Abstract: A series of experiments was made in a closed rectangular conduit with bentonite as fine particles and plastic beads as coarse particles. Compared with that in clear water, in bentonite suspensions coarse particles settle ...

Abstract: Markovian transition probabilities have been used extensively in the field of infrastructure management, to provide forecasts of facility conditions. However, existing approaches used to estimate these transition probabilities ...

Abstract: Drop manholes commonly are used in steep-slope urban areas to decrease pipeline slopes because flow velocity should be limited to a specific range in sewer and drainage systems. Surface runoff usually carries particles ...

Abstract: As footbridges are lightweight and slender structures, they are highly sensitive to human-induced excitation, and control measures are required to suppress undesirable structural vibrations. As wave propagation is improbable ...

Abstract: A stress-function-based variational method is used to determine the thermal stresses in a layered beam with inclined free edges at the two ends. The stress functions are expressed in terms of ...

Abstract: A variational method involving stress functions is used to determine the interlaminar stresses and the free-edge effects in a laminated beam under a temperature loading. The stress function in ...

Abstract: The intense, localized stress field produced by a temperature load in a multilayered structure may be significantly affected by the local geometry of the free edge. We examine here the stepped ...

Abstract: Deformations in granular media are described by using a representation of the microkinematics of the underlying assembly through Dirichlet tessellation. Based on a probabilistic analysis of topological rearrangements induced ...

Abstract: The solution of the problem of pure bending of shallow helicoidal shells is obtained in terms of elementary functions. Numerical results for the direct and bending stresses as well as for the ...