YaBeSH Digital Library: Recent submissions
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Integration of Field Monitoring and Numerical Modelling to Evaluate the Construction Performance of a Deep-Sea Quay Wall
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractQuay walls are often assessed using numerical models to capture highly nonlinear soil behavior and the complex interactions between foundation elements. The input parameters of these models are usually derived from ... -
Thermal Conductivity of Sand with Fines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThrough a series of more than 100 laboratory-controlled tests that employed a specially designed soil thermal conductivity measurement apparatus, this work quantifies the variations in thermal conductivity k for ... -
Anisotropic Hypoplastic Model Considering Volumetric Yield for Sand with a Wide Range of Stress
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract Aimed at the characteristic that anisotropic sand can yield at isotropic compression conditions and generate volumetric strain when subjected to shear stress, this study proposes an anisotropic hypoplastic model ... -
Multidirectional Cyclic Shear Behavior of Gap-Graded Soils Considering Fines Loss due to Suffusion: A DEM Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractSoil grounds serving as primary support for traffic loads are often subjected to multidirectional cyclic shear loading and are particularly vulnerable to suffusion during extreme weather conditions. This study uses ... -
Ionic Stabilization Performance in Expansive Clay and Selection of an Effective Test for Assessing Stabilizer Efficiency
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study investigated how a sulfuric acid–based ionic stabilizer interacted with expansive clay soils from Texas, and identified practical methods for evaluating treatment effectiveness. A combination of physical, ... -
Assessing Induced Pore Pressure and Suction Stress under Undrained Compression of Filtered Tailings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThe stability of filtered tailings stacks requires a dense particle structure to be created via compaction following placement or potentially from desiccation due to atmospheric drying and/or compression due to ... -
Flowability and Strength of Flowable Filling Materials Made from Cement-Stabilized Sand and Soft Clay: Conflicting Effects of Sand Addition
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractSoft clay with high water content and low strength is largely generated during excavation and dredging activities worldwide. Cement stabilization can effectively increase the strength of soft clay. However, with a ... -
Thermal Integrity Profiling of Cast-in-Place Piles with Defects: Insights from Numerical Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThermal integrity profiling (TIP) is one of the newest and most promising methods for assessing the integrity of cast-in-place concrete piles. Despite its growing application, TIP research remains limited. Current ... -
Interface Friction Angle from Ring Shear Tests on Sand: A Round Robin
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThe interface friction angle is a crucial design parameter for various foundations, including piles, suction buckets, anchors, gravity-based structures, pipelines, cables, and more. In the past decade, the exponential ... -
Strength and Stiffness of Undisturbed and Reconstituted Fluvial Sand: The Role of Initial Fabric
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractWhile it has been known for decades that the initial fabric of soils affects their mechanical behavior, this fact is often overlooked in engineering practice. Samples of sands are often reconstituted in the laboratory ... -
Experimental Study of Enhanced Vacuum Preloading Using Electroosmosis and Airbag Pressure for Dredged Clays Improvement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractTo enhance the dewatering performance of dredged clays, advance land and water resources toward a more dependable and sustainable future, this study introduces a new approach for dredged clays treatment—a combination ... -
Corrosion Processes in Metals Buried in Sediments: Effects of Fines Content, Mineralogy, and Degree of Saturation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractBuried metals, such as driven pile foundations, ground anchors, pipelines, and metal casings, are in direct contact with native soils or compacted fill. Previous studies of soil corrosivity have generated case-specific ... -
Efficient Estimation of the Lower and Upper Bounds on the Probability of Failure of Geotechnical Models Considering Dependence and Epistemic Uncertainties
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractGeotechnical engineering involves significant aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, often inadequately addressed in traditional reliability analyses, which tend to neglect epistemic uncertainties, simplify dependencies ... -
Static Stable Arching in Granular Materials Using Trapdoor Discrete-Element Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)Abstract Arch-like structures form in granular materials when particles flow through an opening. This phenomenon manifests in many engineering applications such as hopper flow, silo discharge, and sand production in ... -
Effect of High-Temperature History on the Swelling Characteristics and Chemical Composition of Kunigel-V1 Bentonite
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractKunigel-V1 (KV1) bentonite samples were cured at 130, 200, and 300°C for 30, 60, 120, 240, 480, 1,000, and 1,500 days to grant them different temperature histories. Swelling strain and swelling pressure tests ... -
Interpretable Ensemble Prediction of Thermally Induced Long-Term Pile Settlement from Limited Monitoring Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractEnergy piles are a promising green building technology that combines traditional pile foundations with ground heat exchangers, providing both structural support and thermal regulation for buildings. Predicting ... -
Influence of Particle Size and Curing Temperature on the Strength of Sand Treated with Enzyme-Induced Carbonate Precipitation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study investigates the effects of particle size and curing temperature on the compressive strength of sand treated with enzyme-induced carbonate precipitation (EICP). Three types of commercially available sands ... -
Modulus of Soil Slurry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractModulus is a fundamental soil property in geotechnical engineering that directly influences critical processes such as soil settlement and wave propagation. A new model is proposed for characterizing soil modulus ... -
Experimental Study on Wetting Behavior in Aeolian Sand
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractAeolian sand exhibits considerable strength when dry and experiences sudden settling when submerged. To study its deformation behavior after immersion in water, a series of oedometric compression tests, isotropic ... -
A New Robustness Measure for Design Optimization of Earthen Levees in the Face of Flooding Hazards
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractFlood is one of the most costly natural disasters in the United States, causing significant economic losses annually. These high-loss flood events are becoming increasingly frequent, threatening the safety of ...