Abstract: Recently, higher sea surface temperature and less sea ice extents have been reported because the polar environments are dramatically transforming because of climate change. Measurements of sea ice thickness are important ...

Abstract: The widely-utilized multispan simply-supported adjacent (side-by-side) box girder bridges often suffer from problems of deterioration attributable to transverse cracking in link slabs between spans, malfunctioning expansion ...

Abstract: A new C++ programming strategy with high modularization and good portability, and a novel data storage format for simultaneous equations with little computer memory consumption, no sorting operation, and simple addressing ...

Abstract: Although soil–rock mixtures (S-RMs) exist extensively on Earth’s surface, their mechanical behaviors remain elusive. In this study, a series of large-scale direct-shear tests was conducted to investigate the mechanical ...

Abstract: Simulating large-scale problems are still challenging for discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA). To this end, this paper develops an efficient disk-based DDA (DDDA) model considering the efficiency in searching contact ...