The widespread availability of soft rocks and their increasing use as cheap rockfill material is adding more to geotechnical hazards because time-dependent granular decomposition causes significant damage to their mechanical properties. An experimental study was conducted through monotonic torsional shear tests on crushed soft rocks under fully saturated and dry conditions and compared with ana...

The paper proposed an enhancement to the Granular Material Point Method extending original framework for unsaturated granular materials. It discusses briefly key processes occurring during flows and gives a set of assumptions simplified analysis such with Method. Then it proposes algorithm materials shows how adjust code. Finally, presents two sets simulations involving comparing outcomes from ...

One of the important problems in earthquake geotechnical engineering is liquefaction phenomenon that happens in loose saturated granular soils. This phenomenon can cause great damages to underground structures and buildings and lifelines. Liquefaction resistance of soils can be evaluated by experimental and field tests. The use of energy is a logical step in the evaluation of liquefaction asses...

Soils are called problematic soils when they do not have sufficient bearing strength to provide a founda-tion for the structures be built on them and these types of need improved with appropriate methods depending their properties. Improvement applied strengthen often cause financial burden. Recently, there studies about use waste rubber tires, which pose an environ-mental risk during storage, ...