Foundations of structures which are subjected to uplift loading require anchoring systems to resist pullout loads. Such anchors can be broadly classified as gravity anchors, pile anchors and plate anchors. Plate anchors can be circular, square or strip in shape. The loading applied on plate anchors can be vertical, inclined or horizontal depending on the anchor orientation. In this study, vario...

Sandpiles have become paradigmatic systems for granular flow studies in statistical physics. New directions of investigations are discussed here. Rather than varying the nature of the pile (sand, salt, rice,..) we have investigated changes in the boundary conditions. We have investigated experimentally and numerically sandpile structures on bases having a fractal perimeter. This type of perimet...

We introduce a model for granular flow in a one-dimensional rice pile that incorporates rolling effects through a long-range rolling probability for the individual rice grains proportional to r(-rho), r being the distance traveled by a grain in a single toppling event. The exponent rho controls the average rolling distance. We have shown that the crossover from the power law to the stretched ex...

We study the segregation of granular mixtures in two-dimensional silos using a recently proposed set of coupled equations for surface flows of grains. We study the thick flow regime, where the grains are segregated in the rolling phase. We incorporate this dynamical segregation process, called kinematic sieving, free-surface segregation or percolation, into the theoretical formalism and calcula...

It has been known since the time of Faraday that vertically vibrated fine grains may spontaneously form piles through their interaction with a fluid. More recently, it has been observed that a fine binary mixture may separate under vertical vibration through the differential influence of the fluid on the two granular components. Here, we report a detailed study of a system of water-immersed bro...

– We analyze the magnetic-flux profile in the critical state of an YBa2Cu3O7−x thin film. It is found that the profile forms a self-affine structure in both space and time. Furthermore, the surface of a pile of rice is studied, which also shows a self-affine structure. These experimental results are compared to simulations of a two-dimensional version of the Oslo model for sandpiles. The expone...

This paper introduces a new type of prestressed uplift pile that adopts the semi-bonded composite anchor as main reinforcement. An in-situ experimental study was carried out to investigate pile’s deformation, stress, bearing capacity, and cracking characteristics, which were then compared with conventional piles. Results show although reinforcement ratio is only 0.75%, much less than (i.e., 3.8...