in saturated soils, heating induces thermal expansion of both grains and the pore fluid. lower thermal expansion coefficient of aggregates results in the increase of pore pressure and reduction of the effective stress besides subsequent volume changes due to the dissipation of pore pressure and heat transfer. dissipation of thermally induced pore pressure with time is a coupled thermo-hydro-mec...

Hydraulic fracturing is a phenomenon in which cracks propagate through the porous medium due to high pore fluid pressure. Hydraulic fracturing appears in different engineering disciplines either as a destructive phenomenon or as a useful technique. Modeling of this phenomenon in isothermal condition requires analysis of soil deformation, crack and pore fluid pressure interactions. In this paper...

A two-dimensional map exhibiting chaotic bursting behavior similar to the bursting electrical activity observed in biological neurons and endocrine cells is examined. Model parameters are changed so that the bursting behavior is destroyed. We show that bursting can be recovered in a population of such nonbursting cells when they are coupled via the mean field. The phenomenon is explained with a...

The mechanism of liquefaction and the factors that cause behavior have previously been examined evaluated, both analytically experimentally; construction including countermeasures is being implemented, based on these findings. This study presents a theoretical visualization generation evaluates particles in ground. Specifically, an MPSM-DEM coupled CAE system (CAES) employed to view events bene...

We show the phenomenon of complete synchronization in an network of coupled oscillators. We confirm that non-diagonal coupling can lead to the appearance or disappearance of synchronous windows (ragged synchronizability phenomenon) in the coupling parameter space. We also show the appearance of clusters (synchronization in one or more group) between coupled systems. Our numerical studies are co...

in vascular plants, the soil solution is transported from the roots to the leaves through smalldiameter vessels found in the xylem; this transport not only allows the nutrient uptake but also the accumulation of heavy metals in their shoots. by analogy to this phenomenon, the present study aimed at the evaluation of heavy metals transport (pb, cr, as, cd, zn, ni and al) in ph 4 and ph 8 solutio...