Abstract: A parametric study was undertaken to assess the behavior of buried pipes under uniformly distributed vertical patch loads applied to the surface of a layer of soil. Predictions of the maximum circumferential and longitudinal ...

Abstract: The bearing behavior of footings on layered soils has received significant attention from researchers, but most of the reported studies are limited to footings resting on the surface of the soil and are based on the ...

Abstract: The problem of cavity expansion from zero radius has no characteristic length and therefore possesses a similarity solution, in which the cavity pressure remains constant and the continuing deformation is geometrically ...

Abstract: A theoretical framework to describe the behavior of natural clay is proposed in a new four-dimensional space, consisting of the current stress state, stress history, the current voids ratio, and a measure of the current ...

Abstract: This note presents the results of a study on the variation of the strength of geomaterials. A general isotropic strength criterion is proposed which unifies the peak strength and critical state (or steady state) strength ...

Abstract: This paper describes a procedure for predicting the residual strains developed in calcareous sand under irregular cyclic triaxial loading conditions. The rates of accumulation of volumetric and shear strains are treated ...

Abstract: The deformation characteristics of soil subjected to vacuum pressure are discussed and an approximate method is proposed for calculating settlement and lateral displacement of the ground induced by vacuum consolidation. ...

Abstract: The nonhomogeneous behavior of structured soils during triaxial tests has been studied using a finite element model based on the Structured Cam Clay constitutive model with Biot-type consolidation. The effect of inhomogeneities ...