International Journal of Geomechanics: Recent submissions
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Seismic Responses of Two RC Buildings and One Wood Building Based on an Input Wave Field
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)A recently proposed three-dimensional (3D) linear method for examining soil-building interactions based on an input seismic wave field is, after some improvements, applied to estimate seismic building responses in the ... -
Longitudinal Settlement Profile in Shallow Tunnels in Drained Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)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 ... -
Strain-Dependent and Stress-Dependent Creep Model for a Till Subject to Triaxial Compression
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Soil exhibits creep behavior, in which the deformation of soil develops with time at a state of constant effective stress. A series of triaxial compression creep tests was performed on a saturated till to investigate the ... -
Determination of Active Earth Pressure on Rigid Retaining Wall Considering Arching Effect in Cohesive Backfill Soil
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)A new simplified method is proposed to compute the active earth pressure acting on the backface of a rigid retaining wall undergoing horizontal translation. The effect of soil arching for cohesive backfill soil and friction ... -
Seismic Bearing Capacity Factors for Strip Footings on an Embankment by Using Lower-Bound Limit Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)By using the lower-bound finite-element limit-analysis technique, the bearing capacity of a strip footing placed over an embankment was determined with the incorporation of pseudostatic horizontal seismic body forces. The ... -
Behavior of Geotextile-Reinforced Clay with a Coarse Material Sandwich Technique under Unconsolidated-Undrained Triaxial Compression
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents a series of unconsolidated-undrained (UU) triaxial compression tests for investigating the behavior and failure mechanism of geotextile-reinforced clay and the effects of sandwiching nonwoven geotextile ... -
Predicting Soil Expansion Force during Static Pipe Bursting Using Cavity Expansion Solutions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The prediction of total pull force is critical for static pipe-bursting installation. As a major component of the total pull force, soil expansion prediction is also important; however, there are currently limited methods ... -
Combined Vertical and Radial Consolidation under Time-Dependent Loading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Combined vertical and radial consolidation drainage under linear time-dependent loading is presented with varying loading-dependent coefficients of vertical and radial consolidation determined analytically and experimentally. ... -
Influence of Suction History on Hydraulic and Stress-Strain Behavior of Unsaturated Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)An experimental study was performed to investigate the effects of suction history on the hydraulic and stress-strain behavior of unsaturated soils. Test results show that, even if the same path of net stress and suction ... -
Permanent Deformation Study of Pavement Layers Using Laboratory Pavement Model Testing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Lightly stabilized granular materials with slow-setting cementitious binders are widely used in the construction of new pavements and rehabilitation of old pavements in Australia and other countries. Higher strength and ... -
Cement Hydration–Based Micromechanics Modeling of the Time-Dependent Small-Strain Stiffness of Fly Ash–Stabilized Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)A contact mechanics model, based on the Hertzian elastic contact theory and cementation coating development at particulate scale, was established to predict the time-dependent small-strain stiffness of Class C fly ... -
Face Stability Analysis for a Shield-Driven Tunnel in Anisotropic and Nonhomogeneous Soils by the Kinematical Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The stability on a tunnel face is of great practical significance for safe construction in tunnel engineering. In this work, an advanced three-dimensional (3D) failure mechanism is extended to the face stability analysis ... -
Analysis of Ground Motion Amplification during Soil Liquefaction via Nonstationary Fourier Spectra
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In this study, the transient properties of dominant frequencies and their components during soil liquefaction were evaluated by the nonstationary Fourier spectra of the records at Kawagishi-cho during the Niigata-ken ... -
Multiple-Liquefaction Behavior of Sand in Cyclic Simple Stacked-Ring Shear Tests
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Following major earthquakes that occurred in New Zealand (2010–2011) and Japan (2011), soil multiple liquefaction, or reliquefaction, regained major attention in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering. Not only ... -
Generalized Consolidation Theory for Anisotropic Saturated Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Darcy’s law of fluid flow and the stress equilibrium equations of anisotropic media, coupled with the mass conservation equations of fluid, are studied on the basis of the model of constitutive equations for both effective ... -
Special Issue on Recent Advances in Constitutive and Numerical Methods for Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
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Anomalous Data Detection for Roller-Integrated Compaction Measurement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents a theoretical and experimental analysis of an anomalous data detection treatment for roller-integrated compaction measurement (RICM) data. Anomalous data, which may be discovered during the collection ... -
Numerical Modeling of Suction and Trench Formation at the Touchdown Zone of Steel Catenary Riser
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Steel catenary risers (SCR) are widely used in deepwater oil and gas production. The riser–seabed–water interaction near the touchdown zone is one of the main concerns in the design of fatigue life of SCR. During upward ... -
Face Stability Evaluation of a TBM-Driven Tunnel in Heterogeneous Soil Using a Probabilistic Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The stability condition of the tunnel face is of great importance in both conventional and modern [tunnel-boring machine (TBM)] methods of construction. Inadequate and excessive amounts of support pressure toward the face ... -
Effect of Pile Group Configurations on Nonlinear Dynamic Response
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)A three-dimensional (3D) finite-element program has been developed for the dynamic analysis of pile groups. Soil and pile media have been discretized into 3D isoparametric continuum elements. To simulate the stress transfer ...