Abstract: This paper focuses on the mechanisms occurring in a granular earth platform over soft ground improved by rigid piles. Two-dimensional physical model experiments were performed using the Schneebeli’s analogical soil to ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a three-dimensional numerical modeling of an embankment over a soft ground mass improved by vertical stiff piles, using a finite-difference continuum approach (FLAC3D). Arching occurs in the embankment ...

Abstract: As a consequence of unequal loading or variable soil conditions, longitudinal bending of buried gravity pipes leads to circumferential pipe cracking or joint opening, which results in groundwater infiltration or leakage. ...