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... The Hollow Cylinder Apparatus (HCA) is the only soil test device that can facilitate independent control of both the magnitudes and directions of the principal ...a Hollow Cylindrical (HC) ... See full document

... a new hollow cylinder apparatus for generalised stress path testing of soil are ...the apparatus, axial and torsional loads are applied to the ends of the hollow ... See full document

... A significant difference was found, in line with other studies, between the sample strains measured using the internal and external instrumentation. The external strain values were significantly larger, with the ... See full document

... a new hollow cylinder apparatus (HCA) that facilitated accurate generalized stress path measurements on soils over the pseudo elastic to failure strain range are ...the hollow ... See full document

... The development of a large consolidometer to ac- curately measure the consolidation response and representative hydraulic characteristics of slurries and undisturbed organic soils under increasing levels of ... See full document

... The new apparatus contains a larger specimen (nominally 152 mm in diameter and 250–280 mm in length, which is mini-structural scale) that is more representative of the insitu ...oedometer apparatus, ... See full document

... Abstract. A new apparatus – “Dropkinson Bar” – has been successfully developed for material property characterization at intermediate strain rates. This Dropkinson bar combines a drop table and a Hopkinson ... See full document

... The hollow cylinder torsional apparatus (HCTA) is particularly suited to studying the mechanical behavior of cross-anisotropic test specimens since the magnitudes of the three principal stresses and ... See full document

... the development of potential shear bands (Wroth & Houlsby 1985). Hollow cylindrical test specimens were formed using a wet pluviation technique developed by O’Kelly ... See full document

... We want to install new isolations for both the glass cylinder and the heated block. These isolations should be made of solid materials instead of currently-used pliable glass wool, which is also unsuitable ... See full document

... the development of this ...a new branch of continuum mechanics [4]–[7], therefore it seems appropriate here to clarify the definition of a growing ...of new material points and (or) formation of ... See full document

... The proximity transducers were calibrated to a measurement accuracy of 1.0 x 10 -5 mm, which corresponds to radial and circumferential normal strain accuracy values of about 7 x 10 -7 strain (calculated using Eqs. 2–3 ... See full document

... Two inclinometer configurations were incorporated in the development and instrumentation of the University College Dublin (UCD) HCA (O’Kelly and Naughton 2003, 2005b). Firstly, the single-axis inclinometer (Fig. ... See full document

... Between Locations A and D a gradual rotation of the principal stresses occurs. The major principal stress rotates through an angle from the vertical with the minor principal stress rotating through an angle from the ... See full document

... Principle of HCA testing • Test specimen: hollow cylinder, 100mm outer diameter, 71mm inner diameter, 200mm in length • Apply system of axial and torsional loads, inner and outer confini[r] ... See full document

... and hollow glass ...that hollow glass microspheres are used which have good filler material and low coefficient of thermal ...replacing hollow glass microsphere and recycled waste plastic to enhance ... See full document

... solid cylinder and hollow cylinder with Dirichlet's, Neumann's and Robin's boundary condition and rectangular plates from [1] to ...is new contribution to the field of ... See full document

... This research investigated the effects of Tetraoxosulphate VI acid on commercially produced hollow sandcrete blocks. Seventy two (72) hollow sandcrete blocks were produced for this research. Acid ... See full document

... e, the temperature is gradually conducted from the inner surface of the hollow cylinder to the points away from the surface. As the time factor T increases continu- ously (e.g. T=10), the temperature values ... See full document

... career development system based on merit and performance, promotion position, mutation / rotation, based on rank or seniority, then the be the main requirement is the education and training have followed the ... See full document