... revealed that, across all ground improvement methods, the field strength was comparable to or greater than the laboratory strength, and the cement-treated soils displayed typical characteristics of such materials. Nevertheless, it was observed that the cement-treated soils formed by jet grouting...

... settlement in low/general embankment zones (e.g. 200 mm over 40 years). clay columns embankments ground improvement roads & highways Australian highway upgrades increasingly traverse deep soft-soil floodplains and require high embankments with tight settlement and stability limits...

... cement-soil mixing piles consolidation finite-element modelling ground improvement model tests numerical simulation pore pressures prefabricated vertical drain vacuum consolidation Corresponding author Deng Yue-Bao (dengyuebao@nbu.edu.cn) a compressibility coefficient...

... investigation, design, and construction processes on these projects, thereby making micropiles potential remedial option for consideration in the future. Dalrymple road Gatton-Cliffton and Kin-Kin roads ground improvement ground movements Mackay micropile in A-frame arrangement slope remediation...

... 2026 19 05 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Chemical grouting colloidal silica ground improvement grouting liquefaction liquefaction mitigation mechanism-based classification sodium silicate soil...

... for the safe and reliable design of ground improvement methods using the proposed composite material. This section gives a brief description of the materials used in developing the composite material using the geopolymer-based binder and RWG aggregates. This study used finely ground ordinary...

...Md. Shakil Mahabub; Mahabub Sadiq; Mehedi A. Ansary This study presents a novel ground improvement approach combining the deep mixing method ( DMM ) and prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) with surcharge preloading to reinforce soft coastal soil beneath an embankment partition wall constructed...

...Martin D. Larisch Rigid inclusions are used for ground improvement works and are usually designed as unreinforced low strength concrete columns with typical diameters ranging from 270 to 600 mm and depths up to 25 m. The installation methods of rigid inclusions often involve full-displacement...

...Thishani Amarathunga; Deepa Samanthika Liyanapathirana; Waranga Habaraduwa Peellage Controlled Modulus Columns ( CMC ) are a ground improvement technique in which grout-based columns are formed by displacing soil with a specially designed auger. Their fast-track and efficient installation process...

... . Villalobos FA , Villalobos SA and Oróstegui PL (2018) Observations from a parametric study of the seismic design of soil nailing . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Ground Improvement 171 (2) : 112 – 122 , 10.1680/jgrim.17.00027 . Villalobos SA...

...Colin J. Serridge CL:AIRE (2025) Piling and Penetrative Ground Improvement Methods on Land Affected by Contamination: Guidance on Pollution Prevention. CL:AIRE, Reading, UK , ISBN 978-1-905046-51-5, p . 163. © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use...

...Babak Hamidi; Jerome Racinais Deep foundations, traditionally implemented through piles, have long been the conventional solution for supporting loads in low-strength or highly compressible soils. However, in recent decades, ground improvement has emerged as a sustainable technical alternative...

... 11 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only columns field testing and monitoring ground improvement in situ testing industry innovation and infrastructure organic soils UN SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure...

... . Indraratna B , Khabbaz H , Salim W and Christie D (2006) Geotechnical properties of ballast and the role of geosynthetics in rail stabilisation . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Ground Improvement 10 (3) : 91 – 101 , 10.1680/grim.2006.10.3.91...

...Ashok Peiris; Kim Chan; Graham Yip; David Groth The soft ground improvement of an approach embankment for abutments of a major bridge was designed as part of a highway upgrade project in northern New South Wales, Australia. The adopted soft ground treatment approach was to preload and surcharge...

...Helen Chow; Patrick Wong This paper describes the selection and ground improvement design for a section of Boundary Street Upgrade, the main access road to and from Port Macquarie Airport, New South Wales ( NSW ), Australia. The existing road is single lane (each direction), constructed over soft...

... a staged construction approach supported by instrumentation and monitoring. Performance criteria were established based on NZ Transport Agency requirements. Ground improvement was designed to accelerate primary consolidation and reduce long-term settlement. An observational approach was adopted to manage...

... extensometer data. Corresponding author Richard Kelly (DrRichard.Kelly@smec.com) 31 03 2025 11 07 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only embankments ground improvement instrumentation & monitoring machine...

... 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only distributed acoustic sensing dry deep mixing geophysics ground improvement Research Council of Norway under the project “GOAL—Green Soil Stabilisation” 328767 Centre of Geophysical...

..., with horizontal distances of 1 and 2 m from the centre of the precast pile. Figure 2. Instrument layout of field test 07 11 2024 01 04 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2025 bearing capacity consolidation ground improvement piles and piling prefabricated...