The engineering behavior of nonplastic silts is more difficult to characterize than is the behavior of clay or sand. Especially, behavior of silty soils is important in view of the seismicity of several regions of alluvial deposits in the world, such as the United States, China, and Turkey. In several hazards substantial ground deformation, reduced bearing capacity, and liquefaction of silty so...

This paper presents the results of consolidated and undrained (CU) triaxial cyclic tests related to influence tire waste addition on strength characteristics two different soils from Southern Poland: unswelling kaolin swelling red clay. The test procedure included normally remolded specimens prepared pure clay (RC) (K) their mixtures with fractions shredded rubber powder (P) granulate (G) in 5%...

a framework for development of constitutive models including damage progress, based on semi-micromechanical aspects of plasticity is proposed for concrete. the model uses sub-loading surface with multilaminate framework to provide kinematics and isotropic hardening/softening in the ascending/descending branches of loading and can be able to keep stress/stain paths histories for each plane separ...

The paper describes the mechanisms and conditions for damage-memory effect (Kaiser effect) in rocks subjected to a three-dimensional nonproportional cyclic loading with changes rocks' shape orientation of Lam-ellipsoid. experiments cubic samples taken from polymictic sandstone were conducted on Triaxial Independent Loading Testing System continuous recording an acoustic emission signals. result...