River water quality is a function of various bio-physicochemical parameters which can be aggregated for calculating the Water Quality Index (WQI). However, it is challenging to model the nonlinearity and uncertain behavior ...

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A series of triaxial compression tests on sandy soils reinforced with varying percentages of coir fibers have been numerically simulated to observe its effect on the elastic properties and friction angle of the sand. Test ...

Stability analysis of rock slopes has always been a critical and challenging task for the geotechnical engineering professionals. The complexities associated with the stability analysis arise due to the heterogeneous, ...

Severe cases of damages of mountain tunnels following 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu (Japan), 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan), 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture (Japan) and 2008 Wenchuan (China) earthquakes have challenged the traditional belief of ...

Damages to mountain tunnels reported following recent seismic events have challenged the long-held belief of buried structures to have adequate earthquake-resistant features. Field observations also highlight that the ...

The nonlinear dynamic response of the ashlar masonry arch is obtained for harmonic support excitations. The UDEC software is used for performing the analysis which duly accounts for the non-linearity arising due to the ...

This discussion is based on the original paper by Mansouri et al. (2019) (hereafter the authors of the original paper). The original paper presents an interesting study dealing with the determination of the bearing capacity ...

The numerical solution for the seismic bearing capacity of embedded strip footing in a sloping ground composed of rock mass is presented. The ground is modeled using the non-linear Hoek–Brown criterion and the upper bound ...

This chapter describes how a series of metakaolin (MK)-based geopolymer specimens measuring 50 mm cubes with different Si/Al ratios were prepared and exposed to different heating profiles in an electric furnace. The crumbling ...