Erratum for “Shakedown of Grids”

Shakedown of unbound granular material

Compacted unbound granular materials are extensively used as sub-layer in pavement design. Most pavement design guides assume that they are responsible for the degradation and deformation of the roads and railways that they support. Biaxial tests are usually employed to investigate the elasto-plastic response of these materials to cyclic loading. A particularly interesting question is whether a...

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Solvent shakedown: the mechanochemistry alternative.

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) exclusively selects and utilizes tRNALys,3 as the primer for initiation of reverse transcription. Several elements within the TΨC stem loop of tRNALys,3 are postulated to be important for selection and use in reverse transcription. The posttranscriptional modification at nucleotide 58 could play a role during plus-strand synthesis to stop reverse...

Some Graphical Interpretations of Melan’s Theorem for Shakedown Design

Bree Interaction Diagrams have long been one of the major visual design guides for employing and evaluating shakedown in engineering applications. These diagrams provide representations of the realms in which elastoplastic behaviors, including shakedown, are found for a material and structure under variable loads. The creation of these diagrams often relies upon some combination of upper or low...

Shakedown in frictional contact problems for the continuum

Elastic systems with frictional interfaces subjected to periodic loading are often found to ‘shake down’ in the sense that frictional slip ceases after the first few loading cycles. The similarities in behaviour between such systems and monolithic bodies with elastic– plastic constitutive behaviour have prompted various authors to speculate that Melan’s theorem might apply to them—i.e. that the...