Using a series of model tests, this study investigated the effect of a passive pile on 3D ground deformation around a laterally loaded pile and on that laterally loaded pile's response in sand. The active pile head was subjected to lateral loads, and the passive pile was arranged in front of the active pile. In the model tests, the distance between the two pile centers was set to zero (i.e., a ...

Differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) has been increasingly used to monitor ground surface deformations due to such occurrences as underground mining, fluid extraction, earthquake and volcanic activities. However, temporal decorrelation has made it difficult to derive useful information from a single pair of repeat-pass satellite radar images for vegetated regions when ...

Rotational band structures in Dy were studied by projectile inelastic excitation on a Sn target at near-barrier energies. States with spin up to 24(22) of the ground-state band and 18(18) of the g-vibrational band in Dy(Dy) were populated in these reactions. States with spin spanning from 8 to 20 of the rotationally aligned S band in Dy were populated by way of its band-crossing point with the ...

With the increasing complexity of photo-realistic scenes, the question of building and placing objects in three-dimensional scenes is becoming ever more di cult. While the question of placement of rigid objects has captured the attention of researchers in the past, this work presents an intuitive and interactive scheme to properly place deformable objects with the aid of free-form deformation t...

The Sichuan-Tibet grid connection project is a national key project implemented in accordance with the developmental needs of Tibet and the living requirements of 700 thousand local residents. It is the first grid project with special high voltage that passes through eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. The ground deformation due to widely distributed landslides and debris flow in this area i...