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Young-Hak Lee, Soichiro Yamakawa, Tetsuo Tobita, Hyuk-Kee Hong, Hyo-Sung Song, Jae-Jung Kim and Dal-Won Lee
This study examines the effectiveness of parapets in preventing overtopping failures of small-scale homogeneous reservoir dams under seismic loads. In this study, a parapet covered the entire width of the dam crest and was designed to ensure its weight i...
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Jianbo She, Zheng Lu, Hailin Yao, Ran Fang and Shaohua Xian
The swelling properties of expansive soil at different depths were investigated by the laboratory model test. It was experimentally found that the swelling deformation of different expansive soil layers was obviously different under unidirectional seepag...
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Ziyang Li, Wei Ye, Miroslav Marence and Jeremy D. Bricker
Climate change with extreme hydrological conditions, such as drought and flood, bring new challenges to seepage behavior and the stability of earthfill dams. Taking a drought-stricken earthfill dam of China as an example, the influence of drought-flood c...
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Imran Arshad, Mohammed Muneer Babar, Clea Anne E Vallejera
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In this study, Geo-Slope software was used to check the behavior of a non-homogenous earth dam (Hub dam) for two different cases i.e. (i) with core and (ii) without core respectively. The simulated results showed that a dam at its original shape and desi...
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Yu Yin, Ziteng Cui, Xiao Zhang, Jian Song, Xueyi Zhang, Yongqiang Chen and Zhi Dou
Clay is widely encountered in nature and directly influences seepage behaviors, exerting a crucial impact on engineering applications. Under low hydraulic gradients, seepage behaviors have been observed to deviate from Darcy?s law, displaying a non-linea...
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Hsin-Fu Yeh, Tsien-Ting Huang and Jhe-Wei Lee
Rainfall infiltration is the primary triggering factor of slope instability. The process of rainfall infiltration leads to changes in the water content and internal stress of the slope soil, thereby affecting slope stability. The soil water retention cur...
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Jiayi Peng, Zhenzhong Shen, Wenbing Zhang and Wen Song
Permeability characteristics in coarse-grained soil is pivotal for enhancing the understanding of its seepage behavior and effectively managing it, directly impacting the design, construction, and operational safety of embankment dams. Furthermore, these...
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Dominic Ek Leong Ong and Elizabeth Eu Mee Chong
Retaining walls are often used to construct basements and underground station boxes. This unique case study compares the field-measured contiguous bored pile (CBP) wall, surrounding geology, and hydrogeology or groundwater responses against the results u...
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Yelbek Bakhitovich Utepov, Timoth Mkilima, Aliya Kairatovna Aldungarova, Zhanbolat Anuarbekovich Shakhmov, Sungat Berkinovich Akhazhanov, Nargul Amanovna Saktaganova, Uliya Baktybaevna Abdikerova and Aigul Moldashevna Budikova
The study examined the intricate relationships between embankment slope configurations, toe drain designs, and drawdown scenarios. It utilized a unique combination of numerical, physical, and mathematical models. The investigation involved 16 numerical m...
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Hao Wang, Yejiao Wang and Fujie Jin
The swelling-shrinkage behavior of expansive soils under climate changes will cause the crack development, which can be destructive of expansive soil slopes. This study investigated the effect of drying/wetting cycles on the stability of an expansive soi...
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Xianshan Liu, Xiaolei Luo, Shaowei Liu, Pugang Zhang, Man Li and Yuhua Pan
The study of the seepage and heat transfer law of three-dimensional rough fractures is of great significance in improving the heat extraction efficiency of underground thermal reservoirs. However, the phase transition effects of fluids during the thermal...
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Raid Alrowais, Bandar Alwushayh, Muhammad Tariq Bashir, Basheer M. Nasef, Ahmed Ghazy and Elsayed Elkamhawy
Cutoff walls are widely used to limit seepage, piping, and the uplift under hydraulic structures. Therefore, this study focused on a numerical investigation of the hydraulic performance of cutoff walls beneath hydraulic structures during both static and ...
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Xiaohai Fu, Jinze Li, Jiankun Liu, Zheng Hu and Changyi Tang
Based on a plain concrete pile composite foundation project in the coastal area of Zhuhai, considering the complex hydraulic load environment induced by tidal water-level changes, finite element simulations and parameter calibrations were carried out to ...
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Tim Jurisch, Stefan Cantré and Fokke Saathoff
A variety of studies recently proved the applicability of different dried, fine-grained dredged materials as replacement material for erosion-resistant sea dike covers. In Rostock, Germany, a large-scale field experiment was conducted, in which different...
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Yumin Shi, Fuping Gao, Ning Wang and Zhenyu Yin
The instability of a partially embedded pipeline under ocean currents involves complex fluid?pipe?soil interactions, which may induce two typical instability modes; i.e., the lateral instability of the pipe and the tunnel erosion of the underlying soil. ...
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