Abstract: The load deformation and failure behavior of shallow footings can be described in a macroelement formulation. This paper deals with the study of the failure surface and the definition and validation of plastic load deformation ...

Abstract: Small-strain elastic wave propagation is a constant-fabric phenomenon ideally suited to monitor processes in soils. However, the determination of very small changes in travel time limits our ability to resolve changes in ...

Abstract: Despite the major advances in finite-element (FE) modeling and system identification (SI) of extended infrastructures, soil compliance and damping at the soil–foundation interface are not often accurately accounted for due ...

Abstract: The investigation of the effect of solar ultraviolet (UV) and visible radiation on biological organisms and photochemical reactions requires spectral measurements of the desired radiation parameters of high accuracy. The ...

Abstract: This paper describes the theory behind a recent extension of a two-dimensional (2D) boundary-element code,