<p>Slope is an exposed ground surface that stands at an angle with the horizontal. Slopes are required in the construction of highway and railway embankments, earth dams, levees, canals etc., and are generally less expensive. Failure of natural slopes and ...

Centrifuge tests have been carried out on kaolin clay slopes subject to variations in surface rainfall and humidity corresponding, at model scale, to successive wet and dry seasons in the field. An analysis of the phase ofepisodic regional softening is presented ...

<p>Last year in the Netherlands a 5-years development programme, called Geo-Impuls, started with the ambitious goal to half the occurrence of geotechnical failure in our civil engineering projects by 2015. This paper describes the sense of urgency to start ...

<p>Pavement failure is defined in terms of decreasing serviceability caused by the development of cracks and ruts. Before going into the maintenance strategies, we must look into the causes of failure of bituminous pavements. Failures of bituminous pavements ...

The kinematic approach of limit analysis is explored in three-dimensional
3D stability analysis of slopes. A formal derivation is first shown indicating that, in a general case, the approach yields an upper bound to the critical height of the slope or an ...

<p>An experimental testing program was undertaken to investigate failure mechanisms induced by the active movement of a deep rectangular trapdoor underlying a granular soil. Reduced-scale models were tested under normal gravity as well as under an increased ...

Three-dimensional (3D) limit analysis of stability of slopes is presented. Such analyses are not common, because of the difficulties in constructing three-dimen­sional mechanisms of failure in frictional soils. A class of admissible rotational mechanisms is ...

<p>Slope movements (e.g. landslides) are dynamic systems that are complex in time and space and closely linked to both inherited and current preparatory and triggering controls. It is not yet possible to assess in all cases conditions for failure, reactivation ...

As part of improvements to a roadway in coastal South Carolina, a portion of the road crossing reclaimed marshland was widened. The new lanes were constructed on a column supported embankment consisting of sand fill reinforced by geogrid and supported by vibro-concrete ...

<p>This paper applies numerical limit analyses to evaluate the ultimate bearing capacity of a surface footing resting on a rock mass whose strength can be described by the generalized Hoek-Brown failure criterion.</p>