The definition of rigid floating piles in engineering applications remains ambiguous. This paper develops a numerical model piled embankments and the modeling method is verified through cases. Utilizing this model, critical bearing capacity foundation for firstly determined to be approximately 150 kPa. Subsequent parametric studies show that soil arching embankment begins occur when ratio heigh...

Piled foundations are commonly employed to reduce settlements of artificial earth embankments on soft soil strata and geosynthetic reinforcements installed at the embankment base increase pile spacing construction costs. Despite well-documented effectiveness this technique, mechanical processes, developing during in different elements constituting ‘geo-structure’, not fully understood design ap...

on Wednesday, 8th June ; Dk. CAYLEY presiding. Dr. McLeod exhibited a patient from whose mouth he had that morning removed, by means of the ecraseur, a large MUCOUS polypus sprining by a narrow pedicle from the hard palate. The growth completely filled the mouth, depressing the tongue, keeping permanently open the mouth, arching the soft palate, and seriously impeding alimentation and respirati...

We report the first two Malaysian children with partial deletion 9p syndrome, a well delineated but rare clinical entity. Both patients had trigonocephaly, arching eyebrows, anteverted nares, long philtrum, abnormal ear lobules, congenital heart lesions and digital anomalies. In addition, the first patient had underdeveloped female genitalia and anterior anus. The second patient had hypocalcaem...

The happiest teacher should have married ‘three wives’, namely: teaching, research and social service. I did so for the sake of mangroves: sites of ecological wonder and scenic splendor. Boat rides through the sun-dappled waterways in the mangrove forests attracted me. The breath-taking beauty of the coastal forest, with its arching roots, breathing roots, salt-vomiting leaves and ‘mud dancing’...