Cyclic loading–induced deformation of soil is a common problem in engineering practice. In current practice, however, monotonic triaxial tests are more commonly used due to the availability apparatus and ease operation. Thus, it would be very useful practical if could evaluate behavior under cyclic loading. This study aims find an explicit relationship between saturated soft clay. Six nine comp...

The design of a thin-walled composite beam is presented whose purpose to facilitate the study intra-laminar tunneling cracks at sub-structural length-scale. utilizes variable thickness reinforcement in longitudinal direction develop gauge zone near-uniform strains when loaded cantilever configuration. manufactured from E-glass fibers and epoxy resin tested under static cyclic multi-axial loadin...

Susceptibility of flexure-dominated reinforced concrete walls to premature compression failure modes (global lateral instability, local rebar buckling, etc.) was exposed during the recent past earthquake events in Chile and New Zealand. Numerous experimental studies have been conducted since then on isolated columns representing wall boundary zones study critical parameters influencing these mo...

born on the 15 of October, 1986 in Amsterdam. After graduating high school (Bilingual VWO, Berlage Lyceum, Amsterdam, cum laude) in 2005, he studied medicine at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. During his studies in 2008, he became involved in spine research through a one-year research internship within the PhD project of dr. R.J. Kroeze, “Adipose stem cells on a biodegradable polymer for s...

In this paper, simulation and analysis of thin steel cylindrical shells with elliptical cutouts under oblique loading were studied using finite element method. First, the numerical results were validated by the results of experimental test performed by an INSTRON 8802 servo hydraulic machine. Also, the effect of cutout angle (θ), cutout size, cutout position (L0/L) and cutout aspect ratios (b/a...