We investigate the effects of the settlement market of life insurance policies on the monopolistic insurer's profit and social welfare. We assume that consumers differ only in their liquidity needs, and that the insurer cannot discriminate consumers based on their liquidity needs. When the settlement market incurs no costs, we find that the existence of the settlement market enhances social wel...

The problem of estimating the settlement of shallow foundations on granular soils is complex and not yet entirely understood. In the past, many empirical and theoretical methods have been developed for predicting the settlement of shallow foundations on granular soils; however, these methods are far from accurate and consistent. In recent times, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been used ...

This paper presents a preliminary study on the system reliability for the geotechnical design of braced excavations in soft clays. In this system reliability geotechnical analysis, both ultimate limit state (ULS) and serviceability limit state (SLS) are considered. Herein, the ULS failure refers to the basal heave failure, while the SLS failure refers to failures sue to excessive ground-surface...

This study aimed to determine the effect of various influencing parameters such as tunnel diameter (D), depth (H), width (B), length (L), number floors, and horizontal distance building from axis (X), well soil properties internal friction angle (ϕ), Poisson ratio (υ), modulus elasticity (E), cohesion (C) on surface settlement using ABAQUS. According results, settelment increases with increasin...

Settlement of larvae of Crassostrea gigas on shell chips (SC) prepared from shells of 11 different species of mollusks was investigated. Furthermore, the settlement inducing compound in the shell of C. gigas was extracted and subjected to various treatments to characterize the chemical cue. C. gigas larvae settled on SC of all species tested except on Patinopecten yessoensis and Atrina pinnata....

Tunnelling in urban areas is growing response to efficient transportation, many tunnels are constructed soft ground at shallow depths. Urban usually as twin-parallel and their adjacent constructions may cause settlements that distort damage the existing structures utilities above tunnel. In past few decades, tunnel boring machines have been used drill increasingly difficult geotechnical conditi...