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Deformation of quay walls is one of the main sources of damage to port facility while liquefaction of backfill and base soil of the wall are the main reasons for failures of quay walls. During earthquakes, the most susceptible materials for liquefaction in seashore regions are loose saturated sand. In this study, effects of enhancing the wall width and the soil improvement on the behavior of gr...

Progressive and catastrophic failure in soils has been commonly associated with the phenomenon of the shear band propagation. This paper is an attempt to validate the energy balance approach to modeling of the propagation of a two-dimensional, circular shaped shear band. This shear band can be observed in a shear blade test, performed in the novel shear-blade apparatus. The simplified analytica...

P1 transduction has been used to perform a complementation analysis of a series of transfer-deficient mutants of Flac. The results define ten cistrons and are consistent with the results of a conjugational analysis presented in an accompanying report. Both sets of results are summarized here. Between them, they define eleven cistrons, traA through traK, necessary for conjugational deoxyribonucl...

Deep-seated slope failures are common features in the mountains of the Raca Unit, Magura Nappe of the Flysch Belt of Western Carpathians. Since they represent very complicated system, understanding of their evolution and triggers still remains unclear. We tried to provide a back-analysis of their development by using a finite difference code (FDM) of continua (Flac 4.0). We confirmed that such ...

Abstract At present, non-pillar entry protection in longwall mining is mainly achieved through either the gob-side retaining (GER) procedure or driving (GED) procedure. The GER leads to difficulties maintaining roadway both previous and current panels. A narrow coal pillar about 5–7 m must be left GED procedure; therefore, it causes permanent loss of some coal. pre-backfill (GPD) effectively re...