The observation of failure surfaces within column supported embankments is critical to understanding how the embankment stresses are transferred towards heads. In this study, finite element simulations utilising a strain softening constitutive model, non-local regularisation and Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation used examine these over various geometries. This methodology offers insight...

The collected field data from well-instrumented reinforced embankments in the framework of a real project for extension inner-city area at HafenCity Hamburg is used to study effect environmental changes on load transfer process over structure lifetime. A particular focus put improve understanding mechanism soil embankment pile foundations through geosynthetic layer and investigate corresponding...

9 1 TMS Member/Assistant Professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of MissouriRolla, Rolla, MO 65401 2 TMS Member/Professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401 3 Former Graduate Research Assistant, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401 Blast Resistance of Frp Retrofitted Un-Reinforced Masonry...

Poor understanding of the flow behavior granular biomass material poses great challenges for bioenergy industry, as equipment functioning time is significantly reduced by handling issues like screw feeder clogging and hopper arching. In this work, loblolly pine chips, including mass rate critical outlet width, in a wedge-shaped investigated combining physical experiments numerical simulations. ...

BACKGROUND The mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale (mini-MAC) is a well-recognised, popular measure of coping in psycho-oncology and assesses five cancer-specific coping strategies. It has been suggested that these five subscales could be grouped to form the over-arching adaptive and maladptive coping subscales to facilitate the interpretation and clinical application of the scale. Despite t...

INTRODUCTION The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines recommend acupuncture as a clinically effective treatment for chronic back pain. However, there is insufficient knowledge of what factors contribute to patients' positive and negative experiences of acupuncture, and how those factors interact in terms of the acceptability of treatment. This study used patient inte...