in this study, the performance of shred tire mixed with railway subgrade is evaluated to reduce environmental vibrations caused by trains’ passage. since incorporating the shred tire seeds in soil affects on its shear strength and deformability parameters so, the first stage of the study was allocated to conducting a series of laboratory tests such as the unconfined compression test, and cbr an...

OBJECTIVE An early hallmark of osteoarthritis (OA) is the progressive loss of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), the extracellular matrix (ECM) component of articular cartilage that confers it with compressive stiffness. Our aim in this work is to establish the feasibility of using Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography (CECT) with an anionic iodinated contrast agent - Cysto Conray II - as a minimally i...

AImtract--A modified non-dimensional group for modelling the elastic modulus of grinding wheels is proposed and thoroughly discussed. Specific attention is paid to the temperature effect on the variations of the modulus. A new factor called processing parameter is successfully defined to reflect the behaviour of a wheel influenced by the manufacturing processes. The well constructed 3-D diagram...

This paper describes a model for the spatial variation of the elastic modulus of parallel strand lumber PSL that is based on bending experiments and also describes a validated stochastic computational model that incorporates orthotropic elasticity and uncertainty in strand geometry and material properties. The PSL exhibits significant variability both within members and between members, but thi...

Silicon nitride thin films were prepared by reactive sputtering from different sputtering targets and using a range of Ar/N2 sputtering gas mixtures. The hardness and the Young’s modulus of the samples were determined by nanoindentation measurements. Depending on the preparation parameters, the obtained values were in the ranges 8–23 and 100–210 GPa, respectively. Additionally, Fourier-transfor...

Fatigue damage of engineering materials severely affects the serviceability their structures. It is impracticable to accurately predict fatigue process due variability material properties, microstructure heterogeneity and others. This study aims track entire viscoelastic by coupling with mechanism. A typical material, asphalt binder, widely used in pavement selected for investigation this study...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2374, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2013, pp. 190–200. DOI: 10.3141/2374-22 C. T. Rapp, M. S. Dersch, J. R. Edwards, and C. P. L. Barkan, Rail Transportation and Engineering Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Cham...