... judged to be conservative (safe for design) based on comparison with measured loads for both walls. Reinforcement loads were observed to increase with decreasing toe support, particularly at the base of the walls. A fully developed composite soil failure mechanism propagating from the heel...

...Natalia Melnikova, PhD; David Jordan, MSc, CEng, MICE; Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya, PhD; Peter Sloot, PhD The paper analyses the experimental slope failure of a full-scale earthen dyke (levee) in Booneschans (Groningen, the Netherlands). The goals of the experiment were to develop efficient dyke...

... strengths are inappropriate. Guidance is given for engineers working on future schemes on upland peat areas. 09 10 2012 04 4 2012 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 failures site investigation strength and testing of materials F fine fibre content...

... Publishing: All rights reserved 2013 failures geology risk The widely reported Scottish debris flow events of August 2004 were caused by rainfall substantially in excess of the norm, with some areas experiencing over three times the 30-year monthly average, and storm intensities of up...

...Hong-Fa Xu, PhD; Quentin Z. Q. Yue, PhD, MHKIE, RPE (Geotechnical), PEng; Qi-Hu Qian, Kandidat Nauk This paper presents an investigation into the failure behaviours of low-cohesive (c ≤ 10 kPa) or non-cohesive (c = 0) soils around the enlarged bases of deep uplift piles...

.... This increased the deviator stress and induced shear straining, the lateral component of which caused the cell pressure to increase gradually and to arrest the shear strains. In older procedures the cell pressure was lowered to near failure, but later, when large numbers of tests had to be performed, a standard...

...Abouzar Sadrekarimi, PhD The 1971 San Fernando earthquake led to the failure and large displacement of the Lower San Fernando dam, which was constructed by the hydraulic filling method. Hydraulic filling has been condemned as producing liquefiable sand deposits, and in situ relative densities...

... together factors affecting different failure modes, may be misleading. The methodology presented in this paper, developed to overcome these limitations, is based on the estimate of the probability of breaching associated with a limited range of water levels. In this work, while other failure modes...

... carrier phase GPS receiver instrument (d) Honeywell HS764 50Hz IMU system. 26 1 2009 05 8 2008 © 2009 Thomas Telford Ltd 2009 failures geotechnical engineering land surveying Monitoring of standpipe piezometers and inclinometers has been undertaken over several...

... the risk of failure and the most appropriate remedial measures. These range from replacement or downgrading service loads to re-establishment of a corrosion-free environment and corrosion protection to maintain the original design intent. A recent publication 1 highlighted the fact that maintenance...

... of millions of pounds. 29 05 2003 21 12 2004 © 2005 Thomas Telford Ltd 2005 failures geotechnical engineering tunnels & tunnelling Air-lock doors had been installed already in the tunnel to allow compressed air access for cutter-head maintenance, so within 24 h of the start...

...B. M. Lehane This paper presents the results from a field experiment involving the vertical loading to ultimate failure of a shallow pad footing founded on a soft estuarine clayey silt. Data from settlement plates and pneumatic piezometers located beneath the footing are used, in conjunction...

...A.-H. Soubra; B. Macuh A simple method is proposed for calculating the active and passive earth pressure coefficients in the general case of an inclined wall and a sloping backfill. The approach used is based on rotational log-spiral failure mechanisms in the framework of the upper-bound theorem...

...D. G. Toll Minor, shallow landslides have occurred frequently on the island of Singapore. However, very few major landslides (greater than 10 m in height) have occurred. Slope failures in the sedimentary Jurong and granitic Bukit Timah formations have occurred largely on slopes with angles greater...

... to dam walls, restricting satellite visibility and magnifying multipath. © 2001 Thomas Telford Ltd 2001 dams, barrages & reservoirs failures As the consequences of failure are severe, monitoring of dams commences in the early stages of construction. On the completion...

...M C R DAVIES; T G HUGHES; P R TAUNTON © Thomas Telford and ICE 1998 DUNDEE UNIVERSITY WALES UNIVERSITY CARDIFF THYSSEN CONSTRUCTION BRIDGES ARCHES MASONRY MODELS CENTRIFUGES TESTING TESTS EFFECT GRAVITY BEHAVIOUR MATERIALS LABORATORIES FAILURES MECHANISMS LOADS...

... can be used to assess stability, providing a valid failure mechanism is postulated, and, for idealized subsoil strength pro®les, plasticity solutions are also available. This paper documents numerical analyses which support the use of the plasticity solutions and provide the basis of a new design...

...A H SOUBRA; COULOMB © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 ENSAIS BEARING CAPACITY SEISMIC STRIP FOOTINGS SHALLOW CONDITIONS METHODS PSEUDO STATIC STATIC FORCES INERTIA UPPER BOUNDS LIMIT ANALYSIS FAILURES MECHANISMS SANDWICH CALCULATIONS SHEAR ZONES WEDGES FLOW RULES...

...M L LINGS © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PILES SAND SHAFTS RESISTANCE DRIVEN PREFORMED PREDICTION METHODS EMPIRICAL TENSION TESTS SHEAR STRESS SOILS PENETRATION DESIGN DISPLACEMENT RESIDUAL MODELS LOADS DENSITY FAILURES COMPRESSION EARTH...

...G E BLIGHT © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY MUDFLOWS DESTRUCTIVE TAILINGS DAMS DYKES FAILURES SEMI LIQUID BEHAVIOUR GROUND SURFACES MOVEMENT DRY WET RING DYKES IMPOUNDING POST FAILURE BREACHES WALLS SHEAR OVERTOPPING STORMS SHAPE SLOPES...