Objectives Modelling microscopic properties of rock allows simulation of non-linear and complex macroscopic behaviour. Rather than specifying a "true" representation of rock at a microscopic scale, models use empirical properties at a mesoscopic scale such that the correct macroscopic behaviour is simulated. The objectives of the session \Modelling the micro-physics underlying earthquake nuclea...

in order to investigate the contribution of ear photosynthesis and cytokinin in determining grain sink size, a pot study was conducted during january to june 2005 in cereal glasshouse of faculty of agriculture of karaj, iran. experiment was conducted in a complete randomized design with a factorial arrangement of two factors, three replications and four pots in each plot. factors included culti...

Abstract: the reduction agent. Pellets of barite ore containing about 95% BaSOtemperature, time, ore grain size and the type and grain size of the carbon materials. Graphite, coke and charcoal havebeen used as the reducing agent and the reduction experiments have been performed in the temperature range of 925-1150 °C. Apart from conducting the experiments using pellets made of ore powder, kinet...

In order to understand the mechanical behavior of granular deposit subjected to high-speed projectile impact, we perform both physical experiments and grain-scale numerical simulations. In the high-speed impact experiment, we adopted a new technology to observe the deceleration of projectile after penetrating into sand layer. The observed results together with simple one-dimensional model with ...

During the recent decades, the design and construction of underground spaces into rock salt have been particularly regarded for storing petroleum fluids, natural gas, and compressed air energy, and also for disposing nuclear and chemical wastes. The rock salt hosting such spaces will be subjected to various types of monotonic/cyclic, short-term/long-term stresses during the construction and/or ...

This paper presents the effect of geogrid tensile strength by calculating pullout resistance and geogrid-soil interaction mechanism. In order to investigate this interface, a series of pullout tests have been conducted by large scale reformed direct shear test apparatus in both cohesive and granular soils. In numerical, finite difference software FLAC3D has been carried out on experimental test...