This paper presents a fully three-dimensional plastic constitutive modeling framework suitable for the prediction of cyclic loading at large number of cycles. It can require only one yield surface and it is motivated by a simple rheological model where a restoration of the kinematic hardening is introduced. The classical kinematic hardening rules are then simply adapted leading to time-dependen...

Bituminous mix design is a delicate balancing act between the proportions of aggregate sizes and bitumen content. For a given aggregate gradation, the optimum bitumen content is estimated by satisfying a number of mix design parameters recommended in the specifications. In this paper, some of new considerations related to the bituminous mix design are discussed. Bituminous mix design, with thes...

This paper deals with the relation between the automorphism groups of some paving matroids and Z3, where Z3 is the additive group of modulo 3 over Z. It concludes that for paving matroids under most cases, Z3 is not isomorphic to the automorphism groups of these paving matroids. Even in the exceptional cases, we reasonably conjecture that Z3 is not isomorphic to the automorphism groups of the c...

For a matroid M , an element e such that both M \ e and M/e are regular is called a regular element of M . We determine completely the structure of non-regular matroids with at least two regular elements. Besides four small size matroids, all 3-connected matroids in the class can be pieced together from F7 or S8 and a regular matroid using 3-sums. This result takes a step toward solving a probl...

Bituminous mix design is a delicate balancing act among the proportions of various aggregate sizes and bitumen content. For a given aggregate gradation, the optimum bitumen content is estimated by satisfying a number of mix design parameters. This article briefly discusses the current approaches in bituminous mix design and singles out the issues involved.

The development of transportation plays an important role in the development of nation. With flexible pavements being widely used in India, steps must be taken to increase the life of the bituminous pavements. Flexible pavements are often plagued with problems of cracking and rutting due to repeated traffic loads. Hence one needs to address these problems in order to improve the performance of ...

EDITORIAL article Front. Mater., 08 September 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2021.745392

The Clean Air Act of 1990 initiated a tradable permit program for emissions of sulfur dioxide from coal-fired power plants. One effect of this policy was a large increase in the consumption of low-sulfur bituminous coal by coal-fired power plants. However, lowsulfur bituminous coal is also the ideal coking coal for steel production. The analysis presented here will attempt to determine how the ...