... and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence. eccentric load failure group effects pile...

... Licensed re-use rights only built environment failure fluidisation railway tracks soft soils spatial state redistribution undrained cyclic loading A, B, C n , D n , E n , F n , G n parameters...

..., I_c2, I_c3 first, second and third characteristic stress invariants M _CMP shear-to-normal stress ratio at failure stress state m_ρ δ-dependent shear strength N normal vector of mobilised...

...Wenli Lin; Ang LIU; Wuwei MAO; Junichi KOSEKI To investigate the behaviour of sands at the particle-scale during shear failure, a series of triaxial compression tests was conducted on dry sands with varying confining stresses and relative densities. These tests were complemented by acoustic...

... to an exponential rise in peak strength and stiffness, marking a transition from ductile to brittle mechanical failure, which is pinpointed between the CSR levels of 5% to 10%. AE characteristics unveil an upward-opening parabola of normalised AE hits with CSR, a clear transition zone identification and three...

... measured shear and vertical stresses may be grossly underestimated in some cases. failure laboratory tests liquefaction pore water pressure sands shear strength stress paths Over the years simple shear testing has been a significant tool for developing data relating to practical...

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... in this study Tailings Maximum void ratio (e_{max) Minimum void ratio (emin) Specific gravity (Gs) FC: % O tailings 2·08 0·62 2·72 84 Q tailings 1·18 0·68 2·75 17 dams failure liquefaction shear strength tailings triaxial test When}...

...Fernando Patino-Ramirez; Floriana Anselmucci; Edward Andò; Gioacchino Viggiani; Bernardo Caicedo; Chloe Arson The deformation patterns and failure mechanisms of pressurised cavities at shallow depth are relevant to many geotechnical applications, including tunnelling and horizontal directional...

... influence on the strength, deformation and failure pattern of the clastic soil. The coarse particles are found to change the stress path developed in the soil matrix and consequently influence the critical state of the soil matrix. Moreover, the coarse particle distribution based on computed tomography...

... or dome that tries to redirect the self-weight of the unstable soil to the adjacent stable mass. The collapse mechanism considers the vertical displacement of this unstable soil mass through vertical slip planes. An adapted Krynine's construction is used for predicting Mohr–Coulomb failure conditions...

... an average residual thickness of ∼ 17D₅₀. 17 04 2020 02 10 2020 © 2020 Thomas Telford Ltd 2020 deformation failure laboratory tests sands The last set of five different samples is termed ‘fractal’ (Fig. 3(c)). This term refers to distributions...

...Eduardo E. Alonso The paper analyses the dynamic behaviour of a class of landslides characterised by a well-defined failure surface where shear strains accumulate. The subject goes beyond the common concepts of safety factor and static analysis, and discusses procedures to identify the velocity...

...K. Pan; T. T. Xu; D. Liao; Z. X. Yang In practical engineering, natural soil deposits often sustain an initial driving force prior to cyclic shear, owing to earthquakes, traffic and waves; such asymmetrical loading conditions may significantly affect the liquefaction susceptibility and failure...

...Tom de Gast; Michael A. Hicks; Abraham P. van den Eijnden; Philip J. Vardon A reliability-based analysis framework, accounting for uncertainty arising from the spatial variability of soil properties, has been validated for the controlled, well-instrumented slope failure of an historic dyke...

...Andreas Stoecklin; Pavel Trapper; Alexander M. Puzrin Subaqueous slope failures can evolve in various patterns. Whereas some slides run out and further evolve into highly mobile turbidity currents, others maintain a continuum-like structure and remain frontally confined. The different failure modes...

...Wenli Lin; Wuwei Mao; Ang Liu; Junichi Koseki The acoustic emission (AE) technique can be used to locate failure-induced AE sources and provides an alternative to continuously visualise the development of failures inside stressed materials; however, a literature review reveals almost no studies...

... geometry on ultimate bearing capacity in terms of conventional bearing capacity factors. Herein, analytical solutions based on upper-bound kinematic limit analysis are used to isolate both the mechanism of failure and bearing capacity factors (N_c, N_γ...

... adhesion between the binder and the aggregates. 08 04 2019 03 04 2020 © 2020 Thomas Telford Ltd 2020 failure laboratory tests radioactive waste disposal rocks/rock mechanics shear strength tunnels & tunnelling Radioactive waste disposal is one of the key...

... Hostun RF (S28) sand under multiaxial loading conditions. Satisfactory agreement between the experimental data and model predictions is observed. Equations (2) and (3) can be expanded to pre-failure conditions to define a general expression for p^s and the effective sand...