In a combined piled raft foundation (CPRF) both and piles take their share of the total load applied. However, in practice, contribution taking is usually ignored assumed to be supported on piles. This way CPRF becomes excessively conservative uneconomical. To economize design, relative sharing has found. this connection, different simplified methods have been developed, each one with some limi...

There is a growing demand for multi-story buildings residence and commercial purposes in coastal areas of Sindh, Pakistan. Such types soils are generally considered more compressible with high groundwater levels, which may cause lower shear strength higher settlement. The computation the settlement foundations requires use advanced constitutive models, not commonly used due to lack field or exp...

This is the second paper of two, which describe the results of an integrated research effort to develop a four–step simplifi ed approach for design of raft foundations against dip-slip (normal and thrust) fault rupture. The fi rst two steps dealing with fault rupture propagation in the free-fi eld were presented in the companion paper. This paper develops an approximate analytical method to ana...

Distributed consensus is fundamental to building fault-tolerant systems. It allows a collection of machines to work as a coherent group that can survive the failures of some of its members. Unfortunately, the most common consensus algorithm, Paxos, is widely regarded as difficult to understand and implement correctly. This dissertation presents a new consensus algorithm called Raft, which was d...