Abstract: Reasonable assessment of free-field soil strain is fundamental to quantifying the hazards induced by normal faulting. Previous studies provided insights into the propagation mechanisms of fault rupture within the overlying ...

Abstract: Underground structures experience transient and sustained hydrostatic uplift forces throughout their service life. Conventionally, Archimedes’ principle is used to conduct uplift design. The estimated buoyant force is often ...

Abstract: This paper presents a generalized plastic mechanics–based constitutive model for the estimation of dynamic stresses in unsaturated subgrade soils under repeated vehicle loading conditions. The stresses in subgrade soils ...

Abstract: In cities, reinforced concrete pipes are often employed to construct storm sewer systems. Due to impervious base layers, stormwater runoff dominates rather than rainwater infiltration, leading to problems in aquatic ...

Abstract: In conventional consolidation theories, a boundary is simulated as either perfectly pervious or impervious, where the time-dependent drainage capacity at the boundary is ignored. Using the time-dependent impeded boundary ...

Abstract: Stiffened deep cement mixing (SDCM) piles have been applied in practice for decades. The bearing capacity of this kind of pile is closely related to the compaction and expansion of the deep cement mixing (DCM) pile and ...

Abstract: Free-strain solutions for consolidation of ground with partially penetrating prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) cannot be solved analytically using the integral transform method due to the irregularity of the solving ...

Abstract: In geotechnical engineering, mixed-type boundary problems cannot be solved directly by the integral transform method due to the diversity of boundary conditions. In view of this, the relationships between different boundaries ...