Abstract: Rocks underground often have pores and bedding planes, which are appropriate to be described by the transversely isotropic poroelastic constitutive model. Drilling boreholes in these rocks must be careful, since stresses ...

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-reinforced concrete–steel (FRCS) double-skin tube was developed for use as a new type of coupling beam, and its hysteretic shear performance was investigated. Reversed cyclic loading ...