Abstract: Gravelly soils are used extensively for a wide range of engineering applications. One example is railway ballast, and another is the fill for rock-filled dams. These soils are usually subjected to complicated loading, ...

Abstract: A comprehensive constitutive model has been formulated to capture the complex behaviors of gravelly soils under irregular cyclic loading. The application of this model aims to analyze the nonlinear deformation behavior of ...

Abstract: The OmniMax anchor is an efficient anchoring foundation due to its dynamic installation and diving property. When subjected to pullout loading, the anchor is keyed to a new orientation and position to provide holding ...

Abstract: In this study, cyclic triaxial tests were performed on Zipingpu gravel, and they were followed by a discrete element study that was designed to investigate the stress-dilatancy relationship of gravelly soils under cyclic ...

Abstract: This paper suggests that the idea of the breaking strength of the brittle material scale being equal to the length scale was abandoned in the dynamic model brittle failure experiments. The concept of the failure load ...

Abstract: In this study, cyclic triaxial tests were performed on Zipingpu gravel, and they were followed by a discrete element study that was designed to investigate the stress-dilatancy relationship of gravelly soils under cyclic ...

Abstract: One of the most important features of soil behavior is the dependence of stress path. A series of large-scale triaxial compression tests was conducted to investigate the effect of stress path on critical state and particle ...

Abstract: Abstract Calcareous sands present significant geotechnical challenges because of their complex particle shapes, porous microstructures, and low particle strength. This study investigates the micromechanical properties and ...