<p>This paper presents the development of a shallow foundation system consisting of mat foundations for support of all structures including heavily loaded, settlement sensitive structures at a recently completed Polysilicon Plant in China. The site grading ...

A future earthquake in the city of Wellington will cause widespread building and infrastructure damage, particularly on soft soils. It is also anticipated that all major transport routes (air, sea, rail and road) out of the region and many within the region ...

<p>Many empirical and theoretical CPT interpretation methods are broadly accepted and used in practice. These approaches tend to consider whether the cone penetration is drained or undrained, and then will consider the soil as either &ldquo;sand&rdquo; or ...

<p>Different challenging tunnel projects in the downtown area of the city of Mainz in Germany are presented. These tunnels run parallel in a distance of 4 m to max. 50 m. The tunnels were built in soft soil conditions consisting of filling, clay and marl layers ...

<p>This paper introduces the method for analyzing settlement data of tunnel in soft soil. The method is applied to the settlement monitoring analysis of some tunnels across the river. In the case study, the longterm monitoring data for shield tunnel settlement ...

<p>Taking a 24.09-m-deep foundation pit of Shanghai Metro Line 1 which uses the semi-reverse construction process of &ldquo;three open excavating-one tunneling&rdquo; as an example, through gathering and analyzing field monitoring data and making use of forward ...

<p>This paper describes the construction of a 40m multi-propped deep excavation in the downtown area of Shanghai, China and the interpretation of the monitoring data. The entire excavation was 263m in length, 23m wide and 38&ndash;41m deep. The excavation ...

<p>The deformation of retained soil is of importance for the design of a deep excavation in soft soil. The influence of bedrock underlying the soils on the behavior of the retaining wall needs proper evaluation. This contribution shows a case study on deep ...

In this article a conceptual model for long term stability of slopes and embankments on soft soils is presented, which is based on the Critical State Soil Mechanics framework. Using experience gained from predominantly clayey soils, the effects of viscosity, ...

<p>When designing structures that will impose a significant load over a large area, such as buildings, tanks, walls, slopes or embankments, geotechnical engineers must address the following situations, especially when dealing with weak foundation soils: bearing ...