Current seismic design of bridges is based on a displacement performance philosophy
using nonlinear static pushover analysis. This type of bridge design necessitates that the …

In Shanghai, a number of new underground passages are being constructed, often requiring
deep excavations. When the excavations are in the vicinity of existing tunnels, it is necessary …

Because of the rapid drawdown there will be a decrease in the slope stability which might
lead to instability in slopes that do not have sufficient level of safety against failure. This …

Two numerical procedures are described that quantitatively identify a set of constitutive
parameters that best represents observed ground movement data associated with deep …

An underground passage is constructed in the Bund, Shanghai, which intersects an existing
shield tunnel, the East Yan'an road tunnel. This research reports a series of centrifuge model …

In this paper, two centrifuge modeling tests were performed to investigate the influence of
basal reinforcement on the global performance of floating geosynthetic encased stone …

This article highlights the importance of using advanced constitutive soil models in
numerical modelling as daily geotechnical practice. In this context, the Hardening Soil (HS) …

The constitutive model frequently used in numerical calculations of tunnel excavation is
linear-elastic perfectly plastic with a Mohr–Coulomb (MC) failure criterion. Generally, this …

A plasticity model for representing clays and plastic silts, as opposed to purely nonplastic
silts or sand, in geotechnical earthquake engineering applications is presented. The PM4Silt …