Abstract: The main objective of this study was to quantify effect of fibers on the onset of strain localization in elastic-plastic cementitious composites. To this end, multidirectional fibers were embedded into an elastic-plastic ...

Abstract: Analytical solutions for displacement, strain, and stress in a single energy pile provide rational, mechanics-based qualitative and quantitative understanding of thermomechanical load transfer mechanism in energy piles. ...

Abstract: Conditions for plastic localization, in terms of the possibility for discontinuous bifurcations of the incremental strain rate field, are given for the MRS‐Lade model. The susceptibility to bifurcation is examined along ...

Abstract: Properties of discontinuous bifurcation solutions for elastic‐plastic solids are established for conventional test conditions that are pertinent to experiments on soil, powder, and rock. Typically, such conditions are ...

Abstract: Analytical solutions have been derived for the onset of strain localization in a broad class of unsaturated elastic-plastic porous materials based on Bishop’s definition of effective stress. Critical hardening moduli for ...

Abstract: The main purpose of this study was to derive analytical solutions for soil structure interaction in single energy piles that exhibit irreversible interface behavior. The solutions were derived for a pile embedded in a ...

Abstract: A newly developed finite volume method was applied to ship slamming. The computational method accounts for arbitrary free surface deformations and uses unstructured grids for the discretization ...

Abstract: This paper analyzed the effects of freak waves on a mobile jack-up drilling platform stationed in exposed waters of the North Sea. Under freak wave conditions, highly nonlinear effects, such ...

Abstract: This paper describes the prediction of environmental loads on a typical three-leg jack-up platform under freak wave conditions. Considered were cases where the air gap is small and the hull ...

Abstract: Analytical solutions for axial displacement, strain, and stress in an end-bearing energy pile subjected to a thermal load and a combined thermal and mechanical load have been derived and validated against full-scale in ...