The bipartite life history of most marine organisms leads to complex patterns of replenishment in benthic populations. High variation in adult spawning, dynamic oceanographic currents, and often unknown larval behaviors create challenges in accurately predicting spatial and temporal patterns in the supply and settlement of pelagic larvae to nearshore juvenile habitats. Yet, understanding and pr...

Identifying the environmental factors driving larval settlement processes is crucial to understand the population dynamics of marine invertebrates. This work aims to go a step ahead and predict larval presence and intensity. For this purpose we consider the influence of solar irradiance, wind regime and continental runoff on the settlement processes. For the first time, we conducted a 5-years w...

Cyclic stress is applied to a soil element in the ground when vehicles or trains pass repeatedly on roads and railway tracks. This cyclic induced by traffic load gives rise settlement, which sometimes causes damage such as cracks ruts road pavement. Therefore, estimating settlement of granular materials necessary for sustainable design. For this study, hollow cylindrical torsional shear apparat...

Shield tunneling is widely used in urban subway tunnel construction. Old underground pipelines generally have small leakages that are difficult to find. The water leakage significantly reduces the stability of stratum, posing a threat safety shield Therefore, this study established 2D and 3D calculation models for analyzing law diffusion ground under pressure, influences pipeline range length o...

Nowadays, tunneling in urban areas is a common activity for a variety of transportations such as subways, water supply, lifelines andsewers that may require blast operations. The characteristics of stress waves of the blast are quite different from earthquake waves. The blast waves are usually of high frequency content, short duration, equality of amplitudes in horizontal and vertical direction...

Abst rac t Balanus subalbidus (Henry) has the most oligohaline distribution of three congeneric barnacles in Chesapeake Bay and tolerates prolonged exposure to fresh water. We studied larval settlement (i.e., permanent attachment and metamorphosis) of B. subalbidus in the laboratory, over a 3 yr period, May 1989 to March 1992, under the following conditions: (1) across an array of salinities at...