Abstract: Many undrained cyclic triaxial tests considering cyclic confining pressure have been carried out on Ningbo saturated soft clay using a cyclic triaxial system to study the influence of cycle numbers, stress paths, and cyclic ...

Abstract: Rock faces prevent adequate calculation of the active earth pressure of retaining wall near rock faces via the Coulomb and Rankine theories. The research is based on differential slice method and soil arching; it proposes ...

Abstract: It is well known that there is a significant difference between the strength of an intact rock sample and that of an in situ rock mass. Studying the scale effect of a rock mass is important for the estimation of the rock ...

Abstract: A combined retaining structure (CRS) that consists of numerous piles, a concrete platform, and a gravity retaining wall was built to support a high embankment constructed on a steep slope. In this study, the behavior of ...

Abstract: Support damage is a typical hazard scenario associated with tunnel boring machine (TBM) drives in the squeezing rock condition. The stress release of the rock mass and the improvement of the support capacity are two effective ...

Abstract: This paper has proposed a closed-form solution for two-dimensional (2D) plane strain consolidation in unsaturated soils with lateral and vertical semipermeable drainage boundaries under time-dependent loading. By using the ...