Abstract: To investigate the roof stability of deep cavities in layered soils, an axisymmetric failure mechanism based on the existing mechanism is proposed. Because deep cavities are generally under the water table, the adverse ...

Abstract: The anchor trapdoor provides a simple and economical system widely used to study the stability of similar geotechnical engineering structures, such as foundations and tunnels. In this study, the passive and active failure ...

Abstract: It is widely acknowledged that the occurrence of seismic force and cracks will increase the active earth pressure acting on a retaining wall. In this work, a kinematic approach for the evaluation of seismic active earth ...

Abstract: It is widely acknowledged that the occurrence of seismic force and cracks will increase the active earth pressure acting on a retaining wall. In this work, a kinematic approach for the evaluation of seismic active earth ...

Abstract: To estimate the factor of safety of soil slopes, the discretization technique is widely used to generate the critical slip surface under the linear Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion. However, the strength envelope of almost ...

Abstract: A new procedure is presented in this paper to assess the tunnel face stability in anisotropic and nonhomogeneous soils. The three-dimensional (3D) rotational failure mechanism proposed by Subrin and Wong (

Abstract: The problem of active earth pressure has historically been investigated assuming dry or saturated backfills, ignoring the fact that soils are usually unsaturated in nature. This note proposes a kinematic framework for the ...

Abstract: Matric suction tends to exert important effects on the stability of geosynthetic-reinforced soil slopes; however, it is usually neglected in the previously published literature. To quantitatively evaluate the increment in ...

Abstract: Matric suction tends to exert important effects on the stability of geosynthetic-reinforced soil slopes; however, it is usually neglected in the previously published literature. To quantitatively evaluate the increment in ...

Abstract: Cracks broadly exist within slopes due to desiccation, weathering, or wetting–drying cycles in Nature. The presence of cracks inevitably reduces slope stability. However, such fissured slopes have received little attention, ...