Load transformation from the yielding part of soil to adjacent is known as arching effect, which plays an important role in design various geotechnical infrastructures. Terzaghi’s trapdoor test was milestone development theories on arching. The research earth pressure problem presented this paper using three-dimensional (3D) discrete element method (DEM). Five 3D models with different heights a...

The definition of rigid floating piles in engineering applications remains ambiguous. This paper develops a numerical model piled embankments and the modeling method is verified through cases. Utilizing this model, critical bearing capacity foundation for firstly determined to be approximately 150 kPa. Subsequent parametric studies show that soil arching embankment begins occur when ratio heigh...

on Wednesday, 8th June ; Dk. CAYLEY presiding. Dr. McLeod exhibited a patient from whose mouth he had that morning removed, by means of the ecraseur, a large MUCOUS polypus sprining by a narrow pedicle from the hard palate. The growth completely filled the mouth, depressing the tongue, keeping permanently open the mouth, arching the soft palate, and seriously impeding alimentation and respirati...

We report the first two Malaysian children with partial deletion 9p syndrome, a well delineated but rare clinical entity. Both patients had trigonocephaly, arching eyebrows, anteverted nares, long philtrum, abnormal ear lobules, congenital heart lesions and digital anomalies. In addition, the first patient had underdeveloped female genitalia and anterior anus. The second patient had hypocalcaem...