Abstract: Excessive excavation-induced movements are major concerns for most underground construction projects in urban areas. These movements can lead to significant damage in adjacent structures. When average to good workmanship ...

Abstract: This paper presents the influence of construction-induced stress changes on the dynamic soil parameters of Bootlegger Cove Formation (BCF) clays at the site of the Port of Anchorage (POA) expansion project. Results are ...

Abstract: This paper presents the results of monotonic and cyclic triaxial tests performed on gassy, medium-dense sand specimens. These sands are representative of conditions in a loose-sand deposit that was densified using multiple ...

Abstract: The static stability analysis of two-dimensional Timoshenko columns weakened at an arbitrary section is derived in a classic manner. The effects of shear deformations along the column, influenced by the additional shear ...

Abstract: The performance of two urban cofferdams is presented in this paper. The first case history is a cofferdam built for the One Museum Park West structure (OMPW), braced with segmental steel ring beams. The second is a cofferdam ...

Abstract: The influence of excavation rate, geometric layout, and hydraulic conductivity of basal and retained soils on the fully coupled solid–fluid behavior of braced excavations in cohesive soils is presented. Fully coupled ...

Abstract: Abstract While the dynamic properties of residual soils, i.e., small-strain shear modulus, G0, and damping ratio, have been fairly well studied worldwide, the response of these soils under zero-lateral strain, K0, conditions ...