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Yonghai He, Songtao Lv, Nasi Xie, Huilin Meng, Wei Lei, Changyu Pu, Huabao Ma, Ziyang Wang, Guozhi Zheng and Xinghai Peng
This study addressed the complex problems of selecting a constitutive model to objectively characterize asphalt mixtures and accurately determine their viscoelastic properties, which are influenced by numerous variables. Inaccuracies in model or paramete...
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Rouhan Li, Mao Gao, Hongnan Li, Chao Li and Debin Wang
In this paper, research on dynamic behaviors of RC structural members was reviewed using experimental, theoretical and numerical perspectives. First, in a basic overview, measurement methods, main conclusions and current limitations of available dynamic ...
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Ghulam Kibriya, Ákos Orosz, János Botzheim and Katalin Bagi
This study focuses on an old but still unresolved problem of automatically calibrating the constitutive parameters of discrete element models. Instead of the troublesome and time-consuming manual trial-and-error method, which is typical today, the author...
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Olivier Pantalé
Numerical methods based on finite element (FE) have proven their efficiency for many years in the thermomechanical simulation of forming processes. Nevertheless, the application of these methods to new materials requires the identification and implementa...
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Nicholas R. MacDonald, Timothy R. M. Packulak and Jennifer J. Day
Direct shear (DS) is a common geotechnical laboratory test used to determine strength and deformation properties of rock discontinuities, such as normal and shear stiffness, peak and residual shear strength, and dilation. These are used as inputs for dis...
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Zhi Bian, Xiaojia Wang, Zhe Zhang, Chao Song, Tongzhou Gao, Weiping Hu, Linlin Sun and Xiao Chen
As a popular technique, additive manufacturing (AM) has garnered extensive utilization in various engineering domains. Given that numerous AM metal components are exposed to fatigue loads, it is of significant importance to investigate the life predictio...
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Hassan Al-Budairi, Zhiwei Gao and Andrew Steel
Low-energy rockfall catch fences are designed to protect infrastructure such as railways and roads wherein the kinetic energy of falling rocks is less than 100 kJ. The typical design consists of a double-twisted steel wire mesh supported by ground posts ...
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Yunfei Gao, Guogui Huang, Yinxi Li, Junyuan Zhang, Zeng Yang and Meng Wang
Homogenization methods can characterize the mechanical properties of these materials based on appropriate constitutive models and data. They are also applied to the characterization of mechanical parameters under complex geotechnical conditions in geotec...
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Paulo Marcelo Vieira Ribeiro and Pierre Léger
Concrete dams are massive unreinforced quasi-brittle structures prone to cracking from multiple causes. The structural safety assessment of cracked concrete dams is typically performed using computational analysis through numerical methods, with adequate...
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Xianghui Deng, Junxin Shi, Xiaolin Li, Rui Wang, Jinzeng Zhang and Xin Yang
Given the complexity and diversity of rock formations, existing constitutive models struggle to accurately portray their mechanical properties, leading to substantial discrepancies between numerical simulation outcomes and reality. This inadequacy fails ...
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