Abstract: Tensile cracking of soil is an important issue that affects the strength and permeability of soil in many geotechnical applications, such as in soil dams and landfill liners. When the size of the fracture process zone is ...

Abstract: Tensile cracking of soil is an important issue that affects the strength and permeability of soil in many geotechnical applications, such as in soil dams and landfill liners. When the size of the fracture process zone is ...

Abstract: Shallow tunneling in urban areas causes settlements whose measurement, prediction, and prevention are the most important tasks facing tunneling engineers. Researchers have proposed several analytical, semianalytical, and ...