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The evolution and progressive failure of the tunneling-induced soil arching effect in pile-raft foundations are still unclear. A series of tunnel-shaped trapdoor tests in a pile−raft foundation were conducted to study the effects of the tunnel−pile distance and the load on the subgrade surface on the progressive failure of the tunneling-induced...

Planck-2015 data seem to favor a large value of the lensing amplitude parameter, AL=1.22±0.10, in CMB spectra. This result is in 2σ tension with the lensing reconstruction result, ALφφ=0.95±0.04. In this paper, we simulate several CMB anisotropy and CMB lensing spectra based on Planck-2015 best-fit cosmological parameter values and Planck...

We implement the effective field theory (EFT) approach to dark energy and modified gravity in the public Einstein-Boltzmann solver CAMB. The resulting code, which we dub EFTCAMB, is a powerful and versatile tool that can be used for several objectives. It can be employed to evolve the full dynamics of linear scalar perturbations of a broad...

We show how to fully map a specific model of modified gravity into the Einstein-Boltzmann solver eftcamb. This approach consists in few steps and allows to obtain the cosmological phenomenology of a model with minimal effort. We discuss all these steps, from the solution of the dynamical equations for the cosmological background of the model to...

We revisit the degeneracy between massive neutrinos and generalized theories of gravity in the framework of the effective field theory of cosmic acceleration. In particular, we consider f(R) theories and a class of nonminimally coupled models parametrized via a coupling to gravity which is linear in the scale factor. In the former case, we find...

We introduce EFTCAMB/EFTCosmoMC as publicly available patches to the commonly used camb/CosmoMC codes. We briefly describe the structure of the codes, their applicability and main features. To illustrate the use of these patches, we obtain constraints on parametrized pure effective field theory and designer f(R) models, both on ΛCDM and wCDM...

We consider Hořava gravity within the framework of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark energy and modified gravity. We work out a complete mapping of the theory into the EFT language for an action including all the operators which are relevant for linear perturbations with up to sixth order spatial derivatives. We then employ an updated...

We revisit the cosmology of covariant Galileon gravity in view of the most recent cosmological data sets, including weak lensing. As a higher derivative theory, covariant Galileon models do not have a ΛCDM limit and predict a very different structure formation pattern compared with the standard ΛCDM scenario. Previous cosmological analyses...