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B. D. Edmans, D. C. Pham, Z.-Q. Zhang, T. F. Guo, N. Sridhar and G. Stewart
Life extension is an attractive option for subsea flexible risers nearing the end of their design lives. However, techniques for assessing accumulated fatigue damage in flexible risers are often associated with large uncertainties due to the simplified c...
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Sang Hyun Jun and Hyuk Jae Kwon
This paper proposes representative constitutive relationship equations of dredging and reclamation soft soil in Korea. The marine soft soils were sampled at 23 dredged-reclaimed construction sites in the Busan, Gwangyang, and Incheon regions in Korea; th...
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Abbes Elmeiche, Abdelkader Megueni, Abdelkader Lousdad
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This paper presents the fundamental frequency analysis of functionally graded (FG) nanobeams using Ritz method subjected to different sets of boundary conditions. The vibration analysis is based on the classical, the first-order and different higher-orde...
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Ugo Icardi and Federico Sola
This paper, which deals with variable stiffness composites, is aimed at showing the effects of optimization on the response characteristics and stress fields of these materials. A new optimization technique that has recently been developed is used to fin...
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Lei Li, Guangfeng Li, Nasim Uddin, Limin Tian, Zhibing Zhu, Chong Bai and Chen Shen
As large-span structures, reticulated shells are widely used in large-scale public building and act as emergency shelters in the event of sudden disasters. However, spatial reticulated shells are dynamic-sensitive structures; the effect of the initial st...
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Yingfa Lu, Wenqing Sun, Hao Yang, Junjie Jiang and Lier Lu
On the basis of the force and safety factor analysis of traditional retaining walls, a new analytical method of force and displacement of the slope is suggested, the numerical theoretical solution of the stress distribution of the sliding body can be obt...
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Jifei Cui, Yanhao Jin, Yingjie Jing and Yu Lu
An elastoplastic analysis scheme for the cylindrical cavity expansion in offshore islands unsaturated soils considering anisotropy is established. The hydraulic properties and anisotropy caused by stress of unsaturated soils are coupled in an elastoplast...
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Alexey Liogky and Victoria Salamatova
Data-driven simulations are gaining popularity in mechanics of biomaterials since they do not require explicit form of constitutive relations. Data-driven modeling based on neural networks lacks interpretability. In this study, we propose an interpretabl...
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Yizhe Huang, Lin Li, Zhichao Xu, Chaopeng Li and Kuanmin Mao
In this paper, a new type of composite gradient sandwich plate structure is proposed, which embeds the pre-strained shape memory alloy (SMA) into the surface layer and the core layer composed of epoxy resin and graphite-reinforced materials. In the core ...
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Moataz Abdalla, Alexander Joplin, Mohammad Elahinia and Hamdy Ibrahim
Biodegradable metals have been under significant research as promising alternatives to the currently in-use nonbiodegradable materials in the field of supportive medical implants. In this scope, magnesium and its alloys were widely investigated due to th...
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Yanqing Wang and Zhiyuan Zhang
In this study, the buckling of functionally graded (FG) nanoporous metal foam nanoplates is investigated by combining the refined plate theory with the non-local elasticity theory. The refined plate theory takes into account transverse shear strains whic...
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Bing Li, Wenbin Zheng and Yang Zhang
This study aims to investigate the effect of high temperature on the mechanical properties of low-slump polypropylene fiber (PPF) concrete, and tests the tensile and compressive properties of 204 groups of low-slump PPF concrete with eight different dosa...
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Shunyu Yao, Guangyuan Kan, Changjun Liu, Jinbo Tang, Deqiang Cheng, Jian Guo and Hu Jiang
In recent years, mountainous areas in China have faced frequent geological hazards, including landslides, debris flows, and collapses. Effective simulation of these events requires a solver for shallow water equations (SWEs). Traditional numerical method...
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Jiang Chang, Xue Gong, Yinglei Zhang, Zhihui Sun, Ning Xia, Huajiang Zhang, Jing Wang and Xiang Zhang
Shell is a typical biomineralized inorganic?organic composite material. The essence of scallop deshelling is caused by the fracture failure at the interface of the organic and inorganic?organic matter composites. The constitutive equations were solved so...
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Lin Liu, Xiumei Zhang, Yunjia Ji and Xiuming Wang
A knowledge of wave propagation in boreholes with gas hydrate-bearing sediments, a typical three-phase porous medium, is of great significance for better applications of acoustic logging information on the exploitation of gas hydrate. To study the wave p...
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Anna Suzuki, Ken-ichi Fukui, Shinya Onodera, Junichi Ishizaki and Toshiyuki Hashida
Numerical modeling for geothermal reservoir engineering is a crucial process to evaluate the performance of the reservoir and to develop strategies for the future development. The governing equations in the geothermal reservoir models consist of several ...
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Weiyun Chen, Dan Wang, Lingyu Xu, Zhenyu Lv, Zhihua Wang and Hongmei Gao
Wave is a common environmental load that often causes serious damages to offshore structures. In addition, the stability for the submarine artificial slope is also affected by the wave loading. Although the landslide of submarine slopes induced by the wa...
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Gildas Yaovi Amouzou and Azzeddine Soulaïmani
Two numerical algorithms for solving elastoplastic problems with the finite element method are presented. The first deals with the implementation of the return mapping algorithm and is based on a fixed-point algorithm. This method rewrites the system of ...
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Vincenzo Bianco, Giorgio Monti and Nicola Pio Belfiore
The effectiveness of Double Concave Curved Surface Sliders (DCCSS), which initially spread under the name of Double Friction Pendulum (DFP) isolators, was already widely proven by numerous experimental campaigns carried out worldwide. However, many aspec...
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Marco Trofa and Gaetano D?Avino
Solid?liquid separation is a key unit operation in the wastewater treatment, generally consisting of coagulation and flocculation steps to promote aggregation and increase the particle size, followed by sedimentation, where the particles settle due to th...
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