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Probabilistic Analysis of Radionuclide Transport for Radioactive Waste Disposal Systems in Soil and Fractured Rocks
The safe management of radioactive waste disposal facilities is increasingly becoming a necessary condition for the future development of nuclear industry. To ensure long-term safety of these disposal facilities, performance ...
Optimum Design Of Retaining Structures Under Static And Seismic Loading : A Reliability Based Approach
(2010-10-14)
Design of retaining structures depends upon the load which is transferred from backfill soil as well as external loads and also the resisting capacity of the structure. The traditional safety factor approach of the design ...
Simulation and Characterization of Streamflow Time Series
Streamflow can be partitioned into distinct time scales to better understand the underlying governing processes: fast flow, representing surface runoff controlled mainly by meteorological processes that operate over ...
Constitutive Theories for Polymers Using Non-Classical Continuum Mechanics
This thesis is on the development of a few constitutive theories characterising the thermo-mechanical response of polymers. In proposing the theories, some aspects of non-classical continuum mechanics are used. The first ...
Lower Bound Finite Element Limit Analysis for Solving Different Planar and Axisymmetric Stability Problems in Soil and Rock Media
The finite element limit analysis (FELA), which utilizes the concept of finite elements and
an optimization procedure, is a very powerful technique to find an accurate solution of different
stability problems in geomechanics. ...
A Study On The Predictive Optimal Active Control Of Civil Engineering Structures
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-07-18)
Uncertainty involved in the safe and comfort design of the structures is a major concern of civil engineers. Traditionally, the uncertainty has been overcome by utilizing various and relatively large safety factors for ...
Macroscopic crowd flow and risk modelling in mass religious gathering
Understanding the principles and applications of crowd dynamics in mass gatherings is very important, specifically with respect to crowd risk analysis and crowd safety. Historical trends from India and other countries ...
Space-Time Gauge Theories for Continuum Modelling of Viscoplasticity, Damage And Electro-Magneto-Mechanical Phenomena in Solids
Over the years, sustained research efforts have aimed to understand the material behaviour
under a broad range of response regimes, especially from micromechanical or phenomenological
perspectives — via both continuum ...
A multi-physics-based modelling approach to predict mechanical and thermo-mechanical behaviour of cementitious composite in a multi-scale framework
Concrete is a heterogeneous material whose constituents (e.g., cement paste, aggregate etc.) range from a characteristic length-scale dimension of a nanometre to a metre. Owing to the heterogeneity of concrete and the ...
Parallel methods to solve large-scale stochastic linear and nonlinear mechanics problems in a domain decomposition framework
Parallel methods to solve large-scale stochastic linear and nonlinear mechanics problems in a domain decomposition framework Mechanics problems with inherent uncertainties are mathematically modeled using stochastic partial ...