Nondestructive imaging techniques enable the study of failure mechanisms within physical
models for a wide range of geotechnical problems. This paper presented an innovative …

Deep foundation and anchorage systems are often comprised of simple linear elements,
limited by design, materials and techniques employed to build them. Their stability is …

The design of rock-socketed pile foundations requires careful consideration of critical
construction aspects such as the socket roughness and smear for accurately estimating the …

Schmertmann's method is one of the traditional methods for estimating the settlement of
axially loaded footings in sand using cone penetration test (CPT) data. The method was …

Many scenarios in geotechnical engineering involve cavity unloading from a loaded state
under different boundary conditions, especially for thick-walled cylinder tests in laboratory …

The design of rock-socketed piles at the serviceability state primarily depends on the shaft
resistance (skin friction) at the interface, which may be influenced by the presence of weak …

This paper reports the results of a series of monotonic compressive and cyclic load tests
performed on a closed-ended jacked model pile installed in a half-cylindrical calibration …

Bearing capacity calculation is an important part of shallow foundation design. The
expressions for the shape and depth factors available in the literature for bearing capacity …

When penetrometers or probes are pushed into sand, complex displacement fields, strain
fields, and shear band patterns develop. Deep and shallow penetration processes in sands …

Preferential flow is widely developed in varieties of voids (such as macropores and fissures)
in loess areas, affecting slope hydrology and stability and even leading to geological …