Permeameter tests were performed on four widely graded cohesionless soils, to study their susceptibility to internal erosion. Test specimens were reconstituted as a saturated slurry, consolidated, and then subjected to ...

Results are presented from permeameter tests involving unidirectional seepage flow through reconstituted specimens of four widely graded cohesionless soils. The onset of instability is defined by a significant decrease in ...

Observations of the performance of basement walls and retaining structures in recent earthquakes show that failures of basement or deep-excavation walls in earthquakes are rare even if the structures were not designed for ...

Observations of the performance of basement walls and retaining structures in recent earthquakes show that failures of basement or deep-excavation walls in earthquakes are rare even if the structures were not designed for ...

The phenomenon of liquefaction is one of the most important, interesting and controversial subjects in the earthquake geotechnical engineering. Its devastating effects attracted the worldwide attention of the geotechnical ...

We present a theoretical model to determine the hydromechanical boundary of an internally unstable soil subject to vertical seepage. The model is based in momentum balance equations, which consider that the system is divided ...

Experimental evidence has shown that most current methods are not able to predict design loads of footings on cohesionless soil with an acceptable degree of accuracy. In the present study, a simple and realistic settlement-based ...

In this academic paper, the numerical modeling of piles that are subjected to pseudo-static lateral load was carried out using the MIDAS GTS NX software package. For the respective modeling a series of lateral load ...

In the pipe jacking design, it is required the estimation of radial and tangential pressures exerted by soil on pipes, to determine the jacking forces that need to be achieve to overcome the frictional resistance during ...