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Multi-vehicle anticipation-based models for describing driver behaviour in heterogeneous and disorderly traffic conditions
Driver behaviour models are widely used in the traffic engineering literature and practice. They are used for understanding drivers’ manoeuvring decisions in traffic streams. They also form the building blocks of microscopic ...
Improved Methods for Filtration, Drainage and Structural Evaluations With and Without Geocomposites for Subsurface Drainage of Pavements
Pavements are continuously exposed to the environment leading to ingress of water from multiple sources that structurally weakens the pavement materials. The conventional solution for drainage requires granular material ...
Structural Health Monitoring Accounting for Thermal Variability and Damage using Approximate Bayesian Computation
In structural engineering, damage is characterized as a change in material property,
boundary condition, or geometry. The changes in these properties/parameters lead to
a change in the measured response. The difference ...
Fracture And Fatigue Behavior Of Concrete-Concrete Interfaces Using Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation And Micro-Indentation Techniques
(2011-04-05)
Currently, the maintenance and repair of civil engineering infrastructures (especially bridges and highways) have become increasingly important, as these structures age and deteriorate. Interface between two different mixes ...
Studies On Fatigue Crack Propagation In Cementitious Materials : A Dimensional Analysis Approach
(2014-08-19)
Crack propagation in structures when subjected to fatigue loading, follows three different phases namely - short crack growth, stable crack growth and unstable crack growth. Accurate fatigue life prediction demands the ...
Fracture and Fatigue Behaviour of Notched Plain Concrete Beams: The Role of Theory of Critical Distances and Acoustic Emission
Concrete structures, including buildings, bridges, pavements, and offshore structures,
face a wide range of loading conditions, both static and cyclic. When subjected to
fatigue loading, the response of concrete elements ...
Shear Behaviour of GCL-Sand Interrfaces under Static and Dynamic Conditions
Geosynthetic clay liners (GCL) are unique geocomposites that combine the beneficial
properties of bentonite clay and geosynthetics in providing effective hydraulic barriers in
landfill systems. In landfills, GCLs form ...
Bayesian implicit filters for the analysis of numerically stiff structural dynamic state space models
This thesis reports on combined experimental and computational investigations conducted on problems of state and combined state and parameter estimation applied to vibrating engineering structures. The standard dynamic ...
Formulations for solving geomechanics stability problems using stress characteristics and finite element limit analysis with power type and Mohr-Coulomb yield criteria
In geotechnical engineering, the stability analysis is often carried out to determine the ultimate collapse load that a geo-structure can possibly withstand. The accurate prediction of the exact collapse load is often very ...