Abstract: Conventional construction materials used in foundations can encounter serious durability problems in contaminated subsurface or marine environments. Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are potentially suitable for ...

Abstract: A conceptual framework for understanding the effects of overconsolidation in reducing the compressibility of all types of soil is presented. A generally applicable method for estimating the settlement of footings on granular ...

Abstract: Current practice in the characterization of subsurface conditions usually involves the interpretation of data from laboratory and in-situ tests using deterministic analysis methods. These deterministic methods do not reflect ...

Abstract: Much of the spatial information that is an inherent part of geotechnical and geoenvironmental investigation programs has been underutilized due to the unavailability of analysis tools designed to take advantage of the ...

Abstract: This paper presents an analytical investigation of the ability of friction sleeves of varying lengths to reliably identify layer interfaces and stratigraphic anomalies within the subsurface. Analytical and parametric ...

Abstract: This paper presents the use of x-ray tomography imaging to reconstruct a three-dimensional (3D) digital representation of individual particles in a granular system. The granular system is represented by the mass center ...

Abstract: Soil fabric quantities such as doublet vector and branch vector distributions are important in doublet mechanics and micromechanics modeling of soil behavior. The quantification of these quantities is therefore imperative ...