Abstract The mathematical description of the material behavior rock is a demanding task in engineering practice. Rock classified as frictional cohesive characterized by highly nonlinear mechanical with irreversible deformation, strain hardening, softening and degradation stiffness. In addition, depending on origin particular type, orientation minerals grains well formation stratification planes...

Increased deposition of collagen in extracellular matrix (ECM) leads to increased tissue stiffness and occurs in breast tumors. When present, this increases tumor invasion and metastasis. Precisely how this deposition is regulated and maintained in tumors is unclear. Much has been learnt about mechanical signal transduction in cells, but transcriptional responses and the pathophysiological cons...

A numerical study that focuses on the maximum displacement response of reinforced concrete structures subjected to earthquake loading is presented. The specific item of the interest is the increase in maximum displacement caused by biaxial base excitation as compared with that for uniaxial base excitation. The maximum displacement of structural systems structures subjected to uniaxial base exci...

Empirically based rate-and-state friction laws (RSFLs) have been proposed to model the dependence of friction forces with slip and time. The relevance of the RSFL for earthquake mechanics is that few constitutive parameters define critical conditions for fault stability (i.e., critical stiffness and frictional fault behavior). However, the RSFLs were determined from experiments conducted at sub...

1 A Case Study on Data Quality, Privacy, and Evaluating the Outcome of Entity Resolution Processes Pei Wang, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA Daniel Pullen, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA Fan Liu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA William C. Decker, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA Ningn...

Affected by dip angle and thickness of strata the tunneling method, soft rock tunnel has obvious characteristics large deformation, long deformation time difficult support. Based on a case study Gelong failure mechanism surrounding rock, stress supporting structural control method section highway passing through strong-medium weathered carbonaceous slate stratum are studied. This paper proposed...