the pile-raft foundation is a combination of a raft foundation with piles. pile-raft foundation has been widely designed, assuming all structure loads to be transferred to piles without considering contribution of the load taken by contact surface between raft and soil. methods of analysis currently used in practice are based upon relatively conservative assumptions of soil behavior or on the l...

This work is a numerical investigation of the effect thermally induced volumetric collapse normally consolidated clays on performance energy piles. A series coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical Finite Element simulations were carried out using commercial software ABAQUS. These examined single free-head pile embedded in clay layer subjected to constant mechanical load and number heating/cooling cycle...

In this work, based on experimental observations and exact theoretical predictions, the kinetic scheme of RAFT polymerization is extended to a wider range of reactions such as irreversible intermediate radical terminations and reversible transfer reactions. The reactions which have been labeled as kinetic scheme are the more probable existing reactions as the theoretical point of view. The ...

This paper deals with the conflict between simplicity and optimality in searching for a stationary target whose location is distributed in two dimensions, thus continuing an analysis that was begun in World War II. The search is assumed to be of the “piled-slab” type, where each slab consists of a uniform search of some simple region. The measure of simplicity is the number of regions (smaller ...