We evaluate the application of various statistical measures for the identification of optimal financial strategies in environmental projects that may be burdened by the consequences of low-probability, high-cost events. ...

Environmental companies face the risk of liability claims that can, significantly, affect their resources and financial future. At the same time most small- and medium-sized companies do not rely on sophisticated risk-management ...

We develop analytical expressions for the effective hydraulic conductivity Ke of a three‐dimensional, heterogeneous porous medium in the presence of randomly prescribed head and flux boundaries. The log hydraulic conductivity ...

Managing environmental risk and liability for corporations and consultants requires a prudent combination of insurance techniques, company risk control plans, pollution prevention, and the proper allocation of retention ...

Nickel metal catalysts composed of nanometer by micrometer strips have been produced with solid-state microfabrication techniques. The strips are actually the edges of nickelcatalyst thin films, which are sandwiched between ...

Intersection sight distance is the adequate sight distance to be provided at two-way stop controIIed intersection. Current AASHTO poIicy provides an equation and charts for the required at-grade intersection sight distance ...

Starting from the premise that Darcy's law applies with a random hydraulic conductivity field K(x) defined on a support ω, we consider steady state flow in a larger domain Ω driven by statistically independent random source ...

A unified numerical treatment for handling various forms of constitutive relations for hyperelastic and rubber-like materials is presented. A general form for the stress and the constitutive tensors is derived. The form ...

The traditional Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations in finite elements posses some inherent difficulties when used in simulation of metal-forming processes or general finite strain problems. A more general method of ...

In this paper we present an overview of the recent developments in the area of numerical and finite element modeling of nonlinear constitutive relations. The paper discusses elastic, hyperelastic, elastoplastic and ...