Temperature gradients in concrete pavements significantly affect fatigue damage accumulation, with high gradients having the potential to reduce performance under vehicle loads. While temperature profiles are non-linear ...

The construction sector uses concrete extensively all around the world. Concrete contains a lot of microcracks even before it is loaded. When a tensile force is applied, these microcracks attempt to open up. While designing, ...

Micaceous soils are considered as problematic soils for highway and railway embankments. The presence of mica particles in embankment soil causes differential settlements, which affects the overlying pavement layers in the ...

Un-utilized coal ash is commonly used as fill material for the construction of highway and railway embankment, which experiences different anisotropic stress conditions under different types of loading conditions. This ...

The risk of floods has increased in South Asia due to high vulnerability and exposure. The August 2022 Pakistan flood shows a glimpse of the enormity and devastation that can further rise under the warming climate. The ...

The present study proposes a Quonset-type greenhouse integrated with a thin-film photovoltaic thermal (GiPVT) system for crop cultivation in harsh hot climate conditions. A periodic thermal model in terms of input climatic ...

A jack-up structure is a bottom-mounted floating unit having an adjustable hull and movable legs. Particular jack-up structures are more susceptible to hazards under environmental loads during their operation and life cycle ...

Artificial open-channel junctions have sharp corners and a smaller width-to-depth ratio. Despite numerous studies on channel junctions, knowledge on turbulent structures and their role in mixing at artificial junctions is ...

This paper is aimed at constructing Rjb for PESMOS and COSMOS database representing the earthquakes triggered in Indian sub-continent. Rjb, by definition, is the shortest distance from the site to the horizontal projection ...

Since spectral representation of ground motion can capture the epistemic uncertainty and aleatory variability better than time series representation, direction-cum-modal combination rule plays the pivotal rule when ...