The focus of this paper was directed towards investigating the influence multiple freeze–thaw (FT) cycles on mechanical behaviors an expansive soil under a wide range confining stresses (σc) from 0 to 300 kPa. Consolidated undrained (CU) shear tests with pore pressure measurement (σc = 10–300 kPa) and unconfined compression (UC) were conducted FT impact specimens derive shearing stress–strain r...

This paper explores the effect of particle breakage on mechanical behavior coarse sand through 3D Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations direct shear tests (DST). The objective is to gain insights into macro- and micro-mechanical behaviors crushable sand, with a particular focus stress–strain relationship, volumetric deformation, evolution grain crushing. involve comparison between non-crush...

The creep test under the static loading, that allows to determine rheological properties of asphalt based on curve, is most effective nowadays. Applied loads are non-destructive and allow observe course strain after load. can be carried out compressing, shearing, bending as well triaxial test, depends applied apparatus implementing different intensity [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Based stress specified....

Feature selection is a pre-processing technique used for eliminating the irrelevant and redundant features which results in enhancing the performance of the classifiers. When a dataset contains more irrelevant and redundant features, it fails to increase the accuracy and also reduces the performance of the classifiers. To avoid them, this paper presents a new hybrid feature selection method usi...

Abstract Mixing and homogenization in anaerobic digesters are affected by the flow curve of sludge. The aim this study is to mathematically express dense anaerobically digested sludge behaving as thixotropic pseudoplastic fluids. Time-dependent changes two parameters, i.e., consistency index ( µ p ) n ), shear modeled using a second-order kinetic equation with coefficient that includes power fu...

Differential strain has been proposed to be a causative factor in failure of the supraspinatus tendon. We quantified the strains on the joint and bursal sides of the supraspinatus tendon with increasing load (20 to 200 N) and during 120 degrees of glenohumeral abduction with a constant tensile load (20 to 100 N). We tested ten fresh frozen cadaver shoulders on a purpose-built rig. Differential ...

In this paper, a Shearing Invariant Texture Descriptor (SITD) is proposed, which is a theoretically and computationally simple method based on the Rotation invariant Local Binary Pattern (Rot-LBP) descriptor. In real-world applications using flatbed scanners, such as paper texture fingerprinting, it’s common for a sheet of paper to rotate during the image acquisition process. Because the rotati...