...Mario Vicente Riccio Filho, BEng, DSc; Alessando Cirone, BEng, MSc; Marcio de Souza Soares de Almeida, BEng, PhD, MICE; Tatiana Tavares Rodriguez, BEng, DSc; Daniel de Andrade Faria, BEng This paper presents the site investigation and ground stiffening carried out in an 8 m thick, soft soil deposit...

... after which more blows will not significantly improve the soil. This paper uses finite-element analysis to study the shallow foundation settlement and resistance based on the RIC technique applying a different number of hammer blows. computational mechanics shallow foundations site...

... Sulfur trioxide 0·5 geotechnical engineering shallow foundations site investigation Expansive soils exhibit large volume changes corresponding to changes in the moisture regime (Chen, 1988). During the rainy season, expansive soil tends to swell/heave and in the summer season...

... C_u is 2·7. The sand is classified as SP by the Unified Soil Classification System (Saftner, 2011). Figure 2. Typical soil profile at the New Madrid, Missouri testing site ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2017 geotechnical engineering granular materials site investigation...

... are discussed in this paper. Also, the lessons learned from the ground improvement work are presented. 28 03 2017 30 06 2017 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2017 dynamics geotechnical engineering site investigation The method is efficient in a broad range of soil types...

... testing & monitoring geotechnical engineering site investigation Marine clays accumulated during and after the last ice age originally held a high salt content in their pore water of some 30–35 g/l (Moum et al., 1971 ; Rosenqvist, 1946). Leaching by meteoric groundwater flow has...

... depths are compiled in Table 1 . 11 01 2017 16 05 2017 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2017 land reclamation landfills site investigation In spite of the growing number of land reclamation projects built up from sand fills in need of compaction, little practical...

... ratios of, respectively, 0·821 and 0·490 were determined following ASTM standard procedures (ASTM, 2006a , 2006b). ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2016 geotechnical engineering site investigation strength & testing of materials Relative density is extensively used...

... (failures), over that last 25 years or so, other potential contributory causes include the following: 24 02 2015 04 08 2015 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2016 failures field testing & monitoring site investigation While it is evident that cases of unsatisfactory...

... is approximately two. mining & quarrying site investigation strength and testing of materials Plants can be divided into three main categories: grass, shrub and tree. The role of smaller plants is different to that of the larger plants. The roots of grass do not go very deep; however...

... embankments, particularly over soft ground, without some form of ground improvement. Some important steps in achieving successful ground improvement implementation are: adequate geotechnical site investigation; an appropriate design and review process; consideration of the interfacing of different ground...