Soil collapse is a major geotechnical problem that causes architectural and structural damage to buildings and engineering infrastructure. Losses due to soil collapsibility have an economical aspect and the study of these ...

The occurrence of collapsible soils and collapse processes due to disruptions in water and sewage networks is the main urban environmental problem concerning material losses in many cities of southeastern Brazil. This work ...

The term collapsibility of soils is not always understood, since engineering projects rarely take into account the effects caused by the phenomenon, which is responsible for several problems in earthmoving services, channels, ...

Great areas of Brazil present lateritic soils, such as the northeast and the south. Some of these soils have, as main characteristic, instable structures that can present considerable volumetric deformation in the presence ...

Collapsible unsaturated soils experience large volumetric compressive deformations upon wetting. Soil collapse is a geotechnical problem that occurs in different regions of the world and profoundly impacts buildings and ...

Several code-conforming reinforced concrete buildings were severely damaged during the 2010 moment magnitude (Mw) 8.8 Chile earthquake, raising concerns about their real collapse margin. Although critical updates were ...

This article addresses a neglected problem in Searle's social ontology, namely, how human civilization may collapse. In the first section, I provide the theoretical framework. In the second section, I offer the key elements ...

Voltage Stability has emerged in recent decades as one of the most common phenomena, occurrence in Electrical Power Systems. Prior researches focused on the development of algorithm indices to solve the stability problem ...

In the last decades, the decline of wild bee populations and the collapse of Apis mellifera colonies have concerned researchers and beekeepers. The objective of this review was to compile some of the most relevant studies ...