support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42225702,and 42077232);the Open Research Project Program of the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City(University of Macao)(Grant No.SKL-IoTSC(UM)-2021-2023/ORP/GA10/2022).
Anthropogenic activity-induced sinkholes pose a serious threat to building safety and human life nowadays.Real-time detection and early warning of sinkhole formation are a key and urgent problem in urban areas.This pa...
Rock anchors are a common safety measure for stabilising large-scale infrastructure,such as bridge towers,retaining walls,rock slopes and windmills.There are four principal failure modes for rock anchors:(a)tensile fa...
financed in part by the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior, Brazil (Finance Code 001);the USP-COFECUB Project(Grant No. UcMa 132/12)
Helical anchors are commonly used in Brazil for guyed transmission towers subjected to static and cyclic wind loads.In most cases,these anchors are installed in tropical residual soil,a micro-structured material in wh...
Experimental and numerical investigations have been carried out on behavior of pullout resistance of embedded circular plate with and without geogrid reinforcement layers in stabilized loose and dense sands using a gr...