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The determination of the mechanical properties of soils containing particles larger than the allowable size of standard laboratory equipments is complex. It is indeed necessary to remove the coarsest fraction to carry out the tests. This…
In this paper we consider aggregated functional data composed by a linear combination of component curves and the problem of estimating these component curves. We propose the application of a bayesian wavelet shrinkage rule based on a…
Soil properties, such as wetting collapse behavior and permeability, are strongly correlated to the soil microstructure. To date, several techniques including mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), can be used to characterize the…
We prove existence for many examples of shrinkers by producing compact, smoothly embedded surfaces that, under mean curvature flow, develop singularities at which the shrinkers occur as blowups.
We present the statistical method to study the interaction between a chosen protein and another molecule (e.g., both being components of lubricin found in synovial fluid) in a water environment. The research is performed on the example of…
This paper presents a lattice approach to model the influence of cracking on inviscid flow in concrete. A mechanical lattice model based on a damage-plasticity constitutive model was combined with a new dual lattice of conduit elements for…
A bonded particle model is used to explore how variations in the material properties of brittle, isotropic solids affect critical behavior in fragmentation. To control material properties, a new model is proposed which includes breakable…
The turbulent flow within and above a sparse canopy is investigated using direct numerical simulations. The balance of Reynolds to viscous stresses within the canopy is observed to be similar to that over a smooth wall. From this, a scaling…
We estimate from above the rate at which a solution to the rescaled mean curvature flow on a closed hypersurface may converge to a limit self-similar solution, i.e. a shrinker. Our main result implies that any solution which converges to a…
In cluster analysis, a common first step is to scale the data aiming to better partition them into clusters. Even though many different techniques have throughout many years been introduced to this end, it is probably fair to say that the…
Analyzing large samples of high-dimensional data under dependence is a challenging statistical problem as long time series may have change points, most importantly in the mean and the marginal covariances, for which one needs valid tests.…
Hydro-mechanical anisotropy of clay soils in response to deformation or deposition history is related to the micromechanics of plate-like clay particles and their orientations. In this letter, we examine the relationship between…
The developed computational approach is capable of initiating and propagating cracks inside materials and along material interfaces of general multi-domain structures under quasi-static conditions. Special attention is paid to particular…
Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) is a form of failure in metals that is present mostly in systems where humidity contact and mechanical load play a key role. Therefore, prediction of the combined effect is desired. There are models based on…
We propose a flexible class of models based on scale mixture of uniform distributions to construct shrinkage priors for covariance matrix estimation. This new class of priors enjoys a number of advantages over the traditional scale mixture…
To determine the universality class of critical phenomena, we propose a method of statistical inference in the scaling analysis of critical phenomena. The method is based on Bayesian statistics, most specifically, the Gaussian process…
The soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) is the most fundamental relationship in unsaturated soil mechanics, relating the amount of water in the soil to the corresponding matric suction. From experimental evidence, it is known that SWCC…
The geometrical structure of PLS shrinkages is here considered. Firstly, an explicit formula for the shrinkage vector is provided. In that expression, shrinkage factors are expressed a averages of a set of basic shrinkages that depend only…
This paper focuses on state-of-the art of various approaches for the modelling of deformation behavior of soils when subjected to cyclic loading. The various approaches are broadly classified into implicit and explicit. Models within each…
A theoretical model describing the one-dimensional large strain consolidation of the modified Cam Clay soil is presented in this paper. The model is based on the Lagrangian formulation, and is capable of featuring the variability of soil…