Fully softened shear strength is an important empirical engineering concept for slope stability analyses of cuts in stiff clays and compacted embankments constructed of high …
AJ Puppala - Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
This paper describes key research on expansive soils and the methods employed to characterize them; fallacies in the current characterization of expansive soils are also …
JP Malizia, A Shakoor - Engineering Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of varying density and water content on the strength and deformation behavior of a low, a medium, and a high plasticity …
SSC Congress, AJ Puppala, P Kumar… - … of Geotechnical and …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Assessing the stability of rock slopes is essential to ensuring the typical performance of adjacent transportation infrastructures but simulating the existing field topography and …
S Wang, W Wu, J Wang, Z Yin, D Cui, W Xiang - Landslides, 2018 - Springer
We study the creep properties of clastic soil in residual state. The intact samples are taken from a reactivated slow-moving landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China …
Weak rocks encountered in open pit mines cover a wide variety of materials, with properties ranging between soil and rock. As such, they can provide a significant challenge for the …
In slopes formed by tectonized clayey turbidites, the soil fissuring recurrently influences the hydro-mechanical soil properties, determining an impoverishment in strength and an …
R Bonaparte, RC Bachus, BA Gross - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Several noteworthy stability failures occurred at landfills in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s, a timeframe coinciding with the promulgation of modern US environmental …
Recurring slope failures are common in Texas due to the extreme weather and soil conditions. TxDOT spends millions of dollars annually to repair embankment slope failures …