Abstract: Underground structures experience transient and sustained hydrostatic uplift forces throughout their service life. Conventionally, Archimedes’ principle is used to conduct uplift design. The estimated buoyant force is often ...

Abstract: In cities, reinforced concrete pipes are often employed to construct storm sewer systems. Due to impervious base layers, stormwater runoff dominates rather than rainwater infiltration, leading to problems in aquatic ...

Abstract: In conventional consolidation theories, a boundary is simulated as either perfectly pervious or impervious, where the time-dependent drainage capacity at the boundary is ignored. Using the time-dependent impeded boundary ...

Abstract: Free-strain solutions for consolidation of ground with partially penetrating prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) cannot be solved analytically using the integral transform method due to the irregularity of the solving ...

Abstract: This paper proposes new semianalytical solutions to one-dimensional consolidation of unsaturated soils with a multilayered system under the partially permeable boundary condition, in which a time-decaying exponential ...

Abstract: In geotechnical engineering, mixed-type boundary problems cannot be solved directly by the integral transform method due to the diversity of boundary conditions. In view of this, the relationships between different boundaries ...

Abstract: Laboratory one-dimensional consolidation tests were conducted to measure the variation trend of the soil pore pressure at the drainage boundary with time under different magnitudes of loads. Based on the test data, continuous ...

Abstract: The combining of electroosmotic, vacuum, and surcharge preloading is an emerging technique for soft foundation treatment. Considering smear effects and free strain, an analytical solution for the radial consolidation of ...