California bearing ratio (CBR) is one of the important parameters that is used to express the
strength of the pavement subgrade of railways, roadways, and airport runways. CBR is …

Modelling and prediction of blast-induced ground vibration is a significant aspect of mining
and civil engineering operations, as ground vibration has dire consequences on both the …

Locating a critical slip surface or calculating the minimum safety factor of a slope is important
in geotechnical engineering, and also involves a complex optimization problem. A novel …

Land subsidence is a hazard that results from conditioning factors that cause environmental
change and generate social and economic impacts. Some of these factors may increase …

Abstract California Bearing Ratio method is an empirical method of design of flexible
pavement developed by California Division of Highways, in 1928 for the design of …

Check dams are considered to be one of the most effective measures for conservation of the
soil and water resources. However, identifying the most suitable sites for the installation of …

Slope stability assessment is a critical concern in construction projects. This study explores
the use of multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) to capture the intrinsic nonlinear …

Wheeled robots commonly undergo slip in various types of natural terrains, particularly in
planetary exploration missions. Therefore, it is important to predict slip from a distance for …

Badlands are landforms related to runoff, with dissected V-shaped valleys, short steep
slopes, and high drainage density, and results from a very important type of erosion that …

The stochastic inequality constrained optimization problems (SICOPs) consider the
problems of optimizing an objective function involving stochastic inequality constraints. The …