Settlement of Residential Houses Supported by Piled Foundation Embedded in Expansive Soil

Composite piled raft foundation with intermediate cushion in layered soil under seismic forces

In order to mobilize shallow soil to participate in the interaction of piled raft foundation sufficiently, the concept of piled raft has been modified to new type of foundation named composite piled raft. In the system of composite piled raft, the short piles made of flexible materials is used to strengthen the shallow soft soil, while the long piles made of relatively rigid materials is used t...

Dynamic Analysis of Asymmetric Structures Supported by a Sliding Foundation

Dynamic Analysis of Asymmetric Structures Supported by a Sliding Foundation

Forecasting Hot Water Consumption in Residential Houses

An increased number of intermittent renewables poses a threat to the system balance. As a result, new tools and concepts, like advanced demand-side management and smart grid technologies, are required for the demand to meet supply. There is a need for higher consumer awareness and automatic response to a shortage or surplus of electricity. The distributed water heater can be considered as one o...

Base Level Evaluation in Buildings with Different Foundation Levels by Soil-foundation-structure Interaction

The base level is among the effective parameters in determining the seismic force on a structure, if the equivalent-static method is used for analyzing a structure. It is obvious that the base level is located on foundation in buildings in which foundation is built in a single level and there is not any interaction between the structure's walls and the soil; however, in some buildings which hav...