Abstract: Shearing would occur in the interface of asphalt overlay on existing rigid airport pavements due to the differences in the mechanical properties of the materials loaded by aircraft. The interlayer contact affects the ...

Abstract: In this paper, a dynamic tube nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) scheme is developed to solve the powered-descent guidance (PDG) problem in the presence of bounded disturbances and no-fly zones. First, owing to its ...

Abstract: Existing studies have shown that the interface friction force positively affects and improves the shear behavior at the stud-connected steel–ultrahigh performance concrete (UHPC) interface. However, the effects of the ...