Abstract: Piping poses a great threat to dam and levee systems across the globe. Although various straightforward approaches have been used to assess piping resistance, a fundamental understanding of the complex soil–flow interactions ...

Abstract: The advantage of introducing Landsat‐derived land‐cover information into a flood‐flow forecasting model is examined. Two modeling alternatives, with and without Landsat data, were applied to 10 km by 10 km grid sizes. The ...

Abstract: It is a fundamental and important task to determine the minimum fleet size required for a public transit (PT) system because the fleet cost is a major operating expense experienced by PT agencies. More importantly, the ...

Abstract: The storage stability of polyethylene (PE)-modified asphalt was investigated. The experimental results of this paper show that the storage stability of PE-modified asphalt is poor, and it is difficult to solve the compatibility ...

Abstract: A multilayer isentropic model, with constant potential temperature in each model layer, has been developed to investigate the linear and nonlinear characteristics of motions in the stratosphere. The transition from linear ...

Abstract: This work presents a cell-based smoothed finite-element method (CS-FEM) for simulating strongly coupled non-Newtonian fluid–structure interactions. The governing equations of a Carreau-Yasuda fluid and an elastic solid are ...

Abstract: Due to the influence of various uncertain factors, there will inevitably be certain errors between the prediction of finite-element (FE) model and observed data for a target structure. It is thus necessary to calibrate the ...

Abstract: Effective prediction of pavement deterioration is critical to forecast infrastructure performance and make infrastructure investment decisions under escalating environmental and traffic change. However, most communities ...