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Romanel, Celso. "A global-local approach for dynamic soil-structure interaction analysis of deeply embedded structures in a layered medium." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184762.
Full textRomanel, Celso 1952. "DYNAMIC SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION IN A LAYERED MEDIUM." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276511.
Full textUchaipichat, Anuchit Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Experimental investigation and constitutive modelling of thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in unsaturated soils." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22068.
Full textYamamoto, Nobutaka. "Numerical analysis of shallow circular foundations on sands." University of Western Australia. School of Civil and Resource Engineering, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0038.
Full textChin, Victor B. L. "The dynamic response of pile-soil interfaces during pile driving and dynamic testing events." Monash University, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9421.
Full textBienen, Britta. "Three-dimensional physical and numerical modelling of jack-up structures on sand." University of Western Australia. School of Civil and Resource Engineering, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0208.
Full textManivannan, Ganeshalingam Aerospace Civil & Mechanical Engineering Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Viscoplastic modelling of embankments on soft soils." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38743.
Full textAbdelhedi, Anouar. "Modélisation de l'effet de groupe dans le clouage des pentes." Paris 6, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA066042.
Full textBarrett, Gary Edward. "Infiltration in water repellent soil." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28618.
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Sorooshian, Soroosh, and Vijai Kumar Gupta. "Improving the Reliability of Compartmental Models: Case of Conceptual Hydrologic Rainfall-Runoff Models." Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614011.
Full textDang, Hoang Kien 1981. "The application of a multilaminate model to simulate tunnelling in structured clays : a dissertation." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99755.
Full textA constitutive model that is suitable for the analysis of structured clays has been developed in this study based on the multilaminate framework. The model takes into account the elastic unloading-reloading, inherent and induced anisotropy, destructuration and bonding effects. The model is implemented into Plaxis finite element program, successfully calibrated and used to investigate the response of structured sensitive clay to the construction of the Gatineau tunnel in Gatineau, Quebec and the Ottawa sewer tunnel in Ottawa, Ontario. Numerical results were compared to the field measurements taken during the tunnel construction. To improve the performance of the numerical model, an implicit integration algorithm is implemented and proven to be very effective as compared to the conventional explicit integration methods. The effect of different soil parameters including bonding and anisotropy on the tunneling induced displacements and lining stresses is also examined using a comprehensive parametric study. The results indicated that soil bonding and anisotropy have significant effects on the shape of the settlement trough as well as the magnitudes of surface displacements and lining stresses induced by tunneling.
Pitsillis, Zachry Steven. "Estimating dynamic affine term structure models." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15731.
Full textPark, Soojin. "Modelling soil-landform continuum on a three-dimensional hillslope." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670238.
Full textMtundu, Nangantani Davies Godfrey. "The Stochastic Behavior of Soil Moisture and Its Role in Catchment Response Models." PDXScholar, 1987. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/527.
Full textMusa, Zulkarnain 1964. "An accelerated conjugate direction procedure for slope stability analysis." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276912.
Full textSande, Leif Andrew. "Experimental Studies on Infiltration/Soil-Water Movement Processes and Green-AMPT Modeling." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29329.
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Aldaikh, Hesham S. H. "Discrete models for the study of dynamic structure-soil-structure interaction." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633205.
Full textHendrickson, Jene Diane, and Soroosh Sorooshian. "CALIBRATION OF RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS USING GRADIENT-BASED ALGORITHMS AND ANALYTIC DERIVATIVES." Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614186.
Full textHuang, Xin, and 黃昕. "Exploring critical-state behaviour using DEM." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206742.
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Galadima, A., and J. C. Silvertooth. "Mathematical Models of Potassium Release Kinetics for Sonoran Desert Soils of Arizona." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/210381.
Full textSylvester, Matthew. "Calibrating Term Structure Models to an Initial Yield Curve." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33027.
Full text趙學安 and Xuean Zhao. "Electrochemical capacitance in a mesoscopic structure." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31239778.
Full textYu, Albert Chun-ming. "The dynamics of capital structure choice." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24408.
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Zhao, Qian, and 赵倩. "A thermomechanical approach to constitutive modeling of geomaterials." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47166836.
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He, Shu Yu. "Field study on influence of atmospheric parameters and vegetation on variation of soil suction around tree vicinity." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3868734.
Full textSchwellnus, Adrian. "Linear-Rational Term Structure Models With Flexible Level-Dependent Volatility." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29215.
Full textRamnarayan, Kalind. "Level Dependence in Volatility in Linear-Rational Term Structure Models." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31207.
Full textRichard, Paul François. "A computer analysis of the flow of water and nutrients in agricultural soils as affected by subsurface drainage." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29171.
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Pawlowska, Bogna Julia. "Mathematical models of microbial evolution : cooperative systems." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26819.
Full textAnderson, James William Justin. "Probabilistic models of RNA secondary structure." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3e58e9d9-c58d-4616-8e88-4082d1ca0e2a.
Full textKarlsson, Anton. "Population Models with Age and Space Structure." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Matematik och tillämpad matematik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-134926.
Full textAhmad, Faheem. "Numerical modelling of transport of pollutant through soils." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08182009-040239/.
Full textWall, Steven E. "Structure and evolution of thermohaline staircases in tropical North Atlantic." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Dec%5FWall.pdf.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): Radko, Timour. "December 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 24, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-86). Also available in print.
Liu, Ying, and 劉影. "Limit equilibrium methods for slope stability analysis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42576684.
Full textCottereau, Régis. "Probalilistic models of impedance matrices : application to dynamic soil-structure interaction." Châtenay-Malabry, Ecole centrale de Paris, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006ECAP1034.
Full textIn many application fields, as in civil engineering or aeronautics, engineers have to deal with design problems where the structure is coupled to an unbounded domain. For these problems, only the structure is of interest, and the behavior of the exterior domain is taken into account through its equivalent stiffness, in statics, or its impedance matrix, in dynamics. The models for the unbounded domains considered in these applications are usually coarse and the information available on their properties scarse and polluted. This leads to errors in the estimation of the behavior of the structure, which may partially be taken into account by using probabilistic approaches. We present, in this Ph. D. Thesis a probabilistic model of impedance matrices, which generalizes the nonparametric approaches introduced recently by Soize for the predictions of vibrations in random structures. The construction of this probabilistic model first requires the construction of a deterministic model, so-called hidden variables model, that verifies the basic properties of impedance matrices, among which the causality. The hidden variables model has to be identified from numerical results or experimental measures, and the identification procedure is also developed in this thesis. Two applications are presented. Our nonparametric model of the impedance matrix is first compared to a parametric model, on a classical problem in dynamic soil-structure interaction, to illustrate the main differences between the two approaches. Then, it is used in a more industrial seismic design problem, to show the practical application of the nonparamatric probabilistic model of impedance matrices
Tokwe, Thabo. "Kalman Filtering and the Estimation of Multi-factor Affine Term Structure Models." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29465.
Full textSun, Tek-kei, and 孫廸麒. "Numerical modeling of skin friction and penetration problems in geotechnical engineering." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/195991.
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SOMASUNDARAM, SUJITHAN. "CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING FOR ANISOTROPIC HARDENING BEHAVIOR WITH APPLICATIONS TO COHESIONLESS SOILS (INDUCED, KINEMATIC, NON-ASSOCIATIVENESS)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188165.
Full textDavary, Kamran. "Soil moisture redistribution modeling with artificial neural networks." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36905.
Full textAn initial review of existing soil hydrology models provided greater insight into current modelling challenges and a general classification of the models. The application of AI techniques as alternative tools for soil hydrology modelling was explored.
A one-dimensional (1D) model based on ANN and FIS was developed. To estimate fluxes more accurately, multiple ANNs were trained and combined by way of an FIS. The main body of the model employed the ANN-FIS module to model soil moisture redistribution throughout the profile. When tested against the SWAP93 model, the ANN-FIS model gave a good match and maximum error of <8%; however, it did not show a notable computation cost shift.
The investigation proceeded with development of another ANN-based 1D modelling approach. This time, the soil profile or flow region, regardless of its depth, was divided into ten equal parts (compartments). The ANN was trained to estimate moisture patterns for a whole soil profile, from the previous day's soil moisture pattern and boundary conditions, and the current day's boundary conditions. The model was tested against SWAP93 where an average SCORE of 90.4 indicated a good match. The computation cost of the ANN-based model was about one-third that of SWAP93.
At this point the study sought to develop a 3D modelling approach. The ANN was trained to estimate the nodal soil moisture changes through time under the influence of six neighbouring nodes (in a 3D space, two on each axis). The model's accuracy was tested against the SWMS-3D model. An average SCORE of 91 and a 15-fold decrease in computation costs showed a quite acceptable performance. Results suggest that this approach is potentially capable of realistically modelling 3D VSSM redistribution with less computation time.
Finally, pros and cons of these ANN-based modelling approaches are compared and contrasted, and some recommendations on future work are given.
Christian, James Robert. "Modelling studies on a marine plankton community : biological, temporal and spatial structure." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27859.
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Obando, Vallejos Benjamin. "Mathematical models for the study of granular fluids." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0274/document.
Full textThis Ph.D. thesis aims to obtain and to develop some mathematical models to understand some aspects of the dynamics of heterogeneous granular fluids. More precisely, the expected result is to develop three models, one where the dynamics of the granular material is modeled using a mixture theory approach, and the other two, where we consider the granular fluid is modeled using a multiphase approach involving rigid structures and fluids. More precisely : • In the first model, we obtained a set of equations based on the mixture theory using homogenization tools and a thermodynamic procedure. These equations reflect two essential properties of granular fluids : the viscous nature of the interstitial fluid and a Coulomb-type of behavior of the granular component. With our equations, we study the problem of a dense granular heterogeneous flow, composed by a Newtonian fluid and a solid component in the setting of the Couette flow between two infinite cylinders. • In the second model, we consider the motion of a rigid body in a viscoplastic material. The 3D Bingham equations model this material, and the Newton laws govern the displacement of the rigid body. Our main result is the existence of a weak solution for the corresponding system. • In the third model, we consider the motion of a perfect heat conductor rigid body in a heat conducting Newtonian fluid. The 3D Fourier-Navier-Stokes equations model the fluid, and the Newton laws and the balance of internal energy model the rigid body. Our main result is the existence of a weak solution for the corresponding system. The weak formulation is composed by the balance of momentum and the balance of total energy equation which includes the pressure of the fluid, and it involves a free boundary (due to the motion of the rigid body). To obtain an integrable pressure, we consider a Navier slip boundary condition for the outer boundary and the mutual interface
Teng, Jack 1979. "Structure and energetics in theoretical food webs." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=80884.
Full textKowalczyk, Piotr Jozef. "Validation and application of advanced soil constitutive models in numerical modelling of soil and soil-structure interaction under seismic loading." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/275675.
Full textStutz, Hans Henning [Verfasser]. "Hypoplastic Models for Soil-Structure Interfaces - Modelling and Implementation / Hans Henning Stutz." Kiel : Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1122110855/34.
Full textMiller, Kendall Mar 1958. "INTERPRETIVE SCHEME FOR MODELING THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF SOIL PROPERTIES IN 3-D (AUTOCORRELATION, STOCHASTIC, PROBABILITY)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276981.
Full textOdeh, Inakwu Ominyi Akots. "Soil pattern recognition in a South Australian subcatchment /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pho23.pdf.
Full textO???Brien, Peter Banking & Finance Australian School of Business UNSW. "Term structure modelling and the dynamics of Australian interest rates." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Banking and Finance, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/28283.
Full textDeknatel, William Brockway. "USE OF THE SOLUTION MODELS TO CALCULATE THE ACTIVITY COMPOSITION RELATIONS OF MAGNESIAN CALCITES (SOLID, CARBONATES)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291512.
Full textAbou, Nahra Joumana. "Modeling phosphorus transport in soil and water." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102946.
Full textThe ability of the NICA model to describe phosphate (PO4) adsorption to soil particles was tested using soils collected from agricultural fields in southern Quebec. The surface charge and PO4 adsorption capacity of these soils were measured. Results were used to estimate the NICA model parameters using a non-linear fitting function. The NICA model accurately described the surface charge of these soils and the PO4 adsorption processes.
The HYDRUS-1D model was applied to simulate water flow and PO4 transport in re-constructed soil column experiments. The HYDRUS-1D model was calibrated based on physical and chemical parameters that were estimated from different experiments. Overall, the HYDRUS-1D model successfully simulated the water flow in the columns; however, it overestimated the final adsorbed PO4 concentrations in the soil. The discrepancies in the results suggested that the HYDRUS-1D model could not account for the differences in the soil structure found in the columns, or that the Freundlich isotherm could not adequately describe PO4 adsorption.
The HYDRUS-NICA model was calibrated and validated with results from re-packed column experiments. The simulated results were then compared with results obtained by the HYDRUS-1D model. The overall goodness-of-fit for the HYDRUS-1D model simulations was classified as poor. The HYDRUS-NICA model improved significantly the prediction of PO4 transport, with the coefficient of modeling efficiency values being close to unity, and the coefficient of residual mass values being close to zero. The HYDRUS-NICA model can be used as a tool to improve the prediction of PO4 transport at the field scale.
Faria, Rogério Teixeira de. "Simulation of irrigation requirements for Parana State, Brazil." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41290.
Full textA crop yield model based on the stress day index approach was selected from an evaluation of seven crop-water production functions using wheat field data. This model was combined with the soil moisture model to assess risks of drought during the establishment and development of non-irrigated wheat crops with different planting dates. Irrigation management strategies were simulated to identify net system delivery capacities and application frequencies that promote maximum yield with minimum requirements of water. Yield reductions in non-irrigated wheat due to water stress varied between 16%, for early plantings, to 50%, for late plantings. Maximum yields with minimum applied water was obtained by the use of low intensity (5 to 10 mm) and frequent (3 to 5 days) irrigations. System delivery capacity requirements varied from 1.5 to 3.0 mm/day, according to planting dates.