Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering: Recent submissions
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A Pragmatic Framework for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Liquefaction Mitigation Applicable to Lightweight Residential Structures on Shallow Foundations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Liquefaction hazards are often not assessed or mitigated for lightweight residences on shallow foundations despite their comprising 90% of the US building stock. This study demonstrates a pragmatic approach to performing ... -
Exploring the Liquefaction Vulnerability of a Single-Span Integral Abutment Bridge Using Centrifuge Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Global warming is causing sea levels to change and increasing the risk of flooding, leading to unexpected changes in the water table. An elevated water table changes the effective soil stresses that support structures, ... -
Mechanical Behavior and Formation Mechanisms of Hyphae-Based Lightweight Geomaterials
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)As the main by-product of wheat, wheat bran is mostly used as animal feed or incinerated, which adversely affects the environment. Mycelium-based biocomposites, which are mixtures of agricultural by-products (e.g., wheat ... -
Effects of the Diaphragm Wall Construction Process on Adjacent Ground and Buildings in Braced Excavations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The construction of diaphragm wall panels inevitably changes the initial stress condition and causes movements in the surrounding soil mass, which may also cause settlement and damages to adjacent buildings. Majority of ... -
Estimating Sliding and Penetrating Resistances of a Tolerably Mobile Subsea Mudmat: Large Deformation Modeling and Theoretical Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A tolerably mobile mudmat suffers from long-term maintained self-weight and periodic sliding events with intervening consolidation during its whole life, resulting in changes in seabed strength and mudmat capacity. In this ... -
Dynamic Responses Generated by Moving Vehicles in a Reinforced Embankment Overlying a Void: Insights from a DEM Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The detrimental effect of moving vehicle loading on the antisettling performance of geosynthetic-reinforced embankments overlying voids has been ignored in current design methods but needs to be carefully investigated at ... -
Assessing the Macro to Micro Properties of Recycled Ballast Mixtures by DEM Analyses for Enhanced Railroad Engineering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Despite the reduced size and angularity failing to meet the conservative ballast standards of some countries, the recycled ballast still retains significant mechanical characteristics for potential reuse. This study ... -
Image-Based Deformation Characterization of Dredged Soil during Consolidation under Vacuum Preloading with Horizontal Drains
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)As a relatively new method, vacuum preloading combined with prefabricated horizontal drains (PHDs) has increasingly been used for the improvement of dredged soil. However, the consolidation process of soil during vacuum ... -
Full State of Stress and Strain at a Point near the Cone during Penetration Tests in Sand
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Cone penetration testing (CPT) in calibration chambers is used to develop empirical correlations and validate numerical models. Hundreds of tests have been performed over the last few decades on sands, but nearly all ... -
Coupled Consolidation–Leaching Behavior of Cement-Stabilized Highly Arsenic-Contaminated Marine Clay
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Deep cement mixing (DCM) is a popular in situ soil stabilization method, while the investigation on long-term coupled consolidation and contaminant leaching behavior of cement-stabilized contaminated soil is limited. In ... -
Tailings Dam Performance Monitoring by Combining Coda Wave Interferometry with Distributed Acoustic Sensing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Advances in distributed fiber optic sensing technologies are enabling new methods to monitor changes in tailings dam performance. Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), a distributed fiber optic sensing technology relying on ... -
Transport Mechanisms of Microplastics in Clean Sand under Cyclic Hydraulic Gradients
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Understanding the transport mechanisms of microplastics (MPs) in porous media is critically important for pollution control and mitigation. MP transport in soils and sediments under fluctuating hydraulic gradients induced ... -
Experimental Investigation of Passive Failure against Retaining Structures under Various Displacement Modes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study conducted model tests to simulate the passive failure of granular soils under different displacement modes, including the translational and rotation modes concerning different pivot points, to investigate the ... -
Probabilistic Evaluation of the Pipeline Response to Seismic Displacement at Balboa Boulevard during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Soil displacement along Balboa Boulevard during the 1994 Northridge earthquake ruptured natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines as well as two pressurized water trunk lines. Four other buried pipelines in the ... -
Influence of Overlying Layers of Loose and Dense Sand or Gravel on the Drilling Mud Pressure Causing Mud Loss from Horizontal Boreholes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Stability of horizontal boreholes under the pressure of drilling mud is a key consideration during horizontal directional drilling. Based on the successful application of experimental and numerical studies in uniform sand ... -
Effects of Surface Roughness, Gradation, Relative Density, and Normal Stiffness on Global and Local Behaviors of the Sand–Steel Interface
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Sand–steel interaction directly influences foundation stability. To study the global and local behaviors of the sand–steel interface (SSI) under monotonic loading, a series of modified SSI shear tests were conducted with ... -
A Methodology for Three-Dimensional Slope Reliability Assessment Considering Spatial Variability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)While the significance of spatially variable soil properties in slope stability assessment is increasingly recognized, the implementation of three-dimensional (3D) probabilistic slope reliability assessment is still hindered ... -
Finite-Element Evaluation of Self-Boring Pressuremeter Tests in Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Self-boring pressuremeter (SBPM) tests are widely used in situ investigations, due to their distinct advantage to measure the shear stress–strain–strength properties of the surrounding soil with minimum disturbance. The ... -
Thermomechanical Performance and Bearing Characteristics of a Large-Diameter, Extra-Long Energy Pile: An Intercalibrated DFOS Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study conducted a comprehensive field trial test on a large-diameter, extra-long, rock-embedded energy pile subjected to mechanical, thermal, and coupled thermomechanical loads. This paper introduces a novel approach ... -
Derivation, Validation, and Web Application of Dimensionless Analytical Solutions for Equivalent Period and Damping Ratio of Soil-Foundation-Structure Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The paper proposes closed-form solutions to estimate the period lengthening and the damping ratio of buildings considering the effects of the dynamic soil-foundation-structure interaction. They were derived by introducing ...