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Ouahcène Nait-Rabah, Flavio Germain, Yannick Estevez, James Guiraud, Gildas Medjigbodo, Daniel Dias and Chadi Maalouf
This paper presents the first laboratory study of four materials (three lateritic soils and one sandy soil) mainly used in road construction in French Guiana. The analysis of macroscopic behaviour by physical tests, following French standards, made it po...
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Delwyn G. Fredlund and Murray D. Fredlund
The application of unsaturated soil mechanics in routine geotechnical engineering applications requires the determination of unsaturated soil properties. Unfortunately, the cost of direct measurement of unsaturated soil properties goes beyond the financi...
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Francesca Sollecito, Claudia Vitone, Daniela Miccoli, Michael Plötze, Alexander M. Puzrin and Federica Cotecchia
The city of Taranto in the south of Italy is one of the areas declared as ?at high risk of environmental crisis? by the Italian government because it represents one of the most complex industrial sites in Europe, located near urban areas of high populati...
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Lucio Olivares, Emilia Damiano, Nadia Netti and Martina De Cristofaro
Air-fall pyroclastic deposits on steep slopes in Campania (Southern Italy) are periodically subjected to rainfall-induced landslides that may evolve into catastrophic flowslides. To protect built-up areas, early warning systems (EWSs) have been implement...
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Hanhan He, Jingze Xiao, Jing He, Bo Wei, Xiaogang Ma, Fan Huang, Xiangmin Cai, Yuanxin Zhou, Jingyi Bi, Yiting Zhao, Chunjun Wang and Jingran Wei
Three-dimensional (3D) geological models are currently needed and used independently for urban development. The main difficulty in constructing a 3D geological model of a shallow subsurface is to determine the stratigraphic distribution. Highly variable ...
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Mehdi Ghafari, Haslinda Nahazanan, Zainuddin Md Yusoff and Nik Norsyahariati Nik Daud
Due to the world population increasing considerably, there is a need for efficient public transportation, such as the subway. However, it has become a major concern to geotechnical engineers that the development and construction of subways are held under...
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Nikolaos Makrakis, Prodromos N. Psarropoulos and Yiannis Tsompanakis
Large-scale lifelines in seismic-prone regions very frequently cross areas that are characterized by active tectonic faulting, as complete avoidance might be techno-economically unfeasible. The resulting Permanent Ground Displacements (PGDs) constitute a...
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Donggeun Lee, Taehoon Koh and Duhee Park
Study on the environmental and geotechnical engineering properties of soil remediated by the indirect-heated microwave thermal desorption method.
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Umer Waqas, Hafiz Muhammad Awais Rashid, Muhammad Farooq Ahmed, Ali Murtaza Rasool and Mohamed Ezzat Al-Atroush
This review paper summarizes the recent and past experimental findings to evaluate the damage characteristics of carbonate rocks subjected to thermal treatment (20?1500 °C). The outcomes of published studies show that the degree of thermal damage in the ...
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Sudip Basack, Ghritartha Goswami, Sumanpran Sonowal and Moses Karakouzian
Saline water intrusion into freshwater aquifers is a major geohydraulic problem relevant to coastal environment. Apart from contaminating the fresh groundwater resources, the saltwater intrusion alters the geotechnical properties of the aquifer materials...
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Charalampos Konstantinou and Yuze Wang
Microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) is an innovative biocementation technique that facilitates the formation of calcium carbonate within a pore network. Initially gaining prominence in the field of geotechnical engineering, MICP ha...
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Baturalp Ozturk, Antonio Kodsy and Magued Iskander
Pile design is an essential component of geotechnical engineering practice, and pipe piles, in particular, are increasingly being used for the support of a variety of infrastructure projects. These piles are being used with dimensions that exceed those u...
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Abdelbaset M. Abudeif, Gamal Z. Abdel Aal, Nessreen F. Abdelbaky, Ahmed M. Abdel Gowad and Mohammed A. Mohammed
Because of the strategic importance of the Abydos archaeological site in Egypt as a source of wealth for Egyptian tourism, this study was concerned with carrying out geophysical measurements to detect subsurface succession and measure variations in the g...
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Elisangela do Prado Oliveira, Andrés Miguel González Acevedo, Virnei Silva Moreira, Vitor Pereira Faro and Alessander Christopher Morales Kormann
In addition to the intensity of precipitation, the different hydraulic and mechanical properties of a soil hill can also be responsible for landslides. More specifically, the same rainfall amount can trigger or not trigger a mass movement depending on it...
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Tariq Ahmed Awan, Muhammad Usman Arshid, Malik Sarmad Riaz, Moustafa Houda, Mirvat Abdallah, Muhammad Shahkar, Mirsina Mousavi Aghdam and Marc Azab
Geotechnical investigation, in hilly areas, for high-rise projects, becomes a problematic issue and costly process due to difficulties in mobilization and assembling the drilling equipment on mountainous terrains. The objective of this study is to map so...
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Pengfei Sun, Haining Lu, Jianmin Yang, Liwen Deng, Mingyue Liu and Shuang Li
The seafloor soil is characterized by high water content, strong compressibility, and low shear strength. Deep-sea mining vehicles (DSMV) are prone to sinking when walking on the surface of the soil, which will cause significant reduction in traction per...
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Ying Yang, Hailei Kou, Zhenghui Li, Yonggang Jia and Chaoqi Zhu
The study of the physical and mechanical properties of marine soil is of great importance for marine geohazard prediction, submarine energy extraction, and submarine foundation design. In this study, a series of basic geotechnical tests and triaxial comp...
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Zülal Akbay Arama, Aylin Ece Kayabekir, Gebrail Bekdas, Sanghun Kim and Zong Woo Geem
In this paper, the Harmony Search (HS) algorithm is utilized to perform single and multivariate parametric studies to acquire the optimization of both size and cost of reinforced concrete (RC) retaining walls embedded in pure frictional soils. The geotec...
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Zhiqing Li, Feng Hu, Shengwen Qi, Ruilin Hu, Yingxin Zhou and Yawei Bai
Soil?rock mixtures (SRM) have the characteristics of distinct heterogeneity and an obvious structural effect, which make their physical and mechanical properties very complex. This study aimed to investigate the deformation properties and failure mode of...
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Wei Peng, Qing Wang, Yufeng Liu, Xiaohui Sun, Yating Chen and Mengxia Han
In seasonally frozen areas, physical and mechanical soil properties change dynamically under the effect of the freeze-thaw cycles (FTCs), which is a problem that cannot be ignored in geotechnical engineering. In order to study the effect of the FTC on th...
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