The observation of failure surfaces within column supported embankments is critical to understanding how the embankment stresses are transferred towards heads. In this study, finite element simulations utilising a strain softening constitutive model, non-local regularisation and Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation used examine these over various geometries. This methodology offers insight...

Australia’s first trains designed 200 km/h are being delivered to Western Australia for the TransWA country rail system (Hammond, 2003). The construction of a railroad structure in soft clays in itself is a significant cost, and many design problems are caused by the requirements that the railroad embankment be visible and noise controlled. In this paper case histories of the use of ground impr...

The evaluation of riverbank stability often represents an underrated problem in engineering practice, but is also a topical geotechnical research issue. In fact, it certainly true that soil water content and pore pressure distributions the materials vary with time, due to changeable effects hydrometric climatic boundary conditions, strongly influencing bank conditions. Nonetheless, assessment h...