Abstract: This study develops a new analytical model to simulate the infiltration and runoff with a crust surface. The new model consists of two parts: (1) an infiltration capacity model using a linear rate-moisture relation ...

Abstract: Field investigations reveal that railway tracks, pipelines, and pavements are prone to buckling locally as a result of the axial compressive forces caused by thermal loading. These types of structural elements can be ...

Abstract: The application of prestress is a very effective way to prevent the cracking of the concrete slab in the negative-moment region of continuous composite girders, and using a prefabricated prestressed-concrete slab in this ...

Abstract: The behavior of foliated rock masses presents challenging engineering issues. This paper presents the formulation of a constitutive model to simulate the behavior of foliated rock mass. The 3D elastoplastic constitutive ...

Abstract: This study proposes an optimization methodology for determining the optimal spacing of buried pipes in ground-source heat pump systems under seepage conditions by utilizing a long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithm. We ...

Abstract: In recent decades, the Tarim River basin in northwestern China has seen intense confrontation between economic development and environmental protection. How to balance sustainable socioeconomic development and harmony ...

Abstract: In landslide analysis, reliable prediction of landslide’s influence zone is significantly difficult due to the inherent heterogeneity of soils and their spatially varying geological properties. In this paper, a probabilistic ...