Forces acting on bridge abutments over liquefied ground

Countermeasures against Scour at Bridge Abutments

HUA LI. Countermeasures against Scour at Bridge Abutments (Under the direction of Dr. BRIAN D. BARKDOLL) Scour at bridge abutments can cause damage or failure of bridges and result in excessive repairs, loss of accessibility, or even death. To mitigate abutment scour, both clear-water and live-bed laboratory experiments in a compound channel were performed using parallel walls and spur dikes as...

Modelling granular soil to predict pressures on integral bridge abutments

Presented here is a granular soil model created to investigate the soil pressures which develop behind integral bridge abutments. The problem is introduced along with a brief summary of the fundamental behaviour, the model produced, and the initial validation. The paper looks at the initial outcome of the final validation procedure where experimental behaviour of an abutment is compared to the ...

Forces acting during air and ground transport on patients stabilized by standard immobilization techniques.

OBJECTIVE Transportation, whether by air or ground, exposes the injured patient to mechanical shocks and vibrations. These forces and their hazardous potential remain largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to identify, characterize, and compare the forces generated during patient transport in helicopter and ground ambulances. METHODS Forces generated during transport were measured usi...

Aerodynamic Forces Acting on Valve Discs

Forces Acting on Sessile Droplet on Inclined Surfaces

Although many analytical, experimental and numerical studies have focused on droplet motion, the mechanics of the droplet while still in its static state, and just before motion starts, are not well understood. A study of static droplets would shed light on the threshold voltage (or critical inclination) for initiating electrically (or gravitationally) induced droplet motion. Before the droplet...