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Exploring rate and temperature effects on residual strength. Review and implications for a landslide case study
(CRC Press, 2024)
Conference report
Open AccessA large landslide immediate to a reservoir, identified in 2006, is the guiding case to discuss its triggering, namely a consequence of fast reservoir drawdown, and its post-failure response. The reactivation of the ... -
Impact of transport distance in life cycle assessments of geosynthetic reinforced soil walls
(CRC Press, 2024)
Conference report
Open AccessA prevailing methodology to evaluate the environmental impact and subsequent sustainability assessment of structures is the life cycle assessment (LCA). In civil engineering, LCA methodologies allow for the quantification ... -
Discrete modelling of stress relaxation in crushable sands based on fracture theory
(CRC Press, 2024)
Conference report
Open AccessStress relaxation of quartz sand is simulated using a recently proposed physically based time-to-fracture discrete element method (DEM) framework. The relaxation of stress on sands under high confining pressure ... -
Concrete arches and reinforced soil: a sustainable alternative structure for road bridges
(CRC Press, 2024)
Conference report
Open AccessRoad bridges are necessary infrastructures for transportation. As such, they are subject to thorough scrutiny for their environmental, social, and economic impacts. An adequate substantiality assessment applied to bridge ... -
Systemic multi-sectoral and multi-hazard risk assessment in current and future scenarios: the PARATUS-project
(2023)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policySystemic multi-sectoral and multi-hazard risk assessment is an important issue for stakeholders to mitigate the impacts of cascading and compounding events. The EU Horizon Europe “PARATUS”—project deals in one of its work ... -
Simulating soil reinforcement interaction using CODE_BRIGHT
(2024)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyReinforced soil structures (RSS) involve a compacted soil mass with embedded elements, orthogonal to the main stress direction, which act as load bearing components. The compound nature of RSS requires a proper characterization ... -
Interface direct shear tests simulating post-grouting pile installation with novel binders
(Society for Underwater Technology, 2023)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyDriven, and recently vibrated piles, are routinely employed offshore. Since the 1970s, much study has been conducted on the behaviour of the soil-pile interface, and small-scale studies have demonstrated that if grout could ... -
Modelling claystone degradation under freezing and thawing cycles
(Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), 2023)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyClaystone degradation under freezing and thawing cycles represents a key factor in the production of erodible soil mass in mountains slopes. In general, erosion and erodibility have been addressed by experimental approaches ... -
The construction process with the material point method
(International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), 2023)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe material point method has become a powerful tool in the geomechanical modelling of large deformation problems and it has been successfully applied in a large number of single and multiphase geotechnical problems involving ... -
Comparison of geosynthetic reinforced soil wall solutions using analytical design methods and numerical modelling
(2023)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyEuropean design standard (prEN-1997 202x) permits the use of suitably verified numerical models for the design of reinforced soil walls (RSW). The paper first compares three analytical design method outcomes (Coherent ... -
Simplified approach to analyse global stability of reinforced soil walls
(CRC Press, 2023)
Conference lecture
Open AccessReinforced soil walls (RSW) are a proven alternative to conventional earth retaining structures due to their rapid construction, smaller environmental impact, lower cost, as well as more sustainable social/functional ... -
Short-term thermo-mechanical numerical modelling of reinforced soil walls with polyester strap reinforcements
(CRC Press, 2023)
Conference lecture
Open AccessPolyester (PET) materials have become more common as reinforcement solution in reinforced soil walls (RSW). It has been shown that strength and stiffness of geosynthetics products, including PET, is load-, time-, and ...
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