Analysis of soil-pipeline interaction using ABAQUS/Explicit
It is common in practice (industry as well as in research) to utilise the finite element method for obtaining a solution for pipe-soil interaction problem. There are different finite element methods...
View ArticleStress analysis of buried pipes
Pipeline plays a vital role in transporting water, gas and oil from one place to another. Over the years, several failures have been reported in pipeline mainly due to aging (i.e., corrosion). The...
View ArticleSoil constitutive models to simulate pipeline-soil interaction behaviour
At the present time, it is very common in practice (industry as well as in research) to utilise standard material models such as Mohr Coulomb and Drucker Prager to simulate the soil behaviour in the...
View ArticleCodified methods to analyse the failures of water pipelines: A Review
Pipelines used for the transportation of water and other services are very important lifelines in modern society. The important role that they play in our present economy is reflected by thousands of...
View ArticleAnalysis and design of perforated SIFCON blocks for compression yielding...
Compression yielding (CY), an innovative structural concept, has recently been introduced to offset the ductility deficiency of concrete structures reinforced with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP). The...
View ArticleIdentification of bond-slip relationship for EB-FRP interface from load-slip...
Bond-slip relationship of externally-bonded (EB) fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) joints can be identified from pull-off tests by either direct measurement or indirect analytical identification from...
View ArticleMyth busting stereotypes: The connections, disconnections and benefits of...
Established research in the area of international wellbeing in Australia point out that international students who make friends only with other international students from the home nation are unhappy...
View ArticleUse the difficulty through Schwierigkeit: Antiusability as value-driven design
In the style of a polemic discursive essay, Antiusability (also known as Schwierigkeit) is introduced as a radical design paradigm to reawaken dedicated awareness of the user-system interface through...
View ArticleThe types of redress procedures in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce
Redress is a process offering consumers access to internal complaint handling procedures and services to resolve disputes occurring in e-commerce transactions. The roles and types of redress have...
View ArticleDynamic performance of a dielectric elastomer-based nanobeam resonator
A beam model is developed in the current work to analyze the dynamic characteristics of a dielectric elastomer (DE)-based nanobeam resonator. The damping effect caused by collisions between gas...
View ArticleTowards deregulation: Shifting discourses in the Australian wheat industry
The deregulation of the Australian export wheat industry in 2008 ended 60 years of statutory marketing by the Australian Wheat Board (AWB). Proponents of deregulation contended that competition was...
View ArticleOwner-Driven Reconstruction in India: A case-study of Kosi River Floods in Bihar
An Owner-Driven Reconstruction (ODR) approach was adopted in the Indian state of Bihar, post 2008 Kosi River floods. This ODR was unique as it was piloted prior to policy formation. The paper...
View ArticleThe cyborg city: re-thinking urban resilience through mobile communications
How do we build urban resilience through key areas of critical infrastructure such as mobile communications? Mobile digital communication networks, encompassing commercial mobile and public wi-fi...
View ArticleRegional innovation and public wi-fi
The paper focuses on the link between regional development, social enterprise and digital infrastructure, through analysis of an initiative in Goulburn NSW, in which local entrepreneurs rigged up a...
View ArticleMigrant Entrepreneurship in the Outer City of Melbourne: Social Networks,...
This paper presents findings on migrant entrepreneurship in Australia, focusing on motivations to business start-up and entrepreneurial capabilities. Using a self-administered survey questionnaire, we...
View ArticleThe effect of traffic loading to buried water mains in partially saturated soils
Mosl of the water pipelines are buried in unsaturated soils. However, the design considerations and analytical solutions for buried water mains assume that the soil is either dry or fully saturated. In...
View ArticleBehaviour of pipes subjected to fault movements in unsaturated soils using...
The damage to pipelines caused by earthquake induced fault movement can be disastrous. Due to the fact that pipelines are generally spread over large geographical areas and exist in the form of a...
View ArticleAssessing the national logistics system of Vietnam
The purpose of this research is to present and analyse the current situation regarding the capability of the national logistics system in Vietnam. A national assessment framework for macro-logistics is...
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