Abstract: The effects of oil shale particle size and Fischer assay on the extinction air flux, the air flux at which the combustion front cannot operate, were studied using a small laboratory-scale ...

Abstract: The use of high-performance materials in bridges is leading to structures that are more susceptible to wind- and traffic-induced vibrations due to the reduction in the weight and the increment of the slenderness in the ...

Abstract: The influence of particle shape was evaluated under drained and undrained (constant volume) condition using three-dimensional (3D) cubical assemblies of spheres, ellipsoids, and cluster of spheres (a combination of seven ...

Abstract: A granular soil may undergo liquefaction failure due to excess pore water pressure (Δu) generation when subjected to cyclic loading such as an earthquake. Several past studies indicated Δu generation may be independent of ...

Abstract: Discrete-element method (DEM) simulations of three-dimensional (3D) assemblies of ellipsoid particles were used to evaluate the critical state (CS) for both drained and undrained (constant volume) conditions. A series of ...

Abstract: This paper presents a two-dimensional (2D) shallow-water numerical model, which is based on the resolution of the Saint–Venant equation using the unstructured finite-volumes method, combined with Green’s theorem technique. ...