Abstract: Tunneling in soft clay requires accurate estimation of the inner support pressure to prevent undesired ground settlement and maintain the overall soil stability. Previous researchers have shown that the stability factor ...

Abstract: Ring foundations are widely used to support various types of offshore structures because of the cost-effective reason. Unlike the traditional circular foundations, very few studies were reported with regard to the bearing ...

Abstract: Road-related sinkholes are of great concerns nowadays, appearing frequently in media stories. In the undrained stability analysis, a dimensionless stability number that is known as Broms and Bennermark’s original stability ...

Abstract: In this paper, vertical vibrations of a group of flexible strip foundations on multilayered transversely isotropic poroelastic soils are presented. The dynamic interaction problem is studied by employing a variational ...

Abstract: Underground water main leakage is one of the main causes of instability of soils and sinkholes. In the event of a water main burst, the pressure is upward and hence the soil layer should be analyzed for blowout stability. ...

Abstract: Naturally characterized by inherent heterogeneity, rock masses exhibit discontinuous composition comprising rock materials, fractures, and bedding planes. The presence of these natural features challenges the adequacy of ...