Representative dynamic properties of municipal solid waste (MSW) are required to perform reliable seismic analyses of MSW landfills. A comprehensive large-scale cyclic triaxial laboratory testing program was performed on MSW retrieved from a landfill in the San Francisco Bay area to evaluate the small-strain shear modulus, and strain-dependent normalized shear modulus reduction and material dam...

The technique of mapping the local axial component of the shear strain due to quasi-static axial compression is defined as axial shear strain elastography. In this paper, the spatial resolution of axial shear strain elastography is investigated through simulations, using an elastically stiff cylindrical lesion embedded in a homogeneously softer background. Resolution was defined as the smallest...

Understanding the human tactile system is the motivation for this research. The linear viscoelastic mechanical properties of the human fingerpad describe the stress-strain relationship within the fingerpad for any stimulus geometry and any time history of applied forces or displacements. The stress-strain relationships within the fingerpad tissue govern the stimuli to the mechanoreceptors which...

Full-field quantitative strain maps of phase transformation and plasticity in Nitinol under large sheardominated deformation are presented. To achieve a sheardominated deformation mode with relatively uniform stresses and strains, a shear compression specimen (SCS) geometry was utilized. Shear deformation appears to impede the development of the strain localization during phase transformation t...

construction of asphaltic core dams is a relatively novel method especially in iran. iran is located in a region with high seismicity risk. therefore, many researchers have focused on the behavior of such types of dams under earthquake loading. in this research, the behavior of asphaltic core rockfill dams (acrd) has been studied under earthquake loading using nonlinear dynamic analysis method ...

This research investigates the mechanical properties of soil-cement specimens ranging from ultrasmall to large values shear strain at dynamic loading. The nonlinear behavior soil cement exposed loading in a wide range changing strains was examined on basis two models. All were collected under an existing building and modified with deep mixing (DSM.). Soil-cement samples using low-amplitude osci...

In axial-shear strain elastography, the local axial-shear strain resulting from the application of quasi-static axial compression to an inhomogeneous material is imaged. In this paper, we investigated the image quality of the axial-shear strain estimates in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR(asse)) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR(asse)) using simulations and experiments. Specifically, we ...

Graphene sheet including single vacancy, double vacancy and Stone-Wales with armchair and zigzag structure was simulated using molecular dynamics simulation. The effect of defects on shear’s modulus, shear strength and fracture  strain was investigated. Results showed that these shear properties reduce when the degrees of all kinds of defects increase. The dangling bond in SV and DV defected gr...

We present data from the Josephine Peridotite (SW Oregon, USA) that constrain the underlying physical processes responsible for the initiation of shear localization and the evolution of ductile shear zones in Earth's mantle. Field measurements of narrow (2–60 m wide) ductile shear zones in harzburgite were used to construct strain profiles, which have maximum shear strains ranging from γ1⁄45.25...

In this work, a novel solid-phase processing; namely, shear assisted processing and extrusion (ShAPE) was used to modify the microstructure of AZ31 magnesium alloy, which simultaneously improved corrosion resistance along with mechanical properties compared wrought alloys. A noble breakdown potential, higher polarization resistance, smaller film thickness after immersion observed ShAPE processi...