Weak Layer
Weak layer fracture: facets and depth hoar
... (Fig. 5a). The parallel arrows in the middle of the displace- ment fields indicate that the catastrophic failure has started, as the snow starts moving to the right and downwards as a cohesive block (Fig. 8a). The ...
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Temporal evolution of crack propagation propensity in snow in relation to slab and weak layer properties
... The weak layer specific fracture energy w f SMP was calculated as the minimum of the integrated penetration resistance across each moving window within the weak layer (Reuter et ...the ...
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A new index combining weak layer and slab properties for snow instability prediction
... combines weak layer strength (SMP- derived micro-structural strength) with a rough measure of the additional stress at the depth of the weak layer, depend- ing on the properties of the surface ...
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Influence of weak layer heterogeneity and slab properties on slab tensile failure propensity and avalanche release area
... a weak snow layer underlying a cohesive slab fol- lowed by crack propagation within the weak layer (WL) and tensile fracture through the ...
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Evaluating snow weak-layer failure parameters through inverse finite element modelling of shaking-platform experiments
... of weak layers (or potential failure surfaces): (1) a thin isotropic (or anisotropic) continuum (Bader and Salm, 1990; Jamieson and Johnston, 2001; Miller et ...collapsible/non-collapsible layer with ...
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Effects of Weak Layer Angle and Thickness on the Stability of Rock Slopes
... the weak layer angles, the weak layer thickness equally gives rise to the decrease in the Fs values at a certain ...certain weak layer thickness ...the weak layer ...
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Shear lag models for discontinuous composites: fibre end stresses and weak interface layers
... A new shear lag (SL) type model for stress transfer in a composite with cylindrical fibres is derived. It accounts for fibre end stresses in an approximate yet realistic manner, and leads to a new formula for predicting ...
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Automatic classification of manual snow profiles by snow structure
... Snowpack parameters related to unstable snow conditions and dry-snow slab avalanche release were calculated from the layering information (Table 2). Calculated parameters in- cluded simple means or sums over the full ...
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Modeling of crack propagation in weak snowpack layers using the discrete element method
... file and conducted one or several PSTs according to the pro- cedure outlined in Greene et al. (2004). In many cases we used longer (than standard) columns to allow us to better in- vestigate crack propagation. After ...
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PERFORMANCE OF FOOTING WITH MULTI -LAYERED PILE STABILIZED SLOPE
... different cases as homogeneous slope without foundation, homogeneous slope with foundation, non-homogeneous slope with foundation and non-homogeneous slope with a thin weak layer. The parameters studied ...
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Strain localisation in mechanically layered rocks beneath detachment zones: insights from numerical modelling
... the weak and strong layers and we refer the reader to Schmid and Podladchikov (2006) for detailed insight into the effective behaviour of layered media as a function of spac- ...the weak layer is ...
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An Explicit Surface Potential Based Biaxial Strained Si n MOSFET Model for Circuit Simulation
... and the current is mainly due to diffusion of electrons. The model has been successfully implemented in MATLAB. To validate our model, the results obtained from MATLAB are compared with the simulated data obtained using ...
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Morphological and functional characteristics of human gingival junctional epithelium
... basal layer of all three types of gin- gival ...suprabasal layer may derive from CK6 [20]. As a marker for single layer epithelium, CK8 and 18 are generally not expressed in squamous ...basal ...
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Troubleshooting for FDM Technology
... other layer of the same material, in order to create a solid joint by adhesion or ...geometry layer by layer ...the layer underneath. Once a layer is fabricated, the stage brings down, ...
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Interaction of a rigid beam resting on a strong granular layer overlying weak granular soil: Multi-Methodological Investigations
... Joseph Antony, E-mail: [email protected] Key words: Granular mechanics, bearing capacity, layered soil, FEM, DPIV, failure mechanism Nomenclature B Width of the beam footing qc Cone[r] ...
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Research in Layer Identification
... To find the location of the surface boundary, which is typically the most prominent edge in the echogram, we used a Canny edge detector [10] because of its performance in detecting strong intensity contrasts for our near ...
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Characteristic and Performance of Elementary Hemp Fibre
... a weak point of primary wall and subsequently propagated along radial direction from S1 to S2 layers; 3) The average MFA for the broken regions of S2 layer was ...S2 layer and 80.35˚ for S1 ...
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Weak localization and weak antilocalization in doped germanium epilayers
... which weak antilocalization can be ...as weak antilocalization in the p-type epilayer suggests that these structures could be developed for use in spintronic devices such as the spin-FET, where significant ...
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Scalable production of large quantities of defect free few layer graphene by shear exfoliation in liquids
... could be exfoliated in liquids using only shear mixing. This would allow the application of the well-known strategies for the scale-up of shear mixing processes that are commonly used in industry. 20 However, at first ...
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Original Article RNA-binding protein Lin28 is associated with injured dentin-dental pulp complex in Sprague-Dawley rats
... Dentinogenesis occurs after intense injuries by a deposition of a protective layer of repara- tive dentine that is secreted by odontoblast-like cells at the injured dentin-dental pulp inter- face [26, 27]. ...
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