In practical engineering, cyclic shear stresses induced by earthquakes, traffic, and waves
are superimposed on the initial static shear stress in sand fills or deposits, leading to …

The complete loss of soil strength and stiffness, which occurs during soil liquefaction, marks
a change of state of the soil that switches from solid to liquid. In particular, several …

The simultaneous generation, dissipation and redistribution of excess pore pressures within
the layers of a soil deposit, due to a seismic event, can significantly modify the seismic …

A plasticity model is proposed to simulate the monotonic and cyclic behaviour of cemented
sand. The model is an extension of the critical state-based bounding surface plasticity model …

Numerous advanced constitutive models for granular materials have been proposed
involving many parameters. As a result, the determination of parameters becomes an …

Modelling earthquake-induced soil liquefaction and assessing its consequences to
overlying buildings are still delicate and challenging tasks in geotechnical earthquake …

This paper presents the results of an experimental program carried out in the laboratory
aimed at assessing the liquefaction resistance by correlations between longitudinal wave (P …

The evaluation of riverbank stability often represents an underrated problem in engineering
practice, but is also a topical geotechnical research issue. In fact, it is certainly true that soil …

The results of dynamic centrifuge tests carried out to study the effects of seismic input, fine
crust and existing structure on liquefaction triggering and manifestations are presented. The …

It is commonly assumed that dry and saturated sands exhibit similar cone resistance–
relative density relationships. Some studies pointed out that partial saturation and …