Abstract: The use of silicate solutions for the low‐pressure grouting of granular soils is one of the techniques applicable in geotechnical engineering to reduce the “natural” hydraulic conductivity of granular deposits. This provision ...

Abstract: The increase of the water table level presently occurring in the city of Milan led to some leakage of groundwater in underground facilities and subway tunnels. These structures, in fact, were completed about three decades ...

Abstract: The geotechnical design of drainage or dewatering systems requires a free surface seepage analysis to evaluate the water flux that corresponds to the sought lowering of the water table. It is observed in practice that ...

Abstract: The low-pressure grouting with cement mixtures is one of the techniques adopted for improving the mechanical characteristics of granular soils prior to the excavation of underground openings. When applied to shallow subway ...

Abstract: The effects of boundary conditions on the stability of a river levee built on a low-permeability soil layer overlying a coarse-grained deposit were studied by using the finite-element method (FEM). The FEM analyses could ...

Abstract: The erosion of the fine fraction of granular soils due to seepage is a possible cause of the settlements of shallow foundations. Here the problem is tackled with reference to deep pumping wells to be installed in an urban ...