The geotechnical behaviour of expansive clay soils is investigated by looking into the geomorphologic, geological and climatic conditions and mineralogical composition of the soils in the study area. The geotechnical results are linked with the performance of the foundation as well as structures. Since swell potential and swell pressure are key properties of expansive soils, the swell parameter...

Let f : M → M be a C-diffeomorphism, r ≥ 1, defined on a closed manifold M . We prove that if M is a surface and K ⊂ M is a compact invariant set such that TKM = E ⊕ F is a dominated splitting then f/K is entropy expansive. Moreover C generically in any dimension, isolated homoclinic classes H(p), p hyperbolic, are entropy expansive. Conversely, if there exists a C neighborhood U of a surface d...

This paper presents the conception, the design and a prototype of a virtual reality system for learning and maintenance training of Hydroelectric Generating Unit (HGU). The system adopts a modular architecture that makes it expansive and flexible for other areas of assembly training. The system is subdivided in two main functional modules: educative and maintenance. The first one familiarizes t...

A homeomorphism f : X → X of a compactum X with metric d is expansive if there is c > 0 such that if x, y ∈ X and x 6= y, then there is an integer n ∈ Z such that d(f(x), f(y)) > c. In this paper, we prove that if a homeomorphism f : X → X of a continuum X can be lifted to an onto map h : P → P of the pseudoarc P , then f is not expansive. As a corollary, we prove that there are no expansive ho...

We have performed molecular dynamics simulations of solid-solid contacts lubricated by a model fluid displaying many of the properties of water, particularly its expansive freezing. Near the region where expansive freezing occurs, the lubricating film remains fluid, and the friction force decreases linearly as the shear velocity is reduced. No sign of stick-slip motion is observed, even at the ...