Abstract: Taylor’s stability chart is the main tool used for engineering analysis of simple homogeneous slope stability problems. It is likely that this situation will continue in the future. One of the main deficiencies of Taylor’s ...

Abstract: A substantial amount of experimental evidence suggests that Mohr envelopes of many soils are not linear, particularly in the range of small normal stresses. This departure from linearity is significant for slope stability ...

Abstract: A solution is obtained for the case in which a sem-infinite crack suddenly appears and grows at constant velocity in a stretched elastic body. The problem, one of mixed boundary values on a ...

Abstract: The Mellin transform is applied to problems of stress distribution in symmetric orthotropic wedges. Integral representations for the stresses are obtained and specialized for the fundamental problem ...

Abstract: Steady-state problems of stresses in orthotropic slabs subjected to forces and temperature distribution on the faces are solved by means of Fourier transforms. The usual direct applications in ...

Abstract: A theoretical expression for clay soil-water characteristic curves (SWCC) is developed for cases in which the osmotic potential is small relative to the matrix potential, for the range of water potential lower than the ...

Abstract: The effect of the spatial variability of soil parameters on the calculated settlement and stresses is analyzed. The soil is taken as an elastic solid with random shear modulus and a constant Poisson's ratio. A wave‐number ...

Abstract: The differential equations governing the deformation of shells of revolution of uniform thickness subjected to axisymmetric self-equilibrating edge loads are transformed into a form suitable for ...