Abstract: This paper shows how analytical solutions, proposed by the writers to predict in-situ stresses in rock masses with smooth and irregular topographies, can help in the selection of the alignment of unlined pressure tunnels ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new analytical method for determining the state of stress in a homogeneous, general anisotropic, and elastic half‐space limited by an irregular and smooth outer boundary. The half‐space represents a ...

Abstract: In this paper a new method is proposed to analyze the mechanical response of a linear viscoelastic pavement. The material parameters of the asphalt concrete are characterized by the relaxation modulus and creep compliance, ...

Abstract: In this work, we present the solutions for displacements and stresses along the centerline of a uniform vertical circular load in an inhomogeneous cross-anisotropic half-space with its Young’s and shear moduli varying ...

Abstract: Spectral analysis of surface waves (SASW) and multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) are the two main active surface wave methods, and their common inversion schemes are effective mode (EM) inversion and fundamental ...