Abstract: Cracks are the visual manifestation of soil failure. Exploring the propagation process of soil cracks is of great significance to the safety of geotechnical engineering. However, this part of the work is limited by the ...

Abstract: Within the framework of second-order cone programming optimized micropolar continuum finite-element method (CosFEM-SOCP), the geotechnical strain localization can be adequately modeled. In most existing literatures, however, ...

Abstract: The compressibility of saline soil is crucial to infrastructure construction in saline areas. In the present study, oedometer tests were conducted on samples of artificial saline clayey sand with varying salt content to ...

Abstract: The variation of stress–strain state induces changes in the permeability of clayey soil and then affects the properties of seepage and consolidation. In previous studies, variations of the permeability of soil in shear ...

Abstract: Based on a force analysis, an expression is derived to describe the critical Shields number for incipient motion of uniform cohesionless sediment particles on a riverbank slope in terms of flow parameters, outflow seepage, ...

Abstract: The second-order cone programming (SOCP) optimized FEM (named FEM-SOCP) is extended to solve the geotechnical problems involving nonassociated plasticity. When FEM-SOCP is used with strength reduction, FEM-SOCP generally ...

Abstract: Cracks are one of the major characteristics of soil structure failure. Successfully performed numerical simulation of the soil crack evolution process is conducive to the prediction of potential dangers. In recent years, ...

Abstract: Water inrush disasters are the main cause of karst collapse. In this study, a physical model test was conducted to investigate the mechanism of karst collapse. The formation, expansion, and variation of a soil cave induced ...