Investigations on water retention behaviour of deformable soils

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Investigations on water retention behaviour of deformable soils

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Water weakening and the compressive brittle strength of carbonates: Influence of fracture toughness and static friction

Frictional weakening leads to unconventional singularities during dynamic rupture propagation

Dataset for "Complexity of crack front geometry enhances toughness of brittle solids"

Experimental and ab initio derivation of interface stress in nanomultilayered coatings: Application to immiscible Cu/W system with variable in-plane stress

Influence of fiber orientation on the tensile behavior of UHPFRC and reinforced UHPFRC under static and fatigue loadings

Modeling the mechanics and rheology of porous and granular media: an elastoplastic continuum approach

Pore-pressure coefficients for unsaturated soils: generalized effective stress approach

Drained Clay-Pipe Interface Resistance at Low Normal Stresses and Elevated Temperatures

Data-driven 1D wave propagation for site response analysis

Bounding the localized to ductile transition in porous rocks: implications for geo-reservoirs

Single-Well Pore Pressure Preconditioning for Enhanced Geothermal System Stimulation

Experimental investigation of rotational behavior of pseudo-ductile adhesive angle joints exhibiting variable strain rate

A fully-coupled highly-parallelized geomechanical simulator for assessing induced seismicity

How to Make Elastomers Piezoelectric?

INFLUENCE OF VOIDS ON THICK DCB JOINT BEHAVIOR

Microscopic Digital Image Correlation Analysis of Strain Distributions in Stainless Steel 316L Induced by Multiaxial Cyclic Loading

Shear strength and shear stiffness analysis of compacted Wyoming-type bentonite

3-D contact and pore network analysis of MICP cemented sands

Atomic-scale Characterization of Strain and Gate effects on Two-dimensional Materials by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Strain Gradients and Magnetoresistance in Microstructured 3D Topological Semi-metals