... Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 laboratory tests maximum curvature approach membrane stiffness organic content peat shear strength stress analysis stress level In some previous triaxial tests, it was found that peat does not show a shear failure mode but more...

... foundations stress analysis A site investigation was conducted to assess the ground conditions using five boreholes with in situ and laboratory testing. The boreholes were about 12–15 m deep and indicated that the ground consisted of three different types of soil, as summarised in Table 2 . The soil...

... strain stress analysis stress path A large amount of monitoring data has shown that the repeated rise and fall of water level or wet–dry cycles tend to lead to the accumulation of permanent deformation in embankment dams, slopes and similar geostructures (Brand, 1981 ; Wang et al...

... & testing of materials stress analysis The safety of designed geostructures such as earth dams, retaining walls, embankments, pavements, pile foundations and covers depends on the shear strength of the underlying soil (Fredlund et al., 2012). Soils are traditionally assumed...

... unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. earth dams slopes – stabilisation stress analysis The grave risk posed by static liquefaction to the safety of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) has been made clear by a series...

... and θ is the Lode angle. To ease the determination of parameters, α was selected to coincide with the Mohr–Coulomb envelope for these loading conditions, resulting in: failure geotechnical engineering stress analysis Current worldwide estimates (Franks et al., 2020...

... in depth of the tunnel of 0.25 m and was not considered to be material to the tunnel. 17 03 2020 12 03 2021 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2021 field testing & monitoring stress analysis tunnels & tunnelling The Plaxis model was run in a series of steps...

... 30 11 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 geotechnical engineering roads & highways stress analysis With the rapid development of the Chinese economy, the construction of high-speed railways (HSRs) has contributed to a high level of sustained growth...

... reserved 2020 geotechnical engineering site investigation stress analysis The cone penetration test (CPT) is a versatile in situ test that is used in geotechnical exploration programmes for a wide range of soils and geomaterials, including fine-grained and coarse-grained, young and aged...

... the predicted and the measured non-linear stiffnesses was found, implying that the presented methodology can be broadly applicable to different clay formations. 18 04 2020 23 06 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 geotechnical engineering site investigation stress analysis...

... 2019 06 01 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 foundations piles & piling stress analysis Large-diameter cast-in-place concrete pipe (PCC) piles have been widely used in China, Vietnam and Egypt, particularly as pile foundations to support the embankments...

... & monitoring landfills stress analysis Vibratory compaction is widely used in loose granular soils to reduce settlement or to mitigate the risk of liquefaction. During the compaction process, cyclic stresses are generated in the ground, resulting in a denser particle arrangement and changes...

... into the sample with a cell pressure of 25 kPa. Then, back-pressure was applied to assure a B-value of greater than 0·95. 15 04 2019 07 08 2019 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 failure geotechnical engineering stress analysis Dam sites with fine geological...

... diaphragm & in situ walls stress analysis With an increase in energy demands and the evolution of construction methods, an increasing number of earth and rockfill dams have been, and are being, founded on pervious and highly compressible alluvial deposits. Cutoff walls are the most extensively...

... and friction angle can reach a maximum of 21% and 35·5%, respectively, if neglecting consolidation. 19 02 2017 14 12 2017 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2018 site investigation strength & testing of materials stress analysis In general, interpreting a pressuremeter...

... 17 11 2015 04 04 2016 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2016 disaster engineering stress analysis tunnels & tunnelling China has the most developed and largest loess region in the world, especially in the north-west of the country. Along with the rapid development...

... are demonstrated through several examples. Furthermore, the effects of out-of-plane stress on the stress and displacement of the strain-softening surrounding rock are investigated. ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2016 rocks/rock mechanics stress analysis tunnels & tunnelling...

... or other piles within pile groups. granular materials piles & piling stress analysis The experimental work presented in this paper was carried out using the 10 m beam centrifuge at Cambridge University (Schofield, 1980). Two model piles were developed for the testing, a square pile...

... ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 strength and testing of materials stress analysis C, C_VH, C_HH, n, nx, ny empirically fitted material parameters C_c compression index C_r...

... to continue to develop at large axial strains without the development of peak strength behaviour (O'Kelly and Zhang, 2013). engineering mechanics strength and testing of materials stress analysis ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 31 1 2014 25 10 2013 A more...