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2 Feb 2006: the existence of intermediate configurations where the path bifurcates. In this paper, we aim to developa simple and yet efficient analysis scheme that enables a designer to test for the existence

3 Aug 2011: tests:. 1. estimation of preconsolidation stresses of crust samples;2. investigation of the compression and unloading behaviour. ... dometer tests, it is not explicitly known when the majority ofthe pellet crushing occurs.

21 Jul 2008: Test programmeA total of five tests were carried out, two on kaolin and. ... the actuator was modified to eliminate friction within thevertical guides. The results of test WA1, which are typicalof these tests, are plotted in Fig.

17 May 2005: Packaging. Displacement controlled static packaging tests werecarried out vertically in an INSTRON testing machine. ... Fig. 14 Localization of deformation in the verticalpackaging test. The finite element simulation results for Config VIII–

10 Jan 2004: differences. A series of test cases are presented, whose results agree with previously. ... plates. An initial example is investigated to test the optimization code, written in Matlab.

17 Aug 2001: Photographs. were taken during the model preparation, before and after each centrifuge test. ... centrifuge test. ACC 1572 however registers some movement of the transducer in the.

29 Nov 2013: 5.Robertson (2000) tried single-particle-crushing (SPC) tests fordifferent stiffness – bond strength ratios. ... By comparing theslope of the force – strain graph between the SPC test and.

29 Mar 2004: The tests were done with a cross-head speed of5 mm/min, and were recorded with a Sony DCR-PC110E digital video camera. ... Displacement (mm). Fo. rce. (N. ). Test. Abaqus. 6. Fig. 17 Response to vertical tip loads.

26 Mar 2005: A stage will be reached where the economic point (A on Fig.5) moves outside the physical limits of the beam; Guyon (1951a) denoted thelimiting condition as the critical span.

6 Feb 2007: Figure 8. Stress-strain response for Koconsolidated undrained direct simple shear tests on Boston Blue Clay (Ladd andEdgers, 1972). ... 1972). Consolidated-undranineddirect simple shear tests on Boston blue clay. Res. ReportR72–82, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

27 Mar 2000: At the time of writing, tests havebeen carried out only on a 1 mmthick dish with a skirt 43 mm wide, loaded at 90 from the cuts. ... Thescatter in the displacements measured belowP = 8 N suggests that —despite the use of steelguides— there is still

2 Aug 2011: The numerical resultsare compared quantitatively with the test data of soilsfrom the literature. ... All tests were performed underdrained conditions, which naturally produced both deviatorand volumetric deformations.

2 Aug 2011: MODEL TEST OBSERVATIONSCheuk et al. (2007) presented the results of a series of. ... COMPARISON WITH MODEL TEST DATABASEA large database of pipe and anchor pullout tests has been.

11 Jul 2007: summarised in Table 1. These are similar to test specimen ML3 of Marti et al [18], although, perhaps somewhat unrealistically, the reinforcement in each face is here assumed to lie at ... 9] Marti, P.; Leesti, P.; Khalifa, W. U., [1987]. “Torsion Tests

13 Nov 2009: Takahashi et al. (2006) carried out tests which show that flushing a modelwith CO2 before the pore fluid is introduced to the model leads to higher degreesof saturation. ... during your centrifuge test.

17 Aug 2001: 1 2 NEW SAND POURING TECHNIQUE. 12.1 Introduction12.2 Preliminary tests. 12.2.1 Initial designs12.2.2 Sand base layer12.2.3 Test with spreader apparatus / friction problem. ... Every other aspect of the tests were identical. Severe pockmarking

11 Jul 2007: laboratory test furnace but whether they are likely to survive other exigencies and be around and able to fulfil their task in a real fire.

2 Aug 2011: It should be noted that the values for stiffness are of the order of magnitude inferred from single crushing tests on quartz particles reported by Nakata et al. ... 1999. A probabilistic approach to sand particle crushing in the triax-ial test,

28 Nov 2013: Methodology. Test apparatusSingle pile and pile group tests were conducted at 50g in. ... In addition to the cyclictests a series of monotonic loading tests were carried out.In each single pile cyclic loading test, displacement-controlled.

28 Nov 2013: in each test. Speswhite kaolin clay was chosen for the tests. ... Centrifuge tests 1 2. Rigid wall Flexible wall. Objective Baseline test Wall stiffness.

30 Jul 2007: After each test, photographs were taken of everyfracture surface. The fracture plane was seen to intersect oneor more tensiometers in 7 out of 17 tests. ... This. Table 2. Test programme. Type of four-pointbending test. Test Initial suctionmeasured, s9i:

22 Mar 2002: thickness of the membrane. Values between 1% and100% of the thickness have been used, considering dif-ferent imperfection magnitudes to test the sensitivityof the predicted response. ... Note that all of these modes closely resemble theexpected wrinkled

3 Aug 2011: Bagi[13] also observed this effect in 2D simulations of a uniaxial compression test, showing data which. ... For example, Head [2] suggests minimumratios of 5, 6, 10 or 12, depending on the nature of the laboratory test.

22 Mar 2010: lowest upper bound. He has conducted many tests to. show that, despite being an upper bound, his predic-. ... material tests were used. The program converged very slowly to a solution,.

28 Nov 2013: test (SPT) data, is shown in Figure 3. The SPT N60 values were. ... However, it. might reasonably be supposed that ML tests would last 3 days.

17 Aug 2001: 14. 4.1 Brief descriptions of the two tests. 4.2 Preliminary assessment of the test results. ... The additional. procedures have been demonstrated by working examples based on these tests.

20 Mar 2012: 2. Tests excluded from the database. Table 2. Analysis of test categories in the database. ... In K0-triaxial tests the test curves do not start at zero shearstress.

20 Dec 2005: relaxation test, the rate of strain will be zero, so. 1.

20 May 2014: on the design of the experimental programme. Across the suite of centrifuge tests several different foundation response mechanisms.

28 Nov 2013: STIFFNESS OF SANDS THROUGH A LABORATORY TEST DATABASE 55. sents the number of sand states, and it is followed by thenumber of tests. ... STIFFNESS OF SANDS THROUGH A LABORATORY TEST DATABASE 65. equations (5), (11), (12) and (13) for ten named soils

28 Nov 2013: The test data in the database was adjusted for rate effects, asboth static and dynamic tests were used to obtain the original data.Two adjustments were made: the first for a ... Any excess porepressures created in the reported tests were taken to be a

28 Nov 2013: The experimental work described above hasdemonstrated the abundance of individual pellets throughwet-sieving and their robustness through crushing tests. ... ASTM (2007). ASTM D422-63: Standard test method for particle-size analysis of soils.

7 Nov 2008: pression. It indicated the potential of using DEM simulationsto understand plastic behaviour of crushable soils seen inlaboratory tests. ... It is beneficial to consider the changes in four componentsof work and energy during simulated tests on DEM agglom

25 Sep 2000: 5.1 Introduction. 43. 5.2 Experimental Set-up. 45. 5.2.1 Test Specimen. 45. ... 40. 5.1 Membrane test model. 46. 5.2 Schematic diagram of experimental set-up for impulse excitation.

9 Nov 2001: determined by the vehicle's suspension. A. simple test on a lorry in the UK showed that its.

28 Nov 2013: Centrifuge tests of shallow circular foundations, loweredat 100g onto the surface of kaolin clay, have been performedin Cambridge (McMahon, 2012). ... G. (1995). Discussion on ‘The effects of pressuremetergeometry on the results of tests in clay’, by

11 Jul 2007: He has conducted many tests to show that, despite being an Upper Bound, his predictions are sufficiently close to the true collapse load that they can be used as the basis ... The values of the moment capacity determined by Collins from material tests

21 Aug 2008: q q. V V. H H. M M. /,. /,. /,. /m. axul. tul. tul. t. Soil triaxial test. V w–. H u–. ... Disconti-nuities in tangent stiffness provide the sternest test forpredictions based on self-similarity, such as by using MSD.

2 Aug 2011: Equivalent in-situ tests such as self-boring pressuremeter tests can alternatively be car-ried out. ... soil test configuration that would correctly represent the undrained shear strength of at the specific orienta-tion.

6 Oct 2001: Two applications are used for il-lustration; an element test and a physical model. ... Fourier Descriptor Analysis (FDA). GRAIN-SCALE AND MACROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS IN AN ELEMENT TEST.

14 May 2002: This test confirmed a conclusion already reached bySeffen et al. (2000), that an advantage of this packagingscheme is that the membrane provides a useful couplingbetween the motion of the ribs.

2 Aug 2011: Experimental tests of grain crushing within sand samples are not easy to interpret sincethe evolution of grain damage will not be obvious even after a careful post-test inspection.There is ... The normal contact forcedistribution was monitored as the

22 May 2003: Table 1: Schedule of tests at Takasu Test Site. The load tests were continued until a settlement of D/4=25mm was reached. ... Circular Twelve Pile Group. P12 128.5. 600 (50). Table 2: Results of load tests at Takasu Test Site.

10 Apr 2007: In the case of a uniaxial test in the machine direction the effective stress reduces to σ̄ef f = σ1.Similarly A22 can be found from uniaxial tests in the transverse direction. ... 1Cathey, H.M. Test flights of the NASA ultra-long duration balloon.

17 Feb 2004: contour plot. Figure 18 shows this plot for experimental test case 3, where the. ... Test case 1/κ2x 1/κ3x 1/κ5y 1/κ3x′. (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm). 1Test.

20 Mar 2012: 12(b). At test waypointD, the patch is considered to be at the origin of the plot ofrelative displacement. ... φ φ mob cs. Overestimated mobilisationof strength. Curved peak strengthenvelope. Overestimation of peak strengthenvelope using tests

12 Nov 2003: These systems can host test structures ofalmost unlimited size even when motion exists. ... disadvantage.However, the range of possible dimensions of test articles is almost unlimited.

14 Feb 2003: Twotypes of vibration tests were carried out: (i) a linearidentification test using slow sine sweep and constantsine excitation, and (ii) a nonlinear identification testusing slow sine sweep excitation. ... A Polytec PSV300scanning laser vibrometer was

3 Aug 2011: Calibration between e and β was con-firmed using single-particle drop-tests with 1 and 10 m falldistances (see Fig. ... e. 1 m Fall10 m Fall. Fig. 2 Calibration test to determine the relation between coefficient ofrestitution e and critical damping

5 Jan 2004: undrained tests could only byconducted approximately due to difficulties with water control at boundaries. ... N. R. σmax ′. 7. records of the test history, where it has been written.