this paper describes a series of laboratory model tests on strip footings supported on unreinforced and geogrid-reinforced sand with an inside void. the footing is subjected to a combination of static and cyclic loading. the influence of various parameters including the embedment depth of the void, the number of reinforcement layers, and the amplitude of cyclic load were studied. the results sh...

The size distribution of mini-filaments in voids has been derived from the Millennium Run halo catalogs at redshifts z = 0, 0.5, 1 and 2. It is assumed that the primordial tidal field originated the presence of filamentary substructures in voids and that the void filaments have evolved only little, keeping the initial memory of the primordial tidal field. Applying the filament-finding algorithm...

The problem of finding a minimal cost-reliability ratio path is considered. The optimal solution to this problem is shown to map into an extreme supported non-dominated objective point in the objective space of the biobjective shortest path problem. Different forms of reliability are presented. We assume that this reliability does not change over time. We employ a parametric network simplex alg...

Using molecular dynamics with an accurate many-body potential, we studied the rapid expansion of Ta metal following the high compression ~50 to 100 GPa! induced by high velocity (2 to 4 km/s! impact. We find that catastrophic failure in this system coincides with a critical behavior characterized by a void distribution of the form N(v)}V, with t;2.2. This corresponds to a threshold in which per...

On megaparsec scales the Universe is permeated by an intricate filigree of clusters, filaments, sheets and voids, the Cosmic Web. For the understanding of its dynamical and hierarchical history it is crucial to identify objectively its complex morphological components. One of the most characteristic aspects is that of the dominant underdense Voids, the product of a hierarchical process driven b...