Abstract: Loose sandy soil subject to undrained shearing manifests deviatoric strain softening, and such a behavior has been referred to as collapse, static liquefaction, or instability. This paper uses the term instability and ...

Abstract: The influence of fines on the undrained behavior of sand was investigated experimentally over a range of fines content and effective mean stress. The role of fines on compressibility and formation of meta-stable soil fabric ...

Abstract: The prefailure instability of the granular soil slope due to lateral stress relief under the drained condition has been investigated experimentally under the constant shear drained (CSD) path in the literature. However, ...

Abstract: The discrete element method (DEM) is applied to investigate instability of frictional particulate assemblies sheared under the triaxial constant shear drained (CSD) condition. The instability in loose samples occurs in the ...

Abstract: There are some attempts to evaluate Hardin’s equation for transition soils, i.e., sand mixed with a systematic increase of fines (particle size≤0.075  mm) content, fc. The most common finding is that maxmium shear ...

Abstract: The discrete element method (DEM) is applied to investigate instability of frictional particulate assemblies sheared under the triaxial constant shear drained (CSD) condition. The instability in loose samples occurs in the ...

Abstract: The monotonic behavior of pond ash was studied experimentally and with a particular focus on evaluating the applicability of critical state soil mechanics framework in synthesizing and modeling the observed mechanical ...