Abstract: During the last ten years, the formulation of drugs as nanocrystals has rapidly evolved into a mature drug delivery strategy, with currently five products on the market. The major characteristic ...

Abstract: This study presents a simplified analytical design and numerical modeling of the pile group foundation for a wind turbine tower on multilayered soil. The pile group foundation obtained from the analytical design is modified ...

Abstract: Unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites are often observed to fail in a longitudinal splitting mode in the fiber direction under far-field compressive loading with weak lateral confinement. An ...

Abstract: The present work examines the inertial effects on void growth in viscoplastic materials which have been largely neglected in analyses of dynamic crack growth and spallation phenomena using ...

Abstract: The increase of significant hydrological events, such as heavy rainfall and flooding, in recent years has adversely impacted the performance of many structures, particularly the foundations that transfer the superstructure ...

Abstract: Multiple hazards such as rainfall, earthquake, and excavation may occur simultaneously, and the stability (factor of safety) and deformation (movement) behaviors must be investigated to prevent loss of life and properties. ...

Abstract: The mechanical behavior of a glass-ceramic matrix composite, SiC/CAS (calcium aluminosilicate reinforced with unidirectional SiC fibers), is studied. Results based on uniaxial tension experiments ...

Abstract: In this study, the effect of confining pressure on the crack growth behavior in a highly filled elastomer was investigated. The material under investigation contains 86% by weight of hard ...

Abstract: Among the many constitutive equations, the moisture-suction relationship, also known as the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC), is one of the important relationships needed for modeling the dynamics of unsaturated soils ...