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Field investigation of deformation characteristics and stress mobilisation of a soil slope
Get PDFStress mobilisation and deformation of a slope are important for engineers to carry out reliable design of retaining systems. However, most case histories reported mainly on the response of pore-water pressure (PWP), whereas knowledge about the stress-deformation characteristics of slope is limited. In this study, a saprolitic soil slope was instrumented to monitor not only the responses of PWP but also horizontal stress and horizontal displacement. To assist in the interpretation of field data, a series of laboratory tests was conducted to characterise the volume change behaviour of soil taken from the site, under the effects of both net stress and suction. During a rainstorm event when positive PWP built up, a remarkably large displacement of 20 mm was recorded between 5.5 and 6 m depths, and the top 5 m of the slope exhibited translational down-slope movement. This caused an increase in effective horizontal stress by 350%, which reached a peak value close to 40% of an effective passive stress. During the subsequent dry season when suction was recovered, an up-slope rebound of 10 mm was recorded. Comparison of field and laboratory data reveals that the rebound was attributed to suction-induced soil shrinkage. This rebound led to a decrease in the effective horizontal stress previously built up during the storm event
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Origin[Redux] Photography as a Mechanism of Dream Transference
Get PDFABSTRACT OF THE THESISOrigin[Redux]Photography as a Mechanism of Dream TransferenceByJoaquín PaltingMaster of Fine Arts in Studio ArtUniversity of California, Irvine, 2020Professor Simon Leung, Chair What is it that I am doing when I take a photograph? What are the implications when I exhibit the work? Expanding upon theories advanced by Sigmund Freud in his writing on dreams and the unconscious, as well as what Walter Benjamin referred to as the "optical unconscious”, this thesis explores the idea that when I take a photograph, I am making a visual record of a dream. Furthermore, that when I exhibit the photograph, the dream that I recorded is then transferred to the viewers via the unconscious. As a case study, we will examine a series of photographs titled, Origin[Redux], which I created for my MFA thesis exhibition. The argument will be made that the photographs may, in part, include shared dreams that have moved between myself, my mother, Brett Weston and his father Edward Weston
Knut Asdam Speech, Living, Sexualities, Struggle
No full textTexts: Simon Sheikh, Knut Åsdam, George Baker, Magali Arriola, Ben Borthwick, Miwon Kwon, Denise Robinson, Gertrud Sandquist, Simon Leung, Andrea Krosknes, Janna Graham, Johanna Burton, Michael Eng, Dont Rhin
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No full textAnna Benedict, Ee Win Khoo, Elaine Leung, Anne Hamilton-Bruce and Simon Kobla
A Strategic Analysis for Successful Implementation of Social Media for SFU Business
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Impact of FOXL2 mutations on signaling in ovarian granulosa cell tumors
No full textAvailable online11 January 2016Abstract not availableDilys T.H. Leung, Peter J. Fuller, Simon Ch
10-minute consultation: funny turn
No full textElaine Stephanie Leung, Monica Anne Hamilton-Bruce, Nigel Stocks and Simon A Kobla
Tan tao nei guan ren zhi zhi liao gai shan yi yu zheng zhuang de zhi liao ji zhi: jue cha qing gan yu ren zhi xi guan fan ying de zhong yao xing
No full textLeung, Alice.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-154).Abstracts also in Chinese; appendixes in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 19, September, 2016).Leung, Alice
The second variation formula for exponentially harmonic maps
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Leung-Fu CheungVersion of RecordPublishedVoR allowe
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