The frictional behaviours between unsaturated soils and structure are controlled mainly by the complex phenomena that develop within a thin soil layer close to contact area. constitutive model for soil-structure interfaces (SSI) must be established predict performance of related soil-structuresystems accurately. Multi-stage suction-controlled ring shear (RS) tests with three different upper ann...

* Corresponding author ** This study is supported by the ‘Ministère Luxembourgeois de la Culture, de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche’ and the French Space Agency (CNES) Abstract –Owing to the non-linearity of the rainfallinfiltration-runoff relationship, soil water content in the river basin represents a key parameter to be monitored for flood management purposes. Remote sensing obs...

Described here is the Plastic Domain Decomposition (PDD) Method for parallel elasticplastic finite element computations related to Soil–Foundation–Structure Interaction (SFSI) problems. The PDD provides for efficient parallel elastic-plastic finite element computations steered by an adaptable, runtime repartitioning of the finite element domain. The adaptable repartitioning aims at balancing co...

An incomplete stop consonant is characterized either by an indistinguishable closure or a missing burst. If an incomplete stop happens due to a stop following another stop [stop-stop interaction (SSI)], its acoustics typically resemble that of a complete stop-one closure followed by a single burst. As a consequence, stop detectors would fail to distinguish an SSI from a complete stop. Analysis ...

The wind and wave loads on the offshore wind-turbine (OWT) structures with monopile foundations occur at specific frequencies. When these excitation frequencies are close to natural of OWT structures, resonance can disturb proper operation power-generation equipment shorten service life structural system. Therefore, ensure safe efficient operation, must be determined. To this end, a calculation...

Studies in Arabidopsis and rice suggest that manipulation of starch synthase I (SSI) expression in wheat may lead to the production of wheat grains with novel starch structure and properties. This work describes the suppression of SSI expression in wheat grains using RNAi technology, which leads to a low level of enzymatic activity for SSI in the developing endosperm, and a low abundance of SSI...

Plasmid pGKV21 contains a 229-nucleotide (nt) single-strand DNA initiation (ssi) signal. Using asymmetric PCR, we prepared a small single-stranded (ss) DNA fragment of the ssi signal and, using the 229-nt ssDNA fragment, determined the requirements of RNA polymerase for priming and DNA-protein interaction. The ssi fragment prepared was able to generate primer RNAs with almost the same efficienc...