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Nadine Rehfeld, Jean-Denis Brassard, Masafumi Yamazaki, Hirotaka Sakaue, Marcella Balordi, Heli Koivuluoto, Julio Mora, Jianying He, Marie-Laure Pervier, Ali Dolatabadi, Emily Asenath-Smith, Mikael Järn, Xianghui Hou and Volkmar Stenzel
Ice adhesion tests are widely used to assess the performance of potential icephobic surfaces and coatings. A great variety of test designs have been developed and used over the past decades due to the lack of formal standards for these types of tests. In...
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Hao Chai, Xi?an Li, Biao Qin, Weiping Wang and Mani Axel
The volumetric change in unsaturated loess during loading causes serious damage to the foundation and structure, accompanied by changes in hydraulic conditions. Therefore, quantifying the change in the load effect of loess under hydraulic coupling is of ...
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Aaron A. Akin, Gia Nguyen and Aleksey Y. Sheshukov
Soil erosion by water on agricultural hillslopes leads to numerous environmental problems including reservoir sedimentation, loss of agricultural land, declines in drinking water quality, and requires deep understanding of underlying physical processes f...
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Hao Deng, Hong-Bin Peng and Wei Chang
Corrugated web girders with plate flanges have been widely applied in buildings and bridges due to the large shear capacity of the corrugated web (CW). However, experiments on corrugated web girders with tubular flanges are limited. Accordingly, this pap...
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Ionut Dragos Moldovan, Abdalla Almukashfi and António Gomes Correia
The small strain shear modulus is an important characteristic of geomaterials that can be measured experimentally using piezoelectric sensors (bender elements). However, most conventional signal interpretation techniques are based on the visual observati...
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Hang Su, Tao Deng, Zengquan Yang, Jianpeng Qin and Lu Zheng
Shield misalignment is a common problem in shield tunnels, which seriously affects the safety and durability of tunnels. However, at present, there is a lack of research on the influence of shield misalignment on the shear capacity of the circumferential...
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Qingmeng Yuan, Liang Kong, Qianyong Liang, Jinqiang Liang, Lin Yang, Yifei Dong, Zhigang Wang and Xuemin Wu
Clarifying the mechanical characteristics of gas hydrate-bearing sediments (GHBS) from a mechanical perspective is crucial for ensuring the long-term, safe, and efficient extraction of natural gas hydrates. In this study, seabed soft clay from the northe...
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Zhuang Wang, Bing Wang, Haozhe Jiang and Ping Zhuge
To investigate the influence of external prestressing with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) tendons on the flexural and shear performance of reinforced concrete beams, a total of six simply supported beams with a length of 3.5 m and two two-span co...
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Florent Grotto, Oscar Peta, Christophe Bouvet, Bruno Castanié and Joël Serra
Airworthiness certification requires proof of structure strength, which is performed generally through a building block approach. To achieve this, representative intermediate-scale experiments generated by test benches are, in general, needed, in additio...
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Jiarun Tang and Dongxia Chen
Granite residual soil (GRS) exhibits favorable engineering properties in its natural state. However, a hot and rainy climate, combined with vibrations generated during mechanical construction, can cause a notable decrease in its strength. In this study, ...
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