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Mohammad Mahdi Badiozamani and Nicholas Beier
Processing of extracted oil sands generates substantial volumes of tailings slurries. Due to the scale and inherent variability of the tailings properties, consolidation settlement is expected to occur at different rates and magnitudes across the tailing...
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Marcos M. Chávez, Fernando Peña, Claudia Cruz and Gustavo Monroy
This article presents a study on the structural behavior of the Government Building that is part of the old Lecumberri Palace and which currently houses the Mexican General Archive of the Nation. This building was inaugurated in 1900 and closed in 1976, ...
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Bingcheng Huang, Aizhong Lu and Ning Zhang
A solution is proposed for ground surface settlement induced in fractional-generalised Kelvin semi-infinite space by distributed loads, based on the fractional differential theory. The effects of four main parameters?the differential order, the two shear...
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Seongyong Park, Dae Sang Kim, Ungjin Kim and Sangseom Jeong
In the transition zone of railway tracks, track irregularities occur frequently due to differential settlement, which arises from the difference between the vertical supporting stiffness of the abutment and the backfill. This is disadvantageous because i...
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Andrea Miano, Fabio Di Carlo, Annalisa Mele, Ilaria Giannetti, Nicoletta Nappo, Matteo Rompato, Pasquale Striano, Manuela Bonano, Francesca Bozzano, Riccardo Lanari, Paolo Mazzanti, Alberto Meda, Andrea Prota and Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza
Structural health monitoring is a crucial issue in areas with different hazard sources, such as Italy. Among non-invasive monitoring techniques, remote sensing provides useful information in supporting the management process and safety evaluations, reduc...
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Daniel Bassey, Ben Ngene, Isaac Akinwumi, Victor Akpan and Gideon Bamigboye
Across the world, ballasted railway tracks are utilised extensively due to their cost efficiency, ease of drainage, and capacity to withstand cyclic imposed loadings from heavy trains. In spite of these benefits, the ballast is often considered as a flex...
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Félix Escolano Sánchez, Alberto Mazariegos de la Serna, José Ramón Sánchez Lavín, José María del Campo Yagüe
Pág. 420 - 430
AbstractThe injection of expansive polyurethane resin into the soil is a technology that is beginning to be used for underpinning shallow foundations. It is noteworthy that this technology has been used on buildings of great historical value which are pa...
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Lee Kwang Yeol
Pág. 166 - 178
Characteristics and histories of the deltaic deposits in geotechnical perspective are studied. Geotechnical issues of clay deposits under floating foundation systems also analyzed. Theoretical expressions and parameters were examined by an experimenta...
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Daniel Zuluaga-Astudillo, Juan Carlos Ruge, Javier Camacho-Tauta, Oscar Reyes-Ortiz and Bernardo Caicedo-Hormaza
Diatoms are microscopic algae with a skeleton called a frustule, formed chiefly of silica, and are found in almost all aquatic environments and climatic conditions. Diatomaceous soils (DSs) originate from frustule sedimentation. In civil works (design an...
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Mohammad Amin Khalili, Giuseppe Bausilio, Chiara Di Muro, Sebastiano Perriello Zampelli and Diego Di Martire
Landslides pose significant risks to towns and villages in Southern Italy, including the San Marco dei Cavoti hamlet (Benevento, Campania), where settlements have expanded into areas threatened by landslides, leading to property damage, disruption to the...
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Silvia Palacios,Gabriela Lara,Laura Perucca
Pág. 333 - 349
. The earthquakes of 1894, 1944, 1952 and 1977 occurred in the province of San Juan in central-wesern Argentina caused numerous processes of soils and sediment liquefaction, including those in the Ullum-Zonda valley. Historical records showed cracks, san...
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Xiaoyu Guan and Gopal S. P. Madabhushi
In an urban environment, it is often necessary to locate structures close to existing retaining walls due to congestion in space. When such structures are in seismically active zones, the dynamic loading attracted by the retaining wall can increase. In a...
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Hafis Odunlami,Peter Adebola Okuneye,Musekiku Adebayo Shittu,Ajani R. Sanusi,Issa Olalekan Eledgbede,Fatima Kies
Gender has been seen as an important factor in the distribution and utilization of productive resources worldwide. In the agricultural sector, gender differential could influence the sourcing and efficient utilization of factors of production, particular...
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Hafis Odunlami,Peter Adebola Okuneye,Musekiku Adebayo Shittu,Ajani R. Sanusi,Issa Olalekan Eledgbede,Fatima Kies
Gender has been seen as an important factor in the distribution and utilization of productive resources worldwide. In the agricultural sector, gender differential could influence the sourcing and efficient utilization of factors of production, particular...
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Abdulaziz M. Jarkas
Pág. Page 241 - 266
Buildability is one of the most important factors affecting labor productivity. Nonetheless, an extensive search of the literature revealed a dearth of research into its effects on in situ reinforced concrete construction, especially at the formwork trad...
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Bingcai Sun, Duanzhu Ma, Lei Gao, Mingchuan He, Zengli Peng, Xin Li and Wenhua Wang
In this study, the wind buckling capacity of an open-topped steel tank with harmonic settlement-induced imperfection is numerically investigated. Although the single effect of the wind load or differential settlement on the open-topped steel tanks is wid...
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