Abstract: A one-dimensional porous-medium model to determine the thermal characteristics of energy storage for the utilization of phase change material (PCM) in packed capsules has been developed. Comparisons ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the vertical vibration of a flexible foundation resting on a saturated layered soil half-space that consists of a dry soil layer and an underlying semi-infinite saturated soil. The problem is ...

Abstract: This technical note revisits the interaction factors for two piles under lateral loading by means of a rigorous analytical method. The basic idea of the approach presented is to decompose the problem into an extended elastic ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the thermal performance of a cold storage system utilizing water porous capsules as phase change material. The proposed cold storage system can be used to shift electric ...

Abstract: This paper proposes an analytical approach predicting the development and progress of the plastic zone around a wellbore drilled in linear hardening or softening Drucker-Prager rocks in a theoretically consistent way. With ...

Abstract: In this paper, the vertical vibration of a flexible plate with rigid core resting on a semi-infinite saturated soil is studied analytically. The behavior of the soil is assumed to follow Biot’s poroelastodynamic theory ...

Abstract: A semianalytical solution to axisymmetric consolidation of a transversely isotropic soil layer resting on a rough impervious base and subjected to a uniform circular pressure at the ground surface is presented. The analysis ...

Abstract: Reburning involves the injection of a secondary fuel above the main firing zone of pulverized coal-fired utility boilers to produce a reducing zone which acts to reduce NOx to molecular nitrogen. ...