In this investigation, three different swell systems known in pipe organs, the swell box, the crescendo wheel, and the historic wind swell were measured and compared to each other. The dynamic range of the crescendo wheel was found to be most effective, and for frequencies near 2 kHz the increase in sound pressure level could be up to 50 dB between the softest and the loudest adjustment. The ma...

Using aMarx-oscillator standing-wave resonancemethod, we measuredthe internal friction &' of sintered titanium containing up to 26 volume-percent voids (c). The surprising &I-versus-c curve shape, an exponential increase, lead us to remeasure &I-versus-c by acoustic-resonance spectroscopy, which gave similar results. We hypothesized that both void shape and void size change with c. For the void...

Permeability is a very important engineering property of soils and finds utility in a number of soil engineering problems such as yield of wells and seepage through and below the earth structures. It controls the hydraulic stability of soil masses. The permeability of soils is also required in the design of filters required to prevent piping in hydraulic structures. However, the determination o...

Presence of swelling soils under the foundations of civil engineering structures particularly lightly loaded structures has caused serious damages around the globe due to their differential up heaving. In this paper, based on the results of swell tests on bentonite mixed clay, correlations for predicting the swelling parameters (i.e., swell potential and swell pressure) have been proposed. Mixi...

This paper describes the experimental and numerical study on axial compressive behaviour of circular-in-circular concrete-filled double-skin steel tube (CFDST) stub columns with large void ratio. Nine specimens various ratio (Rv), diameter-to-thickness outer (Do/to) strength concrete (fcu) were tested under compression. The failure patterns, load versus displacement (strain) relationship, ultim...

A hollow cylinder apparatus was used to study some engineering properties of hollow cylindrical sand specimens prepared using the wet-pluviation technique. The refined specimen preparation method displayed good repeatability. Wet pluviation produced inherently cross-anisotropic specimens, with the level of initial anisotropy reducing with decreasing initial void ratio. The variation in the init...