Abstract: For more than two decades diaphragm walling has become commonly used for the construction of deep excavations in Hong Kong. For example, 13 of the main excavations for the Island Line of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR), ...

Abstract: A surface integral formulation, based on representing a crack as a distribution of force dipoles, has been developed for modeling the propagation of a three-dimensional nonplanar fracture. The ...

Abstract: A novel construction unit (Bitublock) composed entirely of recycled and waste aggregates and bound with bituminous binders is currently being developed. At present, the manufacturing process requires the new units to be ...

Abstract: The surface integral method, an indirect boundary element method that represents a crack as a distribution of force dipoles, has been developed to model three-dimensional nonplanar crack growth ...

Abstract: Records show that research leading to the successful introduction of integral-type structures such as continuous beams and frames actually began in the 1930s. Simple stub-type abutments have been found to perform well and ...

Abstract: This paper provides a unique experimental assessment of the use of a foreign gas to vary the injection-to-mainstream density ratio in film-cooling experiments. It is widely recognized that it ...

Abstract: Film cooling in the presence of mainstream pressure gradients typical of gas turbines has been studied experimentally on a flat plate. This paper describes measurements of the spanwise-averaged ...

Abstract: Transient heat transfer measurement techniques have long been used in two-dimensional stationary cascade tests designed to model turbine conditions used in Oxford. More recently, experiments studying ...