Abstract: Soil nailing is a technique commonly used as a temporary or permanent earth-retention system in soft soils. Habitually, the design of a soil nailing focuses on its performance at failure and computing a safety factor, thus ...

Abstract: This paper presents a numerical modeling strategy based on the finite-element method (FEM) for the analysis of a temporary residential floor prototype composed of three jointed composite floor sandwich panels made of glass ...

Abstract: Rock abrasivity is the main factor that causes erosion of excavation tools and is usually quantified by the Cerchar Abrasivity Index (CAI). Although Cerchar abrasivity tests are easy to perform, they are time consuming and ...