Abstract: The stone columns (or granular piles) are increasingly being used as ground reinforcement elements for supporting a wide variety of structures including buildings and flexible structures. The stone columns derive their ...

Abstract: The design of class‐I (discrete particles) settling tanks would be more rational and economical if designed for overall particle removal rather than for an overflow rate based on the smallest particle to be removed. The ...

Abstract: The laboratory and field test data on the response of piles under the combined action of vertical and lateral loads is rather limited. The current practice for design of piles is to consider the vertical and lateral loads ...

Abstract: This paper presents the finite-element simulations of the behavior of strip footings resting on sand beds, with different density of soil, reinforced with geocells of different dimensions. The strength and stiffness of ...

Abstract: This paper studies the advantages of geocell reinforcement on the performance of earth embankments constructed over weak foundation soil through laboratory model tests and proposes a simple method for the design of ...

Abstract: Laboratory model tests in geotechnical engineering are routinely performed in small concrete or steel test tanks to examine the bearing capacity of footings, lateral earth pressures on retaining walls, behavior of reinforced ...

Abstract: Unreinforced portland-cement concrete exhibits a nonlinear relationship between applied stress and observed strain, even though the strains are at magnitudes that warrant the infinitesimal strain approximation (i.e., the ...

Abstract: In spite of the summer monsoon’s importance in determining the life and economy of an agriculture-dependent country like India, committed efforts toward improving its prediction and simulation have been limited. Hence, a ...