Ground collapse due to soil erosion near pipeline defects involves soil loss and orifice
outflow, which may lead to non-Darcy flow, but it is often ignored in numerical simulations. In …

As sewer pipes age, cracks and other forms of structural damage may develop leading to
soil infiltration into the pipes that can cause sinkholes and damage the overlying roads and …

Soil erosion around defective underground pipes can cause ground collapses and
sinkholes in urban areas. Most of these soil erosion events are caused by fluidization of the …

Given the hazards caused by drilling ground collapse (DGC) due to groundwater flow in the
processes of geotechnical engineering investigation, a coupled computational fluid …

An accurate investigation of the landslide dam breach process is crucial for the
understanding the breach mechanism and disaster prediction. However, the numerical …

This paper presents a numerical method to simulate the collapse behaviours of unsaturated
soils by distinct element method (DEM). The influence of suction in unsaturated soil is …

Ground collapse is a common urban geological disaster mainly triggered by the leakage of
underground drainage pipe. To reproduce the process of underground cavity formation and …

Piping, as one of the critical patterns of internal erosion, has been reported as a major cause
for failures of embankment dams and levees. The fundamental mechanism of piping was …

Debris flows, ie, combined flows of watery mud, chunks of boulders, trees, etc., can be
extremely destructive to life and property and can exhibit complicated mechanical features …

Ground subsidence induced by internal erosion around defective sewer pipes commonly
occurs in urban areas of many cities over the world, which has caused substantial …