Abstract: One of the key tasks to ensure infrastructure safety is the periodic detection of bridge cracks. Since manual crack detection is subjective and inefficient, it is very important to develop an automatic crack recognition ...

Abstract: Laboratory model tests were conducted on artificially structured clays using self-developed equipment to better understand the penetration mechanism of jacked piles in structured clays. Two artificially structured clays ...

Abstract: A semianalytical approach has been developed to investigate the nonlinear load–settlement behavior of bored single piles and pile groups embedded in sands. A more rigorous load-transfer function for the pile shaft, adopted ...