Abstract: The safety factor of wall stability against overturning is defined as the ratio between the sum of resisting moments and the sum of overturning moments. In evaluating these moments, the vertical component of the active ...

Abstract: The thrust on retaining walls, when a set of lines of surcharge act on the backfill, is often calculated using analytical solutions partially based on the elasticity theory. Coulomb’s method, which is able to give a numerical ...

Abstract: The search for the critical slip surface in slope-stability analysis is performed by means of a minimization of the safety factor. The procedures most widely used are deterministic methods of nonlinear programming, and ...

Abstract: In this paper, a method is proposed for the robust design of tuned mass damper (TMD) systems for seismic protection of multistory buildings. The seismic excitation is a random ground motion acceleration modeled by a ...

Abstract: The detection of contaminant intrusion into a water-distribution network (WDN) is a difficult issue due to uncertainty related to the type of injected contaminant, source location, and intrusion time. The placement of water ...