A review of field performance of stone columns in soft soils

BA McCabe, GJ Nimmons… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - icevirtuallibrary.com
The behaviour of stone columns has yet to be captured fully by analytical and numerical
techniques, and predicting column behaviour in soft cohesive soils brings specific …

Modeling time-dependent behavior of soft sensitive clay

ZY Yin, M Karstunen, CS Chang… - … of geotechnical and …, 2011 - ascelibrary.org
The paper focuses on investigating the destructuration process during time-dependent
stress-strain evolution. For this purpose, various oedometer tests and triaxial tests on intact …

[HTML][HTML] An anisotropic elastic–viscoplastic model for soft clays

ZY Yin, CS Chang, M Karstunen, PY Hicher - International Journal of Solids …, 2010 - Elsevier
Experimental evidences have shown deficiencies of the existing overstress and creep
models for viscous behaviour of natural soft clay. The purpose of this paper is to develop a …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling creep behaviour of anisotropic soft soils

N Sivasithamparam, M Karstunen, P Bonnier - Computers and Geotechnics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a three dimensional constitutive model that describes the creep
behaviour of natural clays with anisotropic stress–strain response, focussing on robust …

Multi-objective optimization-based updating of predictions during excavation

YF Jin, ZY Yin, WH Zhou, HW Huang - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, an efficient multi-objective optimization (MOOP)-based updating framework is
established, which involves (1) the development of an enhanced multi-objective differential …

Drained expansion responses of a cylindrical cavity under biaxial in situ stresses: Numerical investigation with implementation of anisotropic S-CLAY1 model

H Wang, L Li, J Li, D Sun - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Cavity expansion theory has been well developed in the past few decades, but little
progress has been made to cavity expansion theory regarding biaxial in situ stresses. Owing …

Modelling time-dependent behaviour of Murro test embankment

M Karstunen, ZY Yin - Géotechnique, 2010 - icevirtuallibrary.com
This paper investigates the time-dependent behaviour of Murro test embankment in Finland.
The embankment was built in 1993 on a soft natural clay deposit, which exhibits large strain …

[HTML][HTML] Finite element analysis for a deep excavation in soft clay supported by lime-cement columns

S Bozkurt, A Abed, M Karstunen - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
The aim of the paper is to simulate the response of a deep excavation supported by sheet
pile walls and lime-cement columns. The application of the deep mixing technique using …

Application of a critical state model to the Merriespruit tailings dam failure

MA Mánica, M Arroyo, A Gens… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - icevirtuallibrary.com
The use of stress–deformation analyses to evaluate the characteristics of possible static
liquefaction events is rapidly becoming the norm for tailings dams exposed to such risk …

Simulation of yielding and stress–stain behavior of shanghai soft clay

M Huang, Y Liu, D Sheng - Computers and Geotechnics, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, a simple bounding surface plasticity model is used to reproduce the yielding
and stress–strain behavior of the structured soft clay found at Shanghai of China. A series of …