China is a country with vast territory, but economic development and population growth have reduced the usable land resources in recent years. Therefore, reclamation by pumping and filling is carried out in eastern coastal regions of China in order to meet the needs of urbanization. However, large areas of reclaimed land need rapid drainage consolidation treatment. Based on past researches on h...

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This paper presents a review of combined vacuum consolidation and surcharge preloading which is arguably more sustainable approach to soft-soil ground improvement than other strategies in reducing post-construction settlements. Vacuum consolidation has become more prevalent with technological developments in vertical drains, pumps and geosynthetics. Satisfactory vacuum pressures can be sustaine...

This work investigated the autogenous healing of interface bond between hollow natural fiber (HNF) (e.g., sisal fiber) and reactive magnesium cement (RMC). Preloading -reloading test was conducted to single embedded specimens, results suggested that can be improved by over 300% after wetting-air cycles conditioning, hot water conditioning demonstrated greater efficiency compared room temperatur...

The paper presents a methodology for the enhanced stiffness analysis of parallel manipulators with internal preloading in passive joints. It also takes into account influence of the external loading and allows computing both the non-linear “load-deflection” relation and the stiffness matrices for any given location of the end-platform or actuating drives. Using this methodology, it is proposed ...

Cache prefetching with the assistance of an optimizing compiler is an e ective means of reducing the penalty of long memory access time beyond the primary cache. However, cache prefetching can cause cache pollution and its bene t can be unpredictable. A new architectural support for preloading, the preload bu er, is proposed in this paper. Unlike previously proposed methods of nonbinding cache ...

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The vacuum preloading is an effective method which is widely used in ground treatment. In consolidation analysis, the soil around prefabricated vertical drain (PVD) is traditionally divided into smear zone and undisturbed zone, both with constant permeability. In reality, the permeability of soil changes continuously within the smear zone. In this study, the horizontal permeability coefficient ...