It is experimentally evident that large monotonic shearing of a granular material causes a concentra-tion of the shear deformation into narrow zones along walls or inside of the granular body. Location, orientation and the evolution of strain localisation is determined by the mechanical properties of the granular material and the boundary conditions of the described More Information…

Background: In 1990 the Hong Kong Government launched the Airport Core Programme to provide a new international airport together with nine associated projects at a total cost of over twenty billion US dollars, making it one of the world’s largest infrastructure developments. The completion of the New Hong Kong International Airport in only seven years More Information…