Degradation of geomaterials, that is, particle breakage, can be harmful to the full life-cycle
stability of practical engineering; for example, rockfill dam, energy-pile foundation, railway …

Grain crushing is commonly encountered in deep foundation engineering, high rockfill dam
engineering, railway engineering, mining engineering, coastal engineering, petroleum …

Post-peak flow instability of six sands notably different in terms of average particle shape
characteristics, gradation, and mineralogy was investigated. Tests were carried out under …

Particle breakage is a typical characteristic of crushable granular soil under high pressure,
which has great effects on its stress–strain behaviors. The phenomenon of the critical state …

Plant roots are known to provide mechanical reinforcement to soils upon shearing and
seismic loading. However, the effects of different stress paths on root reinforcement remain …

Global interest in the geotechnical stability of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) has burgeoned
over the past decade. In particular, the widely accessible video of the catastrophic failure of …

The liquefaction behavior and cyclic resistance ratio (CRR) of reconstituted samples of non-
plastic silt and sandy silts with 50% and 75% silt content are examined using constant …

The characteristic features of undrained behavior of a silty sand are investigated for a range
of initial conditions (e, p′) for both isotropic consolidation (CIU) and K 0 consolidation (K 0 …

Abstract On November 5, 2015, roughly 32 million m 3 of iron mine tailings were accidentally
released in the collapse of Fundão dam in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Totaling about 61% of the …

Stress–strain modeling of sand–silt mixtures is important in the analysis and design of earth
structures. In this paper, we develop a stress–strain model that can predict the behavior of …