This paper presents a limit analysis, based on the yield line approach, for predicting the ultimate capacity of welded tee end connections for hollow tubes. Five failure mechanisms are identified. The failure mechanisms ...

Abstract: The theories of continuum damage mechanics and plasticity are combined in a strain‐based phenomenological approach to yield an effective constitutive model for plain concrete. The model reproduces the majority of the typical ...

Abstract: Methods for the assessment of structural designs or existing structural systems for susceptibility to disproportionate (progressive) collapse and prescriptive methods intended to mitigate or decrease the likelihood of ...

Abstract: A hybrid numerical approach, which combines the finite difference technique and the finite element method, is coupled with a nonlocal continuum damage/plasticity model for plain concrete, a rate‐dependent cap model for ...

Abstract: Low speed tests have been carried out to investigate the performance and mechanism of flow in two annular diffusers having center bodies of uniform diameter and conically diverging outer walls. ...

Abstract: A series of traditional statistical methods and nonparametric skill tests are assembled into a model statistical analysis program (MSAP) with the intent of evaluating their ability to verify surface water models. Using two ...

Abstract: Measurements have been made on a fully annular test facility, downstream of a row of heated dilution jets injected normally into a confined crossflow at a momentum flux ratio of 4. The ...