Abstract: The Strain Path Method provides an integrated and systematic framework for elucidating and predicting pile foundation behavior, interpreting in situ tests, assessing sampling disturbance effects and, in general, approaching ...

Abstract: Design charts for performing total stress stability analyses of cohesive slopes subjected to strip loads and square loaded areas are developed. The charts for strip-load provide solutions for different load widths and thus ...

Abstract: Piezocone measurements during steady cone penetration provide valuable soil‐profiling and soil‐identification data. The potential of the piezocone as a soil‐exploration tool can be significantly enahnced if the pore‐pressure ...

Abstract: A rational interpretation method for estimating the in situ consolidation and permeability characteristics of clays from pore pressure dissipation measurements after piezocone penetration is presented. The method is based ...

Abstract: A method for three-dimensional stability analysis has been developed and applied to 18 case histories of embankment failures. Results show that end effects generally increase the conventional plane strain factor of safety ...

Abstract: The “ideal sampling approach” (ISA) for elucidating, formulating, and predicting minimum disturbance effects in deep tube samples of saturated clays is proposed. The ISA relies on approximate solutions based on the strain ...

Abstract: A new method is proposed for elucidating, formulating, and predicting the axial capacity of friction piles in moderately overconsolidated clays

Abstract: Undrained cyclic shearing of normally consolidated (NC) clays develops positive excess pore pressures and causes a reduction in effective stresses. As a result, initially cycled NC clay subjected to subsequent undrained ...