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1D Constitutive Model for Expansive Soils
(ASCE, 3/1/2021)Modeling the element behavior of expansive soil with cyclic variations of its water content in stress and time dimensions is a challenging topic. In this paper, a one-dimensional (1D) model will be proposed to provide an ... -
1D Free Swelling Model of Bentonite under Chemomechanical Coupling Action
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)Describing the time-dependent free swelling behavior of bentonite in saline solution is challenging as it is determined by the coupling effect of the chemical field and the swelling stress field in soil. The swelling ... -
2D and 3D Numerical Modeling of Combined Surcharge and Vacuum Preloading with Vertical Drains
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) numerical analysis of a case study of a combined vacuum and surcharge preloading project for a storage yard at Tianjin Port, China. At this site, a ... -
2D Finite Element Analysis of Multicomponent Contaminant Transport Through Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)This article presents a two‐dimensional finite element method for the solution of the advection‐dispersion transport equation for multicomponent contaminants. While the approach described is general, the analysis presented ... -
3<i>N</i> Formulation of the Horizontal Slice Method in Evaluating Pseudostatic Method for Analysis of Seismic Active Earth Pressure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Analysis of seismic active earth pressure for a rigid or flexible retaining wall is one of the important topics of study in geotechnical earthquake engineering. Out of various methods, namely pseudostatic, pseudodynamic, ... -
3D Cellular Automata as a Computational Tool to Generate Artificial Porous Media
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In modern geotechnical engineering, the study of the geometry of the porous matrix has been shown to be of fundamental importance. This emerges from the growing usage of numerical methods, which require a computational ... -
3D Complete Nonlinear Methods for Soil–Building Interaction Based on an Input Wavefield
(ASCE, 2020)Three-dimensional (3D) complete nonlinear methods for examining soil–building interaction based on an input seismic wavefield were developed. A seismic wavefield means seismic waves propagating in a 3D medium. Vertical ... -
3D Coupled Mechanical and Hydraulic Modeling of GESC-Supported Embankments under Cyclic Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)To date, the traffic-induced dynamic behavior of geosynthetic-encased stone column-supported embankments (GESC) under traffic cyclic loads accompanied by embankment consolidation has not been well studied. Three-dimensional ... -
3D DEM Simulations of Drained Triaxial Compression of Sand Strengthened Using Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation
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3D Discretized Rotational Failure Mechanism for Slope Stability Analysis
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)The kinematical approach of limit analysis has been historically employed to assess slope stability in the geotechnical community, for which most three-dimensional (3D) failure mechanisms are generally based on a composite ... -
3D Effects of Surface Construction Over Existing Subway Tunnels
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)A 3D elasto‐plastic finite element model is used to examine the effect of construction over two existing tunnels. Tunnel deformation and the change in lining shape are compared with the field measurements of the York‐Mills ... -
3D FE Analysis on Settlement of Footing Supported with Rammed Aggregate Pier Group
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The uncertainties involved in the current design of footings supported by rammed aggregate piers (RAPs) have brought about the need to analyze the complete foundation system accurately using the three-dimensional finite-element ... -
3D Finite Element Analysis of Temperature‐Induced Stresses in Dowel Jointed Concrete Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001)A detailed 3D finite element (3DFE) model is developed to investigate the applicability of Westergaard’s curling stress equations to doweled jointed concrete pavements. The model does not rely on any of Westergaard’s ... -
3D Finite Element Model for Asphalt Concrete Response Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)An extensive experimental, analytical, and numerical investigation on the response of asphalt concrete is currently in progress at Delft University of Technology. The objectives of this Asphalt Concrete Response (ACRe) ... -
3D Finite Element Study on Load Transfer at Doweled Joints in Flat and Curled Rigid Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001)This study examines load transfer across doweled joints in rigid pavements using 3D finite element analysis. A recently developed dowel modeling strategy is employed that allows the efficient and rigorous consideration of ... -
3D Finite-Element Dynamic Analysis of Rigid Pavement Using Infinite Elements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)A solution algorithm based on three-dimensional (3D) finite-element analysis is presented to study the dynamic response of concrete pavements subjected to moving loads. The pavement is discretized by 20-node isoparametric ... -
3D Limit Analysis of Progressive Collapse in Partly Weathered Hoek–Brown Rock Banks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Because of the heterogeneous layered characteristics of geomaterials, analysis of tunnel stability may be complicated, and such characteristics increase the possibility of progressive failure of the surrounding rock banks. ... -
3D Methods for Examining Soil–Building Interaction for Nonlinear Soil Behavior Based on an Input Wave Field
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper proposes three-dimensional (3D) simplified nonlinear methods for examining the soil–building interaction for nonlinear behavior of soils based on an input seismic wave field. A seismic wave field is defined as ... -
3D Modeling of Long-Term Dynamic Behavior of Monopile-Supported Offshore Wind Turbine in Clay
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This article outlines the long-term dynamic behavior of the monopile-supported offshore wind turbine (OWT) in clay. A three-dimensional (3D) finite-element (FE) model was developed that uses viscoelastic material constitutive ... -
3D Modeling of Ripping Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Due to environmental constraints and limitations on blasting, ripping as a ground loosening and breaking method has become more popular than drilling and blasting method in both mining and civil engineering applications. ...