Abstract: Often granular materials are stored in vertical containers with circular or square cross sections. The storage material can be food grains, pharmaceutical powders, chemical pellets, or geomaterials such as mine fills. The ...

Abstract: The method of fragments can be used to efficiently obtain solutions to a variety of two-dimensional seepage problems, especially confined flow problems. With this method, the flow domain is divided into fragments that span ...

Abstract: A new, easy to implement, solution to the consolidation of multilayered soil based on the spectral method is presented. Combined vertical and radial drainage under instantaneous or single ramp loading is considered, ignoring ...

Abstract: Cemented paste backfills (CPBs) are widely used in backfilling underground mine voids. They are fine-grained mine tailings with significant clay content, with a small dosage of a general purpose cement (GPC) or pozzolanic ...

Abstract: A consolidating clay layer can be singly or doubly drained. The degree of consolidation is a function of the initial excess pore pressure distribution and the drainage conditions. Traditional geotechnical engineering ...

Abstract: Although the consolidation settlements beneath foundations and embankments are rarely one dimensional, Terzaghi’s one-dimensional consolidation theory is often applied to these situations to approximate consolidation ...