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The huge amounts of residues generated by the mining industry have caused a number of environmental problems, not only in Brazil but worldwide. During the extr...

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This paper focuses on the study of the mechanical behavior of sandy limestone rocks. These rocks are provided from the historical caves of El Haouaria, which are located on of the North Eastern seacoast of Tunisia, and were created during the Punic era. Nowadays, these caves suffer from cracks, randomly distributed with a variable opening size. While, i...

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This paper applies Bayesian updating of the load capacity of a large steel piling foundation for the high load structure of the Alcântara Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), located near the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Uncertainty is modeled by a priori and a posteriori distributions of the piling capacity. The a posteriori dis...

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