In the purely theoretical approach of pavement design, percentage fatigue cracking is related to damage in a probabilistic manner according to the Miner’s law. Two methods that are currently widely in use are based on assumptions of damage distribution. One method assumes fatigue damage being normally distributed, while the other one assumes fatigue damage being lognormally distributed. Since m...

Fatigue damage of engineering materials severely affects the serviceability their structures. It is impracticable to accurately predict fatigue process due variability material properties, microstructure heterogeneity and others. This study aims track entire viscoelastic by coupling with mechanism. A typical material, asphalt binder, widely used in pavement selected for investigation this study...

One of the structural components forensic methodology for investigating intentional destruction or damage to property a law enforcement officer is specific tactics certain investigative (detective) actions. The complexity their conduct, as well significant effectiveness in collecting evidence person's guilt and clarifying circumstances said criminal offence, necessitate thorough study on this i...

The problems of indirect victims are considered in many European and non-European jurisdictions because the fact that traditional doctrine compensating damage is based on directly injured person. question determining law applicable to civil liability for human death cross-border matters becomes all more crucial. In this context, special attention should be paid judgment Court Justice 10 Decembe...

Abstract: The distribution of the magnitudes of damage avalanches during a failure process typically follows a power law. When these avalanches are recorded close to the point at which the system fails catastrophically, we find that the power law has an exponent which differs from the one characterizing the size distribution of all avalanches. We demonstrate this analytically for bundles of man...

Curtis Rooney's article reviews the ERISA law and it relationship to managed care. The piece continues with a review of the relevant preremption provisions and a extentivsive discussion of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The author discusses malpractice and design liabilities. The article concludes with a discussion of reform initiatives directed toward the ERISA preemption and damage pro...