Abstract Culverts are structures used in road and railway infrastructure works such as underpasses. Among the several forms of cross-sections, rectangular one (box culvert) has been mostly employed. However, when installed at high embankments, this structure shows values bending moment shear force, which tend to be amplified by soil arching. This paper addresses a study section culvert with an ...

Two ground deformation modes, i.e., the arching mode and collapsing mode, may be caused by tunnel excavation. However, development of corresponding to two modes is unclear. A piece a model test facility designed study settlement induced Tunnel excavation realized decreasing area tunnel. tests with different soil cohesion are conducted, form in tests, respectively. The former observed at higher ...

Piles have been widely used to improve the bearing capacity of soft foundation. The existing research obtains significant findings on load transfer mechanism for rigid piled embankments. However, limited studies focused deep cement mixing (DCM) embankment. To grasp characteristics DCM embankments, a three-dimensional numerical simulation was conducted in this study, which validated by measureme...

The design of retaining walls depends on the magnitude of active pressure exerted from the backfill. Therefore, estimating the scale of this pressure is a fundamental factor in the design. In this study, to assess the active earth pressure, a rigid retaining wall was built capable of translating and/or rotating with adjustable speed. Further, several physical tests were conducte...

1. A biomarker is any substance, structure or process that can be measured in an organism, related to a specific exposure or effect or which can influence the incidence of the effect. Biomarkers can provide valuable information to aid chemical risk assessment processes and are used as investigative tools in both animal and human studies which aim to evaluate carcinogenic hazards and risk. The o...

on Wednesday, 8th June ; Dk. CAYLEY presiding. Dr. McLeod exhibited a patient from whose mouth he had that morning removed, by means of the ecraseur, a large MUCOUS polypus sprining by a narrow pedicle from the hard palate. The growth completely filled the mouth, depressing the tongue, keeping permanently open the mouth, arching the soft palate, and seriously impeding alimentation and respirati...

We report the first two Malaysian children with partial deletion 9p syndrome, a well delineated but rare clinical entity. Both patients had trigonocephaly, arching eyebrows, anteverted nares, long philtrum, abnormal ear lobules, congenital heart lesions and digital anomalies. In addition, the first patient had underdeveloped female genitalia and anterior anus. The second patient had hypocalcaem...