Abstract: angland and Baker introduced an approach to assess the impact of observations on the forecasts. In that approach, a state-space aspect of the forecast is defined and a procedure is derived ultimately relating changes in ...

Abstract: A series of 13 wood floors was tested under uniformly distributed load. The floors were manufactured with 12 (nominal)

Abstract: An inexpensive and realistic procedure is developed for estimating the lateral dynamic stiffness and damping of flexible piles embedded in arbitrarily layered soil deposits. Starting point is the determination of the pile ...

Abstract: A methodology for the study of reliability in wood structural systems under load is presented. The approach implements duration of load effects by means of a damage accumulation model, and combines it with a structural ...

Abstract: In this work an elastoplastic constitutive theory for unsaturated soils is presented. The proposed material model is formulated in the general framework of the theory of porous media and of ...

Abstract: The paper presents a method to compute the effective dynamic stiffnesses

Abstract: The undrained behavior of saturated sand in monotonically loaded triaxial tests is discussed using steady state concepts. The relations among various drained and undrained strength envelopes are first examined. These ...

Abstract: A study on the influence of the plasticity index (PI) on the cyclic stress‐strain parameters of saturated soils needed for site‐response evaluations and seismic microzonation is presented. Ready‐to‐use charts are included, ...

Abstract: Eight centrifuge model experiments were conducted to investigate the mechanism of liquefaction-induced settlement of a shallow foundation, as well as the effectiveness of sand densification by vibrocompaction under the ...

Abstract: Cyclic lateral loading centrifuge tests were performed on a model of an embedded foundation to study its lateral response at various displacement levels up to ultimate lateral load capacity. The tests simulated a reinforced ...