Abstract: The development of shear strain in a soft, marine clay undergoing monotonic shear in torsional and simple shear equipment has been studied. The ratio between the irrecoverable, or plastic, shear strain to the overall shear ...

Abstract: The trackway of a high-load gantry crane system at a shipping container logistics site in northern Israel underwent serious premature damages, which jeopardized the continued use of the system. The trackway pavement system ...

Abstract: Cone penetration testing (CPT) in calibration chambers is used to develop empirical correlations and validate numerical models. Hundreds of tests have been performed over the last few decades on sands, but nearly all ...

Abstract: Seismic site response analyses are often carried out using constitutive models for soil behavior under cyclic loading that incorporate Masing rules. In such analyses the effect of cyclic degradation of stiffness and strength ...

Abstract: The results of torsional shear tests on a normally consolidated marine clay have been analyzed to check the common assumption of colinearity between the principal directions of stress and plastic strain increment. Shear ...

Abstract: The Masing rules, often used in modeling the behavior of soils under cyclic loading, are unreliable when there is significant cyclic degradation of the soil-strain curves. In the present paper it is shown that degradation ...

Abstract: This paper describes a unique service-learning course designed to introduce students to sustainable human development through a combination of classroom, laboratory, and fieldwork exercises. It responds to a need to educate ...

Abstract: The paper presents the methodologies and results of an experimental study aimed at measuring the soil contact pressures which develop on a buried structure as it interacts with the surrounding soil under load. The study ...