In a prefabricated composite pipe gallery with socket joints, the repeated loading and unloading effect of shield construction on the overlying soil and the existing pipe gallery may cause considerable deformations to the pipe 135 gallery at the joint while ensuring its own bearing capacity.The shield tunnelling underneath the existing pipe gallery
The Great Orbital Run was a solitary run/artwork that took place over nine days around the inside boundary of the M25 London Orbital.The journey was mapped through a stream of photographs and GPS coordinates relayed live from a mobile phone to a Door Lock Relay Pack web interface and shown as a projected artwork at the University of Greenwich, Lond
In the previous article [Y.-X.Wang and W.-T.Li, J.Differential Equations, 251 (2011) 1670-1695], the authors have shown that the set of positive stationary solutions of a cross-diffusive Lotka-Volterra cooperative system can form an unbounded fish-hook shaped branch $Gamma_p$.In the present paper, we will show some criteria for the stability of pos
In October 2003, an artificial canal was dug across the Langue de Barbarie sand spit at the mouth of the Senegal River to prevent the city of Saint-Louis (Senegal) from being submerged by floods.This study aimed to explore the multiple facets of this sudden environmental change to provide a holistic overview of the situation and a better understand