TOWARD A HARMONIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS AND NATURE

Toward a Harmonic Relationship between Humans and Nature

We are living in an Supplements era in which the world is being turned into an object to be exploited and nature into a storehouse.From environmental pollution and deforestation to toxic waste and the depletion of resources, the Earth is in trouble and we need to act.To address this environmental crisis, I propose to recover early Confucian philoso

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Lateral earth pressure of granular backfills on retaining walls with expanded polystyrene geofoam inclusions under limited surcharge loading

Existing studies have focused on the behavior of the retaining wall equipped with expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam inclusions under semi-infinite surcharge loading rather than limited surcharge loading.In this paper, the failure mode and the earth pressure acting on the rigid retaining wall with EPS geofoam inclusions and granular backfills (henc

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