Abstract: In this paper, a new application of tire-derived aggregate (TDA) backfill around corrugated steel plate (CSP) pipe culverts is proposed and its feasibility is explored experimentally and numerically. Pressure distribution ...

Abstract: Despite the recent efforts in characterizing and investigating the dynamic properties of tire-derived aggregates (TDA) and its use in civil engineering applications, the size of TDA used in most of the previous work was ...

Abstract: Heger pressure distributions are considered a fundamental tool in the design of RC culverts, according to the direct-design method. However, some factors known to affect soil–structure interaction are neglected when using ...

Abstract: Heger pressure distributions are considered a fundamental tool in the design of RC culverts, according to the direct-design method. However, some factors known to affect soil–structure interaction are neglected when using ...

Abstract: The interaction between surface structures and buried pipes is unavoidable. For instance, placing the pipe at a shallow depth, near to the surface, attracts substantial additional earth pressures due to the external surface ...

Abstract: Routing utility conduits underneath buildings is not always an avoidable situation, especially in densely populated and congested urban centers. Placing the pipe at a shallow depth attracts substantial additional earth ...

Abstract: Construction of new highway embankments in urban areas often requires building over existing underground utilities and lifelines. Embankments constructed over such utilities often induce substantial additional earth pressures ...

Abstract: An analysis of pile axial response to transient dynamic loading and to harmonic loading is presented allowing for nonlinear soil behavior, energy dissipation through radiation damping, soil hysteresis, and the loading rate ...