Abstract: Piping has been a documented cause of collapse of multiple tailings dams, hydraulic structures and natural slopes. Important limitation of the existing piping criteria for a sloped ground is that they are treating soils ...

Abstract: In mountainous areas, urban development often takes place on slow-moving ground, which over time may inflict severe damage on buildings and infrastructure. This process can be accelerated significantly by new construction ...

Abstract: Destructive underwater mass movements can impose a threat to off-shore infrastructure and near-shore communities. Yet predicting their formation and failure mechanisms remains a major challenge, in part due of the large ...

Abstract: Quantifying the earth pressure acting on retaining structures is essential for a number of engineering applications, including the assessment of damaged structures. In response to the widespread corrosion found in many ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study on the consequences of combining energy conservative or non-conservative elasticity within a plasticity framework. Toward this end, a versatile energy potential function is first presented and ...

Abstract: Reliable interpretation of model tests in geotechnical engineering often is hampered by the limitations of traditional laboratory element testing, especially under low-stress conditions and unconventional stress paths. ...

Abstract: Currently available perimeter-security systems use ground-buried fiber-optic sensors to detect objects on the ground surface, and some of them compare the observed signal patterns with those in a predefined library to ...