Abstract: The importance of internal structure on the stress-strain behavior of granular materials has been widely recognized. How to define the fabric tensor and use it in constitutive modeling, however, remains an open question. ...

Abstract: We have attempted a multiscale quantification of the internal structure of granular materials. The internal structure of granular materials, i.e., the geometrical information on granular particles and their spatial ...

Abstract: Urban growth has been recognized to involve three main modes: infilling, edge expansion, and outlying growth. However, the relationship between three urban growth modes and their driving factors remains little investigated. ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental procedure to evaluate the load-carrying capacity of a fixed-incline slider bearing (dimensionless load W versus convergence ratio K) using a slider-on-disk ...

Abstract: Aging performance of polyethylene (PE) material from PE pipe under hydrostatic pressure was investigated by measuring its mechanical/chemical properties. Tensile test, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), oxidation induction ...

Abstract: Phosphogypsum (PG) is an industrial solid waste generated during the preparation of phosphoric acid, which is produced in large quantities and stockpiled or discharged into the sea. This study aims to design sustainable ...

Abstract: Optimal operation of hydropower reservoir systems is a classical optimization problem of high dimensionality and stochastic nature. A key challenge lies in improving the interpretability of operation strategies, i.e., the ...