Geotechnics, Volume 1, Issue 2

Expansive soils generally recognized as swell-shrink soils have been a problem for civil infrastructure for a long time. Engineers are in search of sustainable stabilization alternatives to counter these problematic soils. Microbial-induced calcium c...

Although there has been a substantial body of research on the chemical stabilization of sewage sludge, most of these results are project-specific and relate mainly to the use of new binders and sewage sludge from specific sources. In this sense, much...

The objective of this study is to develop data-driven predictive models for seismic energy dissipation of rocking shallow foundations during earthquake loading using multiple machine learning (ML) algorithms and experimental data from a rocking found...

This paper provides an in-depth review of research developments on a common phenomenon in oil and gas exploration: sand production. Due to its significant impact to reservoir productivity and production efficiency, sand production has been widely res...

Colloidal silica (CS) is a kind of nanomaterial used in soil/rock grouting techniques in different branches of civil engineering. Many studies have recently been performed to investigate the potential of CS in improving the mechanical behavior of coh...

The need to transit to greener options in soil stabilisation has revamped research on the use of industrial and agricultural by-products in order to cut down on the current carbon footprint from the use of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and lime rela...

The construction industry’s current dependence on primary aggregates is unsustainable as these are non-renewable resources and the consumption of these materials has a high environmental impact. The global annual production of primary aggregates is e...

Gypseous soils are capable of presenting ground construction challenges to civil and geotechnical engineers due to their unpredictable deformation characteristics. These undesirable responses are sometimes caused by environmental changes in moisture...

Temperature differences between the surrounding ground and the tunnel lining will cause a variation of the tunnel lining forces. The hyperstatic reaction method (HRM) could be efficiently and simply used to investigate the impact of thermal load on t...

In this work, a quantitative uncertainty estimation of the random distribution of the soil material properties to the probability density functions of the failure load and failure displacements of a shallow foundation loaded with an oblique load is p...

This paper illustrates two novel methods for computing the small-strain hysteretic material damping ratio, λ_min, of soils from the cyclic torsional shear (TS) and computing the small-strain viscous material damping ratio, D_min, from the free-vibratio...

Subgrade materials refer to the original ground underneath a road pavement, when these materials are made up of expansive soil it is referred to as expansive subgrade. Sometimes, these materials do not have sufficient capacity to support the weight o...

Natural soils are usually heterogeneous and characterized with complex microstructures. Sand–clay mixtures are often used as simplified soils to investigate the mechanical properties of soils with various compositions (from clayey to sandy soils) in...

This paper presents a laboratory investigation into the mechanical response of a silty sand, with a fines content of 10%, stabilized with colloidal silica (CS). To this end, a series of unconfined compression tests as well as monotonic and cyclic tri...

This paper presents the results of a laboratory investigation into the effect of non-plastic fines on the correlation between liquefaction resistance and the shear wave velocity of sand. For this purpose, undrained stress-controlled cyclic triaxial a...