Soil properties are known to have high spatial variability and often fluctuate with depth. The
objective of this study was to investigate the effects of using different models to simulate the …

Piping is one of the most harmful driving factors causing river embankment failures.
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) carried passive infrared thermography (IRT) is introduced …

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 …

This paper presents in detail the originally developed Quadratic Point Estimate Method
(QPEM), aimed at efficiently and accurately computing the first four output moments of …

The failure of transmission towers often causes widespread blackouts and results in
electrical shock to people and animals via water bodies especially in areas prone to river …

The need for a reliable estimate of the actual failure probability of existing river
embankments under changing boundary conditions represents an ever-demanding task for …

The conventional design of reinforced soil retaining structures (RSRS) assumes a dry or fully
saturated backfill in a deterministic approach, which may not reflect real-field conditions …

The knowledge of the continuous evolution of soil hydraulic characteristics is required for
several environmental geotechnical applications such as capillary barrier systems and river …

Sand boil formation at the toe of river embankments is the typical manifestation of the
initiation and progression of an internal erosion process known as backward erosion piping …

The performance function expressed by the expected value of the discrete event dynamic
system usually does not have a closed analytical expression, so it can only be estimated by …