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Abstract: The upper‐ and lower‐bound theorems of classical plasticity are used to examine the undrained stability of a shallow square tunnel under conditions of plane‐strain loading. Rigorous bounds on the loads needed to support ...

Abstract: The Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC), proposed by Magnussen (1985), advances the concept that the reactants are homogeneously mixed within the fine eddy structures of turbulence and that the fine ...

Abstract: Crowley's second- and fourth-order nonconservative techniques for treating the advection term in numerical solutions of the hydrothermodynamic equations are tested on a model of cumulus cloud growth over mountains. The ...

Abstract: Soil-structure interaction is traditionally simplified to prescribed boundary conditions or modeled by joint elements. Both of these approaches are limited to small and continuous relative displacements at the interface. ...

Abstract: Regional climate models (RCMs) have improved our understanding of the effects of global climate change on specific regions. The need for realistic forcing has led to the use of fully coupled global climate models (GCMs) ...

Abstract: Based upon trends in observed climate, extreme events are thought to be increasing in frequency and/or magnitude. This change in extreme events is attributed to enhancement of the hydrologic cycle caused by increased ...

Abstract: This paper introduces an equivalent stress for elastoplastic modeling of unsaturated soils. This equivalent stress unifies various models for unsaturated soils with regard to the stress variables used and allows for a ...

Abstract: Within the context of anthropogenic climate change, paleoclimate modeling has become a key technique for studying climate system responses to changes in external forcing. Of current interest is the response of regional-scale ...