Abstract: he Three-North Shelter/Protective Forest Programme (TNSFP), the largest ecological afforestation program in the world, was launched in 1978 and will last until 2050 to improve ecological conditions in the Three-North regions ...

Abstract: A theory for directly identifying shrinkage and creep in a structure, along with an embedded self-identification system, is proposed. The theory and system aim to obtain accurately the time-dependent regularity of shrinkage ...

Abstract: A large deflection problem of a concentrated loaded circular plate on an elastic foundation is treated. By means of a step‐by‐step iterative method, first the exact solution's analytic forms and their convergence are ...

Abstract: AbstractThis study disentangles the changes in Indian Ocean (IO) dipole (IOD)-related SST and rainfall variability under global warming projected by the RCP8.5 runs in 29 CMIP5 models. The IOD rainfall changes consist of ...

Abstract: Soil arching is a common phenomenon existing in the earth structures such as pile-supported embankments and buried pipes. Suffusion would be triggered in these structures during flood events after rainstorms and pipe ...

Abstract: The long-term deflection of Long Span Prestressed Concrete Box-girder Bridge (LSPCBB) is getting more and more serious in terms of structure safety. And there are still many ambiguous reasons as to the cause of the deflection ...

Abstract: To study the fatigue prestress loss of prestressed concrete beams, four bonded post-tensioned bonded concrete simple supported beams were designed and constructed for constant-amplitude fatigue load displacement tests. ...