<p>Coal based thermal power plant has created over 50,000 acres of ash ponds in India, with approximately 2500 acres of additional ponds created for a 500-MW power plant and is filled with ash up to 10 m in height within a period of 5 years. Presently, 160 ...

<p>The paper references case histories of failures caused by water pressure and reviews the safety provisions related to water pressure in some existing geotechnical codes. It discusses the provisions of Eurocode 7 and the way they are currently being interpreted ...

<div style="text-align: left;">After a brief review of a number of developments of unsaturated soil mechanics, the paper presents some applications to engineering problems. The first case involves the collapse of a residual soil in <div style="text-align: ...