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Ziyi Wang, Jinqing Jia, Lihua Zhang and Ziqi Li
The direct-shear test is the primary method used to test the shear strength of transparent soil, but this experiment is complex and easily influenced by experimental conditions. In order to simplify the process of obtaining the shear strength of transpar...
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Tao Zhang, Qingzhen Lu, Jun Yan, Shichao Wang, Qianjin Yue, Shanghua Wu, Hailong Lu and Jinlong Chen
Flexible pipes are extensively used to connect seabed and floating production systems for the development of deep-water oil and gas. In the top connection area, end fitting (EF) is the connector between the flexible pipe and floating platform, as a criti...
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Ruping Luo, Mingluqiu Hu, Min Yang, Weichao Li and Anhui Wang
Rigid monopiles with small slenderness ratios (i.e., ratio of monopile embedded length to outer diameter) are widely used as foundations to resist lateral load and moment transferred from superstructures, e.g., large diameter steel pipes used by offshore...
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Bo-Min Bae, Yeon-Soo Kim, Wan-Soo Kim, Yong-Joo Kim, Sang-Dae Lee and Taek-Jin Kim
In the field of agricultural machinery, various empirical field tests are conducted to measure design loads for the optimal design and implementation of tractors. However, conducting field tests is costly and time-consuming, with many constraints on weat...
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Rasoul Najafi Koopas, Natalie Rauter and Rolf Lammering
Methodologies are developed for analyzing failure initiation and crack propagation in highly heterogeneous concrete mesostructures. Efficient algorithms are proposed in Python to generate and pack geometric features into a continuous phase. The continuou...
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Yiwei Liu, Yi Hu and Yong Kang
Natural fractures play a significant role in creating a fracture network simulation treatment. In this work, global cohesive elements were incorporated into the cohesive zone method to realize the unprompted propagation of a hydraulic fracture. The step-...
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Julius Moritz Berges, Georg Jacobs and Joerg Berroth
Laser-based plastic?metal joints have high potential to enable cost-efficient lightweight structures in multi-material design. By an appropriate load-optimized positioning of the microstructure on the joining zone, cost- and strength-optimized joints can...
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Ricardo Monteiro-Alves, Rafael Moran, Miguel Á. Toledo and Javier Peraita
This article presents experimental research focusing on the structural failure of the central core of a rockfill dam using sand-bentonite mixtures. It comprised an extensive geotechnical characterization of soil materials and mixtures, including compacti...
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Harsha Cheemakurthy, Zuheir Barsoum, Magnus Burman and Karl Garme
The current study focuses on the impact loading phase characteristic of thin first year ice in inland waterways. We investigate metal grillages, fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) composites and nature-inspired composites using LS Dyna. The impact mode is mo...
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Bingyu Han, Dajun Yuan, Teng Wang and Zhongxin Wang
The Jinan Jiluo Road Crossing the Yellow River Tunnel North Extension Project will intersect the Queshan reservoir, which currently supplies 60% of the domestic water in Jinan City. During the excavation process of the large-diameter slurry type shield u...
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