Abstract: Suspension bridges in the Central and Eastern United States (CEUS) were built before recent advances in earthquake engineering, and may be susceptible to seismic ground motions. A retrofit strategy is proposed in which ...

Abstract: Over the past 25 years, many laboratory based bioreactors have been used to study the cellular response to hemodynamic forces. The vast majority of these studies have focused on the effect ...

Abstract: Results are presented from an experimental study of the stage discharge relationship for a porous pipe buried under loose laid aggregate. A series of steady-state experiments were performed in which the depth of flow over ...

Abstract: An extended finite element method with arbitrary interior discontinuous gradients is applied to two-phase immiscible flow problems. The discontinuity in the derivative of the velocity field is ...

Abstract: As shown three decades ago, in situations where the initial stresses before buckling are not negligible compared to the elastic moduli, the geometrical dependence of the tangential moduli on ...

Abstract: The size effect on the flexural strength (or modulus of rupture) of fiber-polymer laminate beams failing at fracture initiation is analyzed. A generalized energetic-statistical size effect law ...

Abstract: For the first time, a model at a resolution on par with operational weather forecast models has been used for national climate scenarios. An ensemble of 12 climate change projections at convection-permitting (2.2 km) scale ...