In 1999, after a period of extensive rainfall, two shallow slope failures developed in the right-of-way of Provincial Road 259 near Virden, Manitoba. The rainfall caused dissipation of soil suction in the near-surface soil, ...

Populus tremuloides Michx. (trembling aspen) is a tree species native to much of North America and is normally ascribed to the architectural model of Rauh, characterized by an excurrent crown structure with a central main ...

The paper proposes a new elastic-plastic framework for unsaturated, high-plasticity, clayey soils and sand-clay mixtures. The framework considers possible coupling of stress- and suction-induced hardening, leading to a ...

The phase diagram of the classical anisotropic (XXZ) Heisenberg model on the two-dimensional triangular lattice is investigated using Monte Carlo methods. In the easy-axis limit, two finite-temperature vortex-unbinding ...

This paper presents an optimization-based approach to solve the wireless fair scheduling problem under a multirate time division multiple access (TDMA)-based medium access control (MAC) framework. By formulating the fair ...

In this paper, a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) analysis of the transmission line equations for a general circuit simulator is presented. A two-port circuit representation is derived for integrating a dispersive ...

The role of topological excitations in frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnets between two and three spatial dimensions is considered. In particular, the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a stacked triangular geometry ...