Abstract: Arching is a common phenomenon that is encountered in backfilling behind retaining walls, trenches, or underground voids in the mine. Marston’s equation has been widely used and modified for computing stresses within ...

Abstract: Engineers often face challenges when designing foundations that are located over buried structures. This paper presents a laboratory model test investigation of the load–settlement response and the bearing capacity of a ...

Abstract: The granular anchor pile (GAP) system is one of the relatively new innovative ground-improvement techniques used to sustain the tensile loads. This paper presents the behavior of a GAP system in a loose sandy soil. The ...

Abstract: This technical note proposes a simple analytical model for predicting the shear strength behavior of fiber-reinforced granular soils under high confining stresses, where it can be assumed that pullout of fibers does not ...

Abstract: Two design charts for computing the safety factor of soil slopes are presented here. The first one is for an undrained (

Abstract: A series of pullout tests were conducted on a model pile in a soil with different initial water contents and different pile surface roughnesses to study their influences on pile skin friction. To measure axial strains and ...

Abstract: In this paper, the shearing behavior of soil-steel interfaces sheared at different planes is examined using a modified suction–controlled direct shear apparatus (MDSA). Direct shear tests on soil-steel interfaces sheared ...

Abstract: A soil-structure interface is defined as the contact surface between a soil and a structure through which stresses are transferred from the soil to the structure or vice versa. The ultimate shear strength at the interface ...