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    • Effects of compaction on desiccation cracking of clayey soils 

      Demagistri, Agustín; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto; Cordero Arias, Josbel Andreina; Moreno, Raúl; Prat Catalán, Pere; Jacinto, Abel Carlos (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), 2018)
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      Cracking in desiccating soils is an important topic in soil compacted works. This paper presents an experimental study on the effect of compaction on the cracking of a silty clay soil, which was subjected to drying conditions. ...
    • Evaluating innovative direct and indirect soil suction and volumetric measurement techniques for the determination of soil water retention curves following drying and wetting paths 

      Najdi, Abdallah; Encalada López, David Alejandro; Mendes, Joao; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (Elsevier, 2023-09)
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      Soil Water Retention Curves (SWRC) are a main characterising component in constitutive models developed for describing unsaturated soils behaviour. Their determination requires establishing a combination of accurate soil ...
    • Evaluation of Safety Factors in Discontinuous Rock 

      Alonso Pérez de Agreda, Eduardo; Carol, Ignacio; Delahaye, Carlos Héctor; Gens Solé, Antonio; Prat Catalán, Pere (Elsevier, 1996)
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      Safety factors for kinematically admissible failure mechanisms in jointed rock masses have been defined with linear and nonlinear failure criteria for rock discontinuities. Data required to compute these safety factors ...
    • Experimental analysis of 3D cracking in drying soils using ground-penetrating radar 

      Levatti, Hector Ulises; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto; Cuadrado Cabello, Agustín; Cordero Arias, Josbel Andreina (2017-03)
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      This paper describes the capabilities of a novel technique to investigate crack formation and propagation in drying soils. The technique is a relatively simple, non-destructive indirect technique using a ground-penetrating-radar ...
    • Experimental analysis of desiccation cracks on a clayey silt from a large-scale test in natural conditions 

      Cordero Arias, Josbel Andreina; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (2021-07)
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      This paper presents an experimental investigation on the impact of environmental variables on soil cracking in natural conditions. The test was performed on a large soil specimen of initial size 3 × 3 × 0.5 m exposed to ...
    • Further developments in stress initialization in geomechanics via FEM and a two-step procedure involving Airy functions 

      Rafels Ybern, Carles; Jaqués Adell, Irene; Aliguer Piferrer, Ignasi; Carol, Ignacio; Prat Catalán, Pere; Lakshmikantha, Ramasesha Mookanahallipatna; Segura Segarra, José María (2017)
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      The in-situ stress field in rock masses is a key aspect when a numerical analysis of a rock mass is carried out in any area of geo-engineering, such as civil, mining, or Oil & Gas. A method for the numerical generation of ...
    • Heat transport with advection in fractured rock 

      Pérez Carreras, Adrià; Carol, Ignacio; Prat Catalán, Pere (CIMNE, 2019)
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      In the transport of heat in porous media, diffusion generally dominates over advection due to slow fluid velocities imposed by low permeability. This is the reason why standard Galerkin formulation leading to extra ...
    • Heat transport with advection in fractured rock 

      Pérez Carreras, Adrià; Carol, Ignacio; Prat Catalán, Pere (2019)
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      In the transport of heat in porous media, diffusion generally dominates over advection due to slow fluid velocities imposed by low permeability. This is the reason why standard Galerkin formulation leading to extra ...
    • High Capacity Tensiometers: performance and behaviours 

      Mendes, Joao; Jamali, Armin; Najdi, Abdallah; Encalada López, David Alejandro; Bruno, Agostino; Prat Catalán, Pere; Buzzi, Olivier; Gallipoli, Domenico; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto; Toll, David (EDP Sciences, 2023-04)
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      High capacity tensiometers (HCT) allow the direct measurement of soil matric suction, and their major limitation is the occurrence of cavitation. In this paper HCT designs using different ceramic filters with varied air ...
    • Influence of compaction on the soil shrinkage and swelling curves 

      Encalada López, David Alejandro; Najdi, Abdallah; Mendes, Joao; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (EDP Sciences, 2023-04)
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      The behaviour of soils undergoing deformation due to changes in water content can be described using Soil Shrinkage Curves (SSCs). The SSCs are normally influenced by several factors as the soil’s fabric, different compaction ...
    • Influence of cracking in the desiccation process of clay soils 

      Levatti, Hector Ulises; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (2009)
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      It is well known that clayey soils undergoing desiccation tend to shrink and eventually crack. Analysis of the behaviour and influence of cracks in these types of soils is very important in several engineering fields such ...
    • Laboratory experiments in soil mechanics by means of digital twins and low-cost equipment 

      Ledesma Villalba, Alberto; Prat Catalán, Pere; Lloret Morancho, Antonio; Chacón Flores, Rolando Antonio; Sondon Sansó, Mercedes (International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), 2020)
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      The Soil Mechanics Laboratory has been traditionally an important issue in most courses on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Nowadays, the available technology allows to build low cost systems that brings the ...
    • Large test to study the role of soil-air interaction in soil cracking 

      Cordero Arias, Josbel Andreina; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto; Cuadrado Cabello, Agustín (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), 2018)
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      Soil surfaces in contact with the atmosphere are interfaces where different processes play an important role in triggering the formation of cracks due to desiccation. Empirical evidence shows that variables such as solar ...
    • Methods for FEM stress initialization based on stress functions, and application to a reservoir cross-section 

      Aliguer Piferrer, Ignasi; Rafels Ybern, Carles; Jaqués Adell, Irene; Carol, Ignacio; Prat Catalán, Pere; Lakashmikhanta, Ramasesha; Segura Segarra, José María (OnePetro, 2013)
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      An accurate description of the in-situ stress field in a rock mass is crucial in different areas of geo-engineering such as: underground excavations, hydrocarbon extraction, CO2 storage, hydraulic fracture etc. In this ...
    • Mitigación de grietas por desecación en suelos finos mediante el uso de fibras sintéticas 

      Hernández Valerio, Carolina; Botero Jaramillo, Eduardo; Encalada López, David Alejandro; Najdi, Abdallah; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Geotécnica (SMIG), 2022)
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      Los suelos arcillosos tienen la propiedad de hincharse en presencia de agua y contraerse en su ausencia, produciendo así grietas por desecación que alteran significativamente su desempeño mecánico e hidráulico. En este ...
    • Numerical analysis of desiccation, shrinkage and cracking in low plasticity clayey soils 

      Levatti, Hector Ulises; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (CIMNE, 2017)
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      This paper presents a numerical study of the desiccation processes of low-plasticity clayey soils that usually result in shrinkage and often in cracking. For the theoretical development of the numerical model, concepts of ...
    • Numerical analysis of desiccation, shrinkage and cracking in low plasticity clayey soils 

      Levatti, Hector Ulises; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (2017)
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      This paper presents a numerical study of the desiccation processes of low-plasticity clayey soils that usually result in shrinkage and often in cracking. For the theoretical development of the numerical model, concepts of ...
    • Numerical and experimental study of initiation and propagation of desiccation cracks in clayey soils 

      Levatti, Hector Ulises; Prat Catalán, Pere; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (Elsevier, 2019-01)
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      This paper presents the fundamentals and the mathematical formulation to study desiccation cracking in soils based on Unsaturated Soil Mechanics as well as a numerical analysis of a previous desiccation test program. The ...
    • Numerical investigation into the failure of a micropile retaining wall 

      Prat Catalán, Pere (2017-01)
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      The paper presents a numerical investigation on the failure of a micropile wall that collapsed while excavating the adjacent ground. The main objectives are: to estimate the strength parameters of the ground; to perform a ...
    • Numerical stress initialization in geomechanics via the FEM and a two-step procedure 

      Aliguer Piferrer, Ignasi; Carol, Ignacio; Prat Catalán, Pere; Rafels Ybern, Carles; Lakashmikhanta, Ramasesha; Segura Serra, Josep Maria (CIMNE, 2015)
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      The knowledge of the in-situ stress field in rock masses is crucial in different areas of geo-engineering, such as mining or civil underground excavations, hydrocarbon extraction, CO2 storage, hydraulic fracture operations, ...