Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) has been extensively studied for potential use as a recycled material in infrastructure construction. There is consensus that utilization of RAP provides environmental and economic benefits most projects. However, impacts to engineering performance are less known, owing the highly variable nature sources with different asphalt pavement mixtures milling processes...

abstract the concept of armouring is used to discuss the coarse surface layer in rivers. selective erosion in an alluvial channel reach for which there is no upstream sediment supply can lead to formation of a layer coarser than the under laying material. this phenomenon inhibits sediment transport from the reach.numerical modeling of armouring river bed, provides an approach to simulation of t...

In this paper, static and free vibrations behaviors of the orthotropic functionally graded material (FGM) plates resting on the two-parameter elastic foundation are analyzed by the a mesh-free method based on the first order shear deformation plate theory (FSDT). The mesh-free method is based on moving least squares (MLS) shape functions and essential boundary conditions are imposed by transfer...

We have developed a nonlinear differential effective dipole approximation ~NDEDA!, in an attempt to investigate the effective linear and third-order nonlinear susceptibility of composite media in which graded spherical inclusions with weak nonlinearity are randomly embedded in a linear host medium. Alternatively, based on a first-principles approach, we derived exactly the linear local field in...

The aim of this paper is to investigate geometrically nonlinear static analysis of axially functionally graded cantilever beam subjected to transversal non follower load. The considered problem is solved by finite element method with total Lagrangian kinematic approach. The material properties of the beam vary along the longitudinal direction according to the power law function. The finite elem...

ibn meymun and qazi saeid qomi both believe there is no likeness between god and his creatures; he is completely different from his creatures in all forms and sense. they also refute the view that god has any positive essential attribute and claim that god’s negative attributes are his true attributes since positive attributes of god imply polytheism. based on this, they contend two things: neg...

The transient thermoelastic response of thick hollow cylinder made of functionally graded material under thermal loading is studied. The generalized coupled thermoelasticity based on the Green-Lindsay model is used. The thermal and mechanical properties of the functionally graded material are assumed to be varied in the radial direction according to a power law variation as a function of the vo...

This article presents investigations of self-positioning microstructures and nanostructures by analytical techniques, finite element analysis and atomic-scale modeling. Closed-form solutions for curvature radius of self-positioning hinge structures are obtained for plane strain and generalized plane strain deformation. The finite element method is used for predicting hinge curvature radius for ...

Hospital gradation systems are used to examine the performance of hospitals to promote the efficient use of medical resources (1). Patient-perceived service quality may differ for differing grades of medical institutions under gradation system , which has been rarely reported. The aim of the present study was to explore the relation between the hospital gradation system and patient perceptions ...

This paper presents a method to compute consistent response sensitivities of force-based finite element models of structural frame systems to both material constitutive and discrete loading parameters. It has been shown that force-based frame elements are superior to classical displacement-based elements in the sense that they enable, at no significant additional costs, a drastic reduction in t...