Abstract: Taquezal is a common earthen building type in Nicaragua. It is constructed by building a wood frame and then packing the frame with mud to create thick earthen walls. The wood frame allows the structure to be constructed ...

Abstract: Modal reduction methods are a useful alternative to fully discrete matrix models for the efficient simulation of large dynamic response problems in frame analysis. The primary advantage of modal methods is computational ...

Abstract: Initial development work for an in situ fatigue sensor for the detection of fatigue damage in steel bridge structures is presented. The in situ fatigue sensor is designed to be bonded to the base structure and is based on ...

Abstract: A uniform gradient (UG) element formulation for a four-node quadrilateral element is derived and implemented for solving the fully coupled governing equations for the dynamics of a saturated porous medium. An hourglass ...

Abstract: A numerical implementation of the “bounding surface plasticity” model for cohesive soils is described. An adaptive multistep integration procedure is used in conjunction with local iteration and radial return. Emphasis is ...