Numerical investigation becomes a highly demanding tool for the best design in engineering. With one validated numerical result available, further is possible to conduct. Especially, expensive and limited access civilian conduct test like blast experiment. capability of Arbitrary Lagrange Euler (ALE) solver coupling approach between structure air AUTODYN, detail three-dimensional assessment RC ...

This paper argues from an Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1991, 1993; McCarthy & Prince 1993a,b, 1994) perspective that no one-to-one correspondence exists between directional footing effects and individual constraints. Rather, the requirements of a single prosodic alignment constraint may result either in left-to-right or right-to-left footing, depending on its position in a constrai...

This paper presents an analytical model to estimate the cost of an optimized design of reinforced concrete isolated footing base on structural safety. Flexural and optimized formulas for square and rectangular footingare derived base on ACI building code of design, material cost and optimization. The optimization constraints consist of upper and lower limits of depth and area of steel. Footing ...

When the discussion turns to the creation of a European Research Council (ERC), a series of questions spring to mind. Answering some of them is now almost trivial—for example, “Why is an ERC needed and timely?”— whereas the answers to others, being more political, are certainly more difficult to envisage for most practising scientists. This is notably the case for the questions: “Who will be th...

Artificial cementation is a method commonly used to enhance and improve soil properties. This paper investigates the effect of using different amounts cement on strength parameters bearing capacity, finite element method. Experimental tests are conducted samples with Portland cement. A 2-D numerical model created validated modelling software, COMSOL Multiphysics 5.6 software. The study finds th...

In the recent past, potential benefits of wraparound geosynthetic reinforcement technique for constructing reinforced soil foundations have been reported. This paper presents experimental study on behaviour model strip footing resting sandy bed with in and planar forms under monotonic repeated loadings. The layers were laid according to ratio minimise scale effect. It is found that same amount ...