... of shear planes rather than general plastic deformation (…) and the punching failure of the ballast into the underlying peat’. Some very similar punching failure type observations were made by researchers at the Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI) in a series of 1g model tests on intact fibrous...

...Seung Jae Han; Se Hee Han; Yun Wook Choo; Jungeun Kim; Susik Yoon This study aims to measure vibrational displacement of structures in physical model tests using high-speed recorded images and an open-source machine learning–based model, YOLOv5. Two dynamic experiments were performed...

... centrifuge modelling geotechnical engineering model tests models (physical) piles and piling tapered piles Corresponding author Jakub Konkol (jakub.konkol@pg.edu.pl) where F is the total head force, and x is the penetrating distance. At the end of penetration, IE...

...Jun Liu; Kai Li; Jingjing Zuo; Congcong Han Bucket foundations in tripod- or tetrapod-jacket structures may be subjected to sustained and cyclic uplift loading; hence, their stability under uplift loading has received attention. Model tests were conducted in the present study to investigate...

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...) . 24 09 2024 25 02 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2025 buried structures gas transportation pipelines geotechnical engineering model tests physical modelling pipes and pipelines soil-structure interaction A length of the trench (Fascicule...

... by Fujii (1991) . In the 1980s, researchers in the US and Japan made considerable efforts to develop electrohydraulic actuators (e.g., Kutter et al., 1994 ; Takemura et al., 1989). centrifuge modelling dynamics earthquakes geotechnical engineering model tests seismic...

...Hao-Biao Chen, MSc; Cheng Lin, MSc; Yan-Ping Lv, MSc; Fu-Quan Chen, PhD Through a series of model tests accomplished by particle image velocimetry analyses, this study presents the visualisation of the displacement field of narrow soil behind retaining structures under translational mode...

...Zhiyong Liu, PhD; Jiapei Ma, BEng; Junhua Xiao, PhD; Jianfeng Xue, PhD; Fei Yang, MEng A series of physical model tests and cyclic triaxial tests were conducted on a dry sand to investigate the effects of excavating an adjacent pit on the settlement behaviour of a footing under cyclic loading...

... centrifuge, if segregation does occur, it can be easily determined from the in-flight image data. Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2023 consolidation model tests waste management & disposal Both beam and desktop centrifuges have been used for geotechnical testing...

... of the novel wall, a series of laboratory model tests is conducted for three-step cantilever walls retaining cohesionless filling under various strip surcharges on the top of the backfill. Test results indicate that lateral earth pressure on the highest-step wall member increases with the depth on the upper...

... to the interface and transported through the pore channels of the coarse layer. To visualise the initiation and progression of contact erosion at the internal interface of soil strata, transparent soil model tests were employed to simulate real soil, and a series of contact erosion tests was conducted on double...

... foundations, sheet piles could become an alternative. Thus, the aim of this research study is to demonstrate the possibility of using sheet piles for piled raft foundations. In this study, a series of model tests was carried out first to investigate the load transfer behaviours of model piled raft foundations...

... and at the same time have relevance to the analysis of cone penetration testing in the determination of rational material properties. 05 10 2022 16 05 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2023 cone penetration earth pressure model tests Interest in the development...

... 2021 20 10 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2022 granular materials model tests sands sensors Calibration chamber (CC) testing has been developed as the most efficient means of verifying interpretation theories and establishing engineering correlations...

... reinstallation depth and increasing offset distance. 31 07 2021 29 03 2022 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2022 foundations model tests offshore engineering Figure 3. Sign convention of forces and bending moment on the spudcan. LRP, load reference point...

...Wenbo Yang, PhD; Gaoyu Ma, MSc; Jiulin Tu, MSc; Hao Kou, MSc; Yanyang Zhang, PhD; Yong Fang, PhD; Chuan He, PhD This paper presents results of the influence of voids on the dynamic response of tunnel linings and surrounding strata acquired in series of model tests. An experimental model of a tunnel...

...Sumeet Kumar Sinha, MS; Bruce Lloyd Kutter, PhD; Katerina Ziotopoulou, PhD, PE Measuring displacements in model tests typically involves contact-based sensors such as linear potentiometers, where contact between two moving parts occurs at the sensing point. The sensor's finite mass, the limited...

... Publishing: All rights reserved 2021 model tests piles & piling rafts Although studies in the foundation field have evolved exponentially with the advent of more and more sophisticated numerical methods, there is still a gap in the information available in the literature when it comes...

...Wei Dong Guo, BE (Hohai), ME (XUAT), PhD (UWA), FIEAust, CPEng, NER RPEQ Back-rotation and hinges were detected in in situ piles during lateral spreading, but they were not reported in model tests. This paper presents, for the first time, model tests on vertically loaded capped piles subjected...