Strength anisotropy and heterogeneous rotated anisotropy are prevalent phenomena in natural slopes. Previous studies have underscored their significance in slope stability analysis. However, in ...

Abstract: In legged robotics locomotion, extracting comprehensive local information from terrain is essential for generating specific leg motions and navigating through unstructured areas. This ...

Abstract: Optimizing the input probability distribution of a discrete-time channel is a standard step in the information-theoretic analysis of digital communication systems. Nevertheless, many ...

1 School of Civil Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China 2 Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd., Tianjin, China ...

The design and construction of capital projects can be extremely complex. Uncertainty and risk add to this complexity and, as a result, many projects experience significant cost overruns and schedule ...

In the world of dam safety, lives can literally depend on the accuracy of a model. For decades, dam breach analyses have leaned on deterministic methods –choosing one “conservative yet realistic” set ...