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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
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Lateral Deflection Behavior of Perforated Steel Plates: Experimental and Numerical Approaches

  • Jeong-Hyeon Kim,
  • Doo-Hwan Park,
  • Seul-Kee Kim,
  • Jeong-Dae Kim and
  • Jae-Myung Lee

This study aimed to investigate the behavioral characteristics of the lateral deflection of a simply supported perforated steel plate subjected to axial compression. Investigating the lateral deflection of the perforated plate is of great significanc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,927 Views
17 Pages

A p-y curve method of pile near cohesionless soil slope under reversed lateral load is proposed. This method takes into account the failure mode of soil around the pile under reversed lateral load and the interaction mode between pile and soil, and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,278 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2024

In this study, full-scale laboratory tests were conducted on a 315 mm diameter HDPE pipe under shallow buried and localised surface loading conditions to investigate the effects of pipe deflection and arching on stress distribution and the lateral ea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,056 Views
21 Pages

11 August 2020

In this study, the problem of axisymmetric deformation of peripherally fixed and uniformly laterally loaded circular membranes with arbitrary initial stress is solved analytically. This problem could be called the generalized Föppl–Hencky...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Views
21 Pages

29 January 2026

For ground with trapezoidal distributed subgrade reaction coefficients caused by natural sedimentation, a calculation model for pile(wall) deflection deformation under lateral loads was established. Based on the theory of power series solution of dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
535 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2025

To analyze the dynamic response of tension leg platform (TLP) tendons under irregular ocean wave action, the governing equations of coupled vibration between the platform and tendon under irregular wave action are established based on Hamilton’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,129 Views
25 Pages

2 September 2023

During curling sports, the movement of the stone is affected by the quality of the ice. Therefore, the delivery team led by the ice maker hopes that the quality of the ice surface will be stable and that the athletes will always ‘read the ice&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,729 Views
18 Pages

10 November 2018

The transformation of a 30 m long timber pedestrian bridge into a wobbly (laterally swaying) bridge with a dramatically reduced first lateral modal frequency has been monitored by seven annual, multi-sensor surveys. This evidence, in combination with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,945 Views
10 Pages

Laboratory Study on the Strength Behaviour of Two Laterally Loaded Adobe Walls

  • Brad D. Weldon,
  • Paola Bandini,
  • Michael J. McGinnis,
  • Eduardo Dávila and
  • Diego I. García Vera

Adobe is a traditional construction technique found in historic and new construction throughout the world, often in earthquake-prone regions. Adobe structures are particularly susceptible to seismic forces due to their substantial mass and low tensil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,668 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2024

The installation of high-pressure jet grout piles induces significant lateral soil displacement, which can adversely affect nearby structures, such as diaphragm walls. Based on field tests, this study systematically analyzes the lateral displacement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,254 Views
21 Pages

31 December 2024

In soft soil foundations, the utilization of box-type retaining walls as a support method represents a novel approach. This study focuses on investigating the key factors influencing lateral wall deflection and ground settlement behind the wall in de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,551 Views
19 Pages

Iterative Finite Element Analysis of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Columns Subjected to Axial Compression

  • Payam Sarir,
  • Huanjun Jiang,
  • Panagiotis G. Asteris,
  • Antonio Formisano and
  • Danial Jahed Armaghani

25 November 2022

Since laboratory tests are usually costly, simulating methods using computers are always under the spotlight. This study performed a finite element analysis (FEA) using iterative solutions for simulating circular and square concrete-filled steel tube...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,741 Views
17 Pages

Micropiles, small-diameter-drilled and grouted piles, are often used to provide foundation support in challenging ground conditions. This research seeks to understand the behavior of Type D micropiles (pressure-grouted) within layered soil profiles....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,906 Views
11 Pages

29 March 2024

The identification and control of tire side slip angle is the key to vehicle stability control. Intelligent tire technology based on the sensing of side-slip acceleration inside the tire provides a novel method for estimating the tire side-slip angle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,782 Views
22 Pages

6 March 2021

Day by day the call to solve traffic congestion problems is increasing. Subway tunnels and high-speed railway are commonly used for transportation. Therefore, tunnel construction induces soil movement, which in turn affects the stability and integrit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,195 Views
21 Pages

Laminated fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) tubes are increasingly used as compression members in large-span spatial structures due to their high bearing capacity, corrosion resistance, and superior stability compared to high-strength steel pipes. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,313 Views
18 Pages

25 May 2022

Although trams have been widely recognized, systematic and comprehensive research on their design and construction is lacking. Based on the ABAQUS finite element software, we constructed a three-dimensional finite element analysis model of the overal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,497 Views
12 Pages

Modelling the Interaction between a Laterally Deflected Car Tyre and a Road Surface

  • Algirdas Maknickas,
  • Oleg Ardatov,
  • Marijonas Bogdevičius and
  • Rimantas Kačianauskas

8 November 2022

The interaction between a deflected car tyre and a road surface was modelled under normal and overloaded conditions. The model incorporates the detailed geometry of the car wheel, including a metallic rim reinforcement, a hyper-elastic composite tyre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,045 Views
26 Pages

30 October 2023

Thin plates subjected to transverse load and undergoing large deflections have been widely studied and published in the literature. However, there is still a lack of information and understanding about the membrane stresses created under large deflec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,640 Views
16 Pages

Adaptive MPC-Based Lateral Path-Tracking Control for Automatic Vehicles

  • Shaobo Yang,
  • Yubin Qian,
  • Wenhao Hu,
  • Jiejie Xu and
  • Hongtao Sun

For continuously changing road conditions and vehicle operating states, the exactitude of vehicle path tracking has not been secured by model predictive control based on linear lateral stiffness. An amended square root cubature Kalman filter method b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,645 Views
22 Pages

In this paper, the supercavitation of the parallel and tandem projectiles moving underwater with high-speed under the condition with/without lateral flows is numerically simulated by the volume of fraction (VOF) model. The motion of the projectiles w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,330 Views
14 Pages

The concrete-filled double steel tube (CFDST) has been more and more widely used in infrastructure due to its greater moment of inertia compared to the ordinary concrete-filled steel tube (CFST). With the increase in collision accidents occurring in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,602 Views
23 Pages

Lateral Load Capacity and p-Multiplier of Group Piles with Asymmetrical Pile Cap under Seismic Load

  • As’ad Munawir,
  • Harimurti and
  • Queen Arista Rosmania Putri Sumarsono

14 August 2022

Earthquakes are a high-risk natural phenomenon in Indonesia, which is between three tectonic plates: the Eurasian, Pacific, and Indo–Australian plates. This study examines the response of bored piles with asymmetrical pile cap in the Auditorium...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,040 Views
20 Pages

16 August 2022

This study aims to investigate the one-way cyclic lateral responses of piles in sloping ground by means of experimental and theoretical analyses. For this purpose, a series of laboratory model experiments were performed for different cases of cycle n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,717 Views
21 Pages

Optimization of Aluminum Alloy Formwork Geometry Parameters Based on a PSO-BP Neural Network

  • Yingjie Chen,
  • Zhenxiao Qian,
  • Chaofeng Kang,
  • Yunfeng Wu,
  • Qun Dong and
  • Chao Sun

To assist in addressing the problem where an aluminum alloy formwork (AAF) deforms more greatly under the action of lateral pressure and therefore does not meet the requirements of plaster-free engineering, we propose a method for determining the geo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,020 Views
23 Pages

10 August 2023

Micro-particle manipulation, based solely on the Dean drag force, has begun to be advocated for with the goal of lowering the pumping pressure and simplifying the complexity of the coupling effects of the inertial lift force and the Dean drag force,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,992 Views
12 Pages

The development of foundation excavations in congested urban areas inevitably induces stress release and soil movements, resulting in additional lateral deflections in adjacent pile foundations, commonly referred to as passive loading piles. Prior re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,927 Views
11 Pages

28 January 2023

High-aspect-ratio (HAR) micropillar arrays offer a wide range of applications in micro-contact printing, switchable transparent optical windows, superhydrophobic surfaces, mechanical sensors, and actuators, due to their properties such as large surfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,231 Views
27 Pages

1 March 2023

Large deflection of rectangular plates under transverse pressure is described by Föppl–von Kármán equations, which have only approximated solutions. One of these methods is the separation into a small deflection plate and a t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,554 Views
13 Pages

25 April 2022

In this paper, we examine the weak deflection angle and greybody bound for a magnetized regular black hole. For this purpose, we apply the Gauss–Bonnet theorem on the black hole and obtain the deflection angle in plasma and non-plasma mediums....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,562 Views
16 Pages

10 June 2025

This paper proposes an A-shape hybrid levitation system combining high-temperature superconducting (HTS) maglev and permanent magnet levitation (PML) technologies to address the lateral instability of the PML system. By tilting the PM arrays and HTS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,560 Views
16 Pages

27 November 2021

We investigated the turbulent wake of an elongated low-rise building at oblique wind incidence via wind tunnel experiments and numerical simulations. The deflection phenomenon of mean building wake is clearly supported by the downwind trajectory of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
630 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2025

This work analyzes the aero-elastic oscillations of cantilever beams reinforced by carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Four different distributions of single-walled CNTs are assumed as the reinforcing phase, in the thickness direction of the polymeric matrix. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,425 Views
24 Pages

Dynamic Response of Non-Yielding Wall Supporting Over-Consolidated Sand

  • Magdi El-Emam,
  • Amin Bigdeli,
  • Youcef El Berizi and
  • Sami W. Tabsh

29 May 2025

The prediction of the seismic response of non-yielding wall systems is complex. Over the years, researchers have presented numerous solutions to this problem, which often yield varying results concerning maximum forces, deformations, and the residual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,903 Views
14 Pages

Cross-Sectional Study of Occlusal Loading and Periodontal Status of Teeth with Deflective Occlusal Contacts

  • Ximena Anca Nicolae,
  • Elena Preoteasa,
  • Catalina Murariu Magureanu and
  • Cristina Teodora Preoteasa

Aim: To evaluate whether maximum occlusal loading and periodontal status are different between teeth presenting deflective occlusal contacts and those without such contacts, specifically adjacent and homologous teeth. Method: A cross-sectional study...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,304 Views
5 Pages

This paper presents the development of a full turbine model and subsequent aero-servo-elastic simulation of the IEA 15MW Reference Wind Turbine, such that aerodynamic loads can be obtained and then applied to a simplified drivetrain in Finite-Element...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,914 Views
4 Pages

23 November 2018

Accurate measurement of fluid flow velocities is challenging but essential in many disciplines. Inspiration of possible measurement methods can come from nature, for example from the lateral line organ of fish, which is comprised of hair cells embedd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,760 Views
17 Pages

In order to improve the anti-collision capacity of existing reinforced concrete (RC) columns under vehicle impact load, an experimental study on the anti-collision performance of RC columns strengthened with micro-expansive concrete filled steel tube...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,250 Views
24 Pages

23 October 2025

The vertical tail plays a crucial role in aircraft directional stability and lateral control, especially during low-speed operations such as takeoff and landing. This study examines the effect of aircraft mass on vertical tail geometry through a stat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
14,913 Views
46 Pages

The Legacy of Einstein’s Eclipse, Gravitational Lensing

  • Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota,
  • Salvador Galindo-Uribarri and
  • George F. Smoot

31 December 2019

A hundred years ago, two British expeditions measured the deflection of starlight by the Sun’s gravitational field, confirming the prediction made by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. One hundred years later many physicists around the world ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,330 Views
23 Pages

13 May 2025

To study the influence of speed brake deflection on remote sensing grayscale images and the radar cross section (RCS) of aircraft, we present a comprehensive method based on remote sensing modeling and dynamic electromagnetic scattering. The results...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,680 Views
21 Pages

19 October 2021

The main objective of this study is to propose an artificial neural network (ANN)-based tool for predicting the cantilever wall deflection in undrained clay. The excavation width, the excavation depth, the wall thickness, the at-rest lateral earth pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,622 Views
29 Pages

Flow Characteristics of the Rip Current System near a Shore-Normal Structure with Regular Waves

  • Jie Xu,
  • Sheng Yan,
  • Zhili Zou,
  • Chengshu Chang,
  • Kezhao Fang and
  • Yan Wang

Rip currents are the strong narrow seaward current produced by waves breaking on the coast. Of the many types of rip currents, the present study investigates, experimentally and numerically, the rip current system produced by the wave reflection on a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,340 Views
23 Pages

To achieve rapid vector maneuvering of a space micro-nano satellite, a micro-sized solid rocket motor was utilized as its propulsion system, and a micro-jet-vane-thrust-vector control system was devised. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
552 Views
27 Pages

30 September 2025

This study examines the effects of partial wakes caused by upstream turbine yaw control on the trailing-edge noise of a downstream turbine under stable and neutral atmospheric conditions. Using a combined model coupling the unsteady vortex lattice me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,692 Views
13 Pages

5 June 2020

Vision-based techniques are frequently used to compute the dynamic deflections of bridges but they are rather computationally complicated and require demanding instrumentation. In this article, we show that it is possible to reconstruct the 2-D kinem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,686 Views
26 Pages

26 September 2023

In recent years, researchers have looked at how tube-like nanostructures respond to moving loads and masses. However, no one has explored the scenario of a nanostructure embedded in a vibrating medium used for moving nano-objects. In this study, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,209 Views
33 Pages

24 June 2024

Coal mining under the Quaternary thick loose layer affects key strata breakage, Bed-separations development, ground subsidence, and other studies. This paper presents a method for solving the deflection of a large-deflection inclined thin plate under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,237 Views
27 Pages

A Theoretical Study on an Elastic Polymer Thin Film-Based Capacitive Wind-Pressure Sensor

  • Xue Li,
  • Jun-Yi Sun,
  • Bin-Bin Shi,
  • Zhi-Hang Zhao and
  • Xiao-Ting He

18 September 2020

This study is devoted to the design of an elastic polymer thin film-based capacitive wind-pressure sensor to meet the anticipated use for real-time monitoring of structural wind pressure in civil engineering. This sensor is composed of four basic uni...

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