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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"block failure"”.
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Stability of Coastal Cliffs along the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
… of low roughness rock with low normal strength.Failure modes for cliffs of the western Coal Measures were mainly translational, for those of the eastern outcrop block sliding. Old Red Sandstone cliffs mainly exhibited plane sliding, Carboniferous limestone block failure. Low discontinuity shear …
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Behavior and efficiency of perimeter pile groups
… located in each centrifuge model and loaded to failure using a strain-rate controlled load actuator. The individual model piles were made of 5 mm diameter aluminium rod placed in holes pre-drilled in the consolidated kaolin prior to the centrifuge test. All piles extended to a depth 250 mm in …
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Clouds of glass: fragility of virtual machine disk images
… qcow2 virtual hard disk format is vulnerable to failures. We then introduce and analyze two alternative solutions to RAID1 (mirror) that use less disk space and are more convenient to use. As a baseline, the qcow2 format is the easiest to use, uses the least disk space, and has no runtime …