Geotechnical Engineering has advanced to the present stage that various types of earth structures can be designed and constructed safely and economically in most instances. However, in some cases, difficulty arises either in the form of failure during construction ...

Soil nails are commonly used to strengthen or stabilize a slope. However, slope failure may still happen if the designed depths of soil nails are inadequate. This paper presents a slope failure case history of a soil nails strengthened slope. The slope wasoriginally ...

<p>This paper presents a review of numerical techniques used in rock slope stability analysis emphasizing recent developments in numerical modelling, including advances in computer visualization and the use of continuum and discontinuum numerical modelling ...

Fatalities caused by highwall/spoilbank failure in the surface mines, coal and non-metal, increased to an alarming rate of seven during 1999. To determine the cause of slope failure and successful mining practice, the National Institute for Occupational Health ...

This paper presents three case studies of geotechnical failures in housing projects. These failures attributed to inadequacy in the design and platform settlement analysis.

<p>In 1984 an embankment instability occurred in a dike recently heightened in stages. After the instability an extensive research program has been set up to back analyze the settlements and the pore pressures measured during construction, focussing especially ...

This paper presents the results of a case study conducted in a two-entry gateroad in a coal mine where excessive roof deformation and bolt loading resulted in failure of many roof supports. The instruments consisted of 16 fully grouted, strain-gaged resin ...

<p>Widespread and large-scale ground failures due to liquefaction occurred along the river valley of the Shiribeshi-toshibetsu River during the 1993 Hokkaido-nansei-oki Earthquake. By using the aerial photographs taken one day after the earthquake along the ...