<p>Laboratory tests are often used to understand dynamic soil behavior and to develop cyclic soil constitutive models. However, the loading paths in lab tests are different from those in the field, resulting in the inaccurate prediction of site response. An ...

Existing analytical methods for the stress analysis of buried steel pipelines at crossings with active strike-slip faults depend on a number of simplifications, which limit their applicability and may even lead to non-conservative results. The analytical methodology ...

<p>This paper presents a review of drained versus undrained methods of static stability analysis of upstream tailings dams, and how these relate to dilatant versus contractant behavior. The authors support the view that for upstream dams constructed of contractant, ...

<p>The increasing number of roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams being built around the world demands accurate methodologies for the realistic short- and long-term evaluations of the risk of thermally induced cracking in these constructions. In this work a ...

The aim of 3D stress analysis of underground excavations is to evaluate several alternative schemes for excavation layouts and sequencing so that the most stable configuration and optimum schedule for the excavations can be selected.