... (Barry.Lehane@uwa.edu.au) 15 07 2024 19 11 2024 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only axial loading foundations grout helical piles sand sustainability D_h helix pile diameter d_s shaft...

... applications granular materials sustainability The arching effect is an intriguing load-transfer mechanism within soil and other granular materials. When a section of soil yields, for example because of excavation, the loads are relieved from this yielding section. The neighbouring non-yielding parts...

... stronger than steel and cheaper and more flexible than carbon fibre. geotechnical engineering tunnels & tunnelling sustainability Kodymova et al. (2017) described a life-cycle assessment of GFRP and steel permanent rock bolts and concluded that GFRP bolts could have up to 40...

..., describing how the environmental sustainability and resilience of the infrastructure were engineered into the solution. 19 09 2016 30 08 2017 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2017 geology geotechnical engineering sustainability A number of onshore oil and gas exploration...

... ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2016 foundations pollution sustainability Crude oil spills resulting from its production, transportation and storage have become common in and around oil-producing countries. If the predictions made many years ago that oil resources would be entirely...

... ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2015 geotechnical engineering sustainability waste management & disposal A cross-sectional area B pore pressure coefficient i hydraulic gradient k permeability Q flow rate...

... and 14% are clay. For the end-bearing soil type, it was found that about 98·7% of the test piles available in the database are socketed in dense sands or bedrock. foundations piles & piling risk & probability analysis sustainability A pile cross-sectional area...

...Ru J. Hon, BEng; Chung Y. Kwok, PhD, PE; Tse H. L. Lee, MSc, CEng, MIMMM, MICE, MHKIE, FGS Over the past two decades, research on embodied energy has been associated with construction projects in an effort to tackle sustainability issues. In this study, the embodied energy of two types of tunnels...

... by the Building Research Establishment. The handbook was the culmination of the RUFUS project, an EU 5th Framework research project involving many of the leading professionals, and aimed at ‘overcoming the barriers, both technical and non-technical, to the reuse of foundations for sustainable development...

... on the consistency and compaction properties of Lower Oxford Clay (LOC), a sulphate-bearing soil that has been difficult to stabilise in the traditional manner using lime. In the investigations, LOC was stabilised both in the conventional manner using lime as the control, and also using a wide range of sustainable...

... for sustainable earthworks on all major infrastructure projects. This philosophy was a requirement of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996, and a waste minimisation hierarchy was therefore included within construction specifications. This paper presents two different solutions found on one contract to enable two...

..., strength, deformation and suction, this paper reports on the potential reuse of these site-won loessial soils as earthworks material, thereby significantly adding to the sustainability aspects of the development. The paper proposes moisture content and suction monitoring of loess fill at placement...

... static loading 26 11 2009 24 10 2008 © 2010 Thomas Telford Ltd 2010 geotechnical engineering sustainability The placement of fills in earthworks construction is often carried out close to optimum water content, and is therefore generally unsaturated at the time...