Abstract: Mortar–concrete expanded piles are a new type of composite pile. Understanding the shear transfer characteristics of the mortar–concrete bonded interface plays an important role in the design and analysis of mortar–concrete ...

Abstract: The matric suction must be measured when calculating the shear strength of unsaturated silt, but the measurement method is cumbersome and time-consuming. The saturation degree of silt is easily measured; therefore, a ...

Abstract: Soils in the site are usually layered due to natural sedimentation, which causes nonuniformity along the depth. Conventional upper bound limit analysis is no longer suitable for analyzing such slope stability issues; hence, ...

Abstract: A user-defined unsaturated modified hierarchical single-surface model is developed. The surface of this modified model is continuous and avoids the problems of multisurface models. The nonassociative flow rule, suction ...