Deformation of quay walls is one of the main sources of damage to port facility while liquefaction of backfill and base soil of the wall are the main reasons for failures of quay walls. During earthquakes, the most susceptible materials for liquefaction in seashore regions are loose saturated sand. In this study, effects of enhancing the wall width and the soil improvement on the behavior of gr...

We present a method for detecting anomalies in vibration signals of wind turbine components. The predominant characteristics of wind turbine vibration signals are extracted by applying a time-frequency feature extraction method based on Fourier local autocorrelation (FLAC) features. For anomaly detection, one-class classification based on an unsupervised clustering approach is applied in consid...

A series of 102 transfer-deficient (tra(-)) mutants of Flac (84 of which have been previously described) were classified as carrying frameshift, amber, ochre, UGA, and nonsuppressible mutations. Techniques were evolved for using cultures of F prime strains as efficient recipients in matings, for measuring the number of (F'/F') heterozygote cells in transient populations, and for measuring compl...

The presence of underground voids within a failure zone usually results in reduction the bearing capacity footings. This paper presents for ultimate ratio, qu/γB, strip footing on top sand layer overlying clay with voids, and without placing geotextile reinforcement at interface between layers. Using finite difference software FLAC 2D, ratio was calculated different depths horizontal distance t...

The replication region fragments from Flac(+) cloned in plasmids pSC138 and pML31 are identical with each other and with EcoRI fragment 5 of plasmid F.

Silicibacter sp. strain TM1040, a member of the Roseobacter clade, forms a symbiosis with unicellular phytoplankton, which is inextricably linked to the biphasic "swim or stick" lifestyle of the bacteria. Mutations in flaC bias the population toward the motile phase. Renewed examination of the FlaC(-) strain (HG1016) uncovered that it is composed of two different cells: a pigmented type, PS01, ...

Shallow foundations in granular soils are designed such that the settlements are within tolerable limits. Schmertmann’s (1970) method is one of the most rational methods for computing settlements of footings in granular soils, and is commonly used world-wide. The method relies on a strain influence factor that varies with depth. Schmertmann et al. (1978) proposed separate strain influence facto...