Soil-facing mechanical interactions play an important role in the behavior of earth-retaining walls. Generally, numerical analysis structures requires use interface elements between dissimilar component materials to model soil–structure and capture transfer normal shear stresses through these discontinuities. In finite element method software programs, can be modeled using “zero-thickness” soil...

Abstract The use of IoT-based Emotion Recognition (ER) systems is in increasing demand many domains such as active and assisted living (AAL), health care industry. Combining the emotion context a unified system could enhance human support scope, but it currently challenging task due to lack common interface that capable provide combination. In this sense, we aim at providing novel approach base...

One important issue associated with the complexity of dynamically evolving material interface is the scale-dependent dynamics which implies very different physical phenomena depending on the resolvability of the material interface. In this work we present a concept of multi-scale modeling where the interface interaction is modeled as being in mechanical non-equilibrium or in equilibrium, depend...

A comparison between two known strategies of modeling lap joint interfaces, namely, zero-thickness and thin layer interface theories and their associated updating procedures, is made. Finite element...