This project deals with constitutive modeling of contiguous rock located between rock joints. A fully explicit kinematically constrained microplane constitutive model for hardening and softening ...

is that the universe is also isotropic, meaning it has no preferred directions. These assumptions underlie the Standard Model of Cosmology, the theoretical framework used to explain the origin ...

This model explores a mechanism through which dark ... explains why the visible Universe appears homogeneous and isotropic while being in expansion. During this period, the Universe grew by ...