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Determining Saturated Clay Parameters Using CPT and the Modified Cam Clay Model: Overconsolidation Ratio and Effective Friction Angle
This paper presents a finite difference-based analysis of the cone penetration test (CPT) in saturated intact clays. The modified Cam clay (MCC)...
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Stochastic Failure of a Double Eccentricity Footing Settlement on Cohesive Soils with a Modified Cam Clay Yield Surface
In this paper, a quantitative uncertainty estimation of the random distribution of the soil material properties to the probability density functions...
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An Elastoplastic Model to Simulate Pile Installation and Setup in Clay Soils
This study proposes a constitutive model to simulate the clayey soil response to the external loads during soil-structure interaction, specifically...
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A simple creep model for soft clay incorporating its deviatoric features
Soft clays are widely spread in nature and encountered in geotechnical engineering applications. Their creep behavior will significantly affect the...
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A Modified Strain Softening–Hardening Constitutive Model for Plastic Concrete Cut-off Wall
A modified constitutive model is proposed in the current study for analyzing plastic concrete in cut-off walls using a Finite Difference Modeling...
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Creep Behaviour of Alpine Salt Rock and the Influence of Insoluble Residues in Solution Mining
In Austrian salt mining, brine is won by way of solution mining with the borehole well method. The Alpine salt rock (Haselgebirge) consists of a high...
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Test analysis and modified SBSP model prediction for strength decay and healing of jointed soft rock
The strength of jointed soft rock changes in a certain geo-stress field around the tunnel. To explore the behavior, specimens with a single joint...
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Seismic Assessment of a Dam on a Clayey Foundation
The seismic performance of a rockfill dam founded on a 20 m clayey foundation layer is presented. This stratum is the foundation of a 45 m high...
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Finite Element Analysis of Expansive Bedrock Considering Electro-chemo-mechanical Coupling Phenomena in Crystal Layers of Clay Minerals and Internal Structural Degradation
This research proposes a novel model targeting expansive bedrock by combining an elastoplastic model considering electro-chemo-mechanical phenomena...
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Constitutive Model for Thermal Compaction of Clayey Geomaterials and Application to COx Claystone
Clay formations present very favourable conditions for the long-term containment of radioactive waste due to their low hydraulic conductivity, high...
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Numerical Modeling of the Oedometrical Behavior of Collapsible Loess
Loess covers more than 10% of continental lands all around the world. The macrostructure of these soils collapses when water content increases,...
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Numerical Simulation of Embankment Construction on Soft Soil: A Case
Constructing on soft soil deposits is a geotechnical challenge, both in estimating soil settlements and in predicting shear strength. This study...
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An Innovative Scheme to Make an Initial Guess for Iterative Optimization Methods to Calibrate Material Parameters of Strain-Hardening Elastoplastic Models
Optimization can apply in almost every branch of science and technology. In particular, a gradient-based iterative method is a mathematical...
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Numerical and experimental modeling of geomechanical behavior of partially saturated soils
The Barcelona Basic Model (BBM) has been implemented in a finite difference-based computer program to simulate the behavior of unsaturated soils...
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Short and Long-term Behaviours of Bored Tunnels in Port-Said Clay
This study investigates the behaviour of bored tunnels in the Port-Said very soft to firm clay deposit in El-Tina Plain, north-eastern Egypt. Recent...
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A neural network approach for the reliability analysis on failure of shallow foundations on cohesive soils
A collection of feed forward neural networks (FNN) for estimating the limit pressure load and the according displacements at limit state of a footing...
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An Enhanced Solution for the Expansion of Cylindrical Cavities in Modified Cam Clay
A solution was recently obtained for the expansion of cylindrical cavities in normally consolidated Modified Cam Clay under plane strain and...
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Energy-based plastic potential and yield functions for rockfills
The plastic potential and yield functions are two of the most important components of elastoplastic constitutive models. Because the incremental...
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Analysing the volume change behaviour of compacted bentonites upon THM processes based on the framework of BExM model
Compacted bentonite is often considered as a possible buffer/backfill material for deep geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste. During...
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Discriminant model and hydrogeochemical processes for characterizing preferential flow paths in four interconnected volcanic aquifers in Costa Rica
The volcanic Barva and Colima multiaquifer system is crucial for the drinking water supply of about 1.7 million people, about 30% of the population...
