Limit State Design of Shallow Foundations

The paper contains the analysis 86 field tests and calculations conducted by the authors for predicting the safe bearing capacity of shallow foundations. Limit state design of shallow foundation is studied. The allowable plastic shear zones were estimated by elasto-plastic FE analysis.

Microstructural self-healing of bituminous materials: Combined experimental and numerical study

Bituminous materials form a class of materials that possess the intrinsic ability to selfheal. This self-healing capability is evidenced by the observation that the service life of these materials ‘in the field’ exceeds the service life as predicted by standard mechanical laboratory tests. This mismatch between laboratory prediction and field...