Introduction: The consolidation behavior of horizontal drainage foundation under complex aquifer conditions in karst areas is a hot topic the field geotechnical engineering. Methods: This paper presents modified piecewise-linear model for plane-strain consolidation. In this model, distributed boundary was used to describe performance soil layer boundaries, and UH considering time effect selecte...

This paper addresses a very European issue, the consolidation of securities trading and settlement infrastructures. In a two-country model, we analyze welfare implications of di¤erent types of consolidation. We …nd that in our model, full technical horizontal integration of settlement systems is better than vertical integration of exchanges and settlement systems, but vertical integration is st...

Saturated fine-grained soils can undergo large settlements over a long period of time. Therefore, the estimation of both the total settlement and the rate of change of cohesive soils under field loading is essential for geotechnical engineering design and analysis. The total settlement can be determined from deformation moduli such as the tangent constrained modulus, M, while the time rate of s...

excessive production and stockpile of scrap tires cause some environmental and sanitary risks throughout the world. to manage these materials, possible use of soil-tire mixtures has been recently propounded in civil engineering projects. a few studies previously have been conducted to evaluate behavior of clay-tire mixtures, while swelling properties, consolidation and settlement characteristic...

The infrastructure for securities clearing and settlement in the euro area is currently being shaped. While, in the field of payment systems, the TARGET system allows for the real-time transfer of cash between any of the 5,000 participants throughout the European Union, the infrastructure for securities settlement is fragmented in a multiplicity of systems which is hindering the integration of ...