Abstract: Baroclinic modon solutions of the two-level quasigeostrophic vorticity equations on a sphere are presented. These modons with both barotropic and baroclinic components can be made stationary in a zonal background with ...

Abstract: The method for cyclic characterization of liquefiable sands, which employs the concept of dynamic backbone curve in conjunction with the Masing criteria for construction of unloading and reloading branches of cyclic loops, ...

Abstract: The linear stability of two stationary dipolar modon solutions of the nondivergent barotropic vorticity equation on a rotating sphere is investigated. A numerical normal mode analysis of the linearized equation is performed ...

Abstract: A model for the behavior of fully saturated normally consolidated and overconsolidated marine clays subjected to uniform cyclic strain-controlled and staged cyclic loading under simple shear conditions is proposed. Staged ...

Abstract: As part of predesign studies for closure of the Operating Industries, Inc. (OII) landfill Superfund site, field and laboratory studies were combined with back analyses of strong motion data to characterize the behavior of ...

Abstract: The Olympic View Sanitary Landfill (OVSL) near Port Orchard, Washington, is a modern solid waste sanitary landfill covered, in part, by a composite cover system. The site was subjected to a free-field peak horizontal ground ...

Abstract: The predesign geotechnical investigation for closure of the Operating Industries, Inc. (OII) Superfund site landfill significantly advanced the state of the art for solid waste landfill engineering. Contributions to solid ...

Abstract: In this paper, a finite strip for vibration analysis of rotating toroidal shells subjected to internal pressure is developed. The expressions for strain and kinetic energies are formulated in a previous paper in which ...

Abstract: An ultrahigh-performance engineered cementitious composite (UHP-ECC) is a cementitious composite with both high compressive strength and tensile ductility, which has been regarded as a promising strengthening material for ...