Lightweight structures built on expansive soils are susceptible to damage caused by soil
movement. Financial losses resulting from the improper design of structures on expansive …

Seasonal, weather-driven pore pressure cycles alter and degrade the hydro-mechanical
engineering properties of earthworks as they age. The accumulating effects of deterioration …

The deterioration of transport infrastructure earthworks is a global problem, with negative
impacts for infrastructure resilience, becoming of increasing significance as existing …

Clay embankments used for road, rail, and flood defense infrastructure experience a suite of
weather-driven deterioration processes that lead to a progressive loss of hydromechanical …

Abstract Determining the Soil Water Retention Curve (SWRC) of an active clay constitutes a
challenge due to the significant, and sometimes irreversible, volume changes that occur …

Understanding the excavation-induced fractured zone (EFZ) around drifts is paramount in
the context of the deep geological disposal for nuclear waste since fractures can introduce …

In the next 20 years, there will be an extensive investment in transport infrastructure.
Although the cut and embankment slopes seem to have the same appearance, they have …

Mitigation measures aimed at reducing the landslide hazard often consists of drainage
systems, in particular when the piezometric regime in the slope is identified as an internal …

Landslides caused by excavations and precipitation events are widespread types of slope
failures in southwest Zhejiang, China, in areas with granite residual soil. Investigations of the …

Understanding and mitigating the impact of climate change on the built environment is
becoming increasingly important worldwide. Earthworks (embankments and cuttings) …