Abstract: Acoustic wave polarized in the horizontal shear direction (SH wave) have attracted much attention in the topic of smart materials research because of the following reason (123). The particle ...

Abstract: The effect of asymmetric imperfection on the limit-load response of pipelines buried in shallow trenches is investigated. The pipeline is modeled as a long beam resting on a rigid foundation ...

Abstract: An analytical solution for the shear horizontal wave propagation excited by interdigital transducer in a piezoelectric coupled semi-infinite medium is developed. This solution is an extension of ...

Abstract: To study the statistics of the settlement of pile foundations, the uncertainty in the Young's modulus of the soil must first be estimated. This paper considers the practical aspects of estimating the uncertainty in the ...

Abstract: This study aims to develop a system identification methodology for determining structural parameters of linear dynamic system, taking into consideration of practical constraints such as insufficient sensors. A new methodology ...

Abstract: The risk of collision in an expressway merging process is investigated using the traffic conflict technique. The severity of conflict in a merging event is quantified by a measure that is the inverse of the time measured ...

Abstract: An efficient and robust numerical method is presented for the dynamic analysis of low-tension cables. The numerical solution strategy is based on finite-difference approximations of differential equations. In a scheme used ...

Abstract: The stochastic finite element method is applied to study the effect of a spatially varying soil medium on the settlement of single‐pile foundations. In this study, the soil medium is assumed to be linear‐elastic, and it ...

Abstract: The effect of uncertainty in the system parameters on the reliability of domestic-waste biofilm reactors is investigated. Based on typical ranges and default values reported in published literature, a representative set ...