Abstract: A method is presented for the analysis of coupled consolidation in unsaturated soils due to loading under conditions of plane strain as well as axial symmetry. The method is based on the transformation of the governing ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the active landslides that are controlled by pore water pressure changes owing to groundwater fluctuations. These landslides are usually characterized by low displacement rate with deformations ...

Abstract: This paper presents a simplified approach for the analysis of shallow landslides triggered by heavy rainfalls, which occur after a rainy period. On the basis of some analytical solutions, this approach combines a simple ...

Abstract: The stiffness method originally proposed by Kausel and Roesset in 1981 for the analysis of wave propagation problems is used here to determine the deformations of horizontally layered systems subjected to static loads under ...

Abstract: Experimental investigations were carried out to assess the use of hydrogen in a gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine. Injection of small amounts of hydrogen (up to 27% on energy basis) in ...

Abstract: This paper presents closed-form solutions for the nongeometric spectral characteristics of nonstationary stochastic processes representing the response of linear elastic structural models subjected to fully nonstationary ...

Abstract: This paper presents new closed-form analytical approximations to the first-passage problem in structural reliability by using the exact closed-form solutions for the spectral characteristics of nonstationary random processes. ...