Abstract: The past studies of liquefaction phenomena during earthquakes have contributed to the development of simplified methods employing field test data to assess the liquefaction potential. Since the field data are limited by ...

Abstract: Safety and emergency response are being given greater importance while planning infrastructure and transportation projects. This is particularly so, when transporting hazardous materials (HAZMAT) within a heavily urbanized ...

Abstract: In the last few years, a new type of passive damper, the pounding tuned mass damper (PTMD), has been proposed and studied for passive structural vibration control. Experiments and numerical simulations verify the effectiveness ...

Abstract: The contribution of transverse ribs to the soil-geogrids interaction under pullout mode has been well documented. However, the contribution of transverse ribs to the soil-geogrid interaction under direct shear mode is, at ...

Abstract: It is important to understand the operational performance of bridge expansion joints in real time. This paper proposes a novel performance-alarming approach for bridge expansion joints using continuous temperature and ...