The presence of soil solids, water, and air complicates understanding unsaturated dynamics. A thorough behavior is essential for the fruitful design slopes, embankments, retaining structures. series constant void ratio confining pressure triaxial compression tests were carried out under water content conditions (pore drained pore undrained) to study shear strength deformation characteristics a ...

Earthquake performance of wood-frame shear walls was evaluated by comparing fully and partially anchored walls under monotonic, cyclic, and earthquake loads and comparing with code measures. Suitability of monotonic and cyclic testing to predict seismic performance was examined. Earthquake tests were conducted on 2440-mm-square walls with Douglas-fir studs. Two oriented strandboard panels were ...

We analyze the asymptotic behavior of agents engaged in an infinite horizon partially observable stochastic game as formalized by the interactive POMDP framework. We show that when agents’ initial beliefs satisfy a truth compatibility condition, their behavior converges to a subjective ǫ-equilibrium in a finite time, and subjective equilibrium in the limit. This result is a generalization of a ...

Partially observable planning is one of the most general and useful models for dealing with complex problems. In recent years there have been significant progress on the development of planners for deterministic models that offer strong theoretical guarantees over certain subclasses of tasks. These guarantees however are difficult to establish as they often involve reasoning about features that...

It often takes a lot of time to conduct life-testing studies on products or components. Units can be tested under more severe circumstances than usual, known as accelerated life tests, reduce the testing period. This study’s goal is look into certain estimation issues related point and interval estimations for XLindley distribution constant stress partially tests with progressive Type-II censor...