Hydraulic fills are often deposited in a loose state making them susceptible to liquefaction. The paper focuses on flow/static liquefaction, a phenomenon that has led to a number of catastrophic failures. The current ...

The origin of fracture in epithelial cell sheets subject to stretch is commonly attributed to excess tension in the cells' cytoskeleton, in the plasma membrane, or in cell-cell contacts. Here, we demonstrate that for a ...

The animal body is largely made of water. A small fraction of body water is freely flowing in blood and lymph, but most of it is trapped in hydrogels such as the extracellular matrix (ECM), the cytoskeleton, and chromatin. ...

The thesis is based in a constructed light vehicle that must be improved by adding a hydraulic energy recovery system. This vehicle named as TrecoLiTH, participated in the Formula Electric and Hybrid competition (Formula ...

Nowadays, autonomous robots for all different purposes are the state-of-the-art technology, all companies across the industry are implementing all kind of autonomous machines to control and computerize the industrial systems ...

Metallic 1T-phase MoS2 exhibits superior hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance than natural 2H-phase MoS2 owing to its higher electrical conductivity and abundance of active sites. However, the reported 1T-MoS2 ...

This paper deals with the limits in hydrodynamic and morphodynamic predictions for semi-enclosed coastal domains subject to sharp gradients (in bathymetry, topography, sediment transport and coastal damages). It starts ...

A modelling procedure to address the tunnel–anhydritic rock interaction is described in this paper. The model incorporates the basic physico-chemical phenomena involved in rock swelling, often observed during excavation ...

To assess the effects of geological activities, models that take into account the short and long-term hydro-mechanical coupling including fracture failure are required. A new method to solve shear and tensile failure of ...

This research focusses on an experimental investigation on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of binary ‘all-one’ mixtures. These mixtures –originated from the excavation of selected materials during earthwork constructions– ...