YaBeSH Digital Library: Recent submissions
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Optimization of the Joint Structure Between Asphalt Concrete Core and Concrete Plinth in Earthen Dams Based on the Response Surface Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The joint structure between the asphalt concrete core and the concrete plinth is a critical and vulnerable part of the asphalt concrete core dam (ACCD). Shape parameters of the core–plinth joint structure are directly ... -
Mechanical Response of Lightly Cemented Sands under Different Orientations of the Principal Stress Axes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents the results of an experimental program aiming to explore the mechanical response of lightly cemented sands under different orientations of the principal stress axes using the hollow cylinder torsional ... -
Statistical Crushing of Hollow Calcareous Sediments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Whereas the crushing of solid soil particles has been studied for decades, there is very little research performed on the micromechanics of hollow particles crushing. In this paper a statistical model based on the principles ... -
A Small-Strain Hypoelastic Constitutive Model and Application to Foundation Field Tests for Initial Stiffness Evaluation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The small-strain stiffness of soil measured through dynamic tests can be utilized in the finite element method to simulate static conditions. Although numerous soil constitutive models incorporated the elastic law of the ... -
Conical Failure Surface of Medium-Dense Hostun Sand in Undrained Multidirectional Simple Shear Tests
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Realistic seismic shearing is usually not limited to a single direction. A number of studies on the effect of multidirectional shearing have proven that soil behaves differently under multidirectional loading compared with ... -
A Novel Constrained-Layer Damper for Vibration Mitigation of High-Mast Illumination Poles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study proposes a novel constrained-layer damper (CLD) design for reducing buffeting-induced vibration on high-mast illumination poles (HMIPs). The conventional CLD utilizes a single-piece constraining layer, making ... -
Convergence and Optimal Parameters of the Inertial Relaxed Lattice Boltzmann Method in Fluid and Solid Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces an accelerated lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) tailored for both fluid and solid simulations, utilizing the inertial relaxed Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (IR-BGK) operator, referred to as IR-LBM. The Navier-Stokes ... -
Nonlinear Seismic Assessment of Concrete Dams Using a Novel Elastoplastic Damage Numerical Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the damage modes of concrete dams under seismic loading. The employed numerical model is based on an elastoplastic damage numerical framework for concrete, which innovatively ... -
Mechanism of Elastic–Plastic Crack Initiation in Unsaturated Rock Cracks under Gas–Ice Pressure at Low Temperatures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)While analyzing the frost heaving and cracking of rock mass in cold regions, it is generally assumed that the cracks are fully saturated. However, rock mass cracks are often in an unsaturated state in actual engineering ... -
Study on the Hysteresis Performance of Notch-Type Compliant Joints Based on Experimental and Finite-Element Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The incorporation of origami-inspired structures in mechanical engineering has garnered significant attention due to their high efficiency and versatile deformation capabilities. In engineering applications such as ... -
Fluid Seepage into a Rotating Channel Filled with a Porous Medium
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Liquid or gas seeps into one side of a porous layer. Coriolis forces affect the flow due to system rotation. The problem models seepage flow into a porous rock fault under planetary rotation. Using similarity, the ... -
Analytical Solution for One-Dimensional Electroosmotic Consolidation of a Multilayered Soil System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Horizontal electrodes offer advantages in reducing the soil cracks near the anode, allowing for simultaneous filling and consolidation, and have thus received sustained attention. This paper proposed an analytical approach ... -
A New Insight into the Paradoxical Integral and Differential Constitutive Relations of Eringen Nonlocal Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Using the Eringen nonlocal theory (ENT), the integral constitutive relation (ICR) can be transformed into a corresponding differential constitutive relation (DCR). The inequivalence and equivalence between ICR and DCR have ... -
Theoretical Model of Seismic Fracture Prediction for Low-Yield-Point Steel LYP225 and Its Validation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The fracture of energy-dissipation components with low-yield-point (LYP) steels under seismic action may cause the progressive collapse of the structures. Therefore, it is essential to predict the fracture of various LYP ... -
Research on Mode I Crack Propagation Problem Using the Base Force Element Method Based on the Complementary Energy Principle
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A novel base force element method (BFEM) with separable interfaces based on the complementary energy principle has been proposed. The linear elastic fracture problem of mode I cracks is solved by this complementary finite ... -
Deflection Field Identification of Bridges under Goal Load Based on Mode Expansion Method with Sparse Test Points
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A mode expansion method combined with a sparse point impact test strategy that establishes the relationship between the sparse flexibility matrix and the static response field of a bridge under a distributed load is proposed ... -
Gaussian Process–Based Optimal Design of a Negative Stiffness Device under Stochastic Seismic Excitation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The protection of buildings under seismic events necessitates the development of efficient vibration mitigation devices. The recently proposed negative stiffness vibration (NegSV) device materializes such a seismic protection ... -
A Rate-Independent Phenomenological Model for the Characterization of Pressurized Sand Dampers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study presents the mathematical characterization of the recently developed pressurized sand damper (PSD) in which a steel sphere or bolt is moving within a cylindrical tube filled with sand under pressure. The ... -
LIGO Newtonian Noise Cancellation Using Metamaterial-Based Periodic Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a novel approach to mitigating Newtonian noise (NN) in laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory (LIGO) on Earth’s surface. The proposed method offers an unprecedented means to enhance the ... -
Influence of Size and Shape of Defects on Deformation Concentration and Brittle Fracture of Perforated Plates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The study investigates how different shapes and sizes of defects affect the fracture of a typical brittle material. The strain distribution and the fracture strength of perforated polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plates with ...