Abstract: In the conventional design of retaining walls and bridge abutments, the lateral earth pressure due to live load surcharge is estimated by replacing the actual highway loads with a 600 mm layer of backfill. This original ...

Abstract: Unglazed transpired solar collectors offer a potentially low cost, high-efficiency option for once-through applications such as preheating air for ventilation, crop drying, and desiccant regeneration. ...

Abstract: The design of a deck-and-stringer bridge system is usually reduced to the analysis of a T-beam section, loaded by concentrated loads corresponding to an equivalent fraction of the applied truck load. This equivalent load ...

Abstract: This paper presents the results of an experimental study of semiintegral bridge abutments. Primary interests were to investigate (1) potential problems with the particular detail tested; (2) rotational characteristics of ...

Abstract: Interdependent networks are a collection of individual networks that contain nodes that have interdependent relationships with nodes of other networks. Recognizing that many real-life networks are interdependent, approaches ...